What is it?! Miracle?

it's when you know that you are very late to your bus, but you still make it there... somehow...it's when you know there is always someone who wants to see you, to talk to you, who will always give you a hug whenever you need it...it's when you come to a place where you have never been before and you enjoy every single moment of it. When the sun is shining, when ppl are smiling, when weak wind crawles under your sweater and makes you shiver for a second, when the music in your head makes you sing on the streets, when ppl turn around just to see who is that crazy, but instead of getting angry, they smile at you :)...it's when you wake up at 7 am on Sunday just because the sun is calling you to take a walk...when you switch that part of your brain which is responsible for school... I missed that condition.. I can't recall any such moments in the last couple of months... I've been in delirium...:S
Yes, I'm Chicago at the moment. It's my fall break. I think I deserved it, but my teacheres don't agree with that, giving me/ us a lot of hw for this short 4 days... I dunno why, but I gave up and run away from my duties to Chicago - to the closest, but at the same time the farthest place you could run to for that cheap... I'm staying with Ruth Anne and Laslo :) recalling some fun moments from the past...
Right now it's alsmot noon and it's time to go down town and get lost among ppl, lots of ppl I don't know...

where am I?

well, I know I've been very bad in keeping my bloggin up, but I'm sooooo upset of not having my laptop :( I was stupid enough to forget a very important detail at home, so I have to wait for weeks in order to get it back by mail... I also managed to forget my tennis shose :S maybe it happen, coz I was packing the last night before leavin? yeah, I should admitt my stupidity...
on the other hand - I'm alive, in the US, having a taugh time trying to combine studyin n partying :P lol
this weekend, I'm having a lot of fun, rest, eating cashews :P and watching movies... Labor day is great! u just have 3 days off :D
I guess I gotta stop bullshiting and get back to work
peace to everyone and hope you guys are having a great time as well ;)

Blin!!! I'm leaving home soon :(

no time, no time...

Bored?

yes, I am... for the first time this summer... it's not like I have nothing to do, it's just because it's Saturday and I'm home alone and there is a pile of clodth all around my room and I know I have to get my room back to normal (as I've been told) condition... I'm listening to Coldplay... looking at the watch and how I'm loosing every minute for doing nothing.... am I tired? am I lazy? am I not? morning was a very happy time today for me - I got my first digital camera which made me take pictures of everything so that my cat is almost blind of a camera flash and she definitly won't sleep with me today :( and yesterday.... I've got my visa!!! so for the next year I'll be located at Fulton, MO... here is a thing: the summer is going to finish soon!!!! aaaaaa it's crazy how the time passed so quickly... I remember that earlier I wanted it to finish asap, but now I don't think so... I don't think I want to go back and study... ah, whatever, I shouldn't complain.. I should be thankful that I got such a chance of going somewhere as my firends always admire my acheavements...what kind of acheavements this is ?! now I think I wish I was home always... what is it? - homesickness already? or just because after being traveling for a bit I concluded that it's better home? I don't know and don't what to know why I think like that....
oops, I forgot that I was supposed to write about my 10-days-trip... nah, I guess I won't do it, coz it's going to be long and boring... ppl who are familiar with facebook can see some pics but the rest I'll leave with me...
yeap, that's it! peace to everyone and awesome end of summer ;)

Just the beginning of a long story...

I have never seen so much of Russia than I did a couple of days ago! I really saw and experienced a lot, I think even more than my dear guests who were visiting me in Russia... if you don't know yet, I was hosting my host-family (Ingrid's family) from Norway and it's been great having them around... I could have writen earlier, but my internet hasn't been working well and as I found out it was another "Technical reason" which follow me everywhere :S ehh...

I will stop for now, but I hope to come back and write more about our wonderful advanture and me being a guide :P ha ha ha ha

P.S. after yesterday last world cup game I honestly don't know what to think... all my guesses were wrong and the team I didn't expected to win this championship actually beat everyone and became leaders of WC 2006! Congratulaytion Italy :) !!! and good bye Zidane :(

"tecnical reasons"?!

