I don't care that I don't like the whole movie series as in comparison to the books!
I don't care that there's an economic crisis at home!
I don't care that people are dying of starvation while people are waiting in line to buy tickets for this movie! (I normally do, but at this moment not really)
I'M JEALOUS!! THE MOVIE IS COMING OUT TOMORROW!! AND IT'S GONNA BE IMAX AND IMAX 3D!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
I'm pRETTY sure it's not opening in the Cinema here...we have 1 theatre...Alien versus Extraterrestrial is playing...it's the only movie playing for the next week. *crosses fingers* It's a population of over 300,000 so you'd think there'd be more than 1 theatre that plays more than 3 times a day. hum.
This country doesn't care about Harry Potter *sniff*
In retrospect...I don't think I understand why Americans care so much (but I know it's not just Americans...maybe it's just Romanians who DON'T care).
Showing posts with label sad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sad. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sunday, October 26, 2008
So dark bad week..s into IST (In-service Training) Conference
I was/We were warned that PC volunteers go through depression bouts which is normal. I went through a week and 1/2 one where everything seemed to be going ..yucky, but I mean, I was aware of it, so it wasn't too bad. I tried not to talk to too many people.
Kitchen leaking:
Landlord coming and cleaning my whole apartment...rearranging furniture...coming and cleaning when I wasn't home..Oh! and having to boil water for bath still due to stupid electric bill problem.
I fell off my bike, but due to martial art classes in college, I fell correctly and suffered 2 scrapes and a bruised knee. There was a spider on my handlebar and I left go...while still going.
Kids and cleaning lady didn't understand compost pile as well as I thought they did.
My electricity went out, BUT I got to use this gift someone in Romania gave me.
It's very pretty when lit and it was warm.
On the last 2 days I was in town, I slept in!! and woke up happy!! IST adventure to come! with lots of pics!
Kitchen leaking:
Landlord coming and cleaning my whole apartment...rearranging furniture...coming and cleaning when I wasn't home..Oh! and having to boil water for bath still due to stupid electric bill problem.
I fell off my bike, but due to martial art classes in college, I fell correctly and suffered 2 scrapes and a bruised knee. There was a spider on my handlebar and I left go...while still going.
Kids and cleaning lady didn't understand compost pile as well as I thought they did.
My electricity went out, BUT I got to use this gift someone in Romania gave me.
It's very pretty when lit and it was warm.
On the last 2 days I was in town, I slept in!! and woke up happy!! IST adventure to come! with lots of pics!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Gymnastics Women's - sooo sad
I watched it. I woke up at 4:55am to watch it...to find out that it didn't start until 5:30am.
My TV isn't great, so I was jabbing a hairpin, and using aluminum foil to get a clearer signal. I could hear it and see it, but everyone had crimps, and for a sport where you want perfect form, I wanted no crimps!
Sooooo sad. I admit it, I wanted China to fall on their faces, just to give the US a chance. US is the better team! Sure China was solid on their landings, but we've got Nastia and Shawn Johnson!! They're soo solid and they've got flair and Chrisma! and Nastia has a ballerina's grace, which I think lacks with other gymnasts these days (being a former balleria myself (I wasn't a good one) I admire those with grace and perfect extensions).
Romania won bronze, but I think they set up to win just bronze. Their routines lacked the flair and determination that China and the US had in their sets, but they were consistant and they managed to beat out Russia by one point. The US lost to China by about 2.4 points.
US is sad, they were set for Gold. I am sorry for that girl that made such big mistakes that I think may have made the US lose. She knows it too, since Nastia and Shawn both made only small mistakes in their routines.
For their sakes!!! I hope those two win Individual all arounds and ALLLLLLLLL THE individual Events!!!! (They are good enough that it's possible!!). Go USA!
Get some golds US women's artistic team!!!!! We can do it!
p.s. No sight of any beach volleyball in Romania. They like Canoeing and Judo more.
I do like how Romania, the US, and China are the main teams we follow here (go figure =D )
My TV isn't great, so I was jabbing a hairpin, and using aluminum foil to get a clearer signal. I could hear it and see it, but everyone had crimps, and for a sport where you want perfect form, I wanted no crimps!
Sooooo sad. I admit it, I wanted China to fall on their faces, just to give the US a chance. US is the better team! Sure China was solid on their landings, but we've got Nastia and Shawn Johnson!! They're soo solid and they've got flair and Chrisma! and Nastia has a ballerina's grace, which I think lacks with other gymnasts these days (being a former balleria myself (I wasn't a good one) I admire those with grace and perfect extensions).
Romania won bronze, but I think they set up to win just bronze. Their routines lacked the flair and determination that China and the US had in their sets, but they were consistant and they managed to beat out Russia by one point. The US lost to China by about 2.4 points.
US is sad, they were set for Gold. I am sorry for that girl that made such big mistakes that I think may have made the US lose. She knows it too, since Nastia and Shawn both made only small mistakes in their routines.
For their sakes!!! I hope those two win Individual all arounds and ALLLLLLLLL THE individual Events!!!! (They are good enough that it's possible!!). Go USA!
