so i think a lot about all the quirky things about this silly little country i like to call ukraine, and i realized..
1. i wanna share these with my friends and family..and all the other cool people that read my blog
2. i wanna remember these things forever and ever!
and since i am far too lazy to stand up and get my journal off my desk, i am typing them for the world to see.
1. the streamer toilet paper. i literally thought they were decorations left over from a birthday party. nope. the toilet paper is, in fact, made out of the same thing streamers are.
2. the cookies at the osokorky metro station from the lady that speaks barely english, some spanish...but mostly russian. we're already best friends
3. the fact that people are secretly very nice and friendly. dont let the all black wardrobes and stone faces scare you away. the second you crack them, you'll be giggling together in no time. i've had so many people come up to me when they hear me speaking english, and they're so excited to say the one thing they know in english! (which is usually nothing that makes any sense).
the other day i was at the bus stop, and it was soooo cold! and so i was walking around in circles just singing to myself (yeah, i probably looked a little on the handicapped side). but this old lady was pacing back and forth waiting for the bus too. finally she came up to me and started talking, and so i flashed her a grin and said "sorry, i only speak english!" so she giggled and walked away a little bit. and then she turned back around and hugged me and held my hand and did some sort of motion...either telling me i need high heels..or telling me to rock back and forth on my toes to my heels. and we just stood there and laughed until the bus finally came.
4. the sunshine is coming! yes folks, it is a balming 32 degrees outside! in utah, this is ridiculous temperature. nobody goes outside. we scream and cry having to walk from our house to our car. and then it takes 5 minutes to warm up the car!? what?! that is just unacceptable.
but in ukraine, that is springtime calling. people start chipping away at the ice on the sidewalks. (LITERALLY 6 inches thick). you shed layers. you stop wearing gloves. you stop dreading the thought of going anywhere. you stop eating so much.
the world becomes an exciting place again.
5. food with taste. it doesnt come often..but when it does, it adds a little extra color to your life
6. i think i am living the movie 'the birds.' i sometimes fear for my life because there are so many freak stinkin crows everywhere! they're gross and scary and i dont love them.
7. i love riding the metro. i understand the system now. totally 100% confident, and good at riding it!
8. buses are satan's children. i hate them. i like that they get me places. i hate that they change routes unexpectedly. i hate when people yell at you for no good reason. i hate looking like a fool when everyone is looking at you. i hate everything about them.
9. i love the architecture. i think the buildings are beautiful. i love walking down the streets in the city and just imagining going back in time..what it was like to live here so long ago. it just puts a smile on my face..and it makes me realize how rich the culture is here, and how..somewhat bland america is. dont get me wrong..i love/miss america more than the next person. but i love learning about other countries..and the history OH THE HISTORY. so interesting.
10. this one, i'm pretty sure it's not something i love about this place, but it definitely is a characteristic of ukraine that you cannot get anywhere else.
the smell.
yes, other places smell. but i am convinced that everywhere has their own very distinct smell. and ukraine DEFINITELY has a smell. i just love how BO radiates from every armpit. and how greasy hair is praised. i just want to bottle up the smell and take it home with me. i ESPECIALLY cant wait until it gets hot and humid here. i'm going to jump for joy because the smell will be sure to singe my nose hairs. mmmm!
not only the smell of the people gets me...there is more.
the meat stands in the metro.
the never ending sausage stench.
the fish that are laying there for days. in no ice. just sitting there, rotting away.
i want to marinate in it.
11. sometimes, i think i'm really REALLY funny and by sometimes, i mean all the time. especially when i'm by myself for the whole day, and i'm walking around looking at really funny things, and watching funny people. i crack myself UP!
so..since about the first day i got here..i have been wandering around this country with two feet of ice underneath my feet, and a winter wonderland of delicious snow surrounding my every step.
welllll. since that same day that i got here, something else has happened.
i have seen yellow snow EVERYWHERE. and i dont know why i think it's so funny. maybe because i imagine people walking around peeing in the snow, and sometimes i secretly want to because they have no public restrooms, so i am forced to painfully hold it. or worse. but i dont want to talk about it.
anyways, my funniness. every time i walk by yellow snow i think of the words "dont eat the yellow snow!!!" and kinda giggle to myself..or out loud. whichever one i feel like doing at that moment in time.
and then today..i did something i thought was so funny. maybe i'm going crazy (and that's probably a yes) but i cracked up while i was doing it.
for some reason i kept seeing news reporters EVERYWHERE. and so i would loom around until they were on camera. and then i would walk back and forth behind the reporter. i didnt do anything weird or anything. but i just walked. i rather enjoyed a good laugh with myself.
12. so. massive amounts of snow melting = mega puddles. bigger than you would imagine. this would be fun..if i would remember my rain boots! but it mostly ends in cars splashing me and being kinda cold. but luckily the weather has been warming up..so i've been in HEAVEN!
okay, i'm tired of this list. i was thinking about it while i was eating lunch today (alone, yet again) and i made a list on my napkin of all the ideas i had. and i have more..but i cant read them. i think i smeared my boogers on the napkin over the words or something
enjoy your burrito..because i cant. :(
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
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being here, i have learned more than ever that you just gotta work it.
people yell at you. you smile.
it happens quite a bit. i'm not sure if people are real yelling, or if that's how they talk. everyone talks in their yell voices all the time, and sometimes they start laughing after, and sometimes someone gets thrown into the wall. you never know.
i kinda find it entertaining until it is directed at me, and then i get stressed out.
so the other day me and carly were going to go adventuring, we didnt know where...so we hopped on the bus and we were going to ride the metro into town...but the moment we got on the bus, everyone turned and looked at us and pointed at the door and started yelling, and we had no idea what people were saying. we stood there awkwardly looking around saying "english? english?" but nobody responded in one english word that i knew. so we felt so awkward we jumped off the bus laughing our heads off. then i looked in the bus while it was driving away, and i saw a man point out the window to the snow, and i wondered what he was trying to tell me.
so i walked right on over to where he pointed, and carly had dropped her glove in the snow and everyone was trying to tell us!
how nice of them, right?!
if only i knew what they had been saying, i wouldnt have felt as awkward as i did. but i just couldnt stop laughing.
so that was like the highlight of my day.
so then we rode the metro into the city, and got off on a random stop. then we walked around, and saw everyone eating these delicious looking hot dogs, and wanted to know what in the world they were!
so we found the stand where they were selling them..and guess what? i have good news.
1. they were scones. with hot dogs inside. YUM.
2. it only costs $0.75
so i ate the entire thing in about 14 seconds, and let out the biggest burp of my entire life.
and then we walked around more. took a lot of pictures of stuff...
and then i found an art museum! so i made her go in there with me.
it was fun and all (and free) but i have this problem with museums. i get really bored...REALLY fast. and i just want to lay on the floor and take a nap. and i start to sweat. and i can start to feel the tumor in my brain start to grow and a headache arising. and then i just cant take it anymore. i dont see art. i dont even breathe. i just get ANGRY.
so by the time we reached the 5th floor i was more then done, and we left.
i found a falafel shop (booyaah!)
uhm what else..i think that's all...we were both tired so we went home earlyyy. but it was a good day i felt like.
wanna know one of the best parts of my day?
when i got off the metro to go home, i walked out to where the bus picks me up, and IT WAS THERE WAITING FOR ME! i had never been so happy in my whole life. it was a good moment.
so that was that.
and then today...i taught. teaching is a struggle for me..still. i feel like i'll never get the hang of our method of teaching..UGH. i just cant 100% grasp it.
but then after there was an INSTITUTE DANCE! hahaaa. so me and carly went on our merry way towards the city. we were gunna meet becki and lisa and john for food. aka our favorite thing. so me and carly got there, but we exited the metro on the wrong side. so instead of walking back down and around, we insisted on walking all the way around the entire block to get to where we needed to be. mind you, this was probably a good mile of walking. i was tiiired.
so we finally made it to the pizza place, and we ate. it was okay, nothing fancy or special. just pizza.
THEN we went to the dance. this is the best part of the night. it was WILD.
okay, that was wildly sarcastic. it was okay. there were a lot of people there, though. so that was fun. most of them smelled like disgusting body odor...so i hid in the corner and did my thing. (and by thing i mean dance until my feet fell off.) it was tons o'fun
everyone was so crazy. i just couldnt stop laughing. but to tell you the honest truth, it was just like any other church dance.
you know, the awkward jump dancing.
the awkward boys.
the silly girls.
chaperons
the whole shabang.
then i was tired, so i stopped dancing. and i sat down and talked to my friends. and then i got tired even more so i went home. and now here i am...eyes half open....attempting to stay awake to finish writing this.
because i need to tell you about the man that saved my life.
i was walking down a hill, and some man was walking up. right as we were crossing paths, i slipped. and like a ninja he reached out and caught me, returned me to my feet, and ran away. it was wonderful. i'm convinced he was a real life ninja. forreals.
okay, i'm going to bed now.
i love america.
adios.
people yell at you. you smile.
it happens quite a bit. i'm not sure if people are real yelling, or if that's how they talk. everyone talks in their yell voices all the time, and sometimes they start laughing after, and sometimes someone gets thrown into the wall. you never know.
i kinda find it entertaining until it is directed at me, and then i get stressed out.
so the other day me and carly were going to go adventuring, we didnt know where...so we hopped on the bus and we were going to ride the metro into town...but the moment we got on the bus, everyone turned and looked at us and pointed at the door and started yelling, and we had no idea what people were saying. we stood there awkwardly looking around saying "english? english?" but nobody responded in one english word that i knew. so we felt so awkward we jumped off the bus laughing our heads off. then i looked in the bus while it was driving away, and i saw a man point out the window to the snow, and i wondered what he was trying to tell me.
so i walked right on over to where he pointed, and carly had dropped her glove in the snow and everyone was trying to tell us!
how nice of them, right?!
if only i knew what they had been saying, i wouldnt have felt as awkward as i did. but i just couldnt stop laughing.
so that was like the highlight of my day.
so then we rode the metro into the city, and got off on a random stop. then we walked around, and saw everyone eating these delicious looking hot dogs, and wanted to know what in the world they were!
so we found the stand where they were selling them..and guess what? i have good news.