Have you ever had a day when everything goes against you? when nothing you plan works? when you know that you aren't late for a bus and when u come it's gone? have you had a feeling that it's just not your day??? but at the same time you weren't upset, but intertained by the fact that nothing works and everything around is working agains you but to make you smile on what you didn't succeded at? :)
well, I just had that day yesterday... Funny that it happen to be combined with my visitors arrival whom I still call my norwegian host-family :) one of the nicest days I planned to wake up and do all the things I had to finishe last week, so first of all, I managed to oversleep :( when I really woke up it was too late to finish my first planned task.. I was a little bit angry at myself, but I couldn't even picture what was expecting me later.. the day wasn't that pleasant either: hot > grey> stormy > thunderstorm > heavy rain > sunny > hot > hot > cold.... nice day isn't it, "how can I even want to go out today?" I though... later, I managed to force myself and do another exploit: and what u think? nothing! my second and then later third tries ended up failure - for some unknown resons they were ALL saying the same thing : "we don't work today for a tecnical reasons"... grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! I gave up for acouple of hours and went to my work to make a "welcome" sign for my guests... I made the sign, I took underground to get ti the airport and I went out on the last station to take the bus... and here I got to laugh for a bit :) Usually on the last stations they ask every body to leave the train, so what I and most of other ppl did, and while I was walking back to "above the ground" I got to observe a vert funny picture: (I'll do my best to make it funny) one of the obviously russian guys (I say obviously, coz he was very drunk and not under control) wanted to get out like every body else did, but suddenly the doors have closed and he couldn't realise what is going on for a long time.... I was starting at his lost face and thinking how much fun it would be to get somewhere , where only drivers get... I also thought to run to the first vagon and tell the driver to open the doors and let poor very lost guy out, but I didn't do it for some reasons... so I was following him untill the train dissapear in the darkness... well, I won't hide, but I was drawing all kind of possible ways for him to get out of there and it made me to forget that I was going the wrong way... so right before I wanted to leave the metro and see the light, I realize:" I'm supposed to be on the other side, so in order not to cross some amount of roads up there, I decided to come back and walk through the station again, but on the other side... and what do you think made me laugh so hard when I got down? I saw that poor guy again :D the same lost and very drunk face and he dafinetly wasn't sure where he was and how he got back... (I'll explain here a bit: the train went around and came back in order to take ppl back to the center of the city, so the guy just had a longer drive around and got back safely)... I was honestly laughing with my hands covering the face, but I can't even describe the expression on that guy's face whose short peace of life I was trying to recall :)
For some reasons I remembered a short phrais that came out just like any other stupid thoughts use to come up to our hands: "God takes care of kids and alcoholics" :) - ALL TRUE! believe me ;)

well-well-well, this five minuts that took me to cross the station made a big change in what I was doing later: I did miss Ingrid with her family! and it costed me just 10 minutes of extra waiting... but I didn't give up coz I promissed to get them and to guide everywhere... I know what it's like to be in the city where no one undestands you and where everything is "french" (sorry Elo :P ) ... acutally, I shouldn't have worried about them coming to the hotel - they managed perfectly without me... in general, the whole staying in a foreign city like Moscow didn't scare them away so far and I realized that I'm not in such a bit need for them, especially when they are all family who wants to speak norwegian and not to think about ppl around like me :$ I did succede in showing them a bit of the center in the very first day and it really was a very long day...

I think, I shouldn't write so much, coz otherwise I'm becoming boring ...
Just briefly: summer is hot for me and not as much relaxing as I would love it to be, but well, I'm happy that I have a chance to go to St Petersburg :D soon...

love and peace

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I haven't been writing for a while... I guess I'm too busy or too nervious about the visit of my norwegian host-family... I still don't know when they are comingo on Monday... yeah, it's not easy...
well, I just wanted to post smth and mention that I'm boling in this deadly hot Moscow :S most probably I should come home every winter and not summer, I prefer to freeze than to die from heat attack...
hmm... I bet I'll have lots of stories to tell after I come back from St Peresburg where I'm hopefully going to meet Lena and my old friends... and just too see my fauvorite city...
for now I don't have anything else to add, just hope everyone is doing great and having a blast this summer ;)
peace and love

WORK, WORK AND WORK!

oh, it's not easy to be working 6 days a week... I'm there now, among tons of different smart books, different in size, different inside and outside, for all kinds of smart ppl... but it's too much for such a person like me, who discovered that reading can be fun only this summer, and who loves book, but only if they have pictures inside :P yeap, so now I realize that I need to grow up and read smart books, but the first look at those gigants scares me :S... thanks god, they've got internet in here, otherwise I would immideatly fall asleep right here, on this table... Saturday is a boring day, only young ppl and thiefs come today and use our naivete, coz it's only me and my mam here, instead of 4 ppl who mast work here... but it's also a very quite day, meaning that I can either chat to my mam (she refuses giving me any kinds of work) or read a beautiful book of a french writer Georg Sand...
oops, I guess, I need to get back to my responsibilities :P
well, I'll be back some time soon ;)
peace!

