"Jenga, Fight For Your Life Edition"

This is gonna be quick, i just wanted to blog and have all of you pity me because i lead such a dangerous life. today, as the sun was going down (so like around 16(3) o'clock), i had to go out and get more wood. i prefer to do this when the sun is out but...what you gonna do? once the sun has gone down, it's down. so anyway i pulled on my cool boots (i like them because they make me think "whoa, this type of thig was probably the type of footwear prefered by the people at the battle of hoth" (Star Wars episode V:The Empire Strikes Back)) and went to get the wood. as the cold wind cut into my face i thought about how annoying it was to have to keep getting wood, but about how inevitable it is *sigh* poor me. and then i went and started getting wood, first kicking open the door to the woodshed then chucking in the metal wood carrier. i then proceded to look for the pieces of wood best suited for the fire, and then played a tiny game of Tetris fitting the wood into the carrier. but the name of this post is "Jenga" not "Tetris". so then i had the carrier about half full and i was looking for some smaller pieces of wood, it's always good to have a mix of small and large wood. and then i found the perfect piece...right on top of one of the piles. now the piles are like 8 feet high and i'm like 6 feet. so i reached up and grabbed it, it stuck. i yanked a little harder, it stuck fast. i reached up and yanked with all my might, determined to get that wood and was rewarded for my efforts, i got the wood. only problem was i didn;t just get the one piece, half the stack decided to come with it. so, using my excellent video game honed reflexes, i did a kind of sideways jump thing, rolling into another pile of wood, which thankfully stayed up. and so then i stood up, dusted myself off, and started to dig out my wood carrier, now buried in wood. and thanked god that i didn't get killed playing my game of "Jenga, Fight For Your Life Edition" then i found my piece of wood i had wanted, cleared away enough wood for me to get out of the woodshed and carried a wood carrier full of wood into the house. and now, so that all may pity me, i tell the story for you.

THE END

Wasn't that great? so...you guys gonna start pitying me and telling me i'm a hero yet...? i'm waiting...oh come on...well whatever, Cya.

Cold Annoyances Cookies...

Actually that should say cold and annoyences and cookies, but i'm to lazy to go and fix it. today was one of the coldest days so far this year. it was like someone said "hey, it's december 20th, time to get COLD. so of course this morning i had to get up out of my nice warm bed and go get wood from the shed, alwasy quite a cold enterprise but even colder today. but i'm proud of myself because i now can easily pick up the fully loaded wood carrier with one hand. it was like this last winter too, about the middle of december my muscles just got used to the daily (and sometimes twice daily) strain of getting wood. heres one annoyance to tell you guys about, last night after coming home from helping my drop off a van full of clothes at the "Kristlik Noorte Kodu" ("Christian Youth Home") i went to unlock the door with my key and, OH NO!! i fumbled it and it fell into the crack between the porch and the house, i've been worried that would happen for a while now. and even though it was only around 18:30 (6:30) it was already pitch black out. so now i can't get my house key out and that's a problem because my bike key was on there too. now thats not a problem now because in some areas there's a foot of snow on the ground and anyway my tire popped at the end of the summer. but next summer i'll need that key, and right now i need the house key, later me and Elizabeth (my 10 year old sister) will need to try to get it out, i need her help because she space is just to small for my hands.

so anyway, today we did something i love, something i've been waiting for for a long time...we made cookies!! we had wonderful ginger bread cookies, decorated with the sugariest (probably not a word) frosting we could find. in a word, yum. and now onto my main annoyance, i've been wanting to blog all day but this is what actually got me to do it. one of tyhe kids from the corps, named Andrei, is sleeping over at our house tonight, and of course, by our house i mean my room. whenever he stays at our house i get about 2 hours sleep (about 10 hours less than i need) and i wake up cranky. and i always sleep with my mobile phone and my pocket knife within easy reach when he's around. but today he's is especially annoying because he showed up with a "Eminem" CD. now of course he expected me to be excited that he has a Eminem CD but i've never had much respect for the rapper who's name makes me think of one of my favorite candies. but today he had a sure fire plan of how to make me like his CD, he had me listen to a nice song called "just the two of us" about Eminem and his child (i don't know if its a boy or girl). now for a while i thought it was a nice song, the first minute and a half were ok, all this nice stuff about building sand castles and playing together and stuff, all of it reminding me of my little brother peter (21 months old). until it came to the part where it said something like "...help daddy tie a rock around her feet and roll her in the water, no more fights with daddy, no more restriction order, no more mommy, wave goodbye..." and i said "no more Eminem, bye bye" and hit the stop button.

oh, woe is me. so much cold...so much annoyances...so many cookies!! i want cookies!! well anyway, hope i sleep well tonight. hope he doesn't bug me to play his CD to much (i will stubbornly refuse, as always). and hope i keep up this good habit of blogging, i really think it's good for me. now i gotta go, Cya.

yo, here i am to impart my knowledge upon you...or something...or other...or...yeah....

well anyway its been a while since i've just blogged upon life and my inteligent thoughts about it, so here i go. its has recently become my opinion that Finland is a fortress of DARKNESS!!! No, seriously, for once i am not being sarcastic or joking. some of the craziest (in a bad way) people i have ever met have been finns. and it has now been brought to my attention that 2 of the creepiest bands i've ever heard of are finnish. first of all there is the band H.I.M which stands for "His Inernal Majesty" (no joke) and i known to be satanic. in the bands two big hits (as in the ones played on the radio enough for me to know them) where called "join me in death" and "on the wings of a butterfly". "join me in death" was a song about suicide and said "this life ain't worth livin'..." along with so many other depressing lyrics. and then thec song "on the wings of a butterfly" sounds nice at first but is a nice ballad about offering yourself as a sacrifice, and judging from this bands reputation i get the feeling they mean a literal sacrifice, and not exactly to God either. and then the second band is my enemy on a more...personal note. they have by thier very existence offended the true love of my life, Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence. i read online they are considered competition for Evanescence. the name of this band is Nightwish, quite a stupid name if you ask me. when i heard they were considered competition for Evanescence i got some of thier songs and discored such disgusting melodies as "the kinslayer", such nice stuff. when compared to Evanescence's "bring me to life", a song of beauty and power, it's just sad. so i i'm just slightly biased against this band. but anyway many things have brought me to the conclusion that finland is just evil.

so anyway now that i've stated my suspicions of the country of finland i just wanna say i really do love the finns, really. now let's see...more news...well, my aunt is coming for Christmas!! she comes the 22nd!! isn't that great!! she keeps telling me she got me all this stuff for Christmas, but you know what? i don't care! this is the first Christmas i haven't really cared about presents(this Christmas i actually asked for socks), all i care is that i have family coming for Christmas! isn't that cool? well i can't think of anything interesting anymore, I'm going to bed! Good Night! Head Ööd! and so on...

