Hey y'all
Im finally with my host family. Exciting huh? Im really tied because i rode in a van for over 8 hours today and for the same amount of friday. Thats a lot of van riding. I have, however, mastered the art of picking the best seat in the van. See our vans are not air conditioned, so temperature control is very important. So the left side is the only one with a window, so if you sit directly next tot eh window the wind smack your face and hurts and youa re cold the whole ride. So as far as wind, the back row, behind the window is best. This is altered depending on the direction the van is going and the time of day. See you DO NOT want the front row of the van because the sun beats down on you as you ahve no protection from the other rows of passengers. Then you do not want to sit on the side of the van that the sun is on, or you will be hot. Wind or not. So basically, now you all know which seat to select if you are faced witrh an 8 hour ride in a na unairconditioned van through the Polish countryside.
I also had my first sucessful independant Polish encounter today. I was able to get the key to the bathroom from the lady at the gas station. Pretty awesome huh?
Krakow was fun. I walked like a million miles. There is a castle there which i took lots of pictures of for ashley. there are also like a million kebab stands. Kebabs are like pitas filled with mass quantities of junk. By that i mean meat and cabbage and tomatoes and cucumbers and sauce. I had one that was as big as my head and i made such a mess. I had to eat with a towel on me. I took pictures of that too.
Today I moved in with my first host family that i am with for 3 weeks. They are a mother and father and 2 daughters, one who is 15 and one who is 17. The daughters speak passable english, the mother speaks a little and the father understands a little. They also have a dog who looks just like Dolce but it is a boy. He barks a lot, but I like having a dog around. Most of what i have done since I got here is eat but that was OK because i didnt eat the whole car ride. They have current bushes and a cherry tree so you can eat cherries right off the tree which is really cool.
One of the other volunteers, Reid, lives 3 minutes away. We saw him and his host sister when my host sister and I went to get ice cream in the town center. His host sister wanted him to buy her beer because she was too young. The ice cream was really good. I had yogurt flavor with strawberries. Yesterday in Krakow i had ice cream too. There I had blueberry and strawberry. There are 2 other volunteers in this town. Julie who i am friends with is also teachinga t the same school as me ( so is reid) so she should be around here somewhere. And then the other girl, Ellen, is teaching at another school that is further away.
Everyone is all excited about the EuroCup which i guess is tonight. My host parents went to someone elses house to watch it. My host family is cheering for Spain, Reid's was cheering for Germany. Thanks to Eric, I was all prepared to know what this was. But I did not voice the idea that it just narrowly missed being a reenactment of WW2.
Last thing, my room is covered in Harry Potter stuff! isnt that awesome. Its like they knew me.
(Ostroleka is pronounced Ostrowenka)
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Zubr
So in Poland they have a beer called "Zubr" except the Z has a dot over it. It is pronounced zh( as in garage) oobr. This means ...wait for it... BISON. It is green and has a picture of a bison on it.
Yesterday we had an "ognisko" which is like a bonfire picnic thing! it was superfun. The girl, Ola, whose mom is the headmaster of the school we are staying at right now just turned 18 last week so it was partly in celebration of us, and partly in celebration of her birthday. At the ognisko first we ate lots of salads and stuff. Then this guy had this big bucket of meat that he kept cooking on the grill and bringing over to us. First there were these black sausages that had meat and some kind of barley type thing in them. They were weird. Then there was seasoned pork neck, which was very fatty but very good. After that we were all full and they brought out a giant birthday cake, like wedding cake sized, for Ola. There were giant sparklers on it and it was awesome. After all that eating it was time to roast sausages in the fire. kielbasa, yo. I was one of the only girls that roasted a sausage in the fire. It was really fun, but i didnt really like my sausage, which is not allowed so i hid it and then threw it away. They also buried potatoes and apples in the fire, and the potatoes were AMAZING!!! They were small and buttery and roasted tasting and delicious. Also hot. we played hot potato with real hot potatoes. We also taught the Polish kids how to make smores.
Later some of the girls were talking to the Polish kids about rap and they were rapping, and i was like "oh I must join in" so i went over and did the first verse of GoldDigger and then Ola informed me that I had depressed the Polish kids. Depressed them, because they could not understand the words. It was so sad. My rapping depressed polish teenagers.
