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Monday, June 30, 2008
zivot bezi dalej [[life goes on...]]
for the record, i don't suck as much at this blog thing as it seems... because i keep writing blogs and running out of time, so i just save them... so i have, like, 575474 million blogs that i come back to later and say, "wow... i don't feel like that at ALL any more... so rather that finishing that one and POSTING it, i start a new one.. and don't finish.
again.
haha.
anyway, things are going up and down... for the most part, things here are AMAZING...
but i've gotta say that i'm 99% ready to go home... there's so much drama here, now... it's amazing how much things can change in just a few months. i LOVE my friends and there are some that i will miss more than anything... and i have had two AMAZING host families that are far better than anything i could have hoped for... but at least for now, as hard as it will be to say goodbye, i've been preparing for it for a while... and i can't stop it, so why fight it?? i'm going to make the most of what i can while i can... and after that know that i'm coming home to an amazing family and friends i adore......
here's what's been up lately::
i'm almost positive that i'll finish this blog because on thursday night, i was on my friends bike and there was a curve in the road so i was like "break, slow down, turn..." not complicated... except that he has a completely messed up bike and because he NEVER uses the front break, it's way stronger than the back one... so when i pushed both of the breaks at once [[which i've done on every.other.bike.ever]] i totally flipped and messed up my leg. FUN. we went to the doctor yesterday because it looked really bad and gross and such, even though we had cleaned it up and disinfected it and such and they bandaged it up and told me not to walk anywhere... so basicly i'm stuck at home unless i feel like breaking that rule or paying for a taxi.
which i realllllly don't.... bah. haha.
it's okay at night, though, because one of my friends has a car and he drove me home and everything, but durring the day... i'm kindof stuck. =(
spisska/polsko/czesko [[spisska/poland/the czech republic]]::
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/spisska%20nova%20ves/
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/auschwitz/
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/birkenau/
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/cracow/
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/prague/
a few weeks ago [[i'm really not sure when it was...]] we went on a rotary trip to spisska nova ves, a city in slovakia, cracow and auschwitz in poland, and pragueeee.... and it was freaking amazing.
while we were in spisska, we met all the slovak kids who are leaving to go to another country next year... and it was sweet being able to talk to them about what it's like... to help them a bit... reasure them that it really is scary, but it DOES rock. also, we went on a SUPER scary trip into the "slovensky raj" which is their national park... and it was cool, but there's this part where you have to stand on.... i don't know what it's called........ it's something between a chain-link fence and mesh.... but there were these "stairs" that were drilled into the side of the cliff over the water... and the cliff wasn't just straight, we had to go around corners and up and down and you could ALWAYS see down into the water.............. not fun! haha. also, we went to the castle where they filmed dragonheart... i think. it's either the biggest or the tallest castle left standing in slovakia and the second biggest or tallest in central europe.... or maybe all of europe...??? i really don't remember.
next came cracow... we stayed in a hostile right in the center and it was AMAZING... we also spent some time in the jewish quarter and in the college where pope john paul II studied... and we went to the fountain that is supposed to give students luck so they can spend less time studying, but still get good grades... so we'll see how that works out! ooh, and there are some pictures of us smoking, so i should point out that it was some mix of herbs and such... completely legal... even by rotary standards, since they told us we aren't allowed to smoke cigarettes but told us about the shop we went to....... so it's not as bad as it looks! haha.
auschwitz and birkenau were scary... and there really isn't any way for me to describe them because just being there was the most horrible thing i've ever done. the worst part for me was in auschwitz... they used each of the old buildings to house a different... theme, i guess... there were things like "arrival" where they showed pictures of prisoners getting off the trains, the sortings, and things like that. there was one picture there that really bothered me... they showed the prisoners who were walking to the gas chambers, but didn't know it yet... and there was this group of people walking and three little kids, maybe five or six years old, walking in front of everyone else and talking and holding hands..... and then there was "prisoners' belongings," where each room has a different pile of things taken from the prisoners when they arrived... one room was glasses, one hair, one brushes, etc. the building that had the biggest impact on me was "prisoners' lives." as you walk into the main hallway, all there are are pictures lining the walls... on the left are women and the right are men and it's just pictures of their faces... like the pictures they take when a person goes to jail and below the picture is their name, their date of birth, and their date of death. and some of those people lived for only a few days, but one of them we saw lived for three years... and we talked about it... about how strong he must have been... about the fact that we wouldn't want to be that stong... because either way, he never made it out.
