So this week was an interesting week, it was actually the first time since I have arrived in Romania that I have truly been homesick. Now don't get me wrong, this does not mean that I don't miss people and miss home, but I usually don't think about it all day. This week I thought a lot about home, and believe it or not, it was because of the weather. I walked outside on Monday morning, and it was like I was walking outside of my house in Wisconsin, the weather was exactly the same as a typical calm Wisconsin winter day, I could not believe how much it felt like Wisconsin, the only difference is that I was halfway across the world, in a country that does not speak English. Now it is in the freeze of the season, it is very cold and continues to feel cold. I cannot explain why it felt like home this week in particular, but I think it is because it has been cold, but not crisp, if that makes any sense. The feeling was just unbelievable, how similar it was, I did not think I would experience anything like that here, especially with something as common as weather.
Well enough about homesicknesses. This week I also had the opportunity to be presented with many interesting cultural exchanges. I am amazed at how creative people here can be from time to time, especially when they don't have something. I am referring to sleds. The sleds here are the old school wooden ones that are lifted up on 2 tracks, if they are not homemade, I can imagine that they would be pretty pricey. Thus many people may not be lucky enough to have their own sleds. This however does not stop people from sledding, on no, they create other things from sleds. Sometimes it may be a makeshift snowboard from a stray board, or my favorite is the use of a simple shopping bag. Oh yes, this week I went sledding on a shopping bag that was cut in half and let me tell you it did the job. I may have gotten a little more snow on me (and some down my pants!) but I got the same effect, a fun, fast, ride down the hill. All this for the price of a bag (about 40 bani-15 cents) a heck of a lot cheaper than a sled! I just found it interesting that even though they might not have exactly what is needed for sledding, that does not stop them from having fun! I just found that to be an interesting cultural exchange and a lot of fun!
So to go along with the cold, cold weather here, we have also had quite a bit of snow this week. It did come at a good time however, everything was brown and dirty. It made me think of Jerry, one of my old customers from quick trip, whenever we would get snow he would always say, "Ah it was time, the old stuff was dirty!" It is so true, it was pretty brown and ugly, but now that there is a fresh layer of snow it is pretty again. The method of street clean-up is interesting here, actually not interesting, but pretty much non-existent. Most of the time we do not have to much of a sidewalk, so there is nothing to shovel, but sometimes I think that people drag something over the snow to push it down, so there is a path off of the road. Most people however do not use these makeshift sidewalks however, when it snows they just walk in the road, because that is where it is the most clean and the cars just go around you anyway :) It just seems a little dangerous to be walking on a road with packed down snow and cars, but thankfully the cars only drive about 20 mph through the city in the winter so we don't have to worry much about cars losing control in Trusesti!
Something else that I find interesting is my kids amazement with something as simple as a pencil, even my older students! So this past week I did a lot of review because they were having a test, so we played Jeopardy. I decided that since this was a tougher game I would give the students who won a pencil. Now to me this is nothing special, even though they had designs on them. To my students however they thought that it was the coolest thing they had ever seen. One of them even said, oh a pencil from America! I don't think that it matters to them what it is, but if it is from "America" that instantly makes it cool. I think it is also something new, because I don't think they receive prizes from other teachers, or play learning games in other classes either. The interesting thing however, is that the fascination with objects from the States does not stop in general school. I was with one of my friends and she saw my box of goodies that I have for school. She was so intrigued looking through it and thought that everything was cool, even the pencils, the pens, the dry erase markers, the design paper, the eraser tops for pencils, even the pencil sharpeners and calculators. This stuff is so easily accessible in the states I hardly ever think twice about it. It was a fresh reminder about how things as simple as a pencil sharpener or a box of crayons can be taken for granted, especially since we can find it just about anywhere in the US, even in the smallest towns. I feel blessed to have witnessed this simple but eye opening event.