And now...to finish

so anyway, next morning we had a nice chill morning (as in, we, like, chilled...totally...dude...) and then we went to the helsinki multicultural (russian) corps, which was really nice for our narva (who speak russian) girls. and by the way, the next time some one uses my blog as a place to put adds for sites i would not want on my STRICTLY Christian blog, i will reach through my monitor and strangle you, somehow. i just noticed on my last post an add for a "russian girl pool site" and i wanna ask, what the heck does that mean? then i asked myself "do you really wanna know?" and i answered truthfully "not exactly..." and therefore i will only hazard a guess and assume that this add was for a site featuring russian girls a little "underdressed" for the occasion, or any occasion for that matter. dressed russian girls are already more than i can handle. and that reminds me...(i'm getting WAAAYYY off track) last weekend in helsinki i was with masha and Anneli trying to improve my russian. i still can't figure out how to say "i'm tired" so i always say "i want to go to sleep" which though longer in english is simpler in russian, but nwe shto (whatever in russian). so that day they had taught me a slang way of saying girl (dyevooshka) and so i was attempting to say "yo girls, i want to go to sleep" as in, yo, i'm overworked, i'm tired. but in russian i said "yo dyevooshka, ya hatchew spat" which in english, when translated directly makes perfect sense. but judgeing by the looks of shock on thier faces...i guessed i didn't do it right. then when they started laughing at me a minute later i knew i had screwed up, and then they went on to inform i had just said "yo girl, i want to sleep with you"...oops...so every russian speaker on the team got a good laugh out of that...

so where was i? oh yes...so the narva girls all enjoyed going to the russian corps and all got to do something in the meeting. i played drum which was, of course, fun. and i was quite dissapointed because even though all the soldiers on the team had been to to bring uniform only me and the narva girls did, same as always. so then after that we didn't do much except get on the boat, we had a fun time because we went on a nicer boat where there weren't so many drunk freaks. i enjoyed singing backstreet boys' song "everybody" with anton, which is always really funny when me and him sing together because his voice is much higher than average for a guy his age and my voice is a bit too deep. so together we sound very unmatched. but anyway that was fun...

so next day my dad had a meeting so we were in tallinn for a little while, then we took off home and here i am! now i am truly done, i just hope nothing to interestingly blog worth happens this weekend...Cya...

FINIS

And on and on and on and...

...and on and on and...oh, hi. what are you doing here? well what ever. now your here, you must read!! muhahahaha!!! so after being a christmas elf/joseph we all trooped upstairs to go to the small youth christmas party the youth group was having. by the end only 4 youth had showed up (they told us only about 5 would come anyway) but it was fun anyway. when we first got there, there were only to guys so we all trooped in and took over (the mission team is good at that) and then the leader asked if anyone had a english bible, of course i did, so i ran upstairs to get it. and when i came back there was a beautiful girl standing at the door. and then after letting her in a got some nice apluase because everyone thought it was great that i left to get a bible and came back with a beautiful girl. and then after reading lots of luke we went upstairs for our final christmas party, the mission team party. the tables were set up in a square so we could all see each other, and ate pizza, since i was sitting next to evelin and sarah they made me thier servant. "Chris! Get me more pizza!!" "Chris, i want some coke!!" and so on...

well anyway, as i served the food to my masters i also said hi to miika, who had been a bit of an exile. he hadn't come on the trip. so then after a nice hour and a half or so of testimonies about this years team we were able to just chill.......there was of course some of the usual mission team drama. which i will, of course, censor. miika told me (...**CENSORED**...) Anneli, and so just to bug miika we stood by the window and (...**CENSORED**...) which of course included lots of thumb wars and high fives. confused? good! just so you know, the censored bits do not contain the words "kiss" "held hands" "likes" "is in love with" and so one. so don't be worried. and just so all you beautiful girls know i am still completely single. if anyone is interested please apply at front desk with my horribly attractive secretary. so where was i? oh yes. so then after this Anneli, sarah and i played "whos line is it anyway?" (sarah's good idea) where two people acted something out while a third did voices for them. everyone loved it when i did voices for two cheerleaders (i was tempted to sing gwen stefani's "hollaback girl", but didnt) and when i played a guy hitting on a girl (sarah) in the movies, which was especially funny because when we did it for kati she almost broke my nose, i swear it still hurts. so advice, dont bug a girl while shes watching elijah wood, they get mad.

that night the elves left more in the shows, but it was much harder because the adults were on the alert. and because of a shortage of...well...anything, the elves were forced to use teabags and sugar cubes. and for some reason the teabags said "merry christmas from:anton and chris". kinda makes you wonder who the elves are? well its late, i gotta go, i'll Cya'll

Continuing.......

I know i spelled that wrong but what ever! any way more now. so saturday morning after being rudely awakened (it wasn't that anyone did anything rude to awaken me, it was just rude to wake me up) we got up, had a nice breakfast, played uno and chilled all day. no kidding. we just had free time until 11 A.M., then went and went out into helsinki and just chilled. which was really fun because while Sarah, Evelin, and I were walking around we stumbled upon a river, well not really stumbled but you get the point. but the river was frozen over, so we did the obvious thing, picked up rocks and commenced to attempt to break the ice. the key word is "atempt", that was some strong ice. so of course were forced to go up on a bridge and try to break the ice from there. so with some satisfying thunks most of our rocks bounced off. i got 2 to go through, Sarah kinda got one to go through a little, but all the rest of our rocks just made cracks.

so after our adventures abroad we came back and donned our cool new red sweat shirts from the salvation army in britain and went and did a christmas party for the corps we were staying above. i got to have all the fun as they made me play a double role, i was both joseph and a christmas elf! what a contrast! as joseph i didnt do, just kinda stood around. you know, hanging out with jesus and mary, that kinda stuff. for mary i had kristel, one of the cool mission team girls (well, they're all cool so thats not saying much) and i had some violent shepherds behind me, who kept painfully whacking me with thier crooks. and then after that i had to quickly change out of my joseph costume, but the only problem was that angels were changing in the same room. and of course i had just put on my costume over my clothes, but aperently the young angels (all under 13 by my best guess) had not. so i walked in, half out of my costume, chatting with sarah (one of my violent shepherds) about linkin park and then as i finished getting off my costume and looked for a place to throw i turned and saw the angels in the middle of changing. i instantly turned and chucked my costume at the nearest chair i saw, narrowly missing the person standing next to it, then in one breath quickly said "the angels are stripping! joseph is officially outta here!" and quickly ran out into the hall to get some refreshments leaveing a laughing sarah behind me.

so then i had to play the part of a nice little christmas elf, kind of hard for someone my size. and i had to wear a red cristmas hat that must have been meant for toddlers. it was so small!! and so i shoved the demonic mini hat on my head (painfully) and proceeded to help santa carry in and hand out presents to all the little children, plus those two attractive teenage finnish teen girls...who i noticed came to me and anton's box rather than anneli and masha's despite the fact it meant they had to walk farther. so then after this it was our job to hand out the remaining presents to the mission team, quite nice little gifts. candy and a teddy bear. me and anton both gave our teddy's to our 2 favorite girls on the mission team, whose names will not be revealed at this time. ;-) well im sorry but once again i've gotta run, ill finnish tommorow, really. Cya

Back from finland and ready to rock!

i'm back from a weekend mission team trip that went awesome (as always) and now i'm all pumped to blog. there was nothing else really interesting that happened at the officer christmas party so i won't talk anymore about that, to time consuming. but i will tel you one interesting thing, i got a new fleece at the party! i love to wear fleeces, they're just so nice and warm. so thanks to the tyrells for the present. but anyway i am going to tell you in condensed form about my trip to finland. ok, ready, GO! friday went to finland, saturday did christmas party and did mission team party, sunday did church at russian corps and came home, monday back to tartu. sound fun? what? you want MORE information than that? how could you want more? well what ever, the reader's always night or gight or something like that.