prague was quite a bit happier... it's absolutely beautiful and it was great being there and just being able to hang out because they didn't really give us much of a program. funny story:: my friend tomas was wearing a slovakia t-shirt while we were there because he's pretty pro-slovakia/anti-czech after all the things we've heard about the velvet revolution and the fact that slovakia really DID get the bad end of the deal......... so we were speaking in english with one of two workers in a shop and while we were talking, he said something about tomas's shirt and the other worker said "should we beat him up?" in czech [[which is almost exactly the same as slovak]] and i said back, in slovak, "we understand..." and i think she felt dumb. haha.
madarsko [[hungary]]::
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/hungarian%20villiage/
i went with my host family the weekend before last on a trip to a village in hungary and it was SWEET... it was pretty much all tourists, so there were even some people there who spoke english and slovak... because even though slovakia and hungary are next to eachother, their languages aren't even close to similar... i've started to learn hungarian, though... and it's really cool, so i was able to talk A LITTLE with some people there... just basic things, like "how are you?" and "thank you" and such... but it was still cool. far more people on the slovak side of the border understand hungary than the other way around because the part of slovakia where i live used to be part of hungary... so there are still people who have lived in my area for generations who don't speak slovak because some people still want this part of slovakia to go back to being part of hungary.
chata [[cottage]]::
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/people/friends/school/vylet/
i went with my classmates on their "class trip" to a cottage about half an hour away from where we live. it was DEFINITELY amazing.. we spent three days and two nights there, just us and our class teacher who's a lot like all of us, so it was cool. there aren't really too many stories to tell from this... the whole three days was nothing but hanging out, playing cards, dancing, swimming [[whether you wanted to or not, because everyone got THROWN in with their clothes on at least once]]........
rozlucka [[goodbye party]]::
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/people/friends/rozlucka/
friday night was my goodbye party.... even though i still have one more friday to go, five of my closest friends aren't going to be here, because they're leaving either wednesday or friday for concerts......... so we decided to have it now. it was really bitter-sweet for me... in part it sucked because it means that it really is time for me to go, and in part it was SUPER because one of my friends who left for what was supposed to be four months came back that day.... so after a month-ish of not being with him, i got to..... and we were so close and i was so worried about never seeing him again, so i was glad we got to hang out. since school ended this friday, everyone was celebrating that with their classmates as well, so i got to hang out with them, too.... but we're having another party on thursday with a campfire and such.... so it should be sweet. after that, i spent the night at my friend's house because he's by far my best friend here and i was supposed to leave saturday and not come back untill after he left... he made me feel a lot better about leaving, about life, about everything... and he promised me that some day i'll hear someone knocking on my door in america and know it's him because he'll be yelling "open door, i'm hungry!"
jablonov::
saturday i went with my host family to jablonov, where they have a cottage... we're there almost every saturday, but this time was different because jablonov had some anual festival with music and dancing and all that jazz and it was sweet... i got to meet some people there that i've seen in my town before and always wanted to talk to, but hadn't yet... so it was pretty sweet. it was great, though, because though my host sisters were there, i spent more time with people i don't know well... and all the people i spent the whole night with were people i had either met that night or who went to the hungarian classes in my school, so we had met, but never hung out. and it was sweet.
i'm not really sure what else i can write about............ but i think this has been a pretty decently long blog... haha.
i hope everything's going well there and i'll see you soon!!!
=)
again.
haha.
anyway, things are going up and down... for the most part, things here are AMAZING...
but i've gotta say that i'm 99% ready to go home... there's so much drama here, now... it's amazing how much things can change in just a few months. i LOVE my friends and there are some that i will miss more than anything... and i have had two AMAZING host families that are far better than anything i could have hoped for... but at least for now, as hard as it will be to say goodbye, i've been preparing for it for a while... and i can't stop it, so why fight it?? i'm going to make the most of what i can while i can... and after that know that i'm coming home to an amazing family and friends i adore......
