Tag: my life

Welcome our new visitor to the states

Today is a very special day! We have a new permanent resident in the United States. What’s his or her name you might ask? Well for now, let’s just call him Kyle, and for the sake of argument we’ll say that he is 20-years-old, but in truth he’s only 3, going on 4. Who is …

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Brushin’ up on the Russian

I’ve decided to take my Russian to the next level and incorporate it into my daily life. I’m going to start reading the Russian newspaper articles (dictionary in hand, of course), watching Russian movies without subtitles, and listening to Russian music. I think that this will be the only way that I can get my …

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Powerful, poignant, painful

I just finished reading Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower and I don’t know exactly how I feel right now. About halfway through the book, I found a poem that hit so close to home it was haunting–I included that in my last entry, if you care to read it. Now that I have …

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