Thats really all there is to tell about the ognisko.
Today I smell bad right now. That is because today was a long day.
This morning we met the mayor of Makow and it was fun. We had tea with him and he was very nice and friendly and told us "You will teach the Polish youth English, and we will teach you how to eat." After that we went to Warsaw aka Warszawa (Varshava) to meet the American ambassador. He was not particularly friendly and was from Tennessee. He didnt know anything about the program even though he has met 2 other groups in the past. We were very disappointed in him. He gave a speech that was kind of interesting but also focused a lot on how the US was super awesome because woodrow wilson included a free and independent Poland as point 13 of his 14 points, even though he ahd never left America. Apparently, according to one of the other kids here (the ambassador didnt mention this part), Woodrow Wilson had a Polish Pianist friend and thats why he was so gung-ho Polish rights.
We walked a little in Warsaw, but that wasnt particularly fun because my shoes hurt a lot because i had dressed to impressed the ambassador. I have lots blisters now. We then had another million hour ride back. Then dinner. Then 15 of us had to present 10 minute lesson plans. Which took forever and now I am very tired.
This may be my last blog entry for a while because tomorrow we are going to Krakow (pronounced Krakov). We will be there til sunday when we leave to go to our host families. I do not know if we will have internet where we are staying, so it may be a while before I am able to relate my adventures to y'all again. I may even be a teacher by that point, omg.
So, as you may have predicted, I would like emails especially from those of you who have not yet felt motivated enough by your love of me to email me. Those of you who have emailed, you are wonderful people and you can attest to the promptness of my replies.
In addition, to those of you who asked, the Polish boys are definitely more attractive than the russians. I would say that there are about an equal percentage of attractive Polish boys as of american boys, possibly higher, but Stephanie (if you are reading this) they all seem to have light hair. I have not seen a single dark haired Polish boy. so good luck with that.
Yesterday we had an "ognisko" which is like a bonfire picnic thing! it was superfun. The girl, Ola, whose mom is the headmaster of the school we are staying at right now just turned 18 last week so it was partly in celebration of us, and partly in celebration of her birthday. At the ognisko first we ate lots of salads and stuff. Then this guy had this big bucket of meat that he kept cooking on the grill and bringing over to us. First there were these black sausages that had meat and some kind of barley type thing in them. They were weird. Then there was seasoned pork neck, which was very fatty but very good. After that we were all full and they brought out a giant birthday cake, like wedding cake sized, for Ola. There were giant sparklers on it and it was awesome. After all that eating it was time to roast sausages in the fire. kielbasa, yo. I was one of the only girls that roasted a sausage in the fire. It was really fun, but i didnt really like my sausage, which is not allowed so i hid it and then threw it away. They also buried potatoes and apples in the fire, and the potatoes were AMAZING!!! They were small and buttery and roasted tasting and delicious. Also hot. we played hot potato with real hot potatoes. We also taught the Polish kids how to make smores.
Later some of the girls were talking to the Polish kids about rap and they were rapping, and i was like "oh I must join in" so i went over and did the first verse of GoldDigger and then Ola informed me that I had depressed the Polish kids. Depressed them, because they could not understand the words. It was so sad. My rapping depressed polish teenagers.
Thats really all there is to tell about the ognisko.
Today I smell bad right now. That is because today was a long day.
This morning we met the mayor of Makow and it was fun. We had tea with him and he was very nice and friendly and told us "You will teach the Polish youth English, and we will teach you how to eat." After that we went to Warsaw aka Warszawa (Varshava) to meet the American ambassador. He was not particularly friendly and was from Tennessee. He didnt know anything about the program even though he has met 2 other groups in the past. We were very disappointed in him. He gave a speech that was kind of interesting but also focused a lot on how the US was super awesome because woodrow wilson included a free and independent Poland as point 13 of his 14 points, even though he ahd never left America. Apparently, according to one of the other kids here (the ambassador didnt mention this part), Woodrow Wilson had a Polish Pianist friend and thats why he was so gung-ho Polish rights.
We walked a little in Warsaw, but that wasnt particularly fun because my shoes hurt a lot because i had dressed to impressed the ambassador. I have lots blisters now. We then had another million hour ride back. Then dinner. Then 15 of us had to present 10 minute lesson plans. Which took forever and now I am very tired.