1. they were scones. with hot dogs inside. YUM.
2. it only costs $0.75
so i ate the entire thing in about 14 seconds, and let out the biggest burp of my entire life.
and then we walked around more. took a lot of pictures of stuff...
and then i found an art museum! so i made her go in there with me.
it was fun and all (and free) but i have this problem with museums. i get really bored...REALLY fast. and i just want to lay on the floor and take a nap. and i start to sweat. and i can start to feel the tumor in my brain start to grow and a headache arising. and then i just cant take it anymore. i dont see art. i dont even breathe. i just get ANGRY.
so by the time we reached the 5th floor i was more then done, and we left.
i found a falafel shop (booyaah!)
uhm what else..i think that's all...we were both tired so we went home earlyyy. but it was a good day i felt like.
wanna know one of the best parts of my day?
when i got off the metro to go home, i walked out to where the bus picks me up, and IT WAS THERE WAITING FOR ME! i had never been so happy in my whole life. it was a good moment.
so that was that.
and then today...i taught. teaching is a struggle for me..still. i feel like i'll never get the hang of our method of teaching..UGH. i just cant 100% grasp it.
but then after there was an INSTITUTE DANCE! hahaaa. so me and carly went on our merry way towards the city. we were gunna meet becki and lisa and john for food. aka our favorite thing. so me and carly got there, but we exited the metro on the wrong side. so instead of walking back down and around, we insisted on walking all the way around the entire block to get to where we needed to be. mind you, this was probably a good mile of walking. i was tiiired.
so we finally made it to the pizza place, and we ate. it was okay, nothing fancy or special. just pizza.
THEN we went to the dance. this is the best part of the night. it was WILD.
okay, that was wildly sarcastic. it was okay. there were a lot of people there, though. so that was fun. most of them smelled like disgusting body odor...so i hid in the corner and did my thing. (and by thing i mean dance until my feet fell off.) it was tons o'fun
everyone was so crazy. i just couldnt stop laughing. but to tell you the honest truth, it was just like any other church dance.
you know, the awkward jump dancing.
the awkward boys.
the silly girls.
chaperons
the whole shabang.
then i was tired, so i stopped dancing. and i sat down and talked to my friends. and then i got tired even more so i went home. and now here i am...eyes half open....attempting to stay awake to finish writing this.
because i need to tell you about the man that saved my life.
i was walking down a hill, and some man was walking up. right as we were crossing paths, i slipped. and like a ninja he reached out and caught me, returned me to my feet, and ran away. it was wonderful. i'm convinced he was a real life ninja. forreals.
okay, i'm going to bed now.
i love america.
adios.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
valentines day's a trip.
so yesterday was valentines day ♥
i want you all to know how much i love and adore you! and especially that i am so thankful that i have all your love and support in my life..especially when i'm 6,000 miles away from home! it means a lot to me! :)
okay, so anyways..this is how my valentines day went down.
woke up and skyped with ryan for our valentines day love date. aaand that was wonderful! as always ;)
and then i got up and got ready for the day...and i definitely did NOT want to go out and do anything. i wanted to sleep all day and never go to school to teach.
BLEH!
it was my day to go to the public school and teach those little hellions. aka...not my favorite thing in the world. but i did it anyways, very slowly. i was slow to get ready, slow to get dressed, slow to eat, slow to put on my shoes/coat/hat/gloves. just plain SLOW.
so finally i got out the door, i was already 20 minutes late, but the guy who comes to pick me up is usually that late anyways, so i figured it was okay. but i kept being slow...reeeaaaalllllly slow. i stopped to take pictures of everything i could see..and totally walked without purpose. that's now much i did NOT want to go to that school. so fiiiiinnnnnaaaaalllllllyyyyy i made it, kinda. they got bored of waiting for me so they came and found me :( busted!
so then we went to the school, and it was just as i expected. awful. the kids are evil and i'm not even kidding. they plan evil plots during the week..and then on tuesdays they break them all out on me. they refuse to listen. they dont understand a word i'm saying and they're just plain EVIL! i cant seem to get them to even speak. they just sit there and stare at me. do i need a chicken suit and musical instruments to make them listen to me?! i think so.
i think i just found a cure to my dry teaching plans.
it needs a chicken suit!
okay, anyways, who cares about that. i dont like to think about that part of my day. so i came back to the school and ate lunch, and then made some valentines and went on my merry way!
sooo. i got on the bus. then i went and got on the metro. and then i got off the metro.
exciting, eh? well you better believe it because i swear that's what i do with 99% of my time.
but anyways, we got off and walked around..and we found the underground mall! FINALLY! so me and carly walked around there for a bit..we found a store with a lots of makeups for sale..so we looked around..and i decided "I NEED TO BUY LOTION" because my body has been DYING for moisture. so..i looked around. but then i got distracted by a loofah...and then i got mascara (my favorite kind for $3...you CANT pass that up!) and left with NO LOTION. i am so annoyed at my ADD. it's getting worse and worse. i see something shiny, and boom, my memory is gone...all i can focus on is the shiny stuff.
that's how i am with writing this blog...it literally takes me three days to write one post. i bet it would be better if i updated everyday buttt..sorry. that's not going to happen. because my brain does NOT function like that.
so here you are, getting my random array of brain puke in a blog post.
SO. i got off the metro with carly. we met mike, then hannah, then finally found amanda (i'm usually the last one to show up anywhere...and by last one i mean like an hour late..and by usually i mean always) so it was a miracle that i was actually on time! i feel like ukrainians need to go off kenya time (aka..say you'll be there around 4...get there around 7) because the transportation is so unpredictable! if it's 30 minutes away, it can take you 45 minutes to 2 hours...it allllll depends on destiny.
but i'm not even kidding when i say this. i have no idea how 1. i havent died on the bus yet. or 2. these buses are even still running. because they are literally from the 1960's. and they do not drive slow here. it doesnt matter about anything. laws are not followed. honestly, i dont think they have a ukrainian word for law. its just called..do what you want and be courteous of everyone else that is doing what they want.
it's especially great being a pedestrian. it's like playing that froggy game...and guess what? i'm soo super good at it. i put my stop hand up and dart all the cars. i kinda freak everyone out, but hey..someone's gotta do it! you're not gunna get anywhere just standing on the corner waiting for everyone else to stop! you gotta take control! :)
i want you all to know how much i love and adore you! and especially that i am so thankful that i have all your love and support in my life..especially when i'm 6,000 miles away from home! it means a lot to me! :)
okay, so anyways..this is how my valentines day went down.
woke up and skyped with ryan for our valentines day love date. aaand that was wonderful! as always ;)
and then i got up and got ready for the day...and i definitely did NOT want to go out and do anything. i wanted to sleep all day and never go to school to teach.
BLEH!
it was my day to go to the public school and teach those little hellions. aka...not my favorite thing in the world. but i did it anyways, very slowly. i was slow to get ready, slow to get dressed, slow to eat, slow to put on my shoes/coat/hat/gloves. just plain SLOW.
so finally i got out the door, i was already 20 minutes late, but the guy who comes to pick me up is usually that late anyways, so i figured it was okay. but i kept being slow...reeeaaaalllllly slow. i stopped to take pictures of everything i could see..and totally walked without purpose. that's now much i did NOT want to go to that school. so fiiiiinnnnnaaaaalllllllyyyyy i made it, kinda. they got bored of waiting for me so they came and found me :( busted!
so then we went to the school, and it was just as i expected. awful. the kids are evil and i'm not even kidding. they plan evil plots during the week..and then on tuesdays they break them all out on me. they refuse to listen. they dont understand a word i'm saying and they're just plain EVIL! i cant seem to get them to even speak. they just sit there and stare at me. do i need a chicken suit and musical instruments to make them listen to me?! i think so.
i think i just found a cure to my dry teaching plans.
it needs a chicken suit!
okay, anyways, who cares about that. i dont like to think about that part of my day. so i came back to the school and ate lunch, and then made some valentines and went on my merry way!
sooo. i got on the bus. then i went and got on the metro. and then i got off the metro.
exciting, eh? well you better believe it because i swear that's what i do with 99% of my time.
but anyways, we got off and walked around..and we found the underground mall! FINALLY! so me and carly walked around there for a bit..we found a store with a lots of makeups for sale..so we looked around..and i decided "I NEED TO BUY LOTION" because my body has been DYING for moisture. so..i looked around. but then i got distracted by a loofah...and then i got mascara (my favorite kind for $3...you CANT pass that up!) and left with NO LOTION. i am so annoyed at my ADD. it's getting worse and worse. i see something shiny, and boom, my memory is gone...all i can focus on is the shiny stuff.
that's how i am with writing this blog...it literally takes me three days to write one post. i bet it would be better if i updated everyday buttt..sorry. that's not going to happen. because my brain does NOT function like that.
so here you are, getting my random array of brain puke in a blog post.