I'm home, am I?

really, I'm finally home :) I wanted it for so long, I was dreaming about it from Fulton and though it going to be an amazing break... so I came home as a surprise. My family was expecting me next day as I told them, but I wanted to surprise them, which actually worked out :) but i was happy only for a day... the next day brought with it everything I was trying to hide, everything I didn't want to see, I didn't want to get involved into... but I realize that it is exactly what is to be home... I can't deny I'm glad to see my mam, dad, bro and granny, all my true friends, but I desperatly didn't want to see the problems that my bro was causing to everyone. I didn't want to see tears of sadness, I didn't want my granny to have a heart attact.... I didn't see that coming, I was sure that it won't happen, coz I haven't been home for a year! I don't have my own place anymore, I feel that I make my parents to sacrifice all they have for me, who doesn't even know what she will be in future... But... yeah... in addition to all this, last weel I went to my home town, where I left the best years of my childhood, and here I couldn't stop going crazy... exactly: going crazy! all this memories weren't good for my head. I fell apart and couldn't do anything: couldn't smile, couldn't laugh, couldn't be happy, coz all my happiness like it was before is gone, all my chilhood friends are gone too... the place is empty, the place is dying, the memories are flying away with it... I do still keep in touch with my friends and we are keeping our good friendship still, but I'm too far from them now... I'm too far from everytihng home... I started thinking that I made a big mistake by going to the US... why didn't I want to listen to my mam, and just stay and study in Russia, to get a really good education and to start living like everybody else.... but I can't come back to this, I can't be like everybody else anymore... I am me who got lost in the loop of constant life-changes, in constant traveling, constantly remembering best times in UWC and home, wonderful and not fake ppl, honest smiles, real talks and real laughs... blja - I would swear in russian for the first time since a year... I know for sure I want to come back to my country, I'm sure I want to be among this crazy drinkers, those who lost their believe in Russia's rebirth ( if I can use this word in this sence), but ppl who still live happily and who finds happiness in very simple things and not seeking for the best anymore... maybe, I'm going mad and just saying bullshit, but for the first time I wanted to scream and let everybody know that the world is going to sink!!! it's hard to make ppl listen, it's hard to make them be aware if they don't care and it's impossible to change anything on ourown.... hmmm, I don't even want to read through what I just throw away from my head, so don't judge me strick for that...

I'm reading a wierd book - the truth about Chernobl catastrophe (sometihng that no one knows, and no one ever told anyone, coz everything was kept in a big secret...) - I can't stop loosing my tears for those ppl who knows what real suffering is, for ppl who were cheated by our " dear " gov-t, who died of a huge amount of radiation which affected them... and ppl could speak only now, when it still hurts but not as much any more.... after 20 years... it's important to me, because I was born almost the same day when the explosion happen, and my home town remember everything, because we were getting ppl from that area, naket ppl with nothing with them.... I want to write about it more later, when I'll finish my research... ppl should know that, ppl should be aware of something that affected the whole world, not only Belorussia and Ukrain... all of us ppl...
ok, it's too much from me - almost like a confession... like never before... I'm sure I'll recover, coz I always beliave in a bright future :)

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer full of best and beautiful moments!
peace to everyone... eh, I so much want to hug u guys... <^_^>

5 or 20?