here's what's been up lately::
i'm almost positive that i'll finish this blog because on thursday night, i was on my friends bike and there was a curve in the road so i was like "break, slow down, turn..." not complicated... except that he has a completely messed up bike and because he NEVER uses the front break, it's way stronger than the back one... so when i pushed both of the breaks at once [[which i've done on every.other.bike.ever]] i totally flipped and messed up my leg. FUN. we went to the doctor yesterday because it looked really bad and gross and such, even though we had cleaned it up and disinfected it and such and they bandaged it up and told me not to walk anywhere... so basicly i'm stuck at home unless i feel like breaking that rule or paying for a taxi.
which i realllllly don't.... bah. haha.
it's okay at night, though, because one of my friends has a car and he drove me home and everything, but durring the day... i'm kindof stuck. =(
spisska/polsko/czesko [[spisska/poland/the czech republic]]::
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/spisska%20nova%20ves/
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/auschwitz/
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/birkenau/
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/cracow/
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/prague/
a few weeks ago [[i'm really not sure when it was...]] we went on a rotary trip to spisska nova ves, a city in slovakia, cracow and auschwitz in poland, and pragueeee.... and it was freaking amazing.
while we were in spisska, we met all the slovak kids who are leaving to go to another country next year... and it was sweet being able to talk to them about what it's like... to help them a bit... reasure them that it really is scary, but it DOES rock. also, we went on a SUPER scary trip into the "slovensky raj" which is their national park... and it was cool, but there's this part where you have to stand on.... i don't know what it's called........ it's something between a chain-link fence and mesh.... but there were these "stairs" that were drilled into the side of the cliff over the water... and the cliff wasn't just straight, we had to go around corners and up and down and you could ALWAYS see down into the water.............. not fun! haha. also, we went to the castle where they filmed dragonheart... i think. it's either the biggest or the tallest castle left standing in slovakia and the second biggest or tallest in central europe.... or maybe all of europe...??? i really don't remember.
next came cracow... we stayed in a hostile right in the center and it was AMAZING... we also spent some time in the jewish quarter and in the college where pope john paul II studied... and we went to the fountain that is supposed to give students luck so they can spend less time studying, but still get good grades... so we'll see how that works out! ooh, and there are some pictures of us smoking, so i should point out that it was some mix of herbs and such... completely legal... even by rotary standards, since they told us we aren't allowed to smoke cigarettes but told us about the shop we went to....... so it's not as bad as it looks! haha.
auschwitz and birkenau were scary... and there really isn't any way for me to describe them because just being there was the most horrible thing i've ever done. the worst part for me was in auschwitz... they used each of the old buildings to house a different... theme, i guess... there were things like "arrival" where they showed pictures of prisoners getting off the trains, the sortings, and things like that. there was one picture there that really bothered me... they showed the prisoners who were walking to the gas chambers, but didn't know it yet... and there was this group of people walking and three little kids, maybe five or six years old, walking in front of everyone else and talking and holding hands..... and then there was "prisoners' belongings," where each room has a different pile of things taken from the prisoners when they arrived... one room was glasses, one hair, one brushes, etc. the building that had the biggest impact on me was "prisoners' lives." as you walk into the main hallway, all there are are pictures lining the walls... on the left are women and the right are men and it's just pictures of their faces... like the pictures they take when a person goes to jail and below the picture is their name, their date of birth, and their date of death. and some of those people lived for only a few days, but one of them we saw lived for three years... and we talked about it... about how strong he must have been... about the fact that we wouldn't want to be that stong... because either way, he never made it out.
prague was quite a bit happier... it's absolutely beautiful and it was great being there and just being able to hang out because they didn't really give us much of a program. funny story:: my friend tomas was wearing a slovakia t-shirt while we were there because he's pretty pro-slovakia/anti-czech after all the things we've heard about the velvet revolution and the fact that slovakia really DID get the bad end of the deal......... so we were speaking in english with one of two workers in a shop and while we were talking, he said something about tomas's shirt and the other worker said "should we beat him up?" in czech [[which is almost exactly the same as slovak]] and i said back, in slovak, "we understand..." and i think she felt dumb. haha.