I had yet another interesting cultural exchange this week (it was a week chock full of observances). So I was having a tutoring session with my counterpart and we were talking about classes. I have a problem with some classes in terms of respect. Sometimes I think it is because I am too nice, I have always hated giving out punishments and bad marks. I also think it is because I am the youngest teacher there, and of course since I am an American. My counterpart brought up an interesting idea, not so sure how I feel about it though. She comments often on my use of facial expressions, I have always been a person who expresses who I feel based on my facial expressions, that is just who I am. Apparently however, someone who uses a lot of facial expressions when they speak is considered "alintati" or spoiled. I am sorry to say, but I think that is just strange. I was a little offended as well, because it is something so simple, and so a part of who I am to express these feelings. I just find it really odd, and I don't really understand it. She said this maybe be a problem, because maybe students think I think I am better than them or something, so they act out as a sort of defense mechanism, and students who also express themselves like me can relate. It is just odd, and not something I would have ever thought of. I don't know talking about it makes me a little upset, because this is something that I like about myself, and it is hard because it feels very insulting to think that it could be looked upon negatively. I don't think it is a bad thing, and maybe I can convince other people that there is nothing wrong with expressing your emotions through expression, it allows people to see who you are, both the good and the bad :)
Well that pretty much recaps my week, lots of exchanges, cold weather, oh and 2 packages, one from church and one from my folks. It is always a pleasure to be spoiled :) Now I am just going to try and prepare myself for next week, maybe go pretty easy on the kids because it is the week before break. I think that for my February break I am going to go to Budapest with another volunteer and maybe explore Transylvania a little bit, we shall see what I have the time and money for, but I am almost positive that I am going to go to Budapest for a few days. I just have to get my vacation time in before it is too late! I have to use vacation time if I leave the country no matter what, even if it is during a break, but if it is in the country during a break, I don't have to use it. So hopefully I can get all of that worked out :)
I think that is about it oh and I do have a few recommendations for you all
Song: Kris Allen - "Like We Were Dying" -- He was this past years American idol and he just has a really smooth fun voice. This song has a fun melody and is just nice to listen to.
TV Show: Big Bang Theory -- Just ridiculously funny, I laugh every time I watch it and the humor just keeps getting better. It is a show about nothing really but has some really good one liners and funny, quirky characters.
Book: The Giver -- I read it very quickly and was engrossed in it, just a spectacular book that is easy to read and has some interesting political tones to it. It is typically something that is read in grade school but I just recently had the opportunity to read it and I really did enjoy it. I think that you will too!
Hope that you all are doing well. I miss and think of you all often and I hope that the new year has brought you many blessings. While you think of the blessings that you have, I also ask you to think of the people of Haiti, keep them in your thoughts and prayers for there is much suffering there. I know that with help, prayers, and generosity the people of Haiti will make it though this terrible disaster. I am thankful that I live in a location that does not have such tremendous natural disasters and I hope and pray that my family and friends continue to remain safe. I miss and love you all so very much and hope you are doing well! Just think you will see me again in 19 months and it will be like I was never gone! Love you!!!!!!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Back on Track!
So I think that I am finally back on track. I was a little off there around the holidays, but I think that was because I had a lot of variation in my schedule so I was a little lax on my blogging updates...sorry about that!
Well I hope now that I can get back to my regular schedule of updating every Sunday. It was a good way to go and a good way to reflect on the events of the week! This week was back to normal for the most part. I was back in the classroom, and had some good days and some not so good days. That is life though right. I think the not so good days were coupled with the fact that I have a cold, so that made it difficult to concentrate and also my tolerance level for misbehavior was way down. Some of my classes have gotten a lot better though. I started a new behavior/participation chart and the students have been fairly responsive to it. Some classes more than others. Sometimes they are not super excited about the stars, but they definitely do not want the red checks and sometimes all I have to do is hold the red marker in my hand and they stop misbehaving and start participating well.
Right now I am trying to work up the motivation to plan my one lesson that I have to teach tomorrow. The kids are having a test for the most part tomorrow and Tuesday, so it will be an easy week for me, I will only have to plan for half of the week. I am having trouble coming up with ideas, so sometimes if I focus on something else for a little while the ideas just come to me. I hope that they do well on the test however, they are good kids for the most part, but some of them are a little bit lazy, if they just put forth a little bit more effort and believed in themselves I know that they could do it. I guess that is what I just need to work on, is believing in them so that they will believe in themselves. We shall see about that and I will just continue to have faith in them every single day!
So this week we had a little twist in our schedule, we had to teach on a Saturday! Back in October I believe it was, we had a day where the teachers went on strike, so we didn't teach. The teachers were striking because the government is talking about cutting their salaries. I know it is the same in every country, but why do the budget cuts always have to come from education, I mean I know the decision is difficult to make, but without a good education system there is no way that we are going to make things better in the future. To train future leaders, we need to educate them first. I think that education is the fuel for a better world....oh well maybe they will figure it out eventually and maybe one day our political leaders will be willing to take a little bit of a pay cut rather than our teachers. Well you might be thinking, why did we have to make up a day if it was a strike? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Well yes it does defeat the purpose, but apparently the teachers were paid for that day, so they had to make it up. Oh well what can you do. So I just played games with my kids to help them review for their test next week. I was supposed to have 3 hours, but when I went to go get my last class, they had all went home. Oh well what can you do, I was a little annoyed because I had put work into the lesson, preparing Jeopardy, which I actually cannot reuse, but oh well. Kids will be kids and I didn't want to be there any more than they did.
