Русская школа - давай, давай, давай!

mood: happy. maybe happy's too strong. calm. content. that's better.
music: Аквариум
random word: мобильник

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Things that make me quite happy...

- My first Russian writing assignment. It was a stupid "summarize the story we just read" 1-page thing, but I had fun with it, and added my own little comments here and there.
- Getting back my first Russian writing assignment, with a big red A on the top.
- The sunset outside my window right now. again. *sigh*
- E-mailing back and forth with Becca Steinberg all day, planning my trip down to CT in 2 weeks. We sent a total of 10 e-mails between the two of us in a period of about 20 hours. hehe.
- Nantucket Nectars Orange Mango juice. 20% juice. Normally, I would shudder and put it back. But for some reason I love it. A lot.
- Going to McCullough to find 3 packages in my mailbox. And all of them being from my family :)
- Letters from Michael in Arabic, English and Shavian, and letters from Cata completely in Shavian!
- Everyone posting on the blog again because now I don't look like so much of a loser.
- Russian movies that fall under the Romantic-Comedy category (trust me, they're few and far between)
- Watching such a movie without subtitles and understanding, for the most part, what was going on.
- TEA! There is tea downstairs right now! And right when I'm done writing this, I'm going to get some.
- Клуб театр! Theater club! Yeah, that's right, I'm going to be in a play! And a Russian play, at that! I kind of couldn't believe it myself, but I need some way to spend my time, and Greg was pushing me to do it with him, so I went, I tried, and it was really fun! So, I'm pretty excited, and yet extremely, extremely nervous! :)
(wow, there were a lot of exclamation marks in that bullet. every sentence had one. hah. !!)
- hahaha. this one makes me laugh, but I'm saying it anyway. Cute Harvard linguistics grad student, who I met the first day, showing up at Theater Club.


Things that make me not so happy...

- Missing my phonetics class because of the theater club, because phonetics were really cool. I could go talk to the lady and make it up some time, but I'll probably end up just not doing it.
- Yesterday we had to come to theater club with a little scene prepared - we had to be a person from the early 19th century, cause that's when the play takes place (no, I don't know what play it is yet...). I think I did well, except for a little thing called freaking out. I had to look up a few new words for my scene, and all would have been fine, except right after I said one of the words I saw one look on one person's face that was a "What did she just say?" look. And so for the rest of the scene I was worried I wasn't making any sense. Eh, oh well. Overall it certainly didn't go poorly, just maybe not wonderfully...
- Not going bike riding. I really need to work on that. My plan for the summer was everyday. I've gone once since getting to Midd. Oh dear.
- My dad sending me 4 CDs, including 2 BILLYS THAT I DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE!!!, and not being able to listen to them because of this ridiculous thing called the language pledge. Gah!


Hey, at least all the happy things have seemed to out-do the not so happy things. Miss you all!