Okay, awesome story for the day.
Every team that comes from america is paired with a team of
translators. Usually there are about 7 or 8 translators that come and
they help with Recreation, teaching english and stuff like that. All
of the translators who come are Christians. This week, there was a
translator who came who wasn't a Christian. Her brother is a strong
Christian and is friends with a lot of Radooga staff. when Natasha
applied, they rejected her application because she wasn't a christian,
but her brother called Oleg and asked if there was an opening if she
could please come. well, this week there was an opening, so Natasha
came. She was my translator for English classes and she is such a
sweet person. We'd been praying for her to come to Christ and
yesterday, Betty, one of the ladies here, got a chance to share her
testimony with her and stuff like that, and Natasha didn't make a
decision, but Mrs. Betty told me to keep praying for her and stuff
like that. This morning, Mrs. Betty ran up to me during Celebration
and told me that Natasha had accepted Christ!!! So this morning in
English class it was so cool because natasha is so excited about it.
I got to share my testimony with my English class and afterwards,
Natasha gave me a big hug and said thank you and stuff. It's really
awesome. There just "happened" to be an opening this week for an
extra translator and that just "happened" to be Natasha. Gotta love
it. tonight the speaker is going to ask if anybody wants to accept
Christ during evening program so be praying about that. God is doing
so many cool things here. I found out that 90 teenagers accepted
Christ at our first camp. How cool is that????
I taught my english class the hokey-pokey today. that was exciting.
and today we're going to the airport to pick up team 3. Most of them
are from Tampa and their youth minister J.J. was here last year. He's
really cool.
Shout-out to my buddy Sarah Wirgau! Happy happy birthday (I realize
it's tomorrow,but this might not be sent until then. I LOVE you
Ponch!
"This is my birthday song....It isn't very long..........."
I miss you guys and I can't wait to see Jenshka, Todd, Diane, Nicole
and Tamerica! I'm so glad ya'll are coming. :0)
Arrivederci!

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It's rated RRRRRRRRR!
How much does corn cost a pirate?
A buck-an-ear.
Oh, you know it's funny. Don't even pretend like you're not laughing.
We told other pirate jokes yesterday, but I don't remember them all.
The Ukrainian staff didn't find it quite as funny as me, Jake, and
Carli did, but we cracked ourselves up anyway.
Last night we had another meeting in the van, and it was very awesome.
We made a stop at McDonalds where I got a sundae and then we went to
the grocery store to buy ant killer, milk and coffee. I think the
ants know what's coming to them. They've been very solemn today. I'm
giving them 24 hours to vacate the premesis, and then, raid bug spray
is raining down upon them. Speaking of vacating, in English class
this morning the topic was travel and my class and Jake and Carli's
decided to go on vacation together to Italy. We lined up outside our
building, I collected tickets and they all boarded the aircraft. I
got to be a stewardess ("stewardesses" is the longest word you can type
using only your left hand. Bet ya didn't know that. Yeah, you're
trying it right now. If you have a keyboard like Shandra's it's best.)
and I said, "thank you for flying Radooga airlines. Please fasten
your seatbelts and make sure your seats are in the full-upright
position." Hey Sarah, "I got my tray table up! And my seat in the
full-upright position! Got my tray table up!!!!" Then, with Jake as
our captain, we flew down to the soccer field (Italy) and then exited
the aircraft and swam the rest of the way. We then played volleyball
because some of the constuction workers that live near the camp were
off today and they were playing soccer on the field. (And one was in
a speedo. Ain't nobody wanna see that. So we stayed far, far away.
Italians. My goodness.) Other than the dress, our classes decided
Italy was a very nice place with nice weather. We enjoyed our
vacation and then flew back to our English classes. It was awesome.
Well, I've gotta learn my game for Rec. Wish me luck. Hey, what's a
pirate's favorite letter? RRRRRR!!!!!!!
Arrivederci!
(Hey, that's Italian! We all learned how to say that!)

