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reinvigorated 
1. Pizza with my aunt and uncle. Walking in with my shag shawl, my new jean skirt, and heels, damn it. Servers dressed as Ukrainian cops. The best chicken salad ever. "Hawaiian" pizza: pineapple, chicken, black olives. And then all of us watching "The Nanny" in drag - best episode ever. I'm gonna miss them so much while they're in Minneapolis for a month. (The irony, I know.)2. A letter from the States. Jumping/dancing/crying/hugging Grandma...and saving it for the train. For the companionship. Grandpa's already ganked the "architectural" US Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs, w00t!) stamps for his dear collection. There are bets on the table I won't make it through the wait.
3. Talking on the phone to my second-cousin Kostya. He sounds tall but claims he isn't. OMG he wasn't even born the last time I was in SP. And now we're gonna hang out in less than 2 days. He "has plans for me." Hehehe.
Anonymous
July 15 2005, 13:13:34 UTC 6 years ago
Glad for you
I'm glad to read there have HAPPENED several things the made that day better.Have a wonderfull trip to SP! (I'm envy :-()
I'm hopefull you'll be contacting grandma in Kiev and let her know the contact number(s) in SP as soon as you get there. You shoul probably buy a long distance calling card, just make sure it's gonnna work for calls to Ukraine.
Hugs and kisses
pa
July 15 2005, 15:17:47 UTC 6 years ago
So yeah- about you feeling like you can't pronounce english- I went through that, too in Italy. Whenever I spoke in English I suddenly felt very awkward and I would roll all of my r's. Even when I would call Maddie she would notice a little different accent. And then I started forgetting English words and people would ask me how to say things and I would be like, "ummm, it's my language but I'm really not sure." Like, I my roommates asked me how to say "pots and pans" in English and I couldn't because I forgot what we called them. Maybe I'm just dumb.
And yeah, stepping on your co-workers toes? I know how that goes. I totally messed up one day at work and thought I was supposed to use the subjunctive but really I just ended up talking to my boss in the familiar form. Ooops, it was only later that I realized why he looked like he was going to punch me.
What opera did you see? Who was it by? I'm so jealous, a Ukranian opera sounds so interesting! I just listened to an opera by Dvorak, who was Czech, and it was quite different from the opera standards, and I really liked it. See more opera for me!