so anyway on monday i went up to Tallinn and met up with all the cool mission team people and we all got on the boat, it was a fairly normal trip, we sang kareoke, danced in the danceing bar, and had fun dodeging drunk guys, which i personally think should be a sport. the only upseting thing was that in kareoke i was supposed to sing "yesterday" by the beatles with Anton and Ricky Martin's "livin' la vida loca" with Anneli but the stupid kareoke dude skipped them both. well at least i got to sing the titanic song with Anton. and believe it or not no windows shattered! and another thing happened on the boat, Sarah, Evelin, and I were in the dancing bar just chiling when this guy with a freaky dyed red gotee comes up to her and rattling off in finnish amd so she's just like "i'm sorry, i can't understand" but this guy was not so easily put off. so then he starts in english "please, you must dance with me, please dance with me!" and so she mumbled something about not knowing how to dance (LIE) and he keeps insisting "i don't mind, i can help you. i can teach you if you want, please dance with me..." and so seeing the desperate looke on her face i see that i have no choice. i did the obvious thing, i leaned forward and i sayed "i'm sorry, but she only dances with me!" trying to put as much of a threatening edge to my voice as possible and trying not to laugh at the same time. but then he did the funniest thing, he turned to me and on his knees started begging and so i calmly and coolly said "she doesn't want to dance with you, she only dances with me" and so, shooting me a dirty look, he stalked of back to his buddies to tell them of his loss, as Evelin said "thank you Chris, your my saviour" and i was just like "no problem, gimme five". and i tottally killed 2 birds with one stone, i both defended one of the most beautiful girls on the team and one of my best friends as well as making a wicked cool story to tell to all you.

well anyway that night of course nobody wanted to sleep so us boys decided to follow a old estonian tradition. in estonian tradition in all the days of december leading up to christmas "elves" leave candy in the slippers of the children. now since we were traveling we didn't have slippers but all the shoes were out in the hallway. so we made a unanimous decision at 2 in the morning after 3 games of uno and 2 bars of chocolate, we would leave cookies in the girls shoes as a surprise in the morning. now of course we had been told 3 hours ago to go to sleep, but since when has a room full of teenage boys followed the rules? so we attempted to sneak out but since when can a room full of teenage boys be quiet? cries of "TASA(quiet)", "OLE VAIT(shut up)", "SUU KINNI(shut your mouth)" and so on rang out as we tried to sneak out, but of course we got caught, or more like, i got caught. why did my sleeping mat have to be the one right near the door? you know, the one that the angry leader sees first?? well whatever, Kati just told us to be quiet and go to sleep, we didn't, but thats beside the point. eventually someone snuck out at 6 and played the elf but that was after i fell asleep.

well anyway *yawn* i don't think anything interesting is happening tommorow so i can finish this post then *yawn* Cya....ZZZZZzzzzz......

HA! I bet you guys thougt you'd gotten rid of me!

Haha, no one gets rid of me THAT easily!! Now i'm back. so Kristi, Maret, and everyone else, you happy? Good! well now i'm blogging again and your not gonna be able to get rid of me now. I'm back and i'm staying that way! now see if i've blogged again in the next month...WHAT? blogging is harder than it seems!! i've had other things to do! don't look at me like that! and really, really don't ask how i know how your looking me even though by the time you read this i am almost definitely in another country from you and nowhere near a computer. just don't ask...

well anyway, now i'm back i think i should tell ya guys some stuff. i will most likely never finish writing about prague, or anything else i ever said i'd finish writing about. SO DON'T BUG ME!!! right now i am gonna tell you guys, briefly, about the officer christmas party. there are some small detail i will omit (as in leave out) because certain info is supposed to remain confidential, i don't know why it's supposed to be confidential. and don't doubt i could right a whole blog post on the subject, but...i would rather not get myself in trouble. so anywho (anywho? what the...? i think my brain is off somewhere...) on monday me and my family took the long annoying trip to tallinn to go to the stupid officers christmas party. since i was in tallinn i would have much rather have gone for a walk in old town then go to be attacked by the OBA. the OBA is what i am officially calling all the officers kids in the region under the age of 13, so, like, five from narva alone, and then theres Jacob, Emma and Christian. Jacob and Emma from america, then Christian as the only estonian officers kid on earth, well, besides his big sis. and then theres my little sister, Elizabeth. so all together...umm...1..2..9! altogether thats nine! so now lets me explain OBA, its stands for "officer's brat army". OB is a very popular short term for officer's brat, which is just what most people call us. because come on, just face it. life as an officer's kid can turn you into a brat pretty fast...but hey, i haven't been a OB long enough to count, and living over seas has screwed up any hope of ever being a true officer's brat...oh well....

well anyway, now that i've cleared that up let me explain why the kids themselves are, an army! the main reason for someone reason, on this day the brats were all outfitted in armor, with shining plastic swords, ready to destroy any threats to the royal princesses (they had two princesses so it was lot of work) and for some reason i went in to the category of "threat". i'm sure why, possibly because i'm two feet taller than them or maybe it's because i'm just fun to beat up, i'm not sure. maybe both. but anyway using swords in exactly the way they were meant to be used, painfully. they would grab me by the elbows and with a spear in my back and sword on each side they would force me up into thier "dongeon tower". this was quite a painful experience because they decided the best way to get me to move was to poke me repeatedly in the butt, which made me jump and feel a whole lot like one of those stupid cartoon villains, who i now pity. but despite the fact that they had tiny plastic weapons they where no match for...the adults!! i was always freed by an aduly who needed me to carry something, just because i'm the only teenage guy doesn't mean you have to make me carry everything! not that i mind but whatever. so i was rescued by Mrs. Tyrell, who of course needed me to carry some bags. so i did that. abd then after getting captured and escaping again i saw that the wittenberg girls had arrived and since they are georgous it was my duty as a male of the species, and as also since i'm the same age as them, to greet them. now for a long time i have pondered the best way to adress a beautiful girl, i have tried many ways but here is the best. walk up to her and say "yo". you wouldn't believe that this actually starts off a much nicer conversation then "hey baby, your legs must be killing you 'cause you've been running through my mind all day". that usually (in my experience) recieves a slep in the face nota "hey" like you hope for.

so now that i got way off topic let me get way back on topic. so after greeting the wittenberg girls (did i mention they're beautiful?) the meal started and we ate some delicious chicken, which coming from me doesn't mean much because i always think chicken tastes great. but this was really good. and i sat with the wittenberg girls and someone took a picture of us and as beautiful meaghan wittenberg pointed out "there Chris, thats proof that you hang out with us" which is what i've needed for the longest time because i'm just not as "cool" as the wittenberg girls i wouldn't be surprised if they usually pretend not to know me. so after eating i was again captured and then saved by the adults needing me to help them carry some donations into the warehouse. some body donated a whole huge truckful of instant noodles which me and all the male officers had the distinctly dusty pleasure of unloading. now of course there were some jokes from this little enterprise there was major tyrell commenting on the fact that if this was noodle company was "the taste of asia" we must have got the whole continent. and then when a large pile of boxes attempted to make me a bit flatter i threw out the obvious fact that you can't have a party until something falls down (or blows up, or gets thrown at a wall or...) so anyway after this some really interesting stuff happened!! not really, but really. but i have to get off now, i'll finish tommorow, and i really will this time. Cya

Going up!