ha, this year I had another B-day away from home... well, I don't really remember how it was to celebrate b-days at home.. it's been a long time ago. Yeah, so I've just turned 20. WOW!!! I feel much older... NOT AT ALL. I don't feel any different, actually I feel much yonger... I was a bit upset that the day wasn't going to nice - weather bug told me that it was going to rain :S but in the end we had a wonderful weather :D so we went to chill out in the park in Columbia. FUN! we did everything that a 5 year old kid would do: climbing around the play ground, playing frizbi, lying on the grass.... Finally we went to eat in Arabic restaurant and shopping :P However, the day of surprises didn't end peacefully. Later, people organized a cake session... yeah, I wish it was just that, but eventually I ended up in the bathroom washing my head first from a broken egg and right after that I had to get rid of the mayonese on my hear. I wouldn't say I was happy that "my FIRENDS" did that to me, but it was funny, I should admit. Later on when the cakes were almost eaten my "another good friend" suggested to use the left overs for fun, so in exacktly 5 sec it was on my face!!!!! :S and here I couldn't hold it and did the same nasty thing to the person who was sitting next to me: Hasan :P he he he he, that ws even more funny
The day went amazing, and the greetings from far away almost made me cry the end of the day :( yeah, I realize that I miss ppl sOOOOO much, especially now, when everyone from here has gone as well... and I'm myself going home tomorrow... oh this packing :S I hate it! it's never easy to leave a place and to come back... but hopefully summer will be awesome and I get as much rest as I deserved! haven't I?! it's been a taugh semester, with lots of unwritten letters, with lots of unanswered e-mails, with a very bad "keep in touch"... but I will correct my mistakes,,, as soon as I get home and as soon as I get nothing to do there:P
he he he he
Summer will be great! I hope :D

Great!

ha ha ha ha ha, I'm sooo good in postings these days... I guess, there are few reasons for me not posting: it's a final week, exam week, so that's why I'm sooo busy and besides, no one realy reads my postings.
Well, I'm mostly doing it for myself, so in a couple of years I can read them and remember...

nothing much going on here... oh actually a lot! uf, I fogot that I'm in the relationships, I'm having a taught time in school, I'm loosing my friends, I'm stressed and angry most of the time, I eat a lot since my lend has ended, I can't control myself , my feelings, my brain, because of a lack of sleep, lack of rest and lack of communication, my tomatos are being not taken care because I have no time even formyself... well, I guess I should not be writing now, I should go and revise Spanish, because an exam is in an hour.

Oh, the main event is Nicky's visit :) she brought lots of nice memories with her and took my chocolate box for my 1st year. Well, someone needs to write letter in addition to that, otherwise I'll loose contact with them...

ok, gtg, hopefully be back soon and not in a month ;)

it was a while..

Funny, I have lots of free time to fill in the gaps and put smth in my blog, but as it ended up I have never written anything during the spring break which I spent in Fulton. Actually it was unexpected that I stayed in MO for the break and I really do regret about it, but life was not going to let me out of my small "2nd home"... would have never thought that I actually say that :S but it is true, that Westminster became my home. IT's been a YEAR!!!! crazy$#%@^
Whatever, on the level of my consiousness I have only 2 homes recorded: with my family, and with UWCs... So sad that some I can't make it for the reunion in Harward, it must be so much fun and good memories. Again $$ unfortunately stop my life from not being rediculous... Ehh, there is so much to say, to tell, to listen and to laugh about :) but my first year in WC is coming to end soon and I really hope I'll be home very soon (can't wait). Maybe I'm a bit homesick, maybe I'm a bit stress on Friday night while others are having fun, maybe I feel a bit lonely, or maybe I'm just tired... maybe... I should go and read Da Vinchi Code before I fall asleep. Good shit by the way, just wonder why does it make me sleepy while in reality I really enjoy it...
BTW, I've already mentioned a lot of time about the crazy Fulton weather,,, well it keep surprising now in a bit better way, coz it's summer over here and we are ready to swim and have sunbathes if we had an ocean or something like that.
Who ever reads this, I need an advice, wheather I should stay and work for a couple of weeks in Fulton during the May, right after the school, or shoud I do that in early August before the school??? I'm really confused and wonder what is better. Actually home is much better, but on the other hand I don't want to owe college anything be the beginning of next semester...
Yeap, now it's a bed time, time to visit my beautiful dream world, where everything is the way I make it. Love sleeping :P who doesn't ???

Snow?