This may be my last blog entry for a while because tomorrow we are going to Krakow (pronounced Krakov). We will be there til sunday when we leave to go to our host families. I do not know if we will have internet where we are staying, so it may be a while before I am able to relate my adventures to y'all again. I may even be a teacher by that point, omg.
So, as you may have predicted, I would like emails especially from those of you who have not yet felt motivated enough by your love of me to email me. Those of you who have emailed, you are wonderful people and you can attest to the promptness of my replies.
In addition, to those of you who asked, the Polish boys are definitely more attractive than the russians. I would say that there are about an equal percentage of attractive Polish boys as of american boys, possibly higher, but Stephanie (if you are reading this) they all seem to have light hair. I have not seen a single dark haired Polish boy. so good luck with that.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Failure
So I just tried and failed miserably to get pictures onto the computer. The reason for this is possibly that I do not speak Polish and all the stuff on this computer is in Polish. This is sad for you all because I just took some AMAZING pictures. AMAZING! not really. but I will tell you the stories of some of them.
Yesterday some of us went on a walk around Makow to have an adventure, but it was not a particularly huge adventure because Makow was a pretty boring place.
1. The things that happened were that we saw this park with a weird cement fish fountain and I wanted to take a picture of it because it was strange. However as I walked into the park there was a bench that had been concealed by some bushes and there were scary Polish teenagers sitting on it. They were smoking and glared at me and one of them had a mohawk so I turned around and did not take a picture. It was sad. Also, the people with me laughed at me.
2. Also, there was a big dog. In a yard that was fenced in. So I decided to take a picture of the dog and when the flash went off it started barking and was scary and when it started barking other dogs that we couldnt see because they were enclosed in yards with cement fences with barbed wire on the top. It was very scary. So we ran away. After that I decided not to take any more pictures of dogs.
3. Lastly, i saw a dachshund crossing the street and i wanted to take a picture of it, breaking my previous rule. I did take a picture of it and nothing happened to me, but right after i took the picture the dog ALMOST got hit by a huge truck. I ALMOST captured the last moments of the dog's life.
Thats all the stories. The rest of the pictures were of the boring look what this stuff looks like, like a church and a street and the school where i am staying and this weird creepy cat made out of crumpled up brown paper that is scary in the dark.
OK, well that is all for now. I am supposed to tell Youngjoo that mimi says to contact other people. Everyone else should email me.
Yesterday some of us went on a walk around Makow to have an adventure, but it was not a particularly huge adventure because Makow was a pretty boring place.
1. The things that happened were that we saw this park with a weird cement fish fountain and I wanted to take a picture of it because it was strange. However as I walked into the park there was a bench that had been concealed by some bushes and there were scary Polish teenagers sitting on it. They were smoking and glared at me and one of them had a mohawk so I turned around and did not take a picture. It was sad. Also, the people with me laughed at me.
2. Also, there was a big dog. In a yard that was fenced in. So I decided to take a picture of the dog and when the flash went off it started barking and was scary and when it started barking other dogs that we couldnt see because they were enclosed in yards with cement fences with barbed wire on the top. It was very scary. So we ran away. After that I decided not to take any more pictures of dogs.
3. Lastly, i saw a dachshund crossing the street and i wanted to take a picture of it, breaking my previous rule. I did take a picture of it and nothing happened to me, but right after i took the picture the dog ALMOST got hit by a huge truck. I ALMOST captured the last moments of the dog's life.
Thats all the stories. The rest of the pictures were of the boring look what this stuff looks like, like a church and a street and the school where i am staying and this weird creepy cat made out of crumpled up brown paper that is scary in the dark.
OK, well that is all for now. I am supposed to tell Youngjoo that mimi says to contact other people. Everyone else should email me.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
This post is somewhat food centric.
Sup homies,
So this is like 2 days in a row I am posting on here. To you know, keep my loyal readership entertained. And by that I mean, thank you Youngjoo for commenting because it makes me happy to see things from people at home and not be like the loser that everyone has forgotten about because she left the country.
Anywayz, I think my jetlag is slightly better. I was very tired this morning but then I took a nap between class this morning and lunch and resultantly I have been less tired today.