Get some golds US women's artistic team!!!!! We can do it!
p.s. No sight of any beach volleyball in Romania. They like Canoeing and Judo more.
I do like how Romania, the US, and China are the main teams we follow here (go figure =D )
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Beachy excitement in Ro....but first: boys I talked to robbed me...
What they stole: my $140 sunglasses (they were broken and unfixable, so I didn't care about them that much), my wallet with more cash than usual, my CA ID, my Romanian ID, all my credit cards and some numbers and cards, my Keys!, and my Hp sd reader and my camera's extra battery.
Set up: I was playing and teaching golf to the kids in the community. It was actually a headache because the girls responsible for helping me didn't show, and WAAAAAAAAAAAAaay too many kids were there. I was frustrated, I was tired, and I was holding on, but definitely ignoring children at a point.
I had, seriously! about 40 kids with me, just me! no one else really older and responsible (well I had this one 14 year old girl, but she was really quiet).
Anyway, we were setting up, and I had some older boys come and play, and I knew them, so that was okay, but Other boys saw us and then started pushing and beating up one of my students! He's a little slow, but he tries really hard and he's a sweet kid (like Forest Gump). I told that bigger (15 year old? 16?) to leave my kid alone. I told those boys on their bikes to move out of the way of our game. They were up to no good, they were taking our home made golf clubs, and swinging at things and at some littler kids.
They said that was public area, I told them that they can stay here, but move out of our course.
I was frustrated with the, AND I had to say this all in Romanian...gar.
They wanted to play, I said it was only for our students (I really wanted them just to leave).
Later as I help my kids with the game, those bo...I didn't see this very well, my kids caught them doing it, the boys dug through my backpack (which was about 10 feet away from me, and not far from my little kids, but they're little) and stole my stuff and fled, on their bikes.
I had my boys on bikes tear after them, NOT to stop them, but to see where they went.
My boys found my keys, and my pack of 1/2 eaten gum.
I called the local police (no one responded), I called the police police but they don't understand English and hung up on me 2 times (I was told they Do understand English, but apparently not), and I had a girl explain the situation, but they told me to call the local police.
I then had some girls Go to the police station, but it was closed (the police don't live in the village, and they apparently have closing hours).
I called my counterpart (the old mayor) and he told me to call the police.
My counterpart then called the mayor, and him and 2 cars with men in them, went after the boys.
I waited...and they kids watched the boys flee and the mayor and them not going in the right direction.
People have told me that: the mentality in Romania is that there will be a crime going on, and people around it will pretend it isn't happening. This is what I was told.
Today, many adults witnessed what was going on, but only the kids were running and chasing the TEENAGERS who stole my things. These kids grew up here, and everyone knows them.
People told me to go to their houses and speak to their parents....I will tomorrow, but I'm going to give them a chance to give stuff back.
I told the locals Who Live near those boys, that if they SEE my stuff on the Floor, to Please give it to the Primaria, because I don't care about the money, but I do care about that other stuff.
Especially my hpdrive, because without it, I can't load pictures on to computers here. My computer's disk driver is broken, and all the computers here are too old to have scan disk readers.
Even my counterpart told me: why did you call me, what can I do? (I though: you have a car, and you know the people here, you can do a lot more than I can) He did call around though, and he did come out to pick me up and then drive me home.
The most important things: my cellphone was on the strap of the bag, so it was missed, and my camera was with me, and my keys were found, so it's okay. Everything else is not AS difficult to replace.
I've frozen all my accounts and stuff, cause even those those boys are young, it's better to be safe. I've heard those boys have a record of being not good, and ....they're gypsies....which is really not good for the stereotype (I'm not sure all of the, but some of them are).
Asta este (that's the way it is).
I didn't broadcast it, but I did tell some people that this has happened to me before Once when I was in HS and someone stole my wallet out of my locker, and in College (even though 98% of the time it's soooooooo safe at Poly that I actually deserved to be stolen from at the incident at Poly). I told them this so they hopefully won't feel more pessimistic about their people, so they know that it does happen everywhere.
This incident just happened to be outright revenge, than subtle theft.
My kids (my sweet kids) and I are going to go out and look for my stuff tomorrow, and ...I'm going to limit the size of my class so I can keep a better eye on things.
No pics =(...
Let's see what happens tomorrow. I'm going to the Police station tomorrow, and again, it's not that bad really, I'm just sad (which is way normal for having my stuff stolen). I have my telephone, and the keys to my house. I'm not supppppper attached to material things) thank goodness! I don't feel like I am at least ( I won't admit it at least, to myself).
Everything else will take some time to replace, but they're replacable, EXcept the flash drive and the pictures on it. That I'm attached to, so I hope I can find it tomorrow.
Anyway, I was at CONSTANTA last weekend, and it was beautiful and fun, and I have pictures..I loaded them on my computer yesterday, so they're TBP.
goodnight.
Set up: I was playing and teaching golf to the kids in the community. It was actually a headache because the girls responsible for helping me didn't show, and WAAAAAAAAAAAAaay too many kids were there. I was frustrated, I was tired, and I was holding on, but definitely ignoring children at a point.