Missouri keeps surprising me a lot. I would never think that the weather here is so unfriendly. First, tornados, then snow in the middle of spring. It's the end of March!!! there should be no smow in MO, first of all because it's quite a southern spot in the US. Anyhow, right after a week of summer we got winter back again. I thought this shit happens only at home, when we get snow in May, but I was wrong: MO is even worth in this sense. The temperature at this point droped down very quick with snow storms following. Within one night, Fulton was covered with a thin layer of snow. Obviously, this region is too warm for snow to stay long, that's why the next day there was nothing left. The paradox of this is that as soon as the temperature drops to around 0 C, ppl get frightened and they don't drive, don't go to school and so on and so on... "Life is not only about driving, ppl!!"! - I wanna scream loud...

Warning!!! Deadly tornado!

I knew something wasn't going right that day. I felt that it is not going to be a day with a happy ending. The season of tornados had started the day before yesterday and it has already brough lots of damage with it.
Sunday morning was beautiful, peaceful, warm and sunny. Surprisingly, there were no wind at all. It was getting warmer and warmer every hour, until at around 3 I was walking around in a T-shit and slippers. Humid, very humid! A little bit too much for the beginning of March. (wow, sounds a bit poetic:P ). Moreover, later the same day, the weather was behaving odd and stirring. Absolutely clean sky was not as clear anymore. Actually, I would say that it was clear on one side of campus, while on the other wide one could observe and incredible, misterical, fast growing cloud. It reminded me of a cloud after the atomic exploison (the one that most of us most probably have seen in black and white movies or on the pictures). It was growing with a great spead, but how??? there were now wind?!!! :O I was terrified. I wish I could just stand and stair at it until it covers the whole sky, but work was calling for me, so I had to keep walking backwards and almost falling. The rain didn't keep itself waiting, pouring from time to time here or there. It seems like "calm before the storm"... well, I wish I haven't watch news before going to work at 6 pm. The whole day, the local TV was warning Callway county. It was frightening. Taking a short break and going out to check the weather outside, I was surprised: it was very warm, the wind wasn't so strong, but the smell and the atmosphere was taking my breath away. Wanted to run away, wanted to hide, but at the time, I felt like standing steal and be an observer. But unfortunately, I couldn't do it. We got our first warming at around 9 pm. It was exciting! At about 10 pm I was done... still no signs of a tornado in Fulton. Before, they were saying that it is going to reach us before 10, but I guess, the storm toke it own path. It is impossible predict very this massive thing will go!!! To me, it is alive, it has got a heart, feelings. It's like a huge very upset kid walking through Missouri without looking what it is stepping on or where it is going to. It was raining hard from 12 till 1 and at 1:30, the most unwanted sound went off: WARNING SOUND! Good that I wasn't asleep yet like the rest of ppl in my house. Some ppl even manage to go to the shower a minute before the warning. hahaha... well, actually, it wasn't very funny. All of us had to go down to the basement. Rules! :P I was too amuzed to go down, so I got stuck right next to the entrance and watching how unbelivably unquiet the sight has been that hour. I would say, Fulton was lucky and tornado passed by without even touching us. A bit of frightening thonderstorms, but very far away. This is my 2nd time of watching tornado in the US. Surprisingly, but this time, I took it much better with no major worries.

Next day, we found out that we were very lucky. Tornado didn't pass by with no damage or killing. 10 ppl died due to this atmospheric hazard. These months we are going throught the season of tornados... so I guess there will be more coming on that issue...

Otherwise, I'm doing pretty much ok. Too much work as usual, a bit of stress due to going on midterms and excitement about the coming spring break... and tomorrow is a free day! :D

longer as I though

me is still sick... I know it's boring to tell to everyone, no body really cares, there've got problems on their own, but it just feels that it's the only best way of expresing yourself here, right now.... ooooooh.... not on my computer .. BATHROOM!!!!....
wasn't that bad... anyways, where did I stop? ah, yeah, you know, too much of sleep (3 days) and 12 hours of Friends makes you feel different and still very sick.
These 3 days passed like one long nightmare, which I will never wish to anyone to see... I thought I was close to dying, but apparently it didn't happen, so I'm still here, talking to myself

Sick...

I was wondering the whole time, why am I not sick when everyone around me is sneezing and caughing? Well, here is it: I'M SICK NOW!!! It's a wierd feeling... the whole body is shivering, like when you are in love, but the only difference is that your throught hurts like a b"""and you caught a lot... anyways, I've got a long night for fighting the Flu and trying to fall asleep, lots of tea and a bit of honey, and the whole tomorrow, I probably will spend in my bed and with no voice to scream "help"... I should stop complaining; finally, I'n not dying or anything :) I'm alive and Fulton is beautiful with the first warm and lovely day.. I should probably go to bed.. night-night <> (sending you my germs :P)
P.S. Banana was right, at this moment you need a hug :(, by the way, is it the same Flu that was bothering you not that long time ago?