Hey guys! Camp 2 started today and it's gonna be so awesome. I'm
teaching an English class (pre-beginners, pray for me!) that starts
tomorrow and I'm pretty excited about that. I hope I do okay. Some
of the campers I've known for the past 2 years are here again, so
that's pretty awesome. One of them is even a counselor this year and
I thought that was cool.
And guess what???? 8 people have already signed up for Camp 7! And
more are thinking about it! Thanks for praying!!!!!! That's 2 people
more than we have this camp, so it's so great!
Cliff says hi. He's busy eating coconut chocolate. Hey, Lauren, we
cannot find pineapple chocolate ANYWHERE. It's so weird. I have no
idea what they've done with it. But they have some new kinds now.
They have like dark chocolate and they have like this
caramel/butterscotch stuff and it's pretty good. No pineapple,
though. I'm sorry. We'll keep looking.
Last night we (amberly, cliff, justin, carli and I) stayed at Oleg and
Lena's apartment and me and Carli made pelmeni and it was sooooo good.
And we went to the Fershet store and bought chocolate, cereal and
bananas. All the essentials. We made scrambled eggs this morning and
drank grapefruit juice. Very exciting.
well, I've gotta go to a meeting now. And later I'm doing the camp
dance! It's sooo awesome! I can't wait. I didn't know Sergey could
write a better song than last year but he has done it. Arrivederci!

Privyet Rebyata! God is so awesome, God is so awesome, God is so
awesome, God is so awesome, God is so awesome. I wish I had time to
write you all and tell you everything that's happening, but I'm afraid
you'll just have to take my word for it. Last night so many campers
accepted Christ. I'm not sure how many, but it was a lot. I've
gotten to hang out with a couple church groups and get to know their
campers and couselors and its' so awesome. I'm going to go with my
Mafia teammates, Dima, Tanya and Andrey to their church group time
today and I'm really excited about that. It's so exciting to see how
God totally transforms youth groups and then they get to all go home
together and continue to grow.
I'm going back to the English class I taught the fruits of the spirit
song today. They're so awesome. There's akid in the class who lived
in Columbia for a while, and we were able to have a really cool
conversation because he knew a litle english, I knew a little russian
and then when i didn't know words, he could say them in spanish and I
was able to figure it out.
Instead of Late nite, we had worship zone last night and it was so
awesome. If heaven is just a fraction of what happened last night, I
would be satisfied. (What's great is I know it will be all that and
more.) So many of my friends from last year came to visit last night,
and it was bizarre because it was all on the same night. I got to
catch up with some of them and it was cool.
Team 2 arrived safely yesterday. They were pretty tired, but nobody
got left in Germany, so that was a plus. And I think all of their
baggage made it too. and team two brought a big package of oreos,
which are being greatly enjoyed by the summer staff girls. :0).
Jenshka, I'm getting requests (one of those requests is mine) for some
mint double stuff oreos when ya'll come. Oh, and Alec Waller, when I
send you emails it comes back saying something like "Your email could
not be sent to the intended address because the addresse has some
stupid spam blocker thingy and it doesn't recognize my address. so
stick me on your list! spaseeba!
Alright peoples, I'm going to go to my english class now. We named
them all after cities and theirs is Boston. (Home of my favorite TV
show, which I haven't gotten to watch yet, but will very soon. I
think it's almost time to bust out some Cheers and Boy Meets World.)
Please continue to pray for a group of Americans to come Team 7 (we
have some people who are thinking about coming, they're a group from
texas, so please, please, please pray for them)!
Arrivederci!

Privyet Vsyem! I hope you all are having an absolutely wonderful
week. I can't believe that camp one is almost over. It's so weird.
This is going to go by so fast... Sad day. Tonight (well, at 12:00,
lunch time today for all you EST zone people) we're going to have
repentence night at camp. I'm so excited. Oleg, our speaker (not the
Oleg I always talk about, but one of the many other olegs) is so
awesome and the kids like him a lot. So be praying for that. This
camp has been a lot different than the otherones I've been to because
the majority of the kids at this camp are from orphanages all over
Ukraine, so it's definitely different dynamics. I mean, they actually
go to bed at lights out. Weird. The first night of camp I walked
into me and Lori's room and I was talking to Amberly, and it was
11:28, two minutes before lights out, and one of the youth pastors
came out of their room and asked us to be quiet because all of their
kids were sleeping. We were shocked. Late night doesn't get over til
11:00 anyway, so they're fast little guys. they're kinda quiet and so
well behaved. I think we're gonna be in for a nice wake-up call next
week.
Fortunately, so as not to get bored, not all the groups strictly obey
the rules. Last night, Dima, who's a youth pastor on our floor asked
if me and Cliff and Jake and some of the other Americans wanted to
come hang out with him and his counselors in our lobby after lights
out. Party?, heck yes. so, we busted out the peanut butter, gummy
worms and chips, and Dima and his gang brought cookies, apricot jelly,
bread, and, wait for it, get ready, okay, HORSE salami-type stuff.
You know what was scary? It was good. So, I am now a new fan of
eating horse. Okay, well, maybe not on a regular basis, but at least
I can say I've had it. Dima and his couselors were soooo funny. And
andrey, one of the guys, didn't speak any english except for the words,
"chicken" and "very good". And he liked to use the english he knew,
so he found very creative ways to put those two phrases into
sentences. We decided to play a game of "Mafia" so we all sat down on
the floor and passed out the cards. I defnitely was NOT mafia. I was
just an innocent civilian. But when it came time to pick the mafia
person Andrey said, "It's definitely Calyn, it's Calyn." And I was
like, "why me?" and he said, "Because she's always smiling." I tried
to explain that I'm always smiling, but he would hear none of it. He
just said, "это не "very good", это не "very good". ("это не" means,
"it's not", )So, they killed me and I was just an innocent civilian.
But next they killed Andrey, who was also just a civilian, so we made
a pact after that. we totally knew who it was after that, but we
couldn't say anything. Oh well.
Anyway, by the end of our party we were being so obnoxiously loud that
we had to go to bed. But it was a great party. I think we'r ehaving
another one tonight. :0) Me and andrey have to win Mafia.
Well, I'm gonna go now and teach the fruits of the spirit song to
Ben's English class.
Arrivederci!