Yo, i just had a bunch of people over for what can only be described as the coolest Christian youth event this side of Estonia!! There's music, comedy, altmees(batmen) ;-), everything you could ever want in life!!! I had people over from Tallinn, Narva and Kavastu, we had 19 people sleeping over at our 3 bedroom house!! Talk about a rockin' party!! We had 5 people from Kavastu, 3 from Narva, and 3 from Tallinn. Plus the additional 3 from tartu and my family. we had a lot of people. we only had 5 guys (inlcuding me) so we all just camped out on the floor in my room, it was a snug fit, but it worked. and then we had so manyu girls we had to put them into 2 different rooms, it was interesting. well anyway i'm gonna tell you a bit about it now, not becuase i think you'll be interested, but becuase i want to right about it.

On the first day (friday) we went and picked up Anneli and Evelin from the bus station at 4:30 and had a great time chilling with them until 6:30 when everyone else came and we had to go to going up. i took one group of people and walked while my dad took some people in the car and i took some people for a walk through town to get to the vanemuine teater where going up was and we went inside and found some seats. now normally i would have had Anneli translate for me, but we had 3 girls from narva, who only spoke russian. so i had to give up my favorite translater to them. now noramlly that would mean me, sarah and my dad would all have to share liis and maret, our only other translaters, but this time we didn't. right after i cam in and sat down Dave Cupery (an american missionary), came and told me that for this going up we where going to use translater headsets rather than have a personal translater. i think this is becuase at almost every going up i bring 3 americans (including myself) and there fore we have 3 translaters up in the front row jabbering in our ears. now i'm sure this is very disruptive to everybody else, so it only made sense to get translater headsets. so we all got our headsets, i knew how to use them from using them at salvation army events and so i flicked through the channels until i found the right one. once going up started i was happy to hear not the voice of some boring old fogey, but a nice young womans voice. why i say that is becuase usual when i use a translater headset its in finland, and i don't know who they have translate but it just puts you to sleep. no offense, of course. and so this nice person translated, via headset, for me, sarah, and my dad. the subject was very interesting, they were mocking (in a nice way) the estonian election going on right now. first there where the blond and brunette partys, fighting for supremecy! then they decided to combine to create the almighty, alpowerful...(drumroll please!) Kohuke party! (the kohuke party, teeme eesti paremaks, making estonia better)

Now let me explain what on earth a kohuke is, the closest english translation is cheese cake, but i will not allow either kohuke or cheese cake to be insulted by being compared to the other. cheese cake as you know is a delicous cheesy cake. kohuke is kind of like cheese cake on the inside, only, well, different. and on the ouside it's usually covered in chocolate. these marvelous bite size things can (as far as i know) only be found in the baltic states, so if you ever want to try them, COME VISIT ME!!! IMPORTANT!!!, i have just found a new translation for kohuke, cheese curds. sound nasty? it's awesome, now do yourself a favor and go to www.kohuke.ee and drool over a pretty picture of some kohuke, and if you want click on the upper, right hand corner where it says "ENG" for some nice pretty english.

Now let me get back to what i was talking about, oh yes. well with the advent of the new political party came all sorts of cool stuff, the kohuke dancers, an election, and finally, a giant kohuke, which in the end got torn apart by peep (pronounced like PAY with a P on the end), but you'll hear more about that in a minute. now as i was watching this i had anneli sitting next to me translating for the narva girls. now since there were 3 girls who needed translation, and only 2 translaters, they had to talk a little bit louder, not much more than they normally would to translate, but still. And this apparently got on the nerves of the girls sitting accross the isle from from me, and they tried to let Anneli know, quite annoyingly to me. and so i waited until there was a lull in the translation (theres nothing more annoying than having your translater interrupted or be interupted when your translating) and then i whispered for both the translaters to be quieter, it worked, mostly. well anyway, then Peep went to up talk and had some very interesting things to say. he told us a story about how as a child he almost died from choking on a kohuke, but how he still loves them. and he told us about the fact that in estonian slang, to call someone a kohuke mean that they might not look blond on the outside, but on the inside they are. which basically makes me a kohuke. and then he talk about how sometimes we can be a kohuke in a different way, we can be sweet chocolate on the outside, and be something different on the inside. at this point he tore open the top of a giant (fake) kohuke, which made me quite hungry.

Then as we left everyone was given a kohuke, which was sweet of them. get it? sweet? oh, whatever. now you know what, i didn't think this was gonna take so long to write about, so i think i'm gonna finish writing tommorow. Cya'll later!

ahhhh, life is good!

hey, my parents left for estonian class a few hours ago and i'm feeling good. for about an hour after they left me and my brother peter read books and played all sorts of games (patty cake anyone?). then he got tired of that and started being fussy and asked me to put on a video for him, now you have to understand, when i say he "asked" i mean he got a video, hit me in the leg with it, then pushed me over to the VCR and threw the video at me. he can be quite persuasive. so anyway i put the video on for him and he sat down on a chair. i decided that he could take care of himself for a minute and went on the computer to check my email. i had gotten nothing interesting and was just getting off when i noticed something. it was quiet, too quiet. i slowly got up from the computer and stuck my head into the living room, expecting to either see (more of) a mess, or peter holding something that he had ripped apart. i looked in and what did i see? peter lying on the chair, snoring lightly, the video had put him to sleep. and i didn't even think i had to worry abuot putting him to sleep for another half an hour! awesome! so then i went and made raman noodles for me and my sister, and got to eat in peace, with out peter screaming.


so now its an hour later, my parents still aren't back, peter's still sleeping, and i feel like blogging. sorry about that last post, don't you just hate it when i think? when i think too much and then blog about it its real annoying, sorry. but anyway i want to tell you about the new kauba maja (literal translation would be like "stock house" stock as in stock in a store, or at least thats the best translation i can think of). this thing is huge! and it's not just a kauba maja or i wouldn't care, this is a mall!! a big, fat mall!! straight in the middle of tartu!! well yesterday this huge place opened and me and my friend Liis had wanted to go shopping for someones birthday anyway, not anyway important of course. and definitely not sarah! ;-) so we decided why not go check out the new kauba maja! i mean the whole place was packed with people but who cares! right away we went and got some food, not the best but whatever. and it was nice becuase since it was the first day of the resturant we went to they didn't have a price for the Liis ordered so we had to stand around for, no kidding, around 15 minutes while they worked this all out. so by the time we sat down our food was cold(ish) and we ate and were satisfied enough.


then we went exploring! we went first to kauba maja. now i know your saying "i thought you were already in the kauba maja!" but no, this was the kauba maja within the kauba maja. so we looked around and of course after 2 minutes i figured out this store was a bad idea. becuase i was in a department store with a 14 year old girl! "oh look at this!!! isn't that cute!!! oh, smell this perfume!!!" and the whole time i'm thinking "RUN RUN RUN!!!!". but anyway we found nothing of interest to actually BUY (crazy girls, always look but never buy!) so i of course made a bee-line for apollo raamatupood (apollo bookstore) and we decided to look around there. now of course a book store had hours of interesting stuff in it. i marked the place in my memory as a place i would visit often. we found the english section and i almost fainted at the amount of good english book they had. and on the bottom shelf they had anime! now i know where to take anneli.


so i enjoyed the books until Liis bugged me to look around the rest of the mall. there wasn't much interesting (to me) but she was exciting to see they had both a "terra nova" and "vera moda" right accross from each other now of course that meant nothing to me. first she said "lets go to terra nova!!" and i'm like, whatever. and then shes like "lets go to vero moda!!" and i was like "we just did". i mean come on, whats the difference, the names even sound the same. so then we went and checked out "filmipood" (movie store) and saw they had some good movies cheap (i'll be back...). and then went to some junky jewelery store, which she of course loved. then i saw a store that actually interested me.