madarsko [[hungary]]::
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/other%20towns/hungarian%20villiage/
i went with my host family the weekend before last on a trip to a village in hungary and it was SWEET... it was pretty much all tourists, so there were even some people there who spoke english and slovak... because even though slovakia and hungary are next to eachother, their languages aren't even close to similar... i've started to learn hungarian, though... and it's really cool, so i was able to talk A LITTLE with some people there... just basic things, like "how are you?" and "thank you" and such... but it was still cool. far more people on the slovak side of the border understand hungary than the other way around because the part of slovakia where i live used to be part of hungary... so there are still people who have lived in my area for generations who don't speak slovak because some people still want this part of slovakia to go back to being part of hungary.
chata [[cottage]]::
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/people/friends/school/vylet/
i went with my classmates on their "class trip" to a cottage about half an hour away from where we live. it was DEFINITELY amazing.. we spent three days and two nights there, just us and our class teacher who's a lot like all of us, so it was cool. there aren't really too many stories to tell from this... the whole three days was nothing but hanging out, playing cards, dancing, swimming [[whether you wanted to or not, because everyone got THROWN in with their clothes on at least once]]........
rozlucka [[goodbye party]]::
http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/people/friends/rozlucka/
friday night was my goodbye party.... even though i still have one more friday to go, five of my closest friends aren't going to be here, because they're leaving either wednesday or friday for concerts......... so we decided to have it now. it was really bitter-sweet for me... in part it sucked because it means that it really is time for me to go, and in part it was SUPER because one of my friends who left for what was supposed to be four months came back that day.... so after a month-ish of not being with him, i got to..... and we were so close and i was so worried about never seeing him again, so i was glad we got to hang out. since school ended this friday, everyone was celebrating that with their classmates as well, so i got to hang out with them, too.... but we're having another party on thursday with a campfire and such.... so it should be sweet. after that, i spent the night at my friend's house because he's by far my best friend here and i was supposed to leave saturday and not come back untill after he left... he made me feel a lot better about leaving, about life, about everything... and he promised me that some day i'll hear someone knocking on my door in america and know it's him because he'll be yelling "open door, i'm hungry!"
jablonov::
saturday i went with my host family to jablonov, where they have a cottage... we're there almost every saturday, but this time was different because jablonov had some anual festival with music and dancing and all that jazz and it was sweet... i got to meet some people there that i've seen in my town before and always wanted to talk to, but hadn't yet... so it was pretty sweet. it was great, though, because though my host sisters were there, i spent more time with people i don't know well... and all the people i spent the whole night with were people i had either met that night or who went to the hungarian classes in my school, so we had met, but never hung out. and it was sweet.
i'm not really sure what else i can write about............ but i think this has been a pretty decently long blog... haha.
i hope everything's going well there and i'll see you soon!!!
=)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
madarsko... SOM BOLA TAM! [[hungary... I WAS THERE!]]
hey!
sorry it's been so long since the last time i posted... over a month... oops...
things have been going really well here lately.. i've been having my ups and downs with pretty much everything but my friends, but now all is on the up....... so that's good.
okay, so..
i totally went to hungary sunday night to watch hungary vs. japan in hockey with my second host parents and my current host mom and it freaking ROCKED. i got to meet some people on the team [[my second host father's cousin plays]] and my second host parents bought be a shirt from hungary and i totally got a sweet hungarian flag painted on my face..... and it rocked.
i like hockey!!!
it brought something to light for me, though, slovaks around my town HATE hungarians. i've heard before that they had some problems... slovakia was under hungarian rule for a long time and now hungary wants to take over this part of slovakia that's all little villages where most people speak only hungarain......... blah, blah, but i thought most of it was just boys being overdramatic and such, but i wore that shirt in school the next day and juraj told me that i had bad timing because some hungarian-speaking woman was attacked in western slovakia not too long ago and more than one of my friends either walked up to me and zipped up my sweatshirt or told me it should say "slovakia" or they said something like "you know slovaks hate hungarians, right?"
i didn't realize that it could be THAT bad...... i mean, i figured it was just like wisconsin and illinois... everyone knows the bears suck and FIBs can't drive, but even though we talk a lot of smack, it doesn't really mean anything.
crazy stuff...
what else...?
i've been looking into colleges here... there's a really good one in presov, the third biggest city in slovakia, and i'm working on writing an e-mail to the head of the english department to ask if i can come see it because getting into college here as a foreigner is very difficult and it's different for every school, i guess, so i have to go there and talk to the people before i can do anything else.
but presov isn't too far from where i am now... maybe an hour and a half or something...? so i should be able to get there pretty easily.
we'll see what happens...
but for any slovak school i go to, i will need to take a year-long slovak language course where it will be like a normal school day, but with nothing but slovak....... a.l.l...d.a.y.... haha.
it's okay, though, because i really like slovak..
which leads me tooooo...
my slovak is improving dramaticly.
for serious. haha.
i was just in the capitol [[capital?]] a few weeks ago and i took a test in slovak that would determine whether or not i can travel around slovakia without a rotary chaparone and though i don't have my test results back, i got an e-mail telling me how to ask for permission to travel alone........ so i think that means i passed.