So it looks like for Valentines day we are going to be selling flowers, they will decorate the flowers and put a little note on them to someone they "admire" I think that will be sweet and it should be a nice way to raise more money for the kids in the student council to do more things like maybe sometime in the spring they can have a school dance. Traditionally that is only done for the high school here, but I thought that would be something that the students would enjoy. Another thing I know they did last year was had a carnival and I think that would be something they might also enjoy. I guess we shall see what time brings us and what the kids might want to do when that comes around! :)
Our February break is coming up so I will have a week off and I hope to do something fun and interesting. I want to go visit some people maybe, I have heard about a few activities that are going on, I just want to get out of my site for a little while. It should be fun and just something different to do. I am not a huge fan of traveling, because it takes me forever no matter where I go, but it is worth it once I get there. It will also be good for me to see what else is out there, and more about the country of Romania, I want to have as many interesting experiences here as I can!
Oh and I fixed my sink all by myself...I also broke it first...but then I fixed it! It was clogged so I took it apart...bad move, because when I did so...the part where it screws together sort of cracked. Well I went on my way and I found a replacement part and it was a pain in the but to screw back in because it was tight and I didn't have a screwdriver and it was slightly bigger than the last...but I got it screwed in and it doesn't leak or anything and works like a charm! I was just excited that I fixed it all by myself! Look how well my Daddy raised me, I am just a little handywoman! Just an odd side not for all of the feminists out there (my friend Carly would get a kick out of this) My spell check does not recognize the word handywoman as a correctly spelled word, but it does however recognize handyman as a correct word, I think that we need to call Websters and have them make their dictionary more politically correct, maybe that will be my next goal!
So that is about all for this week, no exciting stories to say, it was a pretty slow week. Hopefully this next week will bring more excitement, but we shall see! I am just trying to instill some new and better habits this new year, like keeping a cleaner apartment, drinking more water, watching my spending more and eating healthier. So far this weekend I have been doing well....and I hope I can continue! It is sure hard to eat healthy when you live all alone and don't have your weight watchers buddies to keep you company and keep you motivated, but I am going to try to do better in this new year and to take better care of myself like I was in the States! We shall see and I know I can do it! Well I better be off to lesson plan...I still do not have any ideas...I have to do something with parts of the body and the verb to get....so many not appropriate things come to mind with those two subjects...I have to make sure my students don't put them together that way! LOL sorry just a little tired and not really even that funny!
Oh and before I forget I wanted to extend a congratulations to my friend Bridget and Claire. Bridget just had a healthy baby boy, Noah Joseph, 5 lbs 11 oz, Jan. 5th and Claire had a healthy baby girl, Autumn Victoria, 9 lbs 21 inches, Jan. 7th. Both babies are beautiful and healthy and I am so happy for the both of them! I wish you the best of luck and I hope that you have so much fun with your new little angels!
That is all for now, I hope you are all doing well and that you are not too cold in these winter months, just think before we know it it will be warm again...or so I hope! Love and miss you all!!!
Voi iubesc
Va pup
Mi-a dor de voi
Pana mai tarziu
~Sarah B.
Well I hope now that I can get back to my regular schedule of updating every Sunday. It was a good way to go and a good way to reflect on the events of the week! This week was back to normal for the most part. I was back in the classroom, and had some good days and some not so good days. That is life though right. I think the not so good days were coupled with the fact that I have a cold, so that made it difficult to concentrate and also my tolerance level for misbehavior was way down. Some of my classes have gotten a lot better though. I started a new behavior/participation chart and the students have been fairly responsive to it. Some classes more than others. Sometimes they are not super excited about the stars, but they definitely do not want the red checks and sometimes all I have to do is hold the red marker in my hand and they stop misbehaving and start participating well.