"universaal universuum" (universal universe), a store that was selling all sorts of indian/asian things. we went inside and of course she went up to where they where selling all the nasty, smelly things that girls love. i, on the other hand, checked out the drums, they where just like my chemba, only some bigger, and some smaller. but all way more expensive then the prices i could get in town. and then as i looked i saw something. in a basket at the end of the shelf, was a sword! i walked up to and slowly pulled it partway out of it's sheath. it was beautiful. this was a real sword, and it was old. it was the most amazing thing i had ever seen, it had a keen edge and a georgous hilt. i looked at it closer and saw small markings on the blade, some sort of writing, awesome! and i looked at the end of the hilt and saw something that both made my heart jump and fall in the same instant: a price tag. i looked and the price tag and saw something that made my pace quicken, the price was only 300 kroon! thats less than 30 dollars! give me 2 months and i could have that much! i took the sword and asked the lady who worked at the store where it came from, i was still in awe at the beauty of it. and she said that it had been imported from india or indonesia. awesome! so now i am official anounceing that i have fallen in love with a sword. if i can i will buy it and display it in my room. it's georgous. or probably by the time i get back to the store other idiot will have already have bought my precious. what ever. some things aren't meant to be i guess...


then after that we left and i came home and had a snack, but i still can't stop thinking of that sword!! now i'm done blogging and am expecting my parents home any minute. well anyway i'm gonna tell you a quick joke and then get off. please comment and tell me what you think of the joke. note: it's corny.

Why did the one handed man cross the road?

To get to the other side! No, wait. I mean, to get to the second hand shop! HAHA!!

Cya later!! ;-)

For all my fellow MKs

hey, i don't have much in my life to blog about so i'm gonna blog about a song, again. i call this song the MK (missionary kid) song, but it describes the characteristics of so many MKs. but also this is more my theme song, it describes my whole life. becuase wanna hear a fun fact? i've necer lived in one state for more than 3 1/2 years, people ask me where i'm from and i say "east coast". i have no home, i have no where i belong, and therefore, this is my song. this song is linkin park, somewhere i belong. please note: the words in italic are my comments.




When this began
I had nothing to say and I'd get lost in the nothingness inside of me
(I was confused)
this is exactly how i felt when i was at MTI for missionary training, i hated it.
And I let it all out to find
That I'm not the only with all these things in mind
through my experience in estonia (and especially my time with the beautiful wittenberg girls, i dedicate this blog post to you) i have learned i'm not the only one who feels like this.
(Inside of me)
But all the vacancy the words reaveled
Is the only thing I've got left to feel
it feels like all you can feel is a vacancy, an emptyness. a blankness of words.
(nothing to lose)
Just stuck, hollow and alone
i remember days lieing on my bed in our apartment feeling so alone, so empty, and so stuck. just thinking "i've gone too far to turn back now..."
And the fault is my own
And the fault is my own
so many times i would think to my self, "i could have stopped it somehow, i could have figured out some way to stop our coming here, but i didn't".

I want to heal
I want to feel
What I thought was never real
the pain of the separation of going to a new country and leaving you home behind is huge. and for me personally i want to feel something i never thought was real, a place that truly and completely felt like MY home.
I want to let go of the pain I've held so long
(Erase all the pain til it's gone)
again, there so much pain from leaving home that takes so long to let go of, it took me months.
I want to heal
I want to feel
Like I'm close to something real
home is real.
I want to find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong
in my life that is my mission, to find where i belong.

and I've got nothing to say
I can't believe I didn't fall Right down on my face
i think i did fall down a few times when i first came here and wasn't used to the threshholds.
(I was confused)
Looking eberywhere
Only to find that it's not the way I had imagined it all in my mind
i remember stepping into the terminal at the airport and hoping to see a crowd of horribly attractive estonian chicks. i saw no one, the people coming to meeting us where late. that definitely wasn't what i had imagined. but no worries, the attractive chicks came later, and now they still don't leave me alone.
(So what am I)
What do I have but negativity
Cause I can't justify the way everyone is looking at me
these lines have a few meanings to me, becuase i was so negative when i first came, there was no positive. and everybody stared, everybody. and i felt pretty negative about staring at first, now i enjoy it.
(Nothing to lose)
Nothing to gain, hollow and alone
this isn't quite true, i felt i had so much to lose, first impressions are important, and i didn't make good ones. and i felt that there was nothing to be gained, i would just have to survive three years of agony. but a wonderful young estonian dancer changed my mind about that! ;) (you know what i'm talking about sarah)
And the fault is my own
And the fault is my own
and a repeat, i felt it was my fault for not stopping it.

(Chorus)

I will never know myself
Until I do this on my own
through figuring out life for myself here in estonia, i have come to truly know myself, not know the video game drugged thing i was, but what i am, ME!
And I will never feel anything else
Until my wounds are healed
i didn't feel much of anything but a crazy blur until i started to heal from the pain of leaving america, and then i felt something new, i started to enjoy it!
I will never be anything
`Til I break away from me
And I will break away
I'll find myself today
that was what i did, broke away from the old, depressed, nothing me that was, and found the new confident me that is.

(Chorus)

The End

so what did you think? do you think i listen to to much depressing music? this song doesn't make me depressed, it makes me happy, becuase it reminds me, i feel i belong here, in estonia, more than anywhere else. having 2 teens and 2 of our homeless friends come to church on sunday reminded me of that. and doing mission team trips reminds me of that. and i just got off the phone with my good friends anneli and evelin in tallinn, and they reminded me of that. now i'm gonna go to sleep, i'm tired. and by the, wanna hear the freakiest change of all? i atually haven't listened to evanescence or relient k in like a week, i've been listen to...dare i say it? techno! trance! DJ stuff! they've converted me to european music, i don't know how they did it, but oh well. good-bye.

balla da li di li di la........sha lalala european music is taking over the world.....

pictures of peter!

i have some pictures of peter i want to share with you! here he is coloring.

ugh, exuasted....(i'm so tired i think i spelled that wrong)

hey, i'm tired. the last few days we've had people sleeping over the house, and by sleeping over the house i mean in my room. i'm tired. they don't let me sleep. when i don't sleep i get cranky! well right now my parents are at the homeless shelter doing a program so i'm left home babysitting (as always). i just had a problem becuase peter had something in his mouth he found on the floor, and i couldn't get it out. i picked him up and pry'd (can't spell when tired) his mouth, but by the time i got his mouth open (much more of a painful challenge than it sounds like) he had either swallowed the the thing or...well i guess he swallowed it. so i hope thats gonna be ok. so now peter is calmed down (when someone tries to stick thier fingers in your mouth it makes you upset, it's understandable) and watching barney (i'm tempted to sing "joy to the world, barney's dead...") and so i'm going on the computer. i'm trying to think of something interesting to write about. hey, i hope she won't kill me for this but my friend evelin has started writing a manga (well technically you don't write manga, you draw it. but she's writing it) so if you wanna check that out go to www.evyrules.blogspot.com and check it out. and then comment and say something nice.