Okay, I was going to be the very first person to wish James a happy
birthday, because it was only 4:00 a.m. in the morning where you
people are, but then my email wouldn't work, so I couldn't. But let
me just say that at 4:00 this morning I was thinking about you, James,
and I hope you're having a very happy birthday!
The first day of camp was today. It's a really small camp, there's
only about 175 people, but that's probably good since it's the first
one. The weather's really nice, but it rained this afternoon for
about an hour, right during Rec, of course... The drama for camp this
year is so AWESOME! I think it's much better than the student life
drama. But I'm a little biased. Todd, Nicole, Tamara, Diane and
Jenshka, you can be the judge of that. And the camp song this year is
so much fun too! I have to start learning the words. I haven't
decided if it's better than last years, but it's certainly close if
not better. The dance is so much fun.
Sashka the cat was very busy this year while we were gone, so there's
5 new sashkas at the camp. They're all very sweet and I've been
saving my salami for them. ( I don't like salami.) I would take them
home, but I think Dad would kill me. Ukrainian cats are much more
polite than American ones. Just a variation on a theme, I suppose.
Well, I'm gonna be polite and let someone else check their email.
Arrivederci prinsepesas! I hope Vacation Bible school was awesome
this week!

Hello Peoples! I just got back from the great city of Kyiv where we
showed 13 new Americans all the cool sights. I think if I see st.
Michael's cathederal one more time...
The team is really great, I think, and our orientation has been going
pretty good. Okay, I've gotta tell you about the Pope. Josh, one of
the summer staff guys, bought a candle from the dollar store that has
a picture (a really tacky one) of the former Pope, J.P. II, as we call
him. He has become our mascot, the eleventh All Summer Staff
(abbreviate that for fun. It's what Oleg calls us anyway) and goes
with us everywhere. Josh is very protective of JP, (Astarozhna!
Careful! He always makes us use 2 hands to hold him) We have
pictures of the Pope brushing his teeth, holding the spirit stick,
drinking kvass (this drink that's kinda like root beer, but grosser.
JOsh loves it and so does the Pope.) taking a nap, taking a shower,
chilling in the freezer, riding the metro, playing the drums,
sliding down the slide, and tomorrow he's going to address the
multitudes from our balcony. He's very excited about tomorrow.
Okay, well, the Pope needs to go to bed. And he needs to prepare for
his speech tomorrow.
So I will leave you now.
Arrivederci!

Disclaimer- For those Catholics who may be reading my blog, those of
us at Radooga camp really do respect the Pope and all he has done. We
are in no way dissing the Pope or his legacy, we are only making fun
of the Dollar Store and it's cheap wax representations of great
historical figures.
mailto:calyn@radooga.net

Hey everbody! I'm sitting here getting a massage, and it is very
nice. So if I fall asleep and the rest of this email just kinda
trails off, you'll know why. Zzzzz....
Tomorrow the first team of Americans come. (Hopefully) That's very
exciting. HOpefully they will all make it.
Oleg and Lena took us to Kyiv today and we had so much fun. We got to
eat at this place called "Be Healthy" and they have really good food
there. I got to see sveta, my friend from the last two years and she
hug out with us for the day and we randomly found Nadia in a store.
Talk about a small world. A city of six million people and POOF!
there's Nadia. I really missed both of them. We walked around and
went in some stores and tried to get tickets for the Dynamo Kyiv
soccer game, but unfortunately, it's tomorrow and not tonight. Sad
day. I've never been to a professional soccer game. Maybe one day.
Alec would be so proud of me.]
Well, I'm really tired, so I'm gonna go to bed now.
I love and miss you guys!
arrivederci!