Now I am going to tell two stories from yesterday.
Last night we went to this bar/restaurant place for dinner. It was really cool. I ate sausage and hardboiled egg soup. which was surprisingly good. But the awesome thing was that in the backyard outside part there was a set of tire swings and a trampoline and see-saws. So after dinner five of us went on the trampoline and it was super awesome! We played the "break the egg" game where one person curls up in a ball on the trampoline and the other people jump around and bounce them in the air and try to uncurl them. I ended up kneeing my self in the head. Like alsmost the back of the head. which
1. I didnt think was possible
and
2. I didnt get hurt so it was ok.
I also went on the seesaws.
The second story was that during dinner there were these amazing potatoes that were a cross between french fries and potato chips in that they were thick like french fries but shaped like potato chips and still had a bit of crunch. So we were having dinner and a fly landed in the ketchup and we passed the ketchup down the table so everyone could look at the fly and it got to this guy who was like Polish government dude in charge of education and development or something and he looked at the fly, scooped it up carefully with his fork and put it on his pierogi (a lot like a dumpling) and ate it. Then he passed the ketchup back down the table, like "ok you can use it now"
Our program coordinater assured us that polish people dont usually eat flies.
Other things that have been happening is today we had recess, because they thought we were eating lunch at 1 and we thought 12 so we ended up having a break to go outsife and play. We played knockout and I made it to the final three! I think this means I must be super awesome at sports now. Or you know, the other people here are just as bad at sports. you know, harvard kids. spend too much time in the books. I mean what... Actually they 2 people that did better than me were from UNC and a grown up guy who I dont know what he does but played basketball in high school.
THey eat a lot here. They keep complaining that we dont eat enough but seriously they give us MASS QUANTITIES at every meal. Like if we ate all that, the plane couldnt carry us back. And they are sad like thinking that we dont like their cooking. For example at breakfast today there was bread, rolls, cheese, tomatoes, butter, yogurt, cereal and tea. We were supposed to eat everything. Then at lunch there was cabbage soup (all lunches are 2 courses, soup and then some type of meat, potato and salad). and then there was pork and chicken cutlets (fried meat stuffed with other meat) cauliflower with breadcrumbs and butter, mashed potatoes, pasta with fresh strawberry sauce, mashed beets, and i think that was it. Then right now we just had tea whioch was fruit and cake adn then at 6 we are eating dinner which will be more meat and potatoes and vegetables. And apparently when we go to our host families there will be a second breakfast between breakfast and lunch. I really dont understand because the people here are very skinny. But we are supposed to not only eat all these things but lots of these things. Oh well, at least mostof it tastes better than it sounds.
Im trying to think if anything else of interest has happened, but i think no. We had some teaching classes but they were relatively boring. We practiced making lesson plans. My groups involved a superawesome fashion show, but then when the teacher was having the groups present she forgot our group existed. And we were all ready to show everyone else up too, but she was like "No go have tea" then afterward when we went to use the internet, she stood there blocking the door and told us "No, go finish the cake" but we jsut kind of went upstairs and waited for something else to distract her.
The fruit and vegetables are actually better here. Like the tomatoes are really pretty and red and the peaches were juicy and delicious. Ok now that i am talkign about the quality of the produce here, i think it is really really really time to be done.
So thats all for now. I would like e-mails.
p.s. oh also they have like some sort of polish version of veggie tales that is a cartoon where there are fruits and vegetables that serve as the main characters. I dont know anymore than that because I just saw it on the TV and dont speak Polish.
EMAIL
So this is like 2 days in a row I am posting on here. To you know, keep my loyal readership entertained. And by that I mean, thank you Youngjoo for commenting because it makes me happy to see things from people at home and not be like the loser that everyone has forgotten about because she left the country.
Anywayz, I think my jetlag is slightly better. I was very tired this morning but then I took a nap between class this morning and lunch and resultantly I have been less tired today.
Now I am going to tell two stories from yesterday.
Last night we went to this bar/restaurant place for dinner. It was really cool. I ate sausage and hardboiled egg soup. which was surprisingly good. But the awesome thing was that in the backyard outside part there was a set of tire swings and a trampoline and see-saws. So after dinner five of us went on the trampoline and it was super awesome! We played the "break the egg" game where one person curls up in a ball on the trampoline and the other people jump around and bounce them in the air and try to uncurl them. I ended up kneeing my self in the head. Like alsmost the back of the head. which
1. I didnt think was possible
and
2. I didnt get hurt so it was ok.
I also went on the seesaws.