that reminds me...did i ever mention i started a book? its a fantasy/fiction type thing that i doubt anyone reading this would be interested in. it's about my video game/anime/computer alter ego, kurisu. kurisu is me as i would like to be, if i where in the lord of the rings. but i still doubt any of you would be interested in it. and NO, i will not put my book on my blog, for now at least. so don't bug me. well anyway, i don't have much more to write about, so i'm gonna go. Cya later.

hey, i'm gonna blog about peotry (again)!

for school this year i'm readin a book called "americans' favorite peoms", it's a bunch of peoms that american's like a guess. it's kinda funny becuase most of them are actually peoms in other languages that have been translated into english, like this peom i'm about to blog about says "Translated from the greek by Kenneth Rexroth", interesting. now i'm writing about this peom for a few resons, partly becuase i like it, partly becuase it reminds me of all my RTS (real time strategy) games, partly becuase it has good advice, and partly becuase i disagree with it. sound confusing? good, i enjoy confusing you. now here is the peom, try to guess what i like, what reminds me of games, what i think is good advice, and what i don't agree with.

Will, lost in a sea of trouble

Archilochos

Will, lost in a sea of trouble,

Rise, save yourself from the whirlpool

Of the enemies willing.

Courage exposes ambushes.

Steadfastness destroys enemies.

Keep your victories hidden.

Do not sulk over defeat.

Accept good. Bend before evil.

Learn the rhythm which binds all men.

now, you guys guessed right? now i'm gonna show you how you did, i will explain about this peom (i know it didn't rhyme, but it was translated from greek, come on). those beggining 3 lines, are just cool, i like them. the next to lines, about courage and steadfastness remind me of my games. the next to lines are good advice, don't show off your victories, going "i'm so great! i rule! your heads on fire and mines not, i'm better! ;-)". be humble. then "do not sulk over defeat", this is important, if you sulk over your defeat you've just lost all over again. and now here's the part i argue with, "accept good. bend before evil."? no way, man. you got it waaayyy wrong! i would say "embrace good. stand fast against evil." you don't bend before evil, what kind of loser advice is that? if all those super heroes had bended before evil where would we be today? ;-) and if your gonna accept good, why not good all the way and embrace it?

so anyway, that was my deep thought on the subject of this peom, i hope you didn't get too bored. i just want to say how very, very! dissapointed i am in you! no one (except one person) has comment on the question i asked!!! i asked you all to comment!!! come on, it only takes 2 minutes, are you really that lazy? well anyway, i'm gonna ask this question again for the youth group at the corps they asked this question and i want you guys to try and asnwer. now here goes.

Where are heaven and hell?

now i want you guys to pick up your big fat lazy fingers and COMMENT!!! thank you...please just throw out any opinion, you can comment as anonymous if you want, i'm sick of just writing, i want some feed back! ok, Cya!

And one quick thing i wannas add...

just so you know this post sorta goes on the end of my last post, SO GO READ MY LAST POST!!!! well today my friend Andrei (from the youth group, and sorry, it's not spelled andre, it's andrei) came to our house and helped me with my estonian. we first looked over my estonian book and did some work in that, as well as doing small conversations in estonian, and then he decided that the best way for me to learn estonian was from immersion. he said how he learned russian was from going to kindergarden in russian, so he decided that i should spend a whole half hour with him, no english, estonian only. i'm always up for a challenge! so i went for it, we went outside and did yardwork for a half hour, rules were no english from me. i must say i did extrodinarily good, i only spoke english when he told me too becuase he was having trouble understanding my clumsy estonian, and that only happened once or twice. and then half an hour later we had cleaned up the yard and i had done it all in estonian. i even threw in joke in estonian into the mix of conversation. Andrei had said something about how this wasn't too hard of work (picking up the half rotten apples that had fallen from the trees) and i replied, "ma tean, aga peaaegukoik ameriklased mõtlen koik töö on väga raske töö!"(i hope that was understandable for you estonians, andrei understood it. and sorry americans, i'm not gonna translate this, you might be offended. and anyway, it's you own "lollpead ameriklased" fault for not understanding).


well anyway that was all i wanted to say, please go read my lost post and COMMENT!!! NOW!!! ok? good...Cya!

Our Corps A-Sploded! ;-)

Yesterday was Sunday, (was it? I think so…) well anyway guess how many people we had! 15! Including my family, but hey, 10 then! So we had 10 whole people who came just because! That’s like totally awesome! We had 3 people from the homeless shelter, 4 teens from Kavastu (right outside Tartu) Andre and Liis from Tartu and I can’t figure out who the 10th person was, but whatever. So that was really awesome. And then afterwards we had a really cool Sunday school because we had so many teens, and then Elizabeth’s friend Etthel came too. So that was cool. So from Kavustu I mentioned we had 4 teens, we had Maret, Jaanika (with the J pronounced like a Y), kuido, and (I know I’m spelling this wrong) Siggret(?). Kuido, Jaanika, and Maret had all come to the youth group on Thursday, so it was awesome they actually came back! I thought they’d come and be like “you want me to come back to this place? And be with these wierdos? No way!” but apparently they liked it, because they came back. And one very nice thing was that Siggret was a red-head! I don’t think I’ve seen a real, natural red-head since I’ve left America!

Well, I’m sorry to be greedy but I want to take some credit for the corps growth, let me tell you how we got so many teens. Last march I went to a English camp and in my small group was a teenage girl named Liis. We talked a little but we weren’t really friends or anything. Then at another English camp this summer, I met her again on the bus, and it seemed she’d met a new friend on the bus, an extrodinarily talkative girl named Maret. Now since this girl was so talkative she talked to everyone, non-stop, even to me. So now me, her, and Liis all got to be good friends. And through those friendships we’ve gotten new youth from Kavastu, and I’m waiting for Liis to bring some of her friends to church. So sorry, I just wanted to take some credit for that.

Now like I said some people from Kavastu came on Thursday, so all together we had 3 from Kavastu and 2 from Tartu (not including me). And we had a nice time then too. And one interesting question came up, where’s hell? Well answer this question I simply said “where’s heaven?” now of course Liis, who had asked the question answered by pointing up and saying “up there”. Now of course I’m a kinda scientific guy, and so I know what’s straight up, stars, planets, and galaxies. Not heaven, and I said so. So now we have these mostly unsolved questions, where are heaven and hell? And now I want to do something I don’t think of done before, I’m am sick and tired of just writing out into a blank void, I want ALL of you who read this post to comment and tell me your opinion on this question, and I will show the results to the youth group. It’s not that hard to comment, just click the little thingy on the bottom of this post, and I will quite thankful to you for commenting. Well and, I gotta go, Cya


And don’t forget, comment on the question “where are heaven and hell?”

yo, welcome to life in general! i'm gonna blog about life in general!