Right now I am trying to work up the motivation to plan my one lesson that I have to teach tomorrow. The kids are having a test for the most part tomorrow and Tuesday, so it will be an easy week for me, I will only have to plan for half of the week. I am having trouble coming up with ideas, so sometimes if I focus on something else for a little while the ideas just come to me. I hope that they do well on the test however, they are good kids for the most part, but some of them are a little bit lazy, if they just put forth a little bit more effort and believed in themselves I know that they could do it. I guess that is what I just need to work on, is believing in them so that they will believe in themselves. We shall see about that and I will just continue to have faith in them every single day!
So this week we had a little twist in our schedule, we had to teach on a Saturday! Back in October I believe it was, we had a day where the teachers went on strike, so we didn't teach. The teachers were striking because the government is talking about cutting their salaries. I know it is the same in every country, but why do the budget cuts always have to come from education, I mean I know the decision is difficult to make, but without a good education system there is no way that we are going to make things better in the future. To train future leaders, we need to educate them first. I think that education is the fuel for a better world....oh well maybe they will figure it out eventually and maybe one day our political leaders will be willing to take a little bit of a pay cut rather than our teachers. Well you might be thinking, why did we have to make up a day if it was a strike? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Well yes it does defeat the purpose, but apparently the teachers were paid for that day, so they had to make it up. Oh well what can you do. So I just played games with my kids to help them review for their test next week. I was supposed to have 3 hours, but when I went to go get my last class, they had all went home. Oh well what can you do, I was a little annoyed because I had put work into the lesson, preparing Jeopardy, which I actually cannot reuse, but oh well. Kids will be kids and I didn't want to be there any more than they did.
So it looks like for Valentines day we are going to be selling flowers, they will decorate the flowers and put a little note on them to someone they "admire" I think that will be sweet and it should be a nice way to raise more money for the kids in the student council to do more things like maybe sometime in the spring they can have a school dance. Traditionally that is only done for the high school here, but I thought that would be something that the students would enjoy. Another thing I know they did last year was had a carnival and I think that would be something they might also enjoy. I guess we shall see what time brings us and what the kids might want to do when that comes around! :)
Our February break is coming up so I will have a week off and I hope to do something fun and interesting. I want to go visit some people maybe, I have heard about a few activities that are going on, I just want to get out of my site for a little while. It should be fun and just something different to do. I am not a huge fan of traveling, because it takes me forever no matter where I go, but it is worth it once I get there. It will also be good for me to see what else is out there, and more about the country of Romania, I want to have as many interesting experiences here as I can!
Oh and I fixed my sink all by myself...I also broke it first...but then I fixed it! It was clogged so I took it apart...bad move, because when I did so...the part where it screws together sort of cracked. Well I went on my way and I found a replacement part and it was a pain in the but to screw back in because it was tight and I didn't have a screwdriver and it was slightly bigger than the last...but I got it screwed in and it doesn't leak or anything and works like a charm! I was just excited that I fixed it all by myself! Look how well my Daddy raised me, I am just a little handywoman! Just an odd side not for all of the feminists out there (my friend Carly would get a kick out of this) My spell check does not recognize the word handywoman as a correctly spelled word, but it does however recognize handyman as a correct word, I think that we need to call Websters and have them make their dictionary more politically correct, maybe that will be my next goal!
So that is about all for this week, no exciting stories to say, it was a pretty slow week. Hopefully this next week will bring more excitement, but we shall see! I am just trying to instill some new and better habits this new year, like keeping a cleaner apartment, drinking more water, watching my spending more and eating healthier. So far this weekend I have been doing well....and I hope I can continue! It is sure hard to eat healthy when you live all alone and don't have your weight watchers buddies to keep you company and keep you motivated, but I am going to try to do better in this new year and to take better care of myself like I was in the States! We shall see and I know I can do it! Well I better be off to lesson plan...I still do not have any ideas...I have to do something with parts of the body and the verb to get....so many not appropriate things come to mind with those two subjects...I have to make sure my students don't put them together that way! LOL sorry just a little tired and not really even that funny!
Oh and before I forget I wanted to extend a congratulations to my friend Bridget and Claire. Bridget just had a healthy baby boy, Noah Joseph, 5 lbs 11 oz, Jan. 5th and Claire had a healthy baby girl, Autumn Victoria, 9 lbs 21 inches, Jan. 7th. Both babies are beautiful and healthy and I am so happy for the both of them! I wish you the best of luck and I hope that you have so much fun with your new little angels!
That is all for now, I hope you are all doing well and that you are not too cold in these winter months, just think before we know it it will be warm again...or so I hope! Love and miss you all!!!
Voi iubesc
Va pup
Mi-a dor de voi
Pana mai tarziu
~Sarah B.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
I Need to Get Better at This!