SO. i got off the metro with carly. we met mike, then hannah, then finally found amanda (i'm usually the last one to show up anywhere...and by last one i mean like an hour late..and by usually i mean always) so it was a miracle that i was actually on time! i feel like ukrainians need to go off kenya time (aka..say you'll be there around 4...get there around 7) because the transportation is so unpredictable! if it's 30 minutes away, it can take you 45 minutes to 2 hours...it allllll depends on destiny.
but i'm not even kidding when i say this. i have no idea how 1. i havent died on the bus yet. or 2. these buses are even still running. because they are literally from the 1960's. and they do not drive slow here. it doesnt matter about anything. laws are not followed. honestly, i dont think they have a ukrainian word for law. its just called..do what you want and be courteous of everyone else that is doing what they want.
it's especially great being a pedestrian. it's like playing that froggy game...and guess what? i'm soo super good at it. i put my stop hand up and dart all the cars. i kinda freak everyone out, but hey..someone's gotta do it! you're not gunna get anywhere just standing on the corner waiting for everyone else to stop! you gotta take control! :)
anyways, i keep getting off on my awkward tangents.
so we're at the metro stop. we all meet together, and we continue onward to our destination.
we ride the metro a few more times, and go on our adventure of walking. we walked up this giant hill, and the road was pretty busy. also, it was snowing. and that makes it extremely slippery (but also it keeps it warmer here, so we like the snow!) so we were walking, and i got really excited about the snow so i started singing "if all the raindrops were lemon droops and gum drops" and proceeded to walk down the stairs to the underground tunnel. but i was far too focused on singing my song, and didnt even think about the fact that i was walking down the worlds most slippery stairs, covered in ice and snow. booo!
then it happened. i was that girl. the one that tumbled town the stairs in a mauled mess of things. and all i could do was laugh...and probably scream a few profanities out of confusion.
but it was funnnyyyyy! i'm not even going to lie. everyone told me it looked like it hurt, but it didnt even. all it was was HILARIOUS. i couldnt stop laughing. i swear i fell at the top of the stairs, and somehow got back up to my feet at the bottom. plus, guess what else happened? hannah stepped on my hand. i was pretty sure i was going to take her down with me with my flailing arms, but i didnt. all that happened was she called those things down my stepping on them. but hey, it least it stopped me from continuing to fall.
the best part about falling here is this: when people do, it's not a big deal. it's like a daily ritual for them! go outside, walk, fall, get up, continue. like it's one giant motion. but i cant contain my giggles every time it happens to me, or anyone around me. it's just too funny to not laugh about!
so with my wet bum (and gloves) we continued onward on our valentines day adventure.
we walked and walked and walked (just like pioneer children) and finally made it! brother and sister page's house! they had invited us over to their apartment to eat dinner, and talk and play games. it was so much fun!
they are just the nicest people. both from utah, he works here in the embassy and so they have been living here for 7 months! they have the two most adorable kids ever and are so much fun. it's so funny, all of us would talk to the kids EXACTLY how we talk to our students...it's wildly embarrassing..but probably completely entertaining to watch.
so we had the best meal of pizza (from dominoes! they have two for tuesdays here!) and FRESH salad with RANCH DRESSING. i wanted to drink it. not even kidding.
anddd..what else did we have. mmm she made us brownies! yum yum yum! you better believe we gobbled up that whole pan!
so we're at the metro stop. we all meet together, and we continue onward to our destination.
we ride the metro a few more times, and go on our adventure of walking. we walked up this giant hill, and the road was pretty busy. also, it was snowing. and that makes it extremely slippery (but also it keeps it warmer here, so we like the snow!) so we were walking, and i got really excited about the snow so i started singing "if all the raindrops were lemon droops and gum drops" and proceeded to walk down the stairs to the underground tunnel. but i was far too focused on singing my song, and didnt even think about the fact that i was walking down the worlds most slippery stairs, covered in ice and snow. booo!
then it happened. i was that girl. the one that tumbled town the stairs in a mauled mess of things. and all i could do was laugh...and probably scream a few profanities out of confusion.
but it was funnnyyyyy! i'm not even going to lie. everyone told me it looked like it hurt, but it didnt even. all it was was HILARIOUS. i couldnt stop laughing. i swear i fell at the top of the stairs, and somehow got back up to my feet at the bottom. plus, guess what else happened? hannah stepped on my hand. i was pretty sure i was going to take her down with me with my flailing arms, but i didnt. all that happened was she called those things down my stepping on them. but hey, it least it stopped me from continuing to fall.
the best part about falling here is this: when people do, it's not a big deal. it's like a daily ritual for them! go outside, walk, fall, get up, continue. like it's one giant motion. but i cant contain my giggles every time it happens to me, or anyone around me. it's just too funny to not laugh about!
so with my wet bum (and gloves) we continued onward on our valentines day adventure.
we walked and walked and walked (just like pioneer children) and finally made it! brother and sister page's house! they had invited us over to their apartment to eat dinner, and talk and play games. it was so much fun!
they are just the nicest people. both from utah, he works here in the embassy and so they have been living here for 7 months! they have the two most adorable kids ever and are so much fun. it's so funny, all of us would talk to the kids EXACTLY how we talk to our students...it's wildly embarrassing..but probably completely entertaining to watch.
so we had the best meal of pizza (from dominoes! they have two for tuesdays here!) and FRESH salad with RANCH DRESSING. i wanted to drink it. not even kidding.
anddd..what else did we have. mmm she made us brownies! yum yum yum! you better believe we gobbled up that whole pan!
i wrongly justify my eating habits by me walking everywhere. but my walking does not equal out to how many things i eat. it's embarrassing.
but. good news, yesterday i put my jeans on..AND THEY FIT. it was a good day.
so anyways, blah blah blah. we ate and talked a lot, and then we played apples to apples, and let me tell you we had some good laughs, that's for sure! i swear my reading abilities went down, and i mispronounced all the words possible.
so thennnn it was getting late so we left (because it takes AT LEAST an hour to get ANYWHERE)
but. good news, yesterday i put my jeans on..AND THEY FIT. it was a good day.
so anyways, blah blah blah. we ate and talked a lot, and then we played apples to apples, and let me tell you we had some good laughs, that's for sure! i swear my reading abilities went down, and i mispronounced all the words possible.
so thennnn it was getting late so we left (because it takes AT LEAST an hour to get ANYWHERE)
so we went on our merry way. carly decided she needed to pee her guts out on the side of the road, so i convinced her to pee on the sidewalk behind a big pile of snow.
:)
hehe.
aannndd thennn...that's pretty much all. riding public transportation is stupid and i hate it. but i'm over it :) i've learned to survive.
okee. i am going to go adventuring now.
DASVEDANYA!
:)
hehe.
aannndd thennn...that's pretty much all. riding public transportation is stupid and i hate it. but i'm over it :) i've learned to survive.
okee. i am going to go adventuring now.
DASVEDANYA!
Thursday, February 9, 2012
i'm a chocoholic
okay so this morning i woke up and heard my host family getting home from their vacation and these were the thoughts that ran through my head (in this exact order)
1. yayyyyyy they're gunna give me foooood!
2. i should probably clean my room
3. OMG NO THEIR HAMSTER IS STILL LAYING DEAD IN ITS CAGE!!!!
i panicked. i couldnt face them..so i hid in my room and wouldnt go out. i was soo nervous. i was shaking and sweating, and then i regretted not throwing the stupid thing away, but i was just tooo chicken!
so after a while of me hiding in my room wishing they would go away so i could dispose of the thing, finally the little girl came in to say hi, and she was standing RIGHT BY the cage. i was like please oh please oh pleaseeeee dont turn your head any more to the left and see your dead hamster laying there. and then the little boy walks in, and they're both like standing there. and i'm sweating, and being really super million times awkward about the situation, just trying to distract them with questions about their trip and what not, and then i ran out of things to say, and they just kept awkwardly standing there looking at me! i didnt know what to do anymore!
so i turned around and just did my own thing, and they stood there for a bit and finally left.
woof, that was closeee. i did NOT want to be the one standing there when they discovered the horrific sight.
so then finally i got ready for the day, and i got the guts to go out there and bring one of the parents into my room and show them and just say sorry and whatever, but when i went out there they were nowhere to be found! and i was already late to the school, so i just went on my merry way and didnt think anything of it.
but then when coming home i remembered what i had to face, and i got the humongous-est butterflies in the world and i just didnt know what i was going to do. so i walked in and i talked to the family for a bit, and then came into my room...
only to find..
a new hamster!
not to be rude or anything, but i wanted to cry. this hamster makes EVEN MORE noise then the last one..but at least it doesnt have a cancerous growth on it's face....that's all i have to say about that.
now i'm not quite sure what to do. do i say anything about it? or just leave it be?
who knows...i guess we'll see if it comes up at dinner....ugh.
okay so the rest of my day went like this:
i got to the school, but all the gates were locked and i was FREEZING..and starving because i had run out of oatmeal the night before, so my food supply was GONE.
so i went there for the free lunch! yaaay. so like five minutes passed and i kept ringing the doorbell (which is extremely inconveniently place because it's about three feet taller than i am, and over a giant pile of snow so you have to reach like nobody's business to get it...and of course me being me..i was trying to reach the bell and fell face first into this giant pile of snow...it was wonderfully awful...but i couldnt stop laughing) so finally the guard came and let me in and all was well. but wanna know what was for lunch? cow liver (which is the lovely color GREEN), buckwheat, and soup...i wanted to cry. but luckily the soup was delish so i scarfed that down and then sneaked another bowl and then another..and then didnt even try the liver. i couldnt. after throwing up yesterday, i couldnt bear the thought of eating that nasty green meat.