hey it's been a while since i've just blogged about life, so now thats what im gonna do. right now i am lidtening to radio on yahoo, and its playing some nice music so im in a good mood. this morning i woke up late and came upstairs and got myself some cereal. the cereal company was "hea"(the estonian word for good) so i assumed it would be good, but i don't really remember, i was half asleep. so then im in the middle of eating breakfast when i hear a knocking noise, now of course i did what i alwasy do when im tired, i ignored it. then my mom started yelling for me to check it out so i went to the door and saw Jim Vogel (another missionary here in tartu, not salvation army, but still cool) at the door jokingly saying, "we're looking for salvation!". the Vogels had come for a visit! cool! except for that i looked like crap becuase i had just gotten out of bed, my dad was in the shower and my mom was upstairs (hopefully dressed!). oops! so somehow we worked it all out, i took peter and took him to my room and watched his "baby songs" DVD on the X-box so he would be good, while i quickly got dressed and tried to avoid looking crappy(i still did). and then someone we all got good looking enough and sat and talked to the Vogels for a while.

then we went out to lunch, or tried. but this was kinda messed up by the fact that it was 11:00 in the morning, nothing was opened! so we just sorta chilled and walked around raekoja plats (town square) for a while and got some yummy donuts! then at 11:30 taverna (my favorite resturant) opened and we were standing at the door the second they opened up. the poor emolyees were kinda freaked out when they opened the doors and saw 6 people and a baby waiting to get in! so i went and got my delicous "quotro formaggi" pizza (mmmmm) and had a good time eating and chatting. then while all the "big, grown up people" finished eating and talking me and peter went and played outside, and since we where playing in raekoja plats we ended up seeing my friend kati from english camp (i have to many friends, i can barely keep track of them all!) and talked with her. so now im home, happy, and enjoying the closest thing i've had to a free saturday in god-knows-how-long.

now i wann blog about estonian class becuase its just fun! im am bored to death in this class, its just to easy! at least it gives my a huge self esteem boost about my estonian skills. but in this class im dying becuase the techer is always makeing us say the points of the compass. põhja! lõuna! ida! lääne! nii lahe!!!! ei ole... oh, sorry. im gonna translate for you americans. north! south! east! west! so cool!!!! not... how did you like that? see, i'm multi-lingual! who da man? i'm so not the man...mida iganes (whatever)! well anywa this class is also very repetitive, becuase part of what makes estonian so hard to learn is that theres 14 cases! nii hull! so crazy! so you can say the word "hull" (crazy) in 14 different ways, like this. hull, hullu, hullud, hullid...so on and so on. so right now we're just learning the 3 main cases, so we read the word in 3 cases and than translate it. but as we're doing this it sounds a lot like we're playing "duck, duck, goose!". it's like this, "isa, isa, isa, father!!" then we all run in a circle around the classroom...not really, but it sounds like it. and also we translate childrens poetry, which is both insulting and annoying! heres a peom that i will translate for you, this peoms name is "vari", or in english "shadow".

VARI

Hando Runnel

Ema, vaata, minul on vari!

Minul on vari! Vaata kui pikk!

Ema, vaata, minul on vari!

Nüüd on väike ja nüüd on pikk!

Ema, vaata, minul on vari,

mina seisan ta jalgade peal!

Ema, ema, see on MINU vari,

ära SINA kõnni ta peal!

and now for the translation!

SHADOW

Hando Runnel

Mother, look, i have a shadow!

I have a shadow! Look how tall!

Mother, look, i have a shadow!

Now it's small and now it's tall!

Mother, look, i have a shadow,

i stand on his/her legs!

Mother, mother, this is MY shadow,

don't YOU step/walk on him/her!

Wow, how was that? If any estonians read this please tell me how i did, this is a translation i just did on the spot, but i think i did well! well anyway now i'm gonna go take Elizabeth and her friend Ehtel to the library, Cya!

your now bi-lingual friend,

Chris

psst...hey you...yeah you! you wanna hear something funny?

guess what i just did, i just tried to kill my self! not really, but listen to this story. i was upstairs on the computer minding my own business (sarah had just told me there's a new relient k video and so i was happy) when apperently my brother bit my mom, screaming from both of them ensued. now poor me sitting up on the computer hear this horrible, demons rising from the underworld type of noise and think something horrible must have happened (someone got hurt bad enough to go to the hospital type of thing). so using my killer reflexes i jump down the stairs, and attempt to do a matrix-style jump by flinging myself of the little junky handrail thing, which promptly breaks of in my hand. now i had done this before and it had had never broke, and i was kinda rushing to see what the screaming was, so i was not expecting it to break. so as the rail broke of in hand i instantly let go of it (those awesome reflexes of mine) and went sail to the floor, not in a graceful mtrix style, but in a oh-my-god-that really-hurts-style. so i smacked down against the nice hard wood floor knees first, now of course my knees are not strong enough to take that kind of abuse and instantly buckled beneath me. now since i still had a large amount of momentum pushing me i went over onto my side and quickly smashed my left arm into my ribs. thankfully my stupidity-style flight was over and i now had time to inspect the damage to the wall, the rail, and of course me. the wall had only suffered the slightest amount of damage from having a rail forcefully ripped out of it, the rail of course was hanging limply but i had a feeling the could be fixed. then i slowly sat up and inspected my ribs, i could swear i broke one, it still hurts now but but nothing felt broken. i then reached down to my knees, i was dead sure i had busted the crap out of my knee caps, but as i felt it and looked at i noticed that all i had gotten was a nice bloody scrape on one knee and a srape on the other knee, but not bloody at least. so now i'm gonna go to bed, i have nice sore legs to keep me up all night and make lying down uncomfortable (man, i love to complain). well anyway, Cya! and by the way, i'm not gonna be doing anymore matrix-style stunts anymore, i've given that up. unless of course i need to dodge the raging fists of teenage girls...

i just feel like writing, nothing really to say though.

i'm babysitting right now and elizabeth is happily haveing her brains sucked out by the upstairs computer while peter is being zombified by his favorite videos. now i have to stay where i can keep an eye on them so that gives me only one option, i have to use the computer! so sad...it's either computer or slow insanity by boredom. so i'm going to blog and say stuff. the first big huge important thing i really need to say is this. september 15th was anneli and evelin's birthday, they turned 17. and guess what? i didn't send them a e-card, or a email, and i didn't even call them! it's not that i forgot it was thier birthday, i would never do that. no, it's that i didn't say happy birthday! so now i'm saying happy belated birthday, and i am begging for forgiveness. FORGIVE ME!!! I AM SLIME!!! I AM WORTHLESS!!! FORGIVE ME!!! yeah, so if you guys could like forgive me then i would be happy, oh wait. i forgot again, you already did. i spent tuesday night chilling with anneli and evlin which was wonderful. i brought my laptop and they (tried to) helped me with my russian. i have this rosseta stone russian language course that is IMPOSSIBLE. but still wicked cool. i have have this sweet headset so i can talk to it in russian. but i'm usually angry when i speak to my computer so i use my, uh, not so nice russian vocabulary. thats one of the interesting things about living in estonia is most people curse in russian but speak in estonian, so i know the russian curse words. none of which i will teach to you. and even if i did teach you i wouldn't give you a translation, i don't use those words on my blog, in any language. so what was i talking about? i got a little side tracked...oh ya, anneli and evelin tried to speak russian to my computer and it said i had a better accent they did. it said i spoke more like a native. but, thier the natives, not me. so hows that work? ever since i haven't really trusted my computer. i definitely don't speak russian better than anneli and evelin! anneli is part of the russian mafia (inside joke)!