WOOT!!!
and on the train ride home, i had to spend a couple hours with people who spoke absolutely no english and i was able to have a good conversation with them and it really made things click for me... and since then i've been speaking more and more in slovak and i've been getting more and more comfortable with how i can speak and it's just super cool.
and i'm totally thinking in slovak... like, to the point that when i listen to music sometimes, i translate it in my head from english to slovak and it's cool.
and, though this isn't really a good thing, TWICE today juraj showed me something and asked "čo je to po anglický?" [["what is it in english?"]] and all i could think of was the slovak word for it.
i just looked them up and i was actually TOTALLY RIGHT about one of them [[i didn't know the spine was nerves, though, i thought it was bone part. hmmm.]] but i still don't know about the other.
what's the little case thing that people put pens in? it's like, just long enough to fit a pen in, wide enough for, say, three or four pens, and it zips shut........... or maybe we don't have a name for them?
because i don't remember seeing any before i came here.
unless i did.
meh.
anyway, i don't really know what else to write about....... i'll probably think of more later, but, yeah... i've got nothing now.
ooh, there's a christmas market in town today and for the next two days... it's neat. just like a flee market... cool stuff!
ANDDDDD they have been letting me teach english classes ALONE lately... i have two classes and they aren't every day, but the kids are really cool... one group of freshman and one group of sophmores [[sp?]]. they're NEAT!
and it's cute because sometimes when i see them outside of school, they'll come up to me and talk to me in this combination of slovak/broken enlgish and we totally go back and forth like that... or with me trying to speak slovak and them trying to speak english and it's sweet. =P
anyway, that's all for now...
i hope everything's going well there!
i love you all!!!
<3
sorry it's been so long since the last time i posted... over a month... oops...
things have been going really well here lately.. i've been having my ups and downs with pretty much everything but my friends, but now all is on the up....... so that's good.
okay, so..
i totally went to hungary sunday night to watch hungary vs. japan in hockey with my second host parents and my current host mom and it freaking ROCKED. i got to meet some people on the team [[my second host father's cousin plays]] and my second host parents bought be a shirt from hungary and i totally got a sweet hungarian flag painted on my face..... and it rocked.
i like hockey!!!
it brought something to light for me, though, slovaks around my town HATE hungarians. i've heard before that they had some problems... slovakia was under hungarian rule for a long time and now hungary wants to take over this part of slovakia that's all little villages where most people speak only hungarain......... blah, blah, but i thought most of it was just boys being overdramatic and such, but i wore that shirt in school the next day and juraj told me that i had bad timing because some hungarian-speaking woman was attacked in western slovakia not too long ago and more than one of my friends either walked up to me and zipped up my sweatshirt or told me it should say "slovakia" or they said something like "you know slovaks hate hungarians, right?"
i didn't realize that it could be THAT bad...... i mean, i figured it was just like wisconsin and illinois... everyone knows the bears suck and FIBs can't drive, but even though we talk a lot of smack, it doesn't really mean anything.
crazy stuff...
what else...?
i've been looking into colleges here... there's a really good one in presov, the third biggest city in slovakia, and i'm working on writing an e-mail to the head of the english department to ask if i can come see it because getting into college here as a foreigner is very difficult and it's different for every school, i guess, so i have to go there and talk to the people before i can do anything else.
but presov isn't too far from where i am now... maybe an hour and a half or something...? so i should be able to get there pretty easily.
we'll see what happens...
but for any slovak school i go to, i will need to take a year-long slovak language course where it will be like a normal school day, but with nothing but slovak....... a.l.l...d.a.y.... haha.
it's okay, though, because i really like slovak..
which leads me tooooo...
my slovak is improving dramaticly.
for serious. haha.
i was just in the capitol [[capital?]] a few weeks ago and i took a test in slovak that would determine whether or not i can travel around slovakia without a rotary chaparone and though i don't have my test results back, i got an e-mail telling me how to ask for permission to travel alone........ so i think that means i passed.
