A Collection of Random Thoughts
1. The door to the toilet room (separate from the bathroom) does not shut completely. I feel this is just a potential awkward situation in the making. Especially as I almost walked in on someone this morning...
2. My host brother owns two types of hair gel made by the same company. One is "Chaos Look" and it is described as "modelling gel". The other is "Titan Look" and described as "extreme gel." Other than these descriptions I can not tell the difference between the two and this is what i think about every time I wash my hands.
3. From the first two items, can you guess what the last thing I did before I began writing this blog entry was?
4. Earlier today I drank strawberry, raspberry, loganberry tea. What the heck is a logan berry?
5. Yesterday Asia had a really awesome barbeque. It was lots of fun. Unfortunately, since I dont live there anymore I had to find a way home. I was going to take a taxi with one of Asia's friends who apparently lives near to my new house. So, my host sister sent me the address via text message. However, Karol's older brother ended up driving everyone home. This posed a problem as I don't ACTUALLY know where I live. We (Karol, Karol's brother Tomek, Asia's friend Worczek [Vorchek], and our friend Olga) ended up spending 45 minutes driving up and down every street in the area looking for "Staffa Street" which is evidently my street. We couldnt find it and had to go to Worczek's house and print a map, which finally got me home. I felt so bad to make everyone waste so long trying to get me home. Also I am very tired today. I took a nap at Karol's apartment for about an hour in between doing different things today.
6. Reid and I tried to rent Enchanted to watch in class today. Unfortunately, after spending half an hour at the movie store trying to pick out a movie we found out we could not rent one because we did not have a membership. At this point Reid realized that the other times he has rented movies he had been with Peter (his old host sisters boyfriend) whose family had a membership to the store. grr. We ended up watching the Pianist because my first host family gave it to me and so it has Polish encoding on the disk. I didnt want to watch this though because 1. ive already seen it and 2. its about poland, not america so the kids already know this stuff.
7. Tomorrow Ola and Sarah are coming to visit from Makow, I am so excited! Not the least of which because I will be able to break my 100 zloty bill (like a $50) that no one in the city has let me use in 3 days. You would think people would want me to buy things. But they would rather not have me buy anything than give me change. Its very frusterating because I have no other money and am not going to go to an ATM when I have 100 zlotys. Reid has had to lend me money on several occasions, but I never spend enough money in one place to merit the hundred geting broken. Tomorrow though, I will buy ice cream for many people, and they will finally break my 100. Also, I love Ola and Sarah.
8. My host dad said I was too skinny and need to eat. I disagree with that because I am getting fat in this country. I have had to change the hole on my belt that I use and everything. I may actually have to start excercising when I return to america. We will see. I'm hungry...
Ok that is all for now. Guess what? I will be in America in 11 days!!!!!!!!!!!! But you should keep emailing me anyway.
1 comment:
Haha, no. 1 is exactly the same as my apartment in Irktusk. Except that I was always walked in upon rather than the other way around.
The part about breaking the bill also sounds horribly familiar... there's this one babushka in an ice-cream kiosk on ulitsa Karla Marxa who is one of my favorite people forever because she let me buy ice-cream with a 500 r. note when I really had to take a bus and had no change.
Hahaha to Chaos and Titan Looks. Remember middle school when all boys wore hair gel and pushed up their bangs all spiky? Come to think of it, Adam Seinkovich or however you spell that had the best hair, and I bet he was Polish or something.
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