--
С уважением,
calyn mailto:calyn@radooga.net

Hey everybody! I'm here in the Radooga office at 8:34 p.m. and we're
having a great time. Well, actually, we're all just sitting here
about to fall asleep, but if I told you that you'd think I was really
boring. So I won't. I'm reciting my colors to Roma right now. He's
trying to teach me Russian, but I think I'm failing miserably. I
learned how to say some slang today. Fooflo is "bad stuff", but it's
slang, so it's cool.
So, there's no hot water in the camp except that Lori got a hot shower
today. Go figure. Right after I got out, of course. That's where
baby wipes come in quite handy. It's like 60ish degrees in the
afternoon and it's coldish at night. I can see my breath. that's
very awesome.
Okay, we had a break there to discuss the meaning of the word "bug".
Apparently in Russian the word "bug" (zhook) only refers to creepy
crawly things like roaches and anything that looks likes a beetles.
roma was freaking out because we call butterflies and
dragonflies and mosquitoes "bugs". This is not okay in Russian. But
we've convinced him that bug can be used for anything. Okay, well, I'm
going to go sing with Sergey now.
Arrivederci!

Well, at long last I'm in Ukraine and it's so exciting! I miss you
all already, but I'm having a great time. It's been raining the past
2 days, but today the sun came out and it was absolutely beautiful!
We had a volleyball tournament and my team won both times, which was
very awesome. I've learned all sorts of new words and phrases like,
"awesome", "I swept the auditorium" and useful things like "fork" and
"cup". We've also brought back some great past ones like, "spaseeba
za kharosheva yozheka!" Veronica got here today and she's staying in
our room for the week. (hooray!) Most of the old staff is still
here, but there's some really fun new people too, and I like them
a lot.

Roma says, "I love orange juice!" That was his shout out for you.

Okay, well, I'm gonna go to bed right now. It's like 11:38, and I'm
pretty tired.
Talk to ya'll later! (by the way, I can't check my comments, so if
you want to leave a comment, that's cool, but email them to me. ;0)
calyn@radooga.net (in case you forgot)
Arrivederci!

Of Rice and Zen

Today I woke up and went to go help Shandra at Northwoods, which was bittersweet, because I love Shandra and I will miss her lots and lots. But, she took me to my favorite restaurant, Taco Bell, and I ate a mexi-melt and it was awesome. Lori and Diane met us there and Lori was getting stalked by the Wal-Mart photo guy, so she was a little bit disturbed when she came in. He was weird. She almost used her secret ninja moves on him, but she felt sorry for him and so she spared his life.
Then after that, what did I do after that? Oh, then I went home and packed some more and I put on Pirates of the Caribbean (again) because that is one of my favorite movies and I want to be just like Jack Sparrow when I grow up. (Except, I don't want to steal things because I don't think I'd be able to live with myself, so I'd probably have to sell pizzas or Amway on the side to be able to keep up my expensive hobby of being a pirate.) I need a cool name, though. Anybody got any ideas? Me and Lori and Lyndsey went to St. Andrew's State Park in Panama City yesterday and we got to go on a Pirate Cruise with Lori's elementary school that she works at and it was so much fun. Only, those pirates had dumb names. They were trying to go for cool alliteration, but it just wasn't working. Cutthroat Christy and Rotten Rob and some other stupid ones that I can't remember because I tried to block them out. And their costumes were definitely not as cool as me, Lori and Lerah's. I decided that one day I should work on a pirate ship. Of course, that's after I take over the world and eliminate garlic bread and speed limits and change all the stop signs to yield signs and make a magazine and put Pauls on my list of most awesome people. Then we went to the beach and there were some way cool waves. Probably the biggest waves I've gotten to play in. We'd jump into them and body surf and they'd flip you over and drag you halfway back to shore. It was so great. I got really sunburned. Surprise, surprise. I think somewhere there's an alien sitting up in space holding a magnifying glass over me and watching me burn. That has to be it because I put sunscreen on multiple times and I still get fried. Like those aliens at the end of Men in Black that are playing marbles with planets. Maybe it's like that. Speaking of Men in Black, Will Smith (probably the coolest Hollywood person ever) was on Jay Leno tonight and I love Will Smith. He's so awesome. If I can't be like Jack Sparrow I want to be like Will Smith. But I can't rap or dance or act and I'm not really buff so it might be kinda difficult. Alright, moving on.
So, I got to talk to Todd and Jenshka and Pauls and someone else...who was that? I can't remember. Sorry person I talked to. I got to talk to them and they were touring Washington, D.C. and Jenshka took a picture of her and the phone (the phone representing me) in front of the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, so now I can say I've been there. I want to go to Washington D.C. so bad. If I could go anywhere in the U.S. it would be there. If they had a SeaWorld, it would be perfect. At least they have Taco Bell.
So after I got to talk to my friends I gathered up my Zen garden and took it to Jenna's house because Jenna's taking care of it for me while I'm gone.