Hey all, sorry again for the break in the posts...at least I hope that I still have people reading it an I have not bored you to death yet!
So let's see what has happened since I last left you. Well it was shortly after Christmas and I was actually in Bucarest visiting an old friend. Ioana, is a young lady that I actually met when i was in college. She is from Bucuresti and is currently going to school in Belgium! So she has been to school in four countries in all, The US, Romania, Germany and Belgium, that is what I call impressive! She also takes all of her current classes in English, though she is practically a native speaker, I am still impressed because it is a second language!!
So it was nice to spend a few days there, I was able to go to the People's Palace, which is the second biggest building in the world aside from the Pentagon. While I did not tour the whole place, because most of it is actually empty, I went to an art exhibit there. While I didn't understand most of it, because I don't have much of an understanding for art, it was interesting all the same. I had the opportunity to meet some of Ioana's other friends who were very interesting, and to set foot in the second biggest building in the world, so all in all it was an interesting experience, and there were some really cool pieces there. For example there was a set of windows which were broken, which may not seem interesting, but they were broken into exact symmetry, so it was like you were looking at a mirror, they were exactly the same. At first it was not so interesting, but when I found out what it was...pretty interesting.
Other than that it was pretty much just hanging out, we did some shopping, walked around the town, enjoyed a few beers, and Ioana took me to Universitate and explained all about the history of Romania and the revolution that took place there. It was interesting to actually be in the location and learn about the history from someone who is actually from Romania. While we were told about it in PST quite often actually I never had the opportunity to be with someone at the actual location and to have a Romanian explain to me all the locations while we were actually standing there, so that was a pretty cool opportunity! :)
From there I was on my way to Braila, to spend New Years with some volunteers there. We brought in the New Year with a bang, had a great time watching fireworks, drinking champaign, eating delicious food, and doing some traditional Romanian dances. It was a great time! Oh and over the break I also decided to get a hair-cut (In Bucuresti) and while in Braila I decided to let the girls die my hair, just to a darker brown, and I do have to say I like it a lot and I am thinking I will stick with it, just something a little different but I think it is more complimenting to me :)
While I was in Braila I received a little bit of a shocker as well, I was planning on taking a bus home, so I called the company to see where they were leaving from...just to find out that they were not actually leaving that day! Because of the holidays many places are closed, even on the 2nd of January, they usually go back to running normally until the 3rd of January. Thankfully there was a train, but it took me 12 hours to get home instead of 7 by bus. Oh well, just another detour along the way, but I got home anyway and that is all that matters in the long run.
So now I am back to school and back to normal. I am hoping to do more things this semester now that I am more used to what is going on around here and my language has advanced a bit. I have some new systems set in place for the classroom and had to give my first set of bad grades today because I caught some of my students cheating. I hated it, but I knew that if I did not stand behind my rules they would walk all over me and not respect me in the end, and I do want to gain there respect, so even though it stunk...it had to be done :( So hopefully these students will not cheat again....we shall see!
So how about them Packers huh. I signed into my yahoo messenger today and the Packers came up because of some bad calls that were made. Let's just say I saw the picture and I saw the instant replay of that fatal last play, and all I have to say is......"HOLY FACE MASK!" I don't know if I have ever seen anything quite so blatant. But oh well what can you do it is in the past, I just wish that the Pack could have called a challenge on it, but there was nothing called, and there was no doubt that it was a touchdown....even if it was because of a face mask.
Oh and I have decided I am going to give some recommendations...I don't know if they will be permanent or not, but maybe...we shall see..these fall into the lines of entertainment so recommendations for
Movies: The Secret Life of Bees
~Dakota Fanning is absolutely fantastic, as is Queen Latifah and the story is absolutely fantastic and heartwarming and heartbreaking all at the same time.
TV Show: Glee
~Just plain fun, upbeat and silly all at the same time
Book: 1000 Splendid Suns
~One of the best books I have read in a long time. It tells the story of one woman's sorrow and triumph, living in the oppression of Afghanistan. Truly amazing, I was shocked, happy and sad all at the same time, I highly recommend it.
Music: Ke$ha
~Just plain fun and I think that you will enjoy her song TikTok, which I am sure that you have heard on the radio :)
So if any of you are still reading this and have any suggestions for me on anything I will take it...and if you want more opinions from yours truly let me know...but maybe I will just keep typing them....we shall have to wait and see!!!
Love and miss you all and I hope that you are doing well!!!!
