Я даю слово...?

mood: pretty happy, kind of bored
music: wishing it was anything in english
random word: яд

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Things I have realized so far from Language School:

- The pledge is not as hard to keep up as you'd think it is. It's actually kind of fun.
- The pledge is the hardest to keep up when you're sitting in your room bored and wanting to procrastinate.
- The pledge also gets in the way of making new friends and being able to talk to these friends about anything other than how classes went today.
- The pledge is easiest to keep up when you're having fun and goofing off and couldn't care less what language you're speaking.
- Middlebury is creeping up on my lake house as my favorite place in the world.
- I MISS BILLY JOEL! ...and I need more Russian music.
- Russian is a very difficult (aka ridiculous (aka horrible)) language.
- Letters make me really, really, really, really, really happy. Box 2167. Because I love you all.
- Adam Irish is quite good at croquet. Except when he forgets the rules and I win. ;)
- I should not get my hopes up when Greg says "Let's go running in the rain". It does not mean let's go jump and dance and run around in the rain. It means I'm going to put on my sneakers and running shorts and we're going to actually run. In the rain.
- I miss Proctor.
- You think Vermont winters are cold? Just come up here for the summer. I have yet to sleep through a night, it's been so damn hot!
- Waking up for 8:00 classes everyday of the week SUCKS. And I've only had 2 days of it. And I've got 9 weeks more of it. Holy crap, I'm going to die.
- My suitemate, Marian, is really nice and I'm glad we're becoming friends, but sad because I wonder how good of friends we can actually become as we're only speaking Russian.
- My suitemate's name is Marian. As in Marian the Librarian. As in that song has been stuck in my head for the past 4 days, but I can't sing it because it's in English. So now I'm the girl who goes around humming.

Overall, it's good so far. The worst part, like I said, is that you can't just sit down and have a conversation with someone because the words, obviously, come out slowly and often not correctly. I'm also bored a lot, which sucks, but I know there are reasons for that. It'll get better as we all get better at Russian and are more comfortable speaking it all the time. And also, it'll get better next week when clubs and activities start. I've actually been breaking the pledge quite a lot, but only by coming online or checking e-mail. It's just because I'm bored, so I think I'll actually be better about that as the weeks go on. Right now I'm thinking "oh my god, I have to do nine more weeks of this", but yeah, I'm pretty optimistic that it'll get better. And, I mean, it's not horrible right now, just not extremely awesome or anything like that. Anyway, I guess I should go do some homework (by the way, !! you would all be amazed at my work ethic here! I'm totally doing all my homework, AND in a timely manner. I blame boredom.) Miss you all and wish you were here!

Бэки (oh yeah, I ended up just keeping my name. although, the suggestions were awesome and certainly made me smile.)