I decorated it all nice and wrote "I love Jenshka" in the sand and put all the rocks in a balanced manner so that it would be zenish. I'm not sure if zenish is a word, but I'm sure it means something in Japanese. Unlike this picture, I have 5 rocks and two seashells and two rakes and my zen garden is bigger. For those of you who have never played with a zen garden. No, excuse me, worked in a Zen garden (I don't think you play with them) they are like the coolest things ever. I saw one in the Discovery Channel store years ago and I told my mom I wanted one for Christmas having never worked on one, and she got me one a couple of years ago and man, those things are relaxing. I mean, you start raking the sand and creating all sorts of little designs and stuff, and, it just, starts...putting....you to ...sleep......... zzzzzzzz.
I love mine. But Jenna asked if she could take care of it for me, so I left a brief instruction list with Brandon (who also very much enjoys Zen Gardens). It simply listed all things you need to do to properly care for my zen.
First, you must never water it. It doesn't like to get dirty and putting water in it makes it all muddy. Plus, the rocks and sand are perfectly happy without water.
Second, you must rotate the rocks and rearange them periodically to keep them happy. The rocks get tense and stiff if you leave them in one spot too long. Rotate them on their sides and put them in different places in the garden. They like change.
Third, the brown rock loves to be by the big seashell. However, never put the two seashells together because they don't get along at all. The little seashell called the big seashell's momma a conch or something and he never really got over it.
Fourth, if it starts looking unhealthy, it loves sunshine and Lord of the Rings music. Especially the elf songs.
Fifth, the garden must always be balanced and thus fulfill the law of Zen.
I left my emegency email number: calyn@radooga.net and if I could not be reached there, I told Jenna to call Todd, because he likes symmetry and would probably be able to fix it. I have full confidence in Jenna, though. I know my garden will be perfectly fine until I get back.
After dropping the garden off and saying goodbye to some of my favorite people, the Myricks, (and indubitably messing up their calendar) Lori and I drug our suitcases to Publix, where we weighed them on the scale being quite sure they were over 70 pounds, but it turns out mine was only 59. I immediately began thinking of all the other things I could take with my eleven pound bonus and I think more green beans and jello are necessary.
We then went to Kenley's house where Shannon, Gaby, Diane, Lerah and Linda were (followed by a brief tarriance from Katie) were watching my *cough* favorite movie, Phantom of the Opera, not! I think I may be the only one of my friends who really, really didn't like that movie. I just thought it was soooo boring. Regardless, it was a lot of fun making fun of it. There's a part in the masquerade party where that guy that owns the operahouse is wearing like, goat horn things and I was like, "Those are awesome!" I want some of those. Lerah did too. So I went in the kitchen and got aluminum foil and make goat horns (you know, the kind that curve around) out of it. THey were so cool.



Like these.
Anyway, Gaby and Diane cooked dinner, watermelon chicken (weird name, really good) and rice. They're such great cooks.
Well, it's like, 1:00, so I'm gonna go to bed now. I've written for entirely too long. If I don't write until I get to Ukraine, da svidaniya, and I will talk to y'all from there. I'll miss you guys! Arrivederci!

Look at me! I can use technology!

Hey, I just figured out how to email my blog, so now, despite the fact I will have little to no internet access in Ukraine, I can still update my blog! How exciting! Arrivederci!