The President's Day - Free Monday

HA, tomorrow is Monday, and some ppl, e.g. American students and especially int. students studying in the US, do not have school!!! Upiii!!! it's the best thing that can happen in here - no school, so you can hang out with friends and do nothig :P Yeah, it can get boring, but anyone is allowed to rest for a bit and just not think of anything else but themselves... however, Today that happened... The whole day of doing nothing major at all!!! (happens to me rarely these days). Just played pool for a bit (won all 3 times :P), watched Olympics with disturbing comertial all the time and got very proud of Russian ice dancing couple :) we will see how they finish this game tomorrow if I won't go crazy of this constantly poping out commertials :S - driving me mad!!! .. anyways, then I worked out with Lena for a bit > keep ourselves in shape is very important especially when you are in the US (I mean, you just want it to happen naturally ;)). and I just came back from watching a cheazy boliwood movie "Salam Namaste"... no comments ... see, if I'll dream of my future husband tonight...
2 am in here... should probably go to bed and not waste my time on talking to myself right now, coz it really feels odd...

Sunny nad very cold Fulton...

Sunny, very cold it is here in Fulton... I'm done with classes, or I would better say I made myself free from my extra classes. NO MORE SCHOOL FOR ME there three days >> I'm off!!! ... amazing how demanding I was to myself for this week! never happened before... Anyhow, I have 3 hours of doing nothing and then I'll have to be back to the harsh reality: kids!!! yeah, I've got around 20 kids to work with every Wednesday and Friday (unless it's snowing outside, coz that's the time when kids don't go to school in Missouri). Increadible, but those monsters are still alive after school: running around, driving me and other volunteers crazy :S at this point, I start thinking if I want to have kids or not (kidding). Anyhow, I have to spend 3 hours with them today, which has to be my relaxing friday!!! I wish...
yesterday, at middnight we celebrated my vietnamee friend's b-day, getting eggs all over her. :D she is 21 now - good age for the US! I bet this weekend is going to be wild for her :P
and I'm homesick again :( it happens too often now... why? I guess I know, just asking for sack of asking... blablabla... я сошла с ума...
funny, but I'm listening to a hungarian song and remember how much I want to be in Florida...
I can't connect my sentanses today :S everything is so random... who care.. it's just a blog... I guess my head is messed up as much as my writing..
someone is going for a ski week - our 0years - and other are preparing for IB.. I don't remember having a reading week?! ^o) hmmm maybe, coz I was having a skiweek.. yea, that's right...skiweek... if any one wants to recall some of the slopes we had a chace to cross go to this link and they have nice pictures with what was happening 2 years ago http://www.breim.no....


I knew it was too cold for Fultons' kids to come down for "after school" progra!!! it's not fair that no body bothered to let me know about that... I'm pissed... hmmm... not any more... :D I would say I'm glad not to have to work today, coz it would have been a disaster :P
well now, my friday begins :) - just rest, lots of sleep and doing nothing hopefully..