WOOT!!!
and on the train ride home, i had to spend a couple hours with people who spoke absolutely no english and i was able to have a good conversation with them and it really made things click for me... and since then i've been speaking more and more in slovak and i've been getting more and more comfortable with how i can speak and it's just super cool.
and i'm totally thinking in slovak... like, to the point that when i listen to music sometimes, i translate it in my head from english to slovak and it's cool.
and, though this isn't really a good thing, TWICE today juraj showed me something and asked "čo je to po anglický?" [["what is it in english?"]] and all i could think of was the slovak word for it.
i just looked them up and i was actually TOTALLY RIGHT about one of them [[i didn't know the spine was nerves, though, i thought it was bone part. hmmm.]] but i still don't know about the other.
what's the little case thing that people put pens in? it's like, just long enough to fit a pen in, wide enough for, say, three or four pens, and it zips shut........... or maybe we don't have a name for them?
because i don't remember seeing any before i came here.
unless i did.
meh.
anyway, i don't really know what else to write about....... i'll probably think of more later, but, yeah... i've got nothing now.
ooh, there's a christmas market in town today and for the next two days... it's neat. just like a flee market... cool stuff!
ANDDDDD they have been letting me teach english classes ALONE lately... i have two classes and they aren't every day, but the kids are really cool... one group of freshman and one group of sophmores [[sp?]]. they're NEAT!
and it's cute because sometimes when i see them outside of school, they'll come up to me and talk to me in this combination of slovak/broken enlgish and we totally go back and forth like that... or with me trying to speak slovak and them trying to speak english and it's sweet. =P
anyway, that's all for now...
i hope everything's going well there!
i love you all!!!
<3
Thursday, November 8, 2007
i don't have enough time to write everything out, but...
mom said she that many people already know this, but i've been off the computer for a while because i got bit by a dog [[not badly]] and had to stay in the hospital.
the whole situation is STUPID and complicated, but i'm okay and hopefully everything else will be, too... SOON.
i will write about it when i have time, which i don't now... meh.
it won't let me put in the actual pictures, for some reason, but here are some links...
here's the bite...
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/people/ME/dog%20bite/nov7to8002.jpg
in other news, it snowed for the first time this year the other day... and it's super pretty.
so now for a happier picture...
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/roznava/random%20stuff/firstsnow001.jpg
i love and miss you all... and i hope everything's going well there.
<3
the whole situation is STUPID and complicated, but i'm okay and hopefully everything else will be, too... SOON.
i will write about it when i have time, which i don't now... meh.
it won't let me put in the actual pictures, for some reason, but here are some links...
here's the bite...
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/people/ME/dog%20bite/nov7to8002.jpg
in other news, it snowed for the first time this year the other day... and it's super pretty.
so now for a happier picture...
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/xxche/slovakia/places/roznava/random%20stuff/firstsnow001.jpg
i love and miss you all... and i hope everything's going well there.
<3
Saturday, October 27, 2007
okay, so i lied a little.... but someone sent me this and i thought i'd share...
There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind.
She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her.
She told her boyfriend, "if I could only see the world, I will marry you."
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.
He asked her,'Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?'
The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.
Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.'
This is how the human brain often works when our status changes.
Only a very few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations.
Life Is a Gift
Today before you say an unkind word -
Think of someone who can't speak.
Before you complain about the taste of your food - Think of someone who has nothing to eat.
Before you complain about your husband or wife - Think of someone who's crying out to GOD for a companion.
Today before you complain about life -
Think of someone who went too early to heaven.
Before you complain about your children -
Think of someone who desires children but they're barren.
Before you argue about your dirty house someone didn't clean or sweep -
Think of the people who are living in the streets.
Before whining about the distance you drive
Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.
And when you are tired and complain about your job -
Think of the unemployed, the disabled, and those who wish they had your job.
But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another -
Remember that not one of us is without sin and we all answer to one MAKER.
And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down -
Put a smile on your face and thank GOD you're alive and still around.
She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her.