so after that me and carly talked foreeeevvvver and then decided to get on the road (we were going to go to this museum..about the treasures of ukraine or something like that) but then we decided that we would rather visit the chocolate shop that they had discovered on tuesday...and i was down FORSURE. so we got on the bus, rode to the metro, then started walking.
we saw a bagel shop, a mexican restaurant, a ton of chinese places, an artisan bread place..and then after a little bit (which means a lotta bit) of walking, we made it! :))))))))
it was heaven at first sight. i wanted to kiss the ground as i walked into the shop.
mm, the smells, the sights, i saw chocolate in every form...i knew this what what heaven was like..i just knew it.
so we sat down, and just admired all the chocolate for a bit until we got our menu..then it happened..i fell in looovveee.
they had chocolate of all sorts. chocolate i didnt even know was possible. chocolate i didnt even know EXISTED.
i knew at that moment i was going to open my own chocolate shop and not let anyone eat any bit of it besides myself. :) yeah, i really like that idea.
so anyways, we ordered. i got ice cream with melted chocolate drizzled on top, with bananas :)
talk about DIVINE. this food was celestial status. not even kidding.
the chocolate was so creamy and smooth and the ice cream was rich and creamy. and then the chocolate would harden after being on top of the ice cream for so long, so the flavors would be even more delish. the only complaint i have, really, is that the chocolate would melt to the bowl and i worked up a sweat trying to pry it away for my tongue to taste.
but dont be alarmed, i got it, and ate every last ounce. you better believe i will be returning every.single.week. :)
okay, so anyways. blah blah blah. i feel like i let my stories drag on and on for fourteen and a half years, and i get so bored typing for this long!
but going home was..interesting. it took us a minute to find the right platform to be on to get back home, but we figured it out and got home rather quickly! waiting for the bus to come is a painful process though. it's soo cold. i went to itch my nose, and couldnt even feel it. and the bus was taking FOREVER. and by forever, i mean twenty minutes. and standing outside in this kind of weather for twenty minutes is a long time, not to mention i got a little spooked out because it was dark. but dont worry, the bus came, and i got off on the right stop, and made it home in a jiff! :) i'm starting to get used to this whole thing! (not the cold, just the public transportation)
so i forgot to share with you my funny story of the day yesterday...
probably because for me it wasnt very funny...and i was sick so i went to bed at 8. 12 hours of sleep baybayyy! you cant go wrong with that!
anyways, i woke up and ate some yogurt for breakfast...then went on my merry way to school...feeling like i was going to have an okay day. but i get to school, take my shoes, coat, hat, scarf, everything off..and sit down. and i felt AWFUL. i knew at that moment my day was going to be turned upside down. so i sat there, telling myself i was fine and that i wasnt going to puke. but i couldnt stop myself, so i got up and RAN to the bathroom as fast as i could. the second i got in there vomit exploded (luckily in the toilet) and i puked my guts out. and i'm not even going to lie it hurt really bad, and it was really gross..so i'll stop talking about my disgusting puke...but anyways, i wanted you all to know that i threw up and it was awful.
so then i just felt so sick and i didnt want to do ANYTHING but i had to teach my lesson, and i only had about 4 minutes until it was showtime, and all i wanted to do was lay on the floor and die.
but i put a smile on my face and went and taught that class like a CHAMPION. (okay, maybe not champion status, but it went well!)
so blah blah blah, the day went on. i had like this neverending migrane that was like "oh hi. i'm going to feel like a tumor of cancer in your brain and you're gong to like it. haha" so i was DYING. and i didnt want to be alive, but wednesdays are my long days where i teach until 6. so i sat on the ground and cried. a lot.
nothing would help. not food. not water. not medicine. i was doomed to be in pain forever and ever :(
so then i decided i would teach my lesson first so i could get it over with. so i sat down, and started talking..and from that moment on it just went downhill. i couldnt talk in real sentences, nothing i was saying made sense, and the kids were just in their own little world. ( i only had two kids that day..one was really shy..and the other was REALLY in a bad mood)
so anyways, we were drawing pictures of things we liked..and the little boy (who was in a bad mood) drew a picture of him holding hands with a girl, so i was like "oohh vova is that your giiirrlllfriend?!" and he was like no!!! and acted all grossed out. and then later i was like talking to him about school, and asked if he has a girlfriend. he FREAKS. throws his crayon across the room and storms into the bathroom, and i had no idea what to do. i just sat there laughing my head off because it was so awkward.
so then later he decides to come back, but with toilet paper shoved in his ears like "earplugs" and refused to talk the entire time. i wanted to crawl in a hole and die. my entire lesson went down the drain and i was SOOO done. i just packed up all my stuff and was like "well we're done" and passed them off to the next teacher.
i was like really cranky the rest of the night. my headache was AWFUL. and i just couldnt even handle anything, so i went home and went to bed by 8. it was fantastic :) my head doesnt hurt as bad now...so that's good. it's only a medium hurt instead of extreme pain! :)
that's a plus.
hope you all are enjoying your warm weather. send some my way ♥
1. yayyyyyy they're gunna give me foooood!
2. i should probably clean my room
3. OMG NO THEIR HAMSTER IS STILL LAYING DEAD IN ITS CAGE!!!!
i panicked. i couldnt face them..so i hid in my room and wouldnt go out. i was soo nervous. i was shaking and sweating, and then i regretted not throwing the stupid thing away, but i was just tooo chicken!
so after a while of me hiding in my room wishing they would go away so i could dispose of the thing, finally the little girl came in to say hi, and she was standing RIGHT BY the cage. i was like please oh please oh pleaseeeee dont turn your head any more to the left and see your dead hamster laying there. and then the little boy walks in, and they're both like standing there. and i'm sweating, and being really super million times awkward about the situation, just trying to distract them with questions about their trip and what not, and then i ran out of things to say, and they just kept awkwardly standing there looking at me! i didnt know what to do anymore!
so i turned around and just did my own thing, and they stood there for a bit and finally left.
woof, that was closeee. i did NOT want to be the one standing there when they discovered the horrific sight.
so then finally i got ready for the day, and i got the guts to go out there and bring one of the parents into my room and show them and just say sorry and whatever, but when i went out there they were nowhere to be found! and i was already late to the school, so i just went on my merry way and didnt think anything of it.
but then when coming home i remembered what i had to face, and i got the humongous-est butterflies in the world and i just didnt know what i was going to do. so i walked in and i talked to the family for a bit, and then came into my room...
only to find..
a new hamster!
not to be rude or anything, but i wanted to cry. this hamster makes EVEN MORE noise then the last one..but at least it doesnt have a cancerous growth on it's face....that's all i have to say about that.
now i'm not quite sure what to do. do i say anything about it? or just leave it be?
who knows...i guess we'll see if it comes up at dinner....ugh.
okay so the rest of my day went like this:
i got to the school, but all the gates were locked and i was FREEZING..and starving because i had run out of oatmeal the night before, so my food supply was GONE.
so i went there for the free lunch! yaaay. so like five minutes passed and i kept ringing the doorbell (which is extremely inconveniently place because it's about three feet taller than i am, and over a giant pile of snow so you have to reach like nobody's business to get it...and of course me being me..i was trying to reach the bell and fell face first into this giant pile of snow...it was wonderfully awful...but i couldnt stop laughing) so finally the guard came and let me in and all was well. but wanna know what was for lunch? cow liver (which is the lovely color GREEN), buckwheat, and soup...i wanted to cry. but luckily the soup was delish so i scarfed that down and then sneaked another bowl and then another..and then didnt even try the liver. i couldnt. after throwing up yesterday, i couldnt bear the thought of eating that nasty green meat.
so after that me and carly talked foreeeevvvver and then decided to get on the road (we were going to go to this museum..about the treasures of ukraine or something like that) but then we decided that we would rather visit the chocolate shop that they had discovered on tuesday...and i was down FORSURE. so we got on the bus, rode to the metro, then started walking.
we saw a bagel shop, a mexican restaurant, a ton of chinese places, an artisan bread place..and then after a little bit (which means a lotta bit) of walking, we made it! :))))))))
it was heaven at first sight. i wanted to kiss the ground as i walked into the shop.
mm, the smells, the sights, i saw chocolate in every form...i knew this what what heaven was like..i just knew it.
so we sat down, and just admired all the chocolate for a bit until we got our menu..then it happened..i fell in looovveee.
they had chocolate of all sorts. chocolate i didnt even know was possible. chocolate i didnt even know EXISTED.
i knew at that moment i was going to open my own chocolate shop and not let anyone eat any bit of it besides myself. :) yeah, i really like that idea.
so anyways, we ordered. i got ice cream with melted chocolate drizzled on top, with bananas :)
talk about DIVINE. this food was celestial status. not even kidding.
the chocolate was so creamy and smooth and the ice cream was rich and creamy. and then the chocolate would harden after being on top of the ice cream for so long, so the flavors would be even more delish. the only complaint i have, really, is that the chocolate would melt to the bowl and i worked up a sweat trying to pry it away for my tongue to taste.
but dont be alarmed, i got it, and ate every last ounce. you better believe i will be returning every.single.week. :)
okay, so anyways. blah blah blah. i feel like i let my stories drag on and on for fourteen and a half years, and i get so bored typing for this long!