Fall and winter breaks

Nature saves, nature cures, when you have a need... When you are sick of studying and you are extrimely tired of the place, the best way to keep your nerves together is to give up everything you are doing at the moment and go into the woods... That what I did last year, fall break 2005, beautiful weather, wonderful days, just you, some people and nature! We went to the south of Missouri, and to my surprise, at that place, several hours away from Fulton, the nature is beautiful and very different. Sleeping in the tents, eating crap, investigating caves, scaring bats, taking lots of pictures, enjoying the sun, climbing rocks, swimming in a cold water, drinking of course, making bonfires, singing, playing games at night, telling scary stories, laughing at Leslie (crazy chinese guy), canooing, playing volleyball, thinking a lot, meditating... I did so much during these few days than I did during the whole semester :D
However the sadest moment was when I had to come back to reality... e.g. school, Fulton... and everything continued to be the same from day to day, week to week, month to month... Untill the moment, when I gave up and told myself that I need to change the environment. So I went to New York followed by Chicago!!!
WOW! the 3 letters I used to repeat anywhere I went! Impressive! Two amazing, very international cities opened my eyes. I've never though I will be able to see something that I'm used to see only on TV... well, it was time to feel it myself, to wonder around, to smile, to laught, to surprise, to be shocked. Me and my french friend Elodie lived in Harlem, the place that is also known as Lation getto. Some might think that it's must be dangerous in there?! - well, walking in the night streets of Harlem, we would never get scared. In general, both NY and Chicago seem to be safe enough :), but not in a sense of health expecially in Chicago, where I froze every part of my body just going from one building to another. It was COLD! Like at home this month, plus Chicago is known as the city of winds. I didn't die, but the cold made my staying less pleasurable. However, Chicago is 18$ away from Fulton, so I can say that I'm coming back. This place worth being visited several times. :D
Another most impressive thing is that I've never seen the ground from 86th of the Empire State Building and in few days from 101st flour and Sears Tower. My knees are still shaking when I look at the pictures or just remember those moment... The whole trip was an advanture! And everything would be perfect if in a week I didn't have to come back. Moreover, I wish I could spend more time with Amki. Yeah, seeing her at the end of my staying in NY was an amazing feeling, like we didn't say bye to each other in May and we never actually had to be apart for more then half a year... It was like I just saw her yesterday and we had lots of things to tell to each other... but my plain was leaving in 2 hours :( and I had to say bye again with a hope that I will see her again.. very sooon...I wish we could be anywhere we wanted at any point of time: "Why did Eva ate a forbidden apple?"

the beginning

Wow, it's actually fun:) he he he, I think having blogs it's a great idea of keeping your thoughts, events, memories together. I find it much more useful than sending mass e-mails to each other: first of all, your mail box doesn't get full, second of all, anyone who is interested in what I or you are doing these days somewhere in the world could just go on-line (c'mon, almost every one has net in 21st century, or at least I hope you do;))
Well, talking about my nowadays life I can just briefly say: I'm in the middle of the USA in the place which is not much different from Flekke. Moreover, I found it funny that from UWC I droped to WC which can be understood like "World College" or as an abriviation on toalet sign or in reality it means Westminster College, located in Fulton, MO. It is another Flekke, seriously, but at least in Flekke we had shuttle going Dale or something... here, I hardly can go to "Dale" (Columbia - nearest big city) simply because I'm not american and I don't have a car. Eh, I wish I did... But anyways, this place is not that bad. It's pretty and the climate in here is mild lovely quite often, so we don't freeze during the winter: it hardly snows here, not like at home in Moscow where it's almost -40 C :S (eh, Marta, it's much more colder since you were here with -20 C...) It had never been that cold since long time ago, I mean yeah, I remember -20 but no more than that :S brrrrr, don't even want to think about being cold. Fulton's weather is nice enough to make me shiver when I hear minus something :)
If you don't know, I'm telling you a secret: Fulton, specificly Westminster College is the place where Churchill gave his Iron Curtain Speech!!! Yeah-yeah, that's true and moreover, this March we are going to celebrate it's aniversary and as it's seems so far, we are expecting Bush to be present during such a day... Oh, I wish I could look into his face and say everything I've been holding for so long, but I doubt they will allow us to even look at him... he is too cool...
However, March is not soon, so I'll just stop dreaming and write about my regular life for almost half a year. My first semester in a very different environment, different country, different system...., was an experience. Adoptation period haven't finished yet and I don't think it will, coz there are so many things I can't get used to, I'm dissagree with. What helps me a lot is having some of RCNUWCs here and other wonderful international students, otherwise life would be hell. One othe most memorable things that happened to me right in the beginning of fall semester is going to the Coldplay concert!!!! They were amazing as always! Wonderful songs, good voices, great show and a lot of fun. Honestly, we were almost the only ones who were enjoying the show standing and dancing, the rest weren't even up. How is it possible to enjoy the such a concert with such an anthusiasm! (sarcasm). I will never forget it! " I LOVE COLDPLAY!!! " he he he he ......
To be continued.... later...

my first entry....

well, this is just a try :$ actually, I have no clue how this thing works, so I guess I'll just try to figure something out... hmmmm does anyone know how to put my profile picture?! ohh, I guess no one yet knows that I've got a blog... he he he