so i'm back in dear sweet St. Als, back in my highly-uncomfortable-fashion-emergency-make-u-look-like-a-freakin-tree-uniform, walkin through the same bright and cheery and not-at-all-too-long-corridors, sitting in the same classrooms which are graced with charming views of the outer fence or of the truly inspiring construction happening right next ( Read more... )

once i had no sweets
i was very poor
but now i have too many

some are nice
and some are not

but i can't make up my mind
which one to eat
and i can't find my favourite

for too many sweets are bad for u
make u fat
make ur teeth rot
but no sweets at all
make life sour

on gettin my regular annual checkup at the orthodontist, i was blessed with the news that my wisdom teeth were on their way and i would have to remove them... or have my teeth completely messed up after three torturous years spent in braces to fix them. so it was decided that i would indeed remove them, and as soon as possible before i left for ( Read more... )

so i'm at my uncle's house, sitting with my family on the balcony gossipping about the people who were at my cousin's baptism the day before... when we all hear a loud 'boom'; a sound kind of like a firecracker, but many many times louder. we all jump up and look out over the city... there's black smoke rising from... somewhere pretty close. all ( Read more... )

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure ( Read more... )

my uncle and his wife came over to visit from Dubaii, where they are currently living, bringing along my two beautiful baby cousins (touch wood, spit spit spit, ismallah ismallah ismallah): jack, 2.5 yrs old, and lucy joe, 10 mnths old. yes i am fully aware that their names sound like something out of a cheesy american western, but... oh well...no ( Read more... )

ears get dirty much faster in ireland...

went to another camp from saturday to tuesday... four days in pure nature (well kinda, there was a village a couple of meters below) with the bugs and the bees for neighbours, four days taking care of a bunch of pratty (but sweet) kids, four days eating like an american but with enough physical output to lose all the fat, three nights sleeping ( Read more... )

came back from camp yesterday... i was there to supervise 'kids' barely one or two years younger than me ( Read more... )

woke up in the morning... my cousin would pick me up in a few hours, we would go to her college (which is where i am right now); i would use the internet while she attended class for two hours, and at two we would go to the beach ( Read more... )