Depending on where I post from (my favorite internet cafe is a bitch about using livejournal for some reason even though it's really popular here) it's hard for me to get into comments and to read other people's entries, SO i'm replying to bolte now ( Read more... )

Yes. That's right. Tartarstan. It's a real place. and I've been there ( Read more... )

So here's something interesting for the Minnesotans. Last night I watched drop dead gorgeous with Jess and Phoebe (from wisconsin and pennsylvania/massachusetts respectively) and neither of them had previously heard of lutefisk ( Read more... )

For homie ceej: borsch = beet soup. sooo good with a little sour cream and garlic ( Read more... )

So I've started taking notes of interesting observations or situations that come up ( Read more... )

so last week i noticed that my host dadis missing part of some of the fingers on his left hand. I wonder why ( Read more... )

Yay for fun weekends, I guess ( Read more... )

Aight yo, I don't know what anyone wants to know about what's going on here ( Read more... )

Well I don't know if things are much less frustrating, we still get really frustrated and are tired all the time just from trying to understand what people are saying to us ( Read more... )

So I think it's a good thing that I go into big changes without a lot of expectations, as to the positives/negatives, what have you. Before coming here I was nervous about my language skills (with good reason) and had no clue about what to expect from my family or what I was specifically looking forward to or what I'd miss about home. Now that I' ( Read more... )