but going home was..interesting. it took us a minute to find the right platform to be on to get back home, but we figured it out and got home rather quickly! waiting for the bus to come is a painful process though. it's soo cold. i went to itch my nose, and couldnt even feel it. and the bus was taking FOREVER. and by forever, i mean twenty minutes. and standing outside in this kind of weather for twenty minutes is a long time, not to mention i got a little spooked out because it was dark. but dont worry, the bus came, and i got off on the right stop, and made it home in a jiff! :) i'm starting to get used to this whole thing! (not the cold, just the public transportation)
so i forgot to share with you my funny story of the day yesterday...
probably because for me it wasnt very funny...and i was sick so i went to bed at 8. 12 hours of sleep baybayyy! you cant go wrong with that!
anyways, i woke up and ate some yogurt for breakfast...then went on my merry way to school...feeling like i was going to have an okay day. but i get to school, take my shoes, coat, hat, scarf, everything off..and sit down. and i felt AWFUL. i knew at that moment my day was going to be turned upside down. so i sat there, telling myself i was fine and that i wasnt going to puke. but i couldnt stop myself, so i got up and RAN to the bathroom as fast as i could. the second i got in there vomit exploded (luckily in the toilet) and i puked my guts out. and i'm not even going to lie it hurt really bad, and it was really gross..so i'll stop talking about my disgusting puke...but anyways, i wanted you all to know that i threw up and it was awful.
so then i just felt so sick and i didnt want to do ANYTHING but i had to teach my lesson, and i only had about 4 minutes until it was showtime, and all i wanted to do was lay on the floor and die.
but i put a smile on my face and went and taught that class like a CHAMPION. (okay, maybe not champion status, but it went well!)
so blah blah blah, the day went on. i had like this neverending migrane that was like "oh hi. i'm going to feel like a tumor of cancer in your brain and you're gong to like it. haha" so i was DYING. and i didnt want to be alive, but wednesdays are my long days where i teach until 6. so i sat on the ground and cried. a lot.
nothing would help. not food. not water. not medicine. i was doomed to be in pain forever and ever :(
so then i decided i would teach my lesson first so i could get it over with. so i sat down, and started talking..and from that moment on it just went downhill. i couldnt talk in real sentences, nothing i was saying made sense, and the kids were just in their own little world. ( i only had two kids that day..one was really shy..and the other was REALLY in a bad mood)
so anyways, we were drawing pictures of things we liked..and the little boy (who was in a bad mood) drew a picture of him holding hands with a girl, so i was like "oohh vova is that your giiirrlllfriend?!" and he was like no!!! and acted all grossed out. and then later i was like talking to him about school, and asked if he has a girlfriend. he FREAKS. throws his crayon across the room and storms into the bathroom, and i had no idea what to do. i just sat there laughing my head off because it was so awkward.
so then later he decides to come back, but with toilet paper shoved in his ears like "earplugs" and refused to talk the entire time. i wanted to crawl in a hole and die. my entire lesson went down the drain and i was SOOO done. i just packed up all my stuff and was like "well we're done" and passed them off to the next teacher.
i was like really cranky the rest of the night. my headache was AWFUL. and i just couldnt even handle anything, so i went home and went to bed by 8. it was fantastic :) my head doesnt hurt as bad now...so that's good. it's only a medium hurt instead of extreme pain! :)
that's a plus.
hope you all are enjoying your warm weather. send some my way ♥
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
may he rest in peace
<3
okay, so coming home from kareoke (read the last post ;))
saturday night...i was out kinda late..but my host family is still out of town so i just came home, and i went to say hello to the little hamster living in my room...just like i always do when i come home.
but i had a horrific realization.
IT WAS GONE.
what the WHAT! the little thing liked to climb on the top of its cage and be really loud and annoying...so i searched the entire apartment looking for him...but he was nowhere to be found. it doesnt help that they dont respond to their name like dogs or any sensible pet!
stupid hamsters.
i felt horrible. what was i going to tell my host family?! i lost their pet!
i was freaking out. but there wasnt much i could do..so i went to bed and decided i would figure it out tomorrow.
sunday morning came along (by the time i woke up it was actually afternoon...) but anyways, i creeped my eyes open, and put my glasses on and looked up and BAM. there he was. just a walkin through the middle of my room. so i POUNCED on him. and threw him in his cage and gave him a good talkin to..and put books on top of the cage so he couldnt open the door again.
i was sooooo proud of myself! i didnt have to break the bad news that i lost their beloved pet. (i still dont know his name...)
crisis avoided!
yessss.
so the days pass, and everything was good! the thing still bothered me because it would make noise 24/7 and be really annoying, but i was just happy that he was right back where he was supposed to be :)
then tuesday comes around. i said my goodbyes to him, and left for school...not thinking that tragic moments were going to come later that day.
i came to school, taught my lessons, ate lunch, and was done for the day. i figured i would just go to the gym and hang out because it was too cold to go anywhere, and i didnt wanna just sit at home.
SO. i run home really quick to pick up my gym clothes (luckily home is on the wayish to the gym!)
and i go to say hello to mr. hamster like i always do, and he wasnt moving.
he was just laying there like a pile of dead.
he was all stiff, and his eyes were open. and..i didnt look all that close but i'm pretty sure his tongue was sticking out. so all those things mean he was sitting there DEAD.
i freaked out. HOW COULD HE?! that's not allowed. the family was still out of town! what was i going to tell them?! or what was i supposed to do with the body? i wouldnt touch it when it was alive..there was NO WAY i was going to touch that dead thing.
what was i going to do?
call them "umm hi so remember me? yeah, i'm still living in your house..hope you're having a good vacation..oh um me? yeah..i'm good. your hamster is dead though."
i couldnt do it! the worst part was that i knew they told me they were going to come home the exact day that it died!
that little snot couldnt even stay alive for ONE MORE DAY. to save my butt.
of course this would only happen to me...
so anyways, i tried to stay awake to wait for the family to get home, but they never came home! so now i'm stuck with this dead hamster in my room and i dont know what to do, and i dont know when they are coming home. it's quite the dilemma...not gunna lie.
so now, i'm going to clear up some facts, statements, and questions that might come flying at me when you read this.
Q: did i feed it?
A: YES. it always had food in its container. but i'm convinced it wasnt eating. it was on a starvation strike.
Q: did you put it in the microwave and now you're just telling everyone it died on its own?
A: OMG!!! no!
my theory is: it died from falling. the thing loved to hang upside down on it's cage, and fall off..and then climb back up and crawl around. it would do that so many times...i'm pretty sure it was from head trauma.
it also had a cancerous thing on it's face. it was disgusting. it looked like a tumor...and it grossed me out. it mighta died from that.
Q: cant you just go buy another one and tell them that's it?
A: yeah, except see above statement. where am i going to get a cancerous hamster in this country?!
anyways, that's all i have for you.
the family still hasnt come home, or answered their phone. so now i am just sitting here waiting..and trying to figure out what i am going to do.
:/
rest in peace little guy...
okay, so coming home from kareoke (read the last post ;))
saturday night...i was out kinda late..but my host family is still out of town so i just came home, and i went to say hello to the little hamster living in my room...just like i always do when i come home.
but i had a horrific realization.
IT WAS GONE.
what the WHAT! the little thing liked to climb on the top of its cage and be really loud and annoying...so i searched the entire apartment looking for him...but he was nowhere to be found. it doesnt help that they dont respond to their name like dogs or any sensible pet!
stupid hamsters.
i felt horrible. what was i going to tell my host family?! i lost their pet!
i was freaking out. but there wasnt much i could do..so i went to bed and decided i would figure it out tomorrow.
sunday morning came along (by the time i woke up it was actually afternoon...) but anyways, i creeped my eyes open, and put my glasses on and looked up and BAM. there he was. just a walkin through the middle of my room. so i POUNCED on him. and threw him in his cage and gave him a good talkin to..and put books on top of the cage so he couldnt open the door again.
i was sooooo proud of myself! i didnt have to break the bad news that i lost their beloved pet. (i still dont know his name...)
crisis avoided!
yessss.
so the days pass, and everything was good! the thing still bothered me because it would make noise 24/7 and be really annoying, but i was just happy that he was right back where he was supposed to be :)
then tuesday comes around. i said my goodbyes to him, and left for school...not thinking that tragic moments were going to come later that day.
i came to school, taught my lessons, ate lunch, and was done for the day. i figured i would just go to the gym and hang out because it was too cold to go anywhere, and i didnt wanna just sit at home.
SO. i run home really quick to pick up my gym clothes (luckily home is on the wayish to the gym!)
and i go to say hello to mr. hamster like i always do, and he wasnt moving.
he was just laying there like a pile of dead.
he was all stiff, and his eyes were open. and..i didnt look all that close but i'm pretty sure his tongue was sticking out. so all those things mean he was sitting there DEAD.
i freaked out. HOW COULD HE?! that's not allowed. the family was still out of town! what was i going to tell them?! or what was i supposed to do with the body? i wouldnt touch it when it was alive..there was NO WAY i was going to touch that dead thing.
what was i going to do?
call them "umm hi so remember me? yeah, i'm still living in your house..hope you're having a good vacation..oh um me? yeah..i'm good. your hamster is dead though."
i couldnt do it! the worst part was that i knew they told me they were going to come home the exact day that it died!
that little snot couldnt even stay alive for ONE MORE DAY. to save my butt.
of course this would only happen to me...
so anyways, i tried to stay awake to wait for the family to get home, but they never came home! so now i'm stuck with this dead hamster in my room and i dont know what to do, and i dont know when they are coming home. it's quite the dilemma...not gunna lie.
so now, i'm going to clear up some facts, statements, and questions that might come flying at me when you read this.