The second story was that during dinner there were these amazing potatoes that were a cross between french fries and potato chips in that they were thick like french fries but shaped like potato chips and still had a bit of crunch. So we were having dinner and a fly landed in the ketchup and we passed the ketchup down the table so everyone could look at the fly and it got to this guy who was like Polish government dude in charge of education and development or something and he looked at the fly, scooped it up carefully with his fork and put it on his pierogi (a lot like a dumpling) and ate it. Then he passed the ketchup back down the table, like "ok you can use it now"
Our program coordinater assured us that polish people dont usually eat flies.
Other things that have been happening is today we had recess, because they thought we were eating lunch at 1 and we thought 12 so we ended up having a break to go outsife and play. We played knockout and I made it to the final three! I think this means I must be super awesome at sports now. Or you know, the other people here are just as bad at sports. you know, harvard kids. spend too much time in the books. I mean what... Actually they 2 people that did better than me were from UNC and a grown up guy who I dont know what he does but played basketball in high school.
THey eat a lot here. They keep complaining that we dont eat enough but seriously they give us MASS QUANTITIES at every meal. Like if we ate all that, the plane couldnt carry us back. And they are sad like thinking that we dont like their cooking. For example at breakfast today there was bread, rolls, cheese, tomatoes, butter, yogurt, cereal and tea. We were supposed to eat everything. Then at lunch there was cabbage soup (all lunches are 2 courses, soup and then some type of meat, potato and salad). and then there was pork and chicken cutlets (fried meat stuffed with other meat) cauliflower with breadcrumbs and butter, mashed potatoes, pasta with fresh strawberry sauce, mashed beets, and i think that was it. Then right now we just had tea whioch was fruit and cake adn then at 6 we are eating dinner which will be more meat and potatoes and vegetables. And apparently when we go to our host families there will be a second breakfast between breakfast and lunch. I really dont understand because the people here are very skinny. But we are supposed to not only eat all these things but lots of these things. Oh well, at least mostof it tastes better than it sounds.
Im trying to think if anything else of interest has happened, but i think no. We had some teaching classes but they were relatively boring. We practiced making lesson plans. My groups involved a superawesome fashion show, but then when the teacher was having the groups present she forgot our group existed. And we were all ready to show everyone else up too, but she was like "No go have tea" then afterward when we went to use the internet, she stood there blocking the door and told us "No, go finish the cake" but we jsut kind of went upstairs and waited for something else to distract her.
The fruit and vegetables are actually better here. Like the tomatoes are really pretty and red and the peaches were juicy and delicious. Ok now that i am talkign about the quality of the produce here, i think it is really really really time to be done.
So thats all for now. I would like e-mails.
p.s. oh also they have like some sort of polish version of veggie tales that is a cartoon where there are fruits and vegetables that serve as the main characters. I dont know anymore than that because I just saw it on the TV and dont speak Polish.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Hey Everyone!
Ok, so big news from THIS VERY MOMENT, someone just told me that Facebook is blocked on the computers that we are on. WHAT.
I just dont know how I will survive now.
Actually, I'm really busy and will not be here forever,so hopefully this will not have too large of an effect on me.
The biggest event that is happening to me right now is, whats the word, the thing where time is all screwed up because I traveled for a milion hours.
My head must just be soooo full of Polish that I dont know any english anymore.
yea.
I did learn how to say "I am fatally bad" in response to the question of how am I doing though. So that is good.
Getting here took a very long time. I flew to boston. Then I hung out in Boston for a million years. I did not get to eat breakfast in McDonalds though. Then there was a 7 hour flight to Paris where the Paris airport was the most confusing place on the planet. We had a 6 hour layover, but were very very tired at that point. It got very much like you know in the movies when like the person is moving slow and the people allaround them are going in hyperspeed. That is how I felt. Then we flew from Paris to Warsaw for 2 hours, then we had a 2 hour vanride to Makow Masowiecki (Pronounced Makov Masovietski). During the bus ride i kept falling asleep sitting up and then waking up when we went over bumps and making a big snorting noise because I guess my mouth was open.