She told her boyfriend, "if I could only see the world, I will marry you."
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.
He asked her,'Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?'
The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.
Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.'
This is how the human brain often works when our status changes.
Only a very few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations.
Life Is a Gift
Today before you say an unkind word -
Think of someone who can't speak.
Before you complain about the taste of your food - Think of someone who has nothing to eat.
Before you complain about your husband or wife - Think of someone who's crying out to GOD for a companion.
Today before you complain about life -
Think of someone who went too early to heaven.
Before you complain about your children -
Think of someone who desires children but they're barren.
Before you argue about your dirty house someone didn't clean or sweep -
Think of the people who are living in the streets.
Before whining about the distance you drive
Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.
And when you are tired and complain about your job -
Think of the unemployed, the disabled, and those who wish they had your job.
But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another -
Remember that not one of us is without sin and we all answer to one MAKER.
And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down -
Put a smile on your face and thank GOD you're alive and still around.
mam rada moje kamaratky! [[i like my friends!]] <3
so we actually celebrated my birthday yesterday.... and it was crazy!
the best part, though::
i told some people in my class that i'm going to have a slovak language test around christmas, and that if i fail, i can get sent home... and when they gave me presents, they gave me a cute pink pillow with a teddy bear, some chocolate, and two books for learning slovak, since they know i don't have any yet. [[i bought some that my english teacher found for me over the internet, but they aren't here yet.]]
and it was really cute because some of them told me that if i ever need help, i can ask them and they will help me... and then simona said "because we don't want you sent home at christmas."
and it was just really cool...
so i'm going to stop typing now and go learn slovak! =P
here's my pillow::
the best part, though::
i told some people in my class that i'm going to have a slovak language test around christmas, and that if i fail, i can get sent home... and when they gave me presents, they gave me a cute pink pillow with a teddy bear, some chocolate, and two books for learning slovak, since they know i don't have any yet. [[i bought some that my english teacher found for me over the internet, but they aren't here yet.]]
and it was really cute because some of them told me that if i ever need help, i can ask them and they will help me... and then simona said "because we don't want you sent home at christmas."
and it was just really cool...
so i'm going to stop typing now and go learn slovak! =P
here's my pillow::
Sunday, October 21, 2007
ja som osemnast! [[i am 18]]
so my birthday was amazing... we just hung out in town all night and went dancing and it was sweet.
i officially have a little acoustic guitar, but no lessons, so i guess i'm just going to sit around and play, which should be fun... and no cost, which is amazing.
i noticed this morning that i think i have a stye, so i went to the hospital because i figured i might get lucky and get some good free advice about what medicine to buy in tesco, since i have no idea how things are labled here, but even though i know where the hospital is, it took me forever to figure out where to go because they don't have a front desk or anything. you just walk into this one door and there are three hallways and you have to just... pick one. haha. so i just wandered around and asked people where i should go since i didn't see anyone who worked at the hospital and i got directed back and forth in slovak untill i narrowed it down to one place and the looked at my eye and gave me medicine for free, even though i asked how much i should pay... and it was really nice.
and it made me think about how freaking NICE everyone here is to me, even people i don't know.
i think they like that i try as hard as i can to speak to them in slovak... because my slovak is getting a LOT better. [[even though it still kindof sucks. =P ]]
in other news, this is the cutest thing i have ever seen::
i officially have a little acoustic guitar, but no lessons, so i guess i'm just going to sit around and play, which should be fun... and no cost, which is amazing.
i noticed this morning that i think i have a stye, so i went to the hospital because i figured i might get lucky and get some good free advice about what medicine to buy in tesco, since i have no idea how things are labled here, but even though i know where the hospital is, it took me forever to figure out where to go because they don't have a front desk or anything. you just walk into this one door and there are three hallways and you have to just... pick one. haha. so i just wandered around and asked people where i should go since i didn't see anyone who worked at the hospital and i got directed back and forth in slovak untill i narrowed it down to one place and the looked at my eye and gave me medicine for free, even though i asked how much i should pay... and it was really nice.
and it made me think about how freaking NICE everyone here is to me, even people i don't know.
i think they like that i try as hard as i can to speak to them in slovak... because my slovak is getting a LOT better. [[even though it still kindof sucks. =P ]]
in other news, this is the cutest thing i have ever seen::
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