Q: did i feed it?
A: YES. it always had food in its container. but i'm convinced it wasnt eating. it was on a starvation strike.
Q: did you put it in the microwave and now you're just telling everyone it died on its own?
A: OMG!!! no!
my theory is: it died from falling. the thing loved to hang upside down on it's cage, and fall off..and then climb back up and crawl around. it would do that so many times...i'm pretty sure it was from head trauma.
it also had a cancerous thing on it's face. it was disgusting. it looked like a tumor...and it grossed me out. it mighta died from that.
Q: cant you just go buy another one and tell them that's it?
A: yeah, except see above statement. where am i going to get a cancerous hamster in this country?!
anyways, that's all i have for you.
the family still hasnt come home, or answered their phone. so now i am just sitting here waiting..and trying to figure out what i am going to do.
:/
rest in peace little guy...
sing your heart out
so my life has been filled with quite a few...interesting events for the past few days.
never a dull moment with me, i swear. my luck just cant get any better, can it? that's okay though, i wouldnt change it for the world! i love my crazy life :)
okay so anyways, i guess i will start with something interesting..aka..saturday.
sooo. lets seeee...i'm trying to remember. okay yes, i had plans to meet my group at a metro stop to go to the botanical gardens and explore the (warm) flowers and whatever a botanical garden is supposed to have..but it was all a let down..from the moment i stepped outside my door!
1. it was snowing.
2. it was freezing
but hey, none of that is new news to me.
okay. sooo i walked to my bus stop because i was DETERMINED to get there, despite the fact that it was a blizzard impaling my face with darts of snow shards.
i got to the stop, and there was bus 245 waiting, about to leave. so i had to hurry and remember what bus number it was i was supposed to get on to get to the metro, so i didnt get on...figuring another bus would come within 5 minutes...giving me enough time to rummage through my purse and find the paper that holds all my beloved information of what buses to take and what stops, and where they'll take me.
luckily, that was the wrong bus, CRISIS AVOIDED!
but, another crisis arose..not one bus came..not for a whole 45 minutes. and there i stand. in the frozen. toes numb. face burning. waiting..waiting..waitinggggggg for a stupid bus to come. at this point, i didnt even care what bus it was. i was going to get on it and take it wherever it may go.
and that's exactly what i did.
my bus number is 249 to take me to metro stop "levebronestya" or something like that. i kinda just mumble it and hope people know what i'm talking about.
so anyways, i got on the bus. and sat there, and looked out the window and just waited to get to the right place. i recognized a lot of the stops, so i got SUPER excited that i figured this whole thing out on my own! so i got on the metro, and rode it to the stop we were all supposed to meet at. but seeing as i was 30 minutes late, everyone was gone..except for carly who had a rough time getting there too.
so we stood there waiting for someone to come get us for like twenty minutes, and that was rockin. everyone kept texting me telling me to not come because it was stupid, but i didnt listen to them because i wanted to see the flowers!
so we trekked through the snow to get to the botanical gardens, and guess what? THERE WERE NO FLOWERS. i think i saw one..that was growing on a tree..
needless to say it was a complete letdown. but we had warm shelter for an hour..so what more could i ask for!
(plus, because i came late...i didnt have to pay...so that's a MEGA plus!)
anyways, finally we got to leave (plus i was starving my entire guts out!) we all decided we wanted to go to "dream mall" sounds dreamy, eh?
well dont worry, it was.
upon our arrival, we dispersed to feed our hungry tummys. i made my way to the food court (tons of options, and cheap prices? yes please) and then i saw it. jesus sent me a little gift from heaven. A SANDWICH!
not just any sandwich. a panini. i was in heaven.
except it was WAY too small..i needed about 6 more of them to fill my stomach at least halfway. it was a little disappointing, i'm not going to lie.
anywhooo, we sat and talked for a bit, and then decided to hit the shops before we got glued to those chairs at the food court.
so we shopped..until we dropped. this was no ordinary mall, folks. this was "dream mall" i feel like for some reason that's not the real name of it. i think it's "dream town...." because i remember singing the song funky town...while traveling to the mall.
so anyways, dream town mall thing. it was bigger than you imagine. it was like 5 stories, i swear. and it had an ice skating rink, and a roller skating rink, and bumper cars, and restaurants and all the other things in the entire world that you could imagine. and i guess just across the street they built a second addition to the mall, which has a water park!
oh my, the excitement.
so we hung out there for literally my entire life. i felt like i lived there now. i think we got there at 3 and didnt leave until 8...try lugging around your giant backpack for that many hours and shop at the same time. i'm pretty sure i saw every store there was..twice!
now THAT'S a serious feat.
anyways, some people that we were hanging out with decided to go home, so it was just me and carly and john..and we didnt wanna spend another saturday night just sitting in our rooms...but we had NO idea what we wanted to do, or what there was to do. so we kept bumming around the mall. then we were just standing there listening to this guy play the piano, and looked over and there was carly's host sister! (she's like 28..and really nice!) so we were talking to her and she was telling us about how she wanted to go to kareoke night..but didnt have anyone to go with, so we gladly volunteered to go :)
sooooo we called becki and lesa (two other teachers in our group) and got the move on it to go find this place. i was really excited to finally get out of the house and do something!
never a dull moment with me, i swear. my luck just cant get any better, can it? that's okay though, i wouldnt change it for the world! i love my crazy life :)
okay so anyways, i guess i will start with something interesting..aka..saturday.
sooo. lets seeee...i'm trying to remember. okay yes, i had plans to meet my group at a metro stop to go to the botanical gardens and explore the (warm) flowers and whatever a botanical garden is supposed to have..but it was all a let down..from the moment i stepped outside my door!
1. it was snowing.
2. it was freezing
but hey, none of that is new news to me.
okay. sooo i walked to my bus stop because i was DETERMINED to get there, despite the fact that it was a blizzard impaling my face with darts of snow shards.
i got to the stop, and there was bus 245 waiting, about to leave. so i had to hurry and remember what bus number it was i was supposed to get on to get to the metro, so i didnt get on...figuring another bus would come within 5 minutes...giving me enough time to rummage through my purse and find the paper that holds all my beloved information of what buses to take and what stops, and where they'll take me.
luckily, that was the wrong bus, CRISIS AVOIDED!
but, another crisis arose..not one bus came..not for a whole 45 minutes. and there i stand. in the frozen. toes numb. face burning. waiting..waiting..waitinggggggg for a stupid bus to come. at this point, i didnt even care what bus it was. i was going to get on it and take it wherever it may go.
and that's exactly what i did.
my bus number is 249 to take me to metro stop "levebronestya" or something like that. i kinda just mumble it and hope people know what i'm talking about.
so anyways, i got on the bus. and sat there, and looked out the window and just waited to get to the right place. i recognized a lot of the stops, so i got SUPER excited that i figured this whole thing out on my own! so i got on the metro, and rode it to the stop we were all supposed to meet at. but seeing as i was 30 minutes late, everyone was gone..except for carly who had a rough time getting there too.
so we stood there waiting for someone to come get us for like twenty minutes, and that was rockin. everyone kept texting me telling me to not come because it was stupid, but i didnt listen to them because i wanted to see the flowers!
so we trekked through the snow to get to the botanical gardens, and guess what? THERE WERE NO FLOWERS. i think i saw one..that was growing on a tree..
needless to say it was a complete letdown. but we had warm shelter for an hour..so what more could i ask for!
(plus, because i came late...i didnt have to pay...so that's a MEGA plus!)
anyways, finally we got to leave (plus i was starving my entire guts out!) we all decided we wanted to go to "dream mall" sounds dreamy, eh?
well dont worry, it was.
upon our arrival, we dispersed to feed our hungry tummys. i made my way to the food court (tons of options, and cheap prices? yes please) and then i saw it. jesus sent me a little gift from heaven. A SANDWICH!
not just any sandwich. a panini. i was in heaven.
except it was WAY too small..i needed about 6 more of them to fill my stomach at least halfway. it was a little disappointing, i'm not going to lie.
anywhooo, we sat and talked for a bit, and then decided to hit the shops before we got glued to those chairs at the food court.
so we shopped..until we dropped. this was no ordinary mall, folks. this was "dream mall" i feel like for some reason that's not the real name of it. i think it's "dream town...." because i remember singing the song funky town...while traveling to the mall.
so anyways, dream town mall thing. it was bigger than you imagine. it was like 5 stories, i swear. and it had an ice skating rink, and a roller skating rink, and bumper cars, and restaurants and all the other things in the entire world that you could imagine. and i guess just across the street they built a second addition to the mall, which has a water park!
oh my, the excitement.
so we hung out there for literally my entire life. i felt like i lived there now. i think we got there at 3 and didnt leave until 8...try lugging around your giant backpack for that many hours and shop at the same time. i'm pretty sure i saw every store there was..twice!
now THAT'S a serious feat.
anyways, some people that we were hanging out with decided to go home, so it was just me and carly and john..and we didnt wanna spend another saturday night just sitting in our rooms...but we had NO idea what we wanted to do, or what there was to do. so we kept bumming around the mall. then we were just standing there listening to this guy play the piano, and looked over and there was carly's host sister! (she's like 28..and really nice!) so we were talking to her and she was telling us about how she wanted to go to kareoke night..but didnt have anyone to go with, so we gladly volunteered to go :)
sooooo we called becki and lesa (two other teachers in our group) and got the move on it to go find this place. i was really excited to finally get out of the house and do something!
soo. we were walking in the snow.
see that classy coat? it's so cute!
okay, you're right. it's awful. and i stick out of here like a soar thumb. but wanna know what?