Va pup
Va iubesc
Pana mai tarziu
~Sarah B.
So let's see what has happened since I last left you. Well it was shortly after Christmas and I was actually in Bucarest visiting an old friend. Ioana, is a young lady that I actually met when i was in college. She is from Bucuresti and is currently going to school in Belgium! So she has been to school in four countries in all, The US, Romania, Germany and Belgium, that is what I call impressive! She also takes all of her current classes in English, though she is practically a native speaker, I am still impressed because it is a second language!!
So it was nice to spend a few days there, I was able to go to the People's Palace, which is the second biggest building in the world aside from the Pentagon. While I did not tour the whole place, because most of it is actually empty, I went to an art exhibit there. While I didn't understand most of it, because I don't have much of an understanding for art, it was interesting all the same. I had the opportunity to meet some of Ioana's other friends who were very interesting, and to set foot in the second biggest building in the world, so all in all it was an interesting experience, and there were some really cool pieces there. For example there was a set of windows which were broken, which may not seem interesting, but they were broken into exact symmetry, so it was like you were looking at a mirror, they were exactly the same. At first it was not so interesting, but when I found out what it was...pretty interesting.
Other than that it was pretty much just hanging out, we did some shopping, walked around the town, enjoyed a few beers, and Ioana took me to Universitate and explained all about the history of Romania and the revolution that took place there. It was interesting to actually be in the location and learn about the history from someone who is actually from Romania. While we were told about it in PST quite often actually I never had the opportunity to be with someone at the actual location and to have a Romanian explain to me all the locations while we were actually standing there, so that was a pretty cool opportunity! :)
From there I was on my way to Braila, to spend New Years with some volunteers there. We brought in the New Year with a bang, had a great time watching fireworks, drinking champaign, eating delicious food, and doing some traditional Romanian dances. It was a great time! Oh and over the break I also decided to get a hair-cut (In Bucuresti) and while in Braila I decided to let the girls die my hair, just to a darker brown, and I do have to say I like it a lot and I am thinking I will stick with it, just something a little different but I think it is more complimenting to me :)
While I was in Braila I received a little bit of a shocker as well, I was planning on taking a bus home, so I called the company to see where they were leaving from...just to find out that they were not actually leaving that day! Because of the holidays many places are closed, even on the 2nd of January, they usually go back to running normally until the 3rd of January. Thankfully there was a train, but it took me 12 hours to get home instead of 7 by bus. Oh well, just another detour along the way, but I got home anyway and that is all that matters in the long run.
So now I am back to school and back to normal. I am hoping to do more things this semester now that I am more used to what is going on around here and my language has advanced a bit. I have some new systems set in place for the classroom and had to give my first set of bad grades today because I caught some of my students cheating. I hated it, but I knew that if I did not stand behind my rules they would walk all over me and not respect me in the end, and I do want to gain there respect, so even though it stunk...it had to be done :( So hopefully these students will not cheat again....we shall see!
So how about them Packers huh. I signed into my yahoo messenger today and the Packers came up because of some bad calls that were made. Let's just say I saw the picture and I saw the instant replay of that fatal last play, and all I have to say is......"HOLY FACE MASK!" I don't know if I have ever seen anything quite so blatant. But oh well what can you do it is in the past, I just wish that the Pack could have called a challenge on it, but there was nothing called, and there was no doubt that it was a touchdown....even if it was because of a face mask.
Oh and I have decided I am going to give some recommendations...I don't know if they will be permanent or not, but maybe...we shall see..these fall into the lines of entertainment so recommendations for
Movies: The Secret Life of Bees
~Dakota Fanning is absolutely fantastic, as is Queen Latifah and the story is absolutely fantastic and heartwarming and heartbreaking all at the same time.
TV Show: Glee
~Just plain fun, upbeat and silly all at the same time
Book: 1000 Splendid Suns
~One of the best books I have read in a long time. It tells the story of one woman's sorrow and triumph, living in the oppression of Afghanistan. Truly amazing, I was shocked, happy and sad all at the same time, I highly recommend it.
Music: Ke$ha
~Just plain fun and I think that you will enjoy her song TikTok, which I am sure that you have heard on the radio :)
So if any of you are still reading this and have any suggestions for me on anything I will take it...and if you want more opinions from yours truly let me know...but maybe I will just keep typing them....we shall have to wait and see!!!
Love and miss you all and I hope that you are doing well!!!!
Va pup
Va iubesc
Pana mai tarziu
~Sarah B.
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