I had, seriously! about 40 kids with me, just me! no one else really older and responsible (well I had this one 14 year old girl, but she was really quiet).
Anyway, we were setting up, and I had some older boys come and play, and I knew them, so that was okay, but Other boys saw us and then started pushing and beating up one of my students! He's a little slow, but he tries really hard and he's a sweet kid (like Forest Gump). I told that bigger (15 year old? 16?) to leave my kid alone. I told those boys on their bikes to move out of the way of our game. They were up to no good, they were taking our home made golf clubs, and swinging at things and at some littler kids.
They said that was public area, I told them that they can stay here, but move out of our course.
I was frustrated with the, AND I had to say this all in Romanian...gar.
They wanted to play, I said it was only for our students (I really wanted them just to leave).
Later as I help my kids with the game, those bo...I didn't see this very well, my kids caught them doing it, the boys dug through my backpack (which was about 10 feet away from me, and not far from my little kids, but they're little) and stole my stuff and fled, on their bikes.
I had my boys on bikes tear after them, NOT to stop them, but to see where they went.
My boys found my keys, and my pack of 1/2 eaten gum.
I called the local police (no one responded), I called the police police but they don't understand English and hung up on me 2 times (I was told they Do understand English, but apparently not), and I had a girl explain the situation, but they told me to call the local police.
I then had some girls Go to the police station, but it was closed (the police don't live in the village, and they apparently have closing hours).
I called my counterpart (the old mayor) and he told me to call the police.
My counterpart then called the mayor, and him and 2 cars with men in them, went after the boys.
I waited...and they kids watched the boys flee and the mayor and them not going in the right direction.
People have told me that: the mentality in Romania is that there will be a crime going on, and people around it will pretend it isn't happening. This is what I was told.
Today, many adults witnessed what was going on, but only the kids were running and chasing the TEENAGERS who stole my things. These kids grew up here, and everyone knows them.
People told me to go to their houses and speak to their parents....I will tomorrow, but I'm going to give them a chance to give stuff back.
I told the locals Who Live near those boys, that if they SEE my stuff on the Floor, to Please give it to the Primaria, because I don't care about the money, but I do care about that other stuff.
Especially my hpdrive, because without it, I can't load pictures on to computers here. My computer's disk driver is broken, and all the computers here are too old to have scan disk readers.
Even my counterpart told me: why did you call me, what can I do? (I though: you have a car, and you know the people here, you can do a lot more than I can) He did call around though, and he did come out to pick me up and then drive me home.
The most important things: my cellphone was on the strap of the bag, so it was missed, and my camera was with me, and my keys were found, so it's okay. Everything else is not AS difficult to replace.
I've frozen all my accounts and stuff, cause even those those boys are young, it's better to be safe. I've heard those boys have a record of being not good, and ....they're gypsies....which is really not good for the stereotype (I'm not sure all of the, but some of them are).
Asta este (that's the way it is).
I didn't broadcast it, but I did tell some people that this has happened to me before Once when I was in HS and someone stole my wallet out of my locker, and in College (even though 98% of the time it's soooooooo safe at Poly that I actually deserved to be stolen from at the incident at Poly). I told them this so they hopefully won't feel more pessimistic about their people, so they know that it does happen everywhere.
This incident just happened to be outright revenge, than subtle theft.
My kids (my sweet kids) and I are going to go out and look for my stuff tomorrow, and ...I'm going to limit the size of my class so I can keep a better eye on things.
No pics =(...
Let's see what happens tomorrow. I'm going to the Police station tomorrow, and again, it's not that bad really, I'm just sad (which is way normal for having my stuff stolen). I have my telephone, and the keys to my house. I'm not supppppper attached to material things) thank goodness! I don't feel like I am at least ( I won't admit it at least, to myself).
Everything else will take some time to replace, but they're replacable, EXcept the flash drive and the pictures on it. That I'm attached to, so I hope I can find it tomorrow.
Anyway, I was at CONSTANTA last weekend, and it was beautiful and fun, and I have pictures..I loaded them on my computer yesterday, so they're TBP.
goodnight.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
My computer is "down"
So last week there was another random storm, the kind with lightning and thunder and pouring rain, the kind that lasts for less than 1 hour, and when a specific lightning bolt shut down my computer and all other lights were functioning....I kinda knew...
I've had the local internet guru in the village come over to take a look, and it doesn't look too good. The problems: the internet won't connect to my computer, the volume control moves towards mute until it's muted again, and my mouse is crazy and likes to open random folders and disappear and appear somewhere else and then freeze.
Dang it! I should have gotten a surge protector! I was told that pack on my laptop cable was one, but there must have been more I could have done!
I've had the local internet guru in the village come over to take a look, and it doesn't look too good. The problems: the internet won't connect to my computer, the volume control moves towards mute until it's muted again, and my mouse is crazy and likes to open random folders and disappear and appear somewhere else and then freeze.
Dang it! I should have gotten a surge protector! I was told that pack on my laptop cable was one, but there must have been more I could have done!
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