1. it's warmer than hell itself.
2. it has a kangaroo pouch. :) for all my valuables (which also doubles as me looking pregnant..so people give me their seat on the metro or bus..SCORE!)
so we got to the kareoke restaurant/bar kinda thing and were just chillin, ordered some food..there were only two other groups there so they would like rotate through the groups with who got to sing...and we sang a LOT. everyone loved us, they thought we were the awesomest people ever.
probably because we are.
we made friends with one of the other groups, and they were so funny. it was really interesting though, we were talking to them about kiev and what not, and they all said they didnt like it here at alllll and wanted to leave.
i told them if i had to live through another winter here i probably would feel the same way.
but i actually really like it here, minus the cold/snow/ice/slipping everywhere i try and walk.
i asked them if they could tell that i was american just by looking at me..and they said yes. it's because i smile and laugh too much.
shoooooot. :(
anyways, that was a lot of fun. :)
here's some jem's from that night:
feast your eyes on this!
Sunday, February 5, 2012
why am i here?
:/
it's one of those days. i'm slowly losing motivation to leave the house more and more..and the desire to be here.
it's one of those days. i'm slowly losing motivation to leave the house more and more..and the desire to be here.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
that moment you realize it's negative 8 degrees outside.
its always somewhat of a let down to wake up in the morning. i get so warm, so cuddly, and after 8 hours of restless sleep, i swear RIGHT before my alarm goes off is the exact moment that i get in the most comfortable position EVER. and could probably sleep for 8 more hours.
but. my obligation to teaching, and my desire to explore this ever-so amazing country gets me out of bed every morning.
i dont know why.
i roll out of bed, turn my computer on to check the weather, and dart to the bathroom to shower. i think getting out of the shower is even more disappointing than getting out of bed. i dont know about you, but for me, showering solves all life's problems. it's warm. you feel so much better about yourself, it soothes your aches and pains, anddd...you kinda get to be a vegetable for 10 minutes (okay, maybe 20). there's not much better in life than that.
except for maybe the fact that i've eaten two loaves of bread in three days. but that's a different story.
anyways, i shower. i come back to my room to get ready, layer up, and get my butt to school. while doing this, i like to gauge how many layers to wear, so i check the weather. 99% of the time it's about 3-7 degrees outside---barely bearable. so i put on my tights, leggings, leggings (again), and then my thermal pants. my two pairs of socks, my boots, my thermal shirt, my over shirt, a sweater, scarf, then my coat. and i'm ready to go for the day!
but today went a little differently. my internet at home had been down for a bit, so when i finally got it working i hurried up and skyped with ryan before he went to bed (it still trips me out that my mornings are his nights, and his mornings are my nights) but then i remembered to check the weather to be prepared for what was going to come. it was more disappointing than you could imagine.
negative.
there was a negative sign. i dont think you all realize how cold that negative sign automatically makes it.
i remember being in utah, driving around in my super cool mini van and gasping at the fact that it was 28 degrees. barely below freezing.i literally thought death was going to come upon me. but now i have a new appreciation for utah weather (especially since i hear it's in the 30's there!...i hate you all).
i would give anything to have my car that has a heater.
let me run you by what's been going on for the past week (has it really been a week!? man, i need to remember to blog more..i'm just so busy!)
okay, so last week of teaching went...okay. it was better than i expected but it still sucked. we were blind sighted quite a few times, and had to overcome a few obstacles with our lessons, the school, the kids, etc. but we worked through it. i mean, half the fun of doing something like this is figuring out what the heck you're doing!
i kinda got in a rut of feeling sorry for myself. oh poor me. this is really hard. it's really cold. i dont want to teach. and then i realized this is what i signed up for! i better figure it out or else i'm gunna wanna die for the next 5 months every day that i come into the school (even though every day i secretly wish all my kids are sick and cant come to class). but i didnt wanna sit here and be miserable at school, waiting for the time to pass, doing mediocre lessons. NO WAY, NOT ME! that's not like me anyways. we all know about my ocd problems. so i finally buckled down. did some studying. planned my lessons for the rest of the week, and put a smile on my face!
and it totally worked.
so teaching is going pretty good. it's really hard, still. i didnt really think about how hard it is teaching another language, especially to the itty bitty kids. they're more interested in headbutting each other than they are constantly repeating what i say. but we make it work.
anyways, so i am trying to remember what i did for my lessons.
my itty bitty class is kinda hard, mostly we just have been winging it (except for today) but it's been fun. and then my older class, i chose to do kitchen activities with them last week. so for wednesday we made a fruit salad, cut up apples, oranges, and bananas and stirred it all up and make a really delish salad. then for friday we made jello jigglers! it turned out a lot of fun, except for some reason at the bottom of my jello bowl there was a thick layer of uncutable jello. i dont know what it was, but it was hard. and disgusting. so i kinda had a pukey face and wanted to die, but it helped me not eat it! :)
they rather enjoyed the jello time, and of course made a mess of it, but it was fun. i'm still getting used to the teaching style of constantly talking 24/7 and being really annoying about everything. but i'll get used to it.
anyways, it's been way too cold to really do anything so i usually would just go home and chill. read a book, take a bath...all the good things in life :)
but saturday i decided to venture out and have some fun! my head teacher had invited us all over to her apartment for a little shindig, so a few of us decided to meet up there. i was a little nervous to leave the house (my host family is out of town, and i wasnt quite sure which bus to take to get to the metro, or how to get back...but i KNEW i needed to take the bull by the horns and stop sitting around feeling scared and sorry for myself) so i layered up, and ventured out. i started walking in the direction of what i remembered the bus stop to be at, and i looked up and saw the holy grail of holy grails.
but. my obligation to teaching, and my desire to explore this ever-so amazing country gets me out of bed every morning.
i dont know why.
i roll out of bed, turn my computer on to check the weather, and dart to the bathroom to shower. i think getting out of the shower is even more disappointing than getting out of bed. i dont know about you, but for me, showering solves all life's problems. it's warm. you feel so much better about yourself, it soothes your aches and pains, anddd...you kinda get to be a vegetable for 10 minutes (okay, maybe 20). there's not much better in life than that.
except for maybe the fact that i've eaten two loaves of bread in three days. but that's a different story.
anyways, i shower. i come back to my room to get ready, layer up, and get my butt to school. while doing this, i like to gauge how many layers to wear, so i check the weather. 99% of the time it's about 3-7 degrees outside---barely bearable. so i put on my tights, leggings, leggings (again), and then my thermal pants. my two pairs of socks, my boots, my thermal shirt, my over shirt, a sweater, scarf, then my coat. and i'm ready to go for the day!
but today went a little differently. my internet at home had been down for a bit, so when i finally got it working i hurried up and skyped with ryan before he went to bed (it still trips me out that my mornings are his nights, and his mornings are my nights) but then i remembered to check the weather to be prepared for what was going to come. it was more disappointing than you could imagine.
negative.
there was a negative sign. i dont think you all realize how cold that negative sign automatically makes it.
i remember being in utah, driving around in my super cool mini van and gasping at the fact that it was 28 degrees. barely below freezing.i literally thought death was going to come upon me. but now i have a new appreciation for utah weather (especially since i hear it's in the 30's there!...i hate you all).
i would give anything to have my car that has a heater.
let me run you by what's been going on for the past week (has it really been a week!? man, i need to remember to blog more..i'm just so busy!)
okay, so last week of teaching went...okay. it was better than i expected but it still sucked. we were blind sighted quite a few times, and had to overcome a few obstacles with our lessons, the school, the kids, etc. but we worked through it. i mean, half the fun of doing something like this is figuring out what the heck you're doing!
i kinda got in a rut of feeling sorry for myself. oh poor me. this is really hard. it's really cold. i dont want to teach. and then i realized this is what i signed up for! i better figure it out or else i'm gunna wanna die for the next 5 months every day that i come into the school (even though every day i secretly wish all my kids are sick and cant come to class). but i didnt wanna sit here and be miserable at school, waiting for the time to pass, doing mediocre lessons. NO WAY, NOT ME! that's not like me anyways. we all know about my ocd problems. so i finally buckled down. did some studying. planned my lessons for the rest of the week, and put a smile on my face!
and it totally worked.
so teaching is going pretty good. it's really hard, still. i didnt really think about how hard it is teaching another language, especially to the itty bitty kids. they're more interested in headbutting each other than they are constantly repeating what i say. but we make it work.
anyways, so i am trying to remember what i did for my lessons.
my itty bitty class is kinda hard, mostly we just have been winging it (except for today) but it's been fun. and then my older class, i chose to do kitchen activities with them last week. so for wednesday we made a fruit salad, cut up apples, oranges, and bananas and stirred it all up and make a really delish salad. then for friday we made jello jigglers! it turned out a lot of fun, except for some reason at the bottom of my jello bowl there was a thick layer of uncutable jello. i dont know what it was, but it was hard. and disgusting. so i kinda had a pukey face and wanted to die, but it helped me not eat it! :)
they rather enjoyed the jello time, and of course made a mess of it, but it was fun. i'm still getting used to the teaching style of constantly talking 24/7 and being really annoying about everything. but i'll get used to it.
anyways, it's been way too cold to really do anything so i usually would just go home and chill. read a book, take a bath...all the good things in life :)
but saturday i decided to venture out and have some fun! my head teacher had invited us all over to her apartment for a little shindig, so a few of us decided to meet up there. i was a little nervous to leave the house (my host family is out of town, and i wasnt quite sure which bus to take to get to the metro, or how to get back...but i KNEW i needed to take the bull by the horns and stop sitting around feeling scared and sorry for myself) so i layered up, and ventured out. i started walking in the direction of what i remembered the bus stop to be at, and i looked up and saw the holy grail of holy grails.