We are staying at a school place and it is for kids so there are lots of toys in our room. We have a giant stuffed Winnie the Pooh, a barbie, a finding nemo, a betti spaghetti and lots of other things. We ate too. There was lots of things like cabbage stuff with some type of meat. and chicken stuffed with something. And pasta salad. The grossest food was definitly egg filled with mushroom and the best was this like giant ball of dough covered in strawberries. I had 3 of those.
Yesterday night when we were crashed because we had been awake and gross traveling for a million hours there was a giant thunderstorm and lightning came right up near the building and shook it. I ams o tired, im not sure this is coherent.
We have 2 Polish lessons today, and evidently that is all the Polish we will need for, you know, life because the rest of our lessons this week (we are at orientation) will be teaching lessons. I can figure out a lot of words based on Russian, but not when people talk fast, and definitly not all words. LIKE AT ALL. So yes, this wilil get much more confusing and frusterating when there arent lots of Americans around.
One of the major issues thus far has been liquids. Like on the plane they were very stingy with the water plus we didnt want to have to go to the bathroom too much. Then here they are more big on sparkling water, which we are not. And there is no where to get water between meals and stuff. I had to dry swallow my medicine this mornign which was awful. But today at breakfast they told us we could take juice and cups with us to our rooms so I stole a whole container of grapefruit juic, because it was one of the only ones left). Then we talked to our person in charge and they got us some voda niegazowana, which means regular water. So that will be very good to have.
I feel like this is not a particularly amusing entry, but I was much to tired to put thought behind the words that were flowing out of my brain.
Email me back y'all. FOREALLZZ.
Ok, so big news from THIS VERY MOMENT, someone just told me that Facebook is blocked on the computers that we are on. WHAT.
I just dont know how I will survive now.
Actually, I'm really busy and will not be here forever,so hopefully this will not have too large of an effect on me.
The biggest event that is happening to me right now is, whats the word, the thing where time is all screwed up because I traveled for a milion hours.
My head must just be soooo full of Polish that I dont know any english anymore.
yea.
I did learn how to say "I am fatally bad" in response to the question of how am I doing though. So that is good.
Getting here took a very long time. I flew to boston. Then I hung out in Boston for a million years. I did not get to eat breakfast in McDonalds though. Then there was a 7 hour flight to Paris where the Paris airport was the most confusing place on the planet. We had a 6 hour layover, but were very very tired at that point. It got very much like you know in the movies when like the person is moving slow and the people allaround them are going in hyperspeed. That is how I felt. Then we flew from Paris to Warsaw for 2 hours, then we had a 2 hour vanride to Makow Masowiecki (Pronounced Makov Masovietski). During the bus ride i kept falling asleep sitting up and then waking up when we went over bumps and making a big snorting noise because I guess my mouth was open.
We are staying at a school place and it is for kids so there are lots of toys in our room. We have a giant stuffed Winnie the Pooh, a barbie, a finding nemo, a betti spaghetti and lots of other things. We ate too. There was lots of things like cabbage stuff with some type of meat. and chicken stuffed with something. And pasta salad. The grossest food was definitly egg filled with mushroom and the best was this like giant ball of dough covered in strawberries. I had 3 of those.
Yesterday night when we were crashed because we had been awake and gross traveling for a million hours there was a giant thunderstorm and lightning came right up near the building and shook it. I ams o tired, im not sure this is coherent.
We have 2 Polish lessons today, and evidently that is all the Polish we will need for, you know, life because the rest of our lessons this week (we are at orientation) will be teaching lessons. I can figure out a lot of words based on Russian, but not when people talk fast, and definitly not all words. LIKE AT ALL. So yes, this wilil get much more confusing and frusterating when there arent lots of Americans around.
One of the major issues thus far has been liquids. Like on the plane they were very stingy with the water plus we didnt want to have to go to the bathroom too much. Then here they are more big on sparkling water, which we are not. And there is no where to get water between meals and stuff. I had to dry swallow my medicine this mornign which was awful. But today at breakfast they told us we could take juice and cups with us to our rooms so I stole a whole container of grapefruit juic, because it was one of the only ones left). Then we talked to our person in charge and they got us some voda niegazowana, which means regular water. So that will be very good to have.