While Todd's Away, at ROC We Play

Todd's off galavanting around Maryland and Virginia, so all of us awesome college peoples were in charge of ROC on Sunday and it was really fun.



Here are Alec and Sarah



I couldn't find Christian and realized he was in the trash can. Yeah, why didn't I think of that before, right? So, Sappy picked up the trashcan and put it on his skateboard and wheeled Christian around the church. They are so awesome.



I asked Kevin to smile, but I guess he couldn't bring himself to it since Christian was about to chop off his head with his lightsaber.



I wish I were this cool.



If I didn't know them it'd be a little scary, but being that they're some of the nicest kids I know it's pretty darn funny. Kevin's about to send laser beams out his eyes.



And here's some of the gang. Anna W., Sarah, me, Anna J., Brandon, Christian, Lori and of course, Alec

Arrivederci!

And Now it's Time for the 12:43 News on channel 6 1/2

Well, since most of my blogging friends are far, far away, biking down (or up, I don't remember which) the C&O Canal, I haven't been too inspired to blog, but since my mom says she only knows what I'm doing when she reads my blog, I suppose I'll write a few lines. Let's see what's interesting in the news today.
The guy who ratted to the Washington Post about Nixon's Watergate scandal was identified today. On the radio I heard one of the news guys say, "We all remember "Deep Throat"..." But I was thinking, since that was like, 35 years ago, no one under the age of 45 probably remembers it all that well. Ah, well, what do people under 45 know anyway, right?
Paris Hilton announced she's engaged to some guy named...Paris, of all things. At least she's marrying him for love. Oh, wait. Paris Latsis is a Greek shipping heir whose family Forbes Magazine listed as the 54th richest family in the world with assets valued at 7.5 Billion dollars. Scratch that one. Although, what's a couple billion to Paris Hilton?
A New Jersey aquarium has started a Swimming With Sharks program. Adventurous visitors grab a snorkel and jump into a tank of sharks, some weighing 700 pounds, complete with a couple thousand teeth and enough jaw power to eat a small submarine. (not the sandwich.) The most amazing part is... People are stupid enough to pay to do this. That's right. In other countries this would be classified as cruel and unusual punishment. But not in America. Here we gladly throw money at those who would have us risk our lives to jump into a swarming pool of death filled with carnivorous, blood-thirsty fish. But, hey, why not? How long do people really live in New Jersey anyway?
Apparently it's pick on Orlando Bloom week in Hollywood. Sylvester Stallone, star of Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, and wait, there's something else. Oh yeah, Rocky V, was quoted as saying, "Today's idea of an action hero is Orlando Bloom. Orlando Bloom? Give me a break." I'm sure Mr. Bloom is shaking in his boots (Boots made at least 100 years ago, but some have estimated to date back to the ages of ancient Greece and even Middle Earth). As we all know, "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy "Troy" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" have done terribly at the box office and aren't even worthy to be mentioned next to Rambo 12. Mr. Stallone then commented, "I'm still in my prime and I look forward to showing fans the real action hero again." Heaven help us. Rocky VI? Todd will be thrilled. Mr. Stallone then had to take a moment to re-adjust his dentures and pop his hip back into place.
Hayden Christensen, who is obviously prejudice against Pirates,Trojans, Catholics and Elves as well,(though he apparently loves Keebler cookies) said, "A film is a product and as an actor you can only sell it if you sell yourself. You don't get to sit at the table before you're ready to give away your integrity. Maybe it works for Orlando Bloom. It doesn't work for me." Gee, Hayden, what did Mr. Bloom ever do to you? Maybe he's just upset because James Earl Jones and that kid from the Sixth Sense will probably be remembered as being Darth Vader before he will. His name is much too long. And besides that, George Lucas, though he's trying, won't be able to come up with another sequel to Star Wars, and every other director knows Mr. Christensen can't act worth anything. (Sorry to all you star wars fans. You have to admit, the acting is terrible. The only ones who are worse than Anakin are Natalie Portman, followed closely by Jar-Jar Binks and Yoda, and oh, nevermind. They're all bad.)
The most exciting piece of news is that I leave for Ukraine in 4 short days. Oh and I found my Kenny Chesney CD. That's exciting. I've started packing and, although I'm sure I'll forget something incredibly important, I feel as though I've remembered the necessities:
Batteries
Toilet Paper
Cheese-Itz
Well, Leah is fast asleep in my room and I oughta go to bed because I have a dentist appointment in the morning. I hate the dentist. Arrivederci!