"fitness life"
ah those sweet words! i finally found somewhere that i can escape. release my anger, and actually sweat for once. (besides having to wear all those layers then walk up a gigantic hill of death...three times...but thats a different story for a little later.)
so i ran inside and asked the girl if she spoke english, which she did..kinda. good enough to give me a piece of paper about the place and so i thanked her and told her i would come back later (i wanted to get back on with my adventure of finding the apartment before it got dark outside)...and yes. i did have that little faith in myself that i thought it would take me 3 hours to reach my destination.
so i walked back over to the bus stop and stood there pondering what bus number i should get on. i wasnt really sure, but i just decided that it would be a really good idea to get on the first one that came. i had this logic for a few reasons.
1. i was cold, and wanted a warm(ish) place to sit...
2. i figured..all the buses have to end up at the same place...and last time i went to the metro there were twelve million buses of all different numbers gathered..so i figured at one point or another i would end up at the metro.
3. that's really all my reasoning that i have...
so i stood there for about two minutes, and saw a bus drive up...so i frantically waved it down and hopped right on. (i had perfect seat placement. four rows back, next to the window. far enough away from the driver so nobody would pass me their money, but not too far back that the ukrainian stench would gather (which is in the back of the bus).
okay, side note really quickly. ukranians have a very distinct smell. it sometimes depends on the time of day, but it usually involves this: sausage, B.O., and alcohol.
the strength of alcohol is what makes it depend on the time of day. the later at night (aka the colder it gets) the stronger people smell. allllll the time.
okay so anyways, bus placement=good. so i sat on the bus for a good 30 minutes, but i wasnt too worried. i was just happy to get some sight seeing in. i found a lot of cool little street shops near my house, and i wouldnt have been able to find them if it wasnt for this nice little bus ride! and i FINALLY made it to the metro stop. and there it was, mcdonalds.
i dont think i had ever been this happy in my entire life. it was downright amazing.
so i ran inside, and realized it was going to be harder to order than i thought. i had no idea how to say "chicken nuggets" in russian. soooooo i did what i do best here, and played a little game of charades with the girl.
it worked out magically, and i was so happy to finally have some food in my tummy! and if you were all wondering what ukranian chicken nuggets are, they're the EXACT same as american ones.
but..they did have something quite interesting on their menu that caught my eye. they looked like samoa cookies..but they were chicken nuggets with sesame seeds on them. i was intrigued...but not enough to actually order it.
so i gobbled down my meal, and remembered that i needed to reach my destination before nightfall.
so i waltzed my way over to the metro and got on. then i remembered i had no idea which stop i was getting off on, so i stood over by the map following with my finger where we were after each stop. everyone kept looking at me, but the longer i'm here..the longer i realize that i dont care what people say or think about me..i'm just trying to survive this place..and i'm going to do it MY way. plus, i have no idea what anyone is saying to me when they talk, so i just smile and say "english only" and then they talk more and i smile and pretend like they're telling me how pretty i am.
so i got off on the right stop, and pulled out my very in depth directions of how to get to the apartment (it was probably a 20 minute walk..that i turned into a 40 minute walk very quickly).
i followed the directions to the T. and got to the movie theaters, and turn right. but i wasnt quite sure..do i turn right before the movie theather, or after? so i assumed after...for some stupid reason. then the next item on the list was "hike up the giant mountain hill of death until you cant breathe anymore, and then keep hiking until you wanna rip your clothes off and die of heat stroke, and then keep walking because you'll almost be there"
okay, it didnt go exactly like that, but that's how it was.
so i hiked up the mountain, and made it to the top and i was so proud of myself. i felt like a champion. i couldnt breathe and my butt burned, but i had reached champion status.
but then i realized i wasnt at my destination. i had made it to this strange road with a lot of scary houses, and that wasnt in the directions.
so i called the head teacher and asked her, and we figured out that i HIKED THE WRONG MOUNTAIN. i was supposed to turn before the movie theater, not after :( so i hung my head in shame and walked back down the mountain.
twelve million hours later, after rehiking that mountain, i made it to their apartment. happily.
and they had made the cutest fort EVER. when i move home and have my own room again, i am making a fort in my room. i love the feeling. plus, it trapped in all the heat so it made it a little warmer in the apartment!
okay, i feel like i have been blabbing forever and ever. if you have reached it to this point in the story, i love you forever. and i will give you a second to stand up, touch your toes, spin around three times, and jog in place for a second. everyone needs their wiggle time.
dont worry, i moved from the table, to sitting on the floor, to laying on the floor, which then i felt obligated to take a nap. but i'm back and feelin good!
so anyways, we all just sat there and watched a movie, and chatted about our week. it was fun to see some of the people from the different schools.
so blah blah blah. we were all sitting around, and i was getting HANGRY. (like always) but nobody wanted to go out and get food.
so finally i got a few of us to get our shoes on and go venturing out to find food, we walked forevvveeerr and couldnt find anything, but we made it to the movie theater, so we decided to go in there and unthaw.
we found out that this was not only a movie theater, but it was THE place to be on a saturday night. they had bowling, an arcade, food (which was gross looking and over priced, so we didnt eat there), annddd movies, and everything else you could have imagined.
this is me being cute with a statue outside the movie theater: (p.s. thats my new coat!)
okay so blah blah blah, we walked more. and it was cold. so we made it to the train station (NOT the metro, the train) so we went in there hoping they would have food..like an airport. they had like two places to go..so we went to the place that looked italian.
after five minutes of charades we got our pizza and salad ordered, and we were feelin pretty good.
blah blah blah, we got our food, and ate. and it was awesomely delish. i dont know if it was because i was hungry, or if it was because it really was good, but my tummy was happy. but not that happy. it was a tiny pizza. i could have eaten the entire thing by myself and still been hungry, so i voted we walked a few more littles and go to mcdonalds, but they didnt want to. so i was sad. but then they ordered another pizza, and i just had a bite of theirs.
so all was good in the hood.
we walked around the train station and looked at some souvenir shops and then decided to head back.
i forgot that we had to hike up that mountain, but i did it! with a smile on my face (to tell you the honest truth, it felt good to walk and stretch my legs....but nobody told me i would be sore in the morning! hahaa..pathetic)
so we got back, watched another movie, and kinda just talked and went to bed. everyone was pretty beat from the week, so we just chilled.
i did paint my fingernails and toenails though!
so thennn we woke up, and it was freezing, and i wasnt feeling in tip top shape and i knew that if i wanted any chance of fighting off this cold, that i had to go home and sleep allll day.
so i went home, and everyone else headed off to church.
my head was feeling so heavy, and i had that awful tickle in my throat. and i didnt want that to carry over into the week (which it has anyways)
so i went home and chilled at home. it was saturday night for ryan, so i skyped in to him and his lovely roommate and friend and we played never have i ever aannd i watched them play just dance :) it was a fun day. it was kinda fun to hang out with people other than...the people i am with 24/7...i had so much fun! then i ate an entire loaf of bread, and cheese..and got really really fat. :( bad idea.
after that i slept a lot, and mostly just slept. and watched a movie, i think. that day was kinda a blur of events to tell you the honest truth. but i do remember being very very happy! :) and that's all that matters to me.
so then monday decided to come, and i wasnt as ready as i thought i was. we still struggle with the itty bitty class, knowing what activities to do to keep them interested..and involved..and to use language that they understand. it's just difficult all around...but we figured it out. and then with the older kids i made..jello. oh yeah, i think i already told you about that.
i was supposed to go to the gym, but because i was tired. and cold. and not in the mood. i didnt go that day.
tuesday came around..and that's my day were i get to sleep in and go to ele (which is at a public school..and i was not looking forward to it because the kids were beasts last week) so we got there, kinda bs'ed our way through the classes and came back to the school for lunch and really exciting training meetings! :)
they're not that exciting..but they help..so that's good!
so thennn we went to the gym and i felt like i could actually breathe here! it was the most exciting thing EVER. but we had to actually obtain our passes, which was a work out in and of itself. the girl didnt speak english, so after charades for a bit, finally some girl that spoke really good english came and helped us and it was really nice.
it felt soo good to finally work out. it's nice to have a place to go and let off some steam and feel better about myself eating a whole loaf of bread.
so then after, i went to the store and bought..a whole loaf of bread..and some oatmeal :)
so i ate the bread (almost all of it..i resisted the rest to save for breakfast) andddd cleaned the apartment (it was getting BAD) i had clothes everyweher from doing laundry and then laying them all out to dry. and guess what? the washing machine was nice enough do dye ALL my white clothes..PINK. how sweet of it..NOT. ugh. oh well, i'm over it. at least it wasnt brown ;)
so anyways, i cleaned, i sat there, i read, i watched movies, etc. it was exciting.
blah blah blah. now i have been sitting here for two hours typing this whole thing. and i am done. i kinda got lazy at the end, so i am going to try and be better and write at least every other day soooooooo you dont have to read this marathon of a blog, and i dont have to type one! :)
mmkay adios.
send your love, on this lovely love month.
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