I feel like this is not a particularly amusing entry, but I was much to tired to put thought behind the words that were flowing out of my brain.
Email me back y'all. FOREALLZZ.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Point of this Whole Idea
sup homies?
Since, you know, I'm leaving the country in 3 days, it has been decided (by myself) that it would be in the best interests of the world for me to start a blog to keep those of you who are amused by the happenings of my life apprised of these happenings.
The problem with this is that blogs are journal-esque, correct? and I have a lot of problems with journals. Actually, I have two main problems with journals
1. I don't think I have ever kept one for more than about two entries. The reasons for this is both my dislike of writing and my lack of desire to have to fit a time for writing into my life.
2. Every time I have ever looked at a journal that I wrote in (like, years later) I realized what an idiot I was at that point in time and destroyed the journal, in order to pretend that I was never an idiot.
So!
In order to avoid these issues, my plan is to make this more like writing emails about the happenings in my life while I am off adventuring. This way I wont have to write an email to 50 billion (or like 5) people if I fall asleep in a museum and wake up to a sketchy man taking my picture. or something...
However, just because I am writing this does not mean that emails are not expected from every single person I know. Because they ARE! Because I like to know everything that ever happens to everyone ever, and to do that when I am in another country, I need people to inform me of everything that ever happens ever. Also, I will email back.
Additionally, DukeEngage wants us to reflect and stuff about our experience. But, I do not think I am a particularly reflective person. So they keep emailing us with all these prompts for us to consider in our reflection, and they make me think of essays and school which is upsetting. However, since they are not actually forcing us to answer these questions, if they ask me whether I have been reflecting, I can be like
"Yea man, just check out my blog, yo."
And hopefully they
1. will just be satisfied with that answer and not look.
2. do and are satisfied.
3. do and I manage to spontaneously reflect in the midst of just relating the happenings of my adventures (which is all I'm trying to do).
Well, that is all I really have to say because I feel weird writing about things in my life when at this point I could pick up a phone and call to tell people about them, I am going to be done writing. I leave for Poland on Saturday and the only Polish words I can seem to remember right now are "tak" (yes) "nie" (no) and "nie rozumiem" (I don't understand). So basically, I am totally set.
Since, you know, I'm leaving the country in 3 days, it has been decided (by myself) that it would be in the best interests of the world for me to start a blog to keep those of you who are amused by the happenings of my life apprised of these happenings.
The problem with this is that blogs are journal-esque, correct? and I have a lot of problems with journals. Actually, I have two main problems with journals
1. I don't think I have ever kept one for more than about two entries. The reasons for this is both my dislike of writing and my lack of desire to have to fit a time for writing into my life.
2. Every time I have ever looked at a journal that I wrote in (like, years later) I realized what an idiot I was at that point in time and destroyed the journal, in order to pretend that I was never an idiot.
So!
In order to avoid these issues, my plan is to make this more like writing emails about the happenings in my life while I am off adventuring. This way I wont have to write an email to 50 billion (or like 5) people if I fall asleep in a museum and wake up to a sketchy man taking my picture. or something...
However, just because I am writing this does not mean that emails are not expected from every single person I know. Because they ARE! Because I like to know everything that ever happens to everyone ever, and to do that when I am in another country, I need people to inform me of everything that ever happens ever. Also, I will email back.
Additionally, DukeEngage wants us to reflect and stuff about our experience. But, I do not think I am a particularly reflective person. So they keep emailing us with all these prompts for us to consider in our reflection, and they make me think of essays and school which is upsetting. However, since they are not actually forcing us to answer these questions, if they ask me whether I have been reflecting, I can be like
"Yea man, just check out my blog, yo."
And hopefully they
1. will just be satisfied with that answer and not look.
2. do and are satisfied.
3. do and I manage to spontaneously reflect in the midst of just relating the happenings of my adventures (which is all I'm trying to do).
Well, that is all I really have to say because I feel weird writing about things in my life when at this point I could pick up a phone and call to tell people about them, I am going to be done writing. I leave for Poland on Saturday and the only Polish words I can seem to remember right now are "tak" (yes) "nie" (no) and "nie rozumiem" (I don't understand). So basically, I am totally set.
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