русский in t minus 2 hours
mood: quite happy but still quite hot
music: нет музыки
random word: плавать
this is it. i've got 2 hours of english speaking left. it's gonna be intense, guys...
here's what i've realized, though, and what i actually had planned on writing about in my last post, but forgot. i realized that middlebury is the first place i've ever actually missed. i came back here, and it just felt like home. it's beautiful, guys. they've put adirondack chairs all over the campus, and there are flowers planted. it's really pretty. and i don't know, i just got here and had this overwhelming feeling of home. it was really nice. i've never come back to a place and really felt like that before. i guess it's cause i've moved so much and stuff, but i mean, even going home to illinois, when i still lived there, was different. and i lived there for 9 years, but i think that because i didn't truly love it, it just didn't feel right. but middlebury, well, midd is it, guys. it's perfect.
anyway, i just wanted to say that, but now i have to go eat dinner and then sign the language pledge. !! oh, i got my level assignment and stuff today. i was put in level 3, but i went and argued for level 4. i think that that'll be good. and then we spent the afternoon at lake dunmore swimming and playing whiffle ball. it was over 90 degrees here today! slightly ridiculous. anyway, i'm off, i'll talk to you all at some point, and i love you all!
p.s. i need a russian name. thoughts on tanya? ...i can't think of any that start with b or r.
posted by Becky @ 5:22 PM
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3 Comments:
boris? rasputin?
good luck with the last minutes of english and the transition into russian
feel free to use me to break the rules anytime you need an english break
miss you like whoa
The only B & R female Russian names on behindthename.com (an incredibly awesome site) are:
Bogdana (meaning "gift from God")
Boleslava (coming from Slavic elements meaning "great glory")
Borislava (coming from Slavic elements meaning "glory in battle")
Bronislava (coming from Slavic elements "protection" and "glory")
Rada (short form of Slavic names meaning "happy")
Radoslava (c'mon kids... put it together: happy glory)
Raisa (possibly from Greek meaning "more relaxed. They're not totally sure.)
Roksana ("dawn" from Persian, through Latin, to Russian. Also, name of the wife of Alexander the Great.)
Roza ("Rose". Duh.)
Rufina (Feminine form of Rufinus, derived from the Latin surname Rufus, meaning red-headed.)
My vote: Roksana.
I will also be going to babblefish.com to send you an e-mail to make sure that you are well-informed on a timely basis about this crucial matter. Also, Tanya, while popular in the seventies, has made the dreaded but inevitable slip from fashionable high society name to white trash. Like Britney.
I really need to get together with Rachel to talk about baby names.
~Kevin
Um, so sidenote Kevin I may or may not be a baby names expert. Why have we not had this discussion?
I used to bring my Name Your Baby book in for silent reading time in 3rd and 4th grade and got weird looks from the other kids...
...and every time my sisters or I got a new toy or doll I used to scour the pages of the book to find a name with the right meaning/nationality/number of nicknames. This was especially tricky with foreign dolls, since the names were organized alphabetically and not by nationality. A big reason why I've since learned to love the Internet...
...and AOL used to have an amazing site that would divide them into categories like "Yuppie Names," "Names that Transcend Time," "Celebrity Baby Names," and "Frilly Names." I kind of spent hours on it.
I also may or may not have a list planning out the first and middle names of my first twelve children. I have become obsessed with coordinating name meanings so the combination has a higher composite meaning and also with making the rhythm of the two fall together in the meter of waltz time...
...and this one time I was on the phone with Frank and he was taking his friend's AIM Buddy Quiz and suddenly he was like, "Laura, do you know what Alexander means?" and I immediately answered, "Helper and defender of mankind, why?"
...and, yes, I do believe that this gives me more of a right to have children than the mainstream population.
P.S. Becky I vote Roksana or Roza. Except you can't read this. To Babelfish!
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