so, what else to talk about? so this weekend i am taking a mission team trip to tallinn (not much of a trip, only 2 and half hours!) and can't wait to see all my friends again. at the moment i have no idea when i go, what i'm doing, where i'm sleeping, and so on. i'll just play it all by ear, i do that a lot. plus, i'll trust the wittenbergs to take care of me, they usually do. ;-) so i have a lot of exciting stuff coming up, and did i ever mention i'm taking estonian class's now? so now i'm (trying to be) learning 2 languages at the same time! without forgetting english! it's not easy! i have homework i have to do before i go to class at 3 today and then i have class tommorow that i might have to miss for mission team, which is fine with me becuase mission team takes top priority, especially over sitting in class having confusing language concepts smashed into my head (come on people, whats the difference between räägid and räägin? come one, it's kinda the same, and when i say it fast no one can tell...). well anyway, i think i need to go throw peter out the window or give him a hug or something becuase i'm done blogging and have nothing else to do, Cya!

home alone, again!!!

my dad is out of the house picking up my mom in lõksa and so i'm home alone just chilling out, church doesn't start until 4 so i'm cool, i'm watching music videos again. one of the reasons why i'm watching so many music videos is that all my good music got stolen, and even though most of that music was saved on my computer i feel i owe myself a musical treat, so watching music videos is perfect. one interesting thing i wanted to write about is what i did last night. last night i set up my aunt's georgous blue toshiba sattelite laptop (which she was kind enough to let me borrow and i'm using now) with a webcam and my spiffy (spiffy? huh?) new mic headset and had a video conversation conversation with miika, my friend in finland. and so now that i have tested that out i love it, and i wanna do that all the time. so if any one out there has a webcam and a mic and some free time i want to talk to you. while watching my wonderful face you can hear my sweet sultry voice flow into your ears...not really, i always look bad on webcam, and the mic makes my voice sound wicked deep. but whatever. one thing i'm very happy about is that since i was alone and had extra time i dug up some old emails and finnally got in contact with my latvian friends from prague, so i'm hoping they will be online tonight. well anyway, i don't have much to write about so i'm gonna go delete some old emails, something i've been meaning to do for months, Cya.

home alone...oh, yeah!

my parents are going to lõksa and my dad wont be until around 12 tonight so that means iäm home alone! so basically i'm spending this time to be 7h3 1337 1OrD oF d2rkN3zZ (don't understand? learn 1337speak). i've also been watching wicked cool music videos, i've been watching linkin park, POD, green day, etc. etc. and i noticed something while watching linkin park, thier all a bunch of stinking nerds! OH YEAH! ever wonder why i like them so much? i mean how else to you explain the video where they are singing and jumping around on something that looks like its out of the game azurik(xbox)? and to add to that as they sing you see a giant metallic whale flying (yes flying) all over! creepy! then theres the one where theres all these ninja dudes flying around with numchucks! can someone tell me whats with this? oh and the great one where like 50 monks in white hooded robes start banging thier heads to the music, yeah, it's that cool. oh and the "numb" music video has my dream girlfriend in it, everyone hates her, she sits in class drawing anime, shes the royal loser...i need to find out who makes up these videos becuase this must be one real creative nerd. so anyway if you have extra time i'd suggest watching music videos to burn free time, its fun. and oh wait, i'm gonna talk about the green day videos too, those things where so cool! and those guys obviously just don't like america, the name of thier last cd was "american idiot" and in 2 of thier music videos they make fun of america. this is a very british band, and i like them becuase despite the fact they mock america i've never been a big patriot, in fact i prefer estonia to america (most of the time). and i mock america nad all its inhabitants all the time. so theres 2 cool bands whos videos i won't turn off. now it's getting late and i need to get off the computer, Cya!

and now i will talk about one of the most interesting, and confusing subjects i can think of, girls!!

I haven’t blogged in a while so right now I think I will, I mean I’m only supposed to be doing schoolwork right now. And anyway I was just inspired by something, so when I’m divinely inspired I am allowed to take a break from school work, right? Well ok, it wasn’t exactly divine inspiration. but as I was looking through “Refuel” (my super kewl complete new testament, “the bible that looks like a magazine”. That thing is so kewl. (please note, I was supposed to be doing schoolwork, but looking at the bible lets you skip schoolwork, right?)) I noticed one of the little extra things they have. This thing has cool extras, on the cover it says “EXTRAS:GIRLS, CASH AND CARS”, by the way, it’s a guy bible/magazine. So any I looked at one of the extras and I read “10 random ways to impress a girl”. Now impressing girls is not exactly one of my skills, so I decided to read, and what I read interested me. So I will now list the ten things and comment on them.

1. show respect
well of course, if you don’t show a girl respect you get hurt, bad. I found that out the hard way…

2. get to know her friends
well I already do that, all the girls I know I know because I know all their friends.

3. worship god freely
I’ve never really thought of this as a way to impress girls…hmmm……

4. open doors for her
this is common good manners, always open a door for a girl, always.

5. spend time with her parents
urgh? You really want me to do that to impress a girl? Well I spend time with the Wittenbergs, but any other girls parents is kinda hard…oh well, what ever.

6. find out her interests
most girls I know have interests that are polar opposites of mine, except for music, I’m always cool with music.

7. pray for her
I’m on it.

8. be confident instead of arrogant
this is another basic must, do this to impress anyone, not just girls.

9. think before you talk
maybe I should do this more…

10. put her first
ladies first, my golden rule.


So what did you think? I think this is good advice I’m gonna put into practice. Now here’s one more thing I found, as I browsed more I came across something wonderful “10 random ways to scare off a girl who likes you”. Believe it or not I can use this one, because even I have those who I wish to scare off. Now I will comment on these

1. don’t spend one-on-one time with her
that’s the plan…

2. treat her the same way you treat any other girl
all girls I treat the same, except that one…and then there’s that other one…oops…

3. tell her how you honestly feel
sounds good to me.

4. talk to yourself
oh, wait. That scares people? I do that all the time, if it scares people maybe I should stop

5. don’t call her
I don’t call, I SMS (text message).

6. stay out of corners
I am terrified of corners, the presence of a girl just makes them worse. I will stay out of corners.

7. show up at school in a monks robe
if I actually went to school this would be great, but no matter where I go, no matter what I do to be freaky people just so “well that’s just Chris I guess…”

8. get too serious too fast
I can see this one backfiring, I’ll skip it.

9. see if you can set her up with a guy who’s a better fit
since when am I a matchmaker? I think I’ll buy her a copy of “ I kissed dating goodbye” instead.

10. dye your hair mauve
I was thinking dark white or bright black, or something like that…

Whew, sounds fun, can’t wait to get out there and try it! Now I’m tired and actually do need to get some schoolwork done today so, Cya. Oh, by the way, guess what else is in this book, tips on how to look good, and believe it or not they told me to kill my unibrow! I mean Meaghan and Sarah have told me this for months but I never believed them! My unibrow is the essence of what makes me evile (that’s not a typo, read it as spelled)!!! It’s likes Sampson’s hair! I can’t kill it, but what ever, tsau.

time is money! and money is something i don't have so that means...i'm thinking to hard...

Hey I don’t have much time to blog now so I’m gonna be quick. Just so you know I will probably, eventually finish writing about Prague, but right now, I can’t. And I will finish writing about last week, when we had our first official meeting, but right now, time is lacking. So I only have a few things I will say. Right now I just got back from dropping Evelin off at the bus station, and I was just thinking, there’s some “thank you’s” I need to say. Because there are some things that people have done lately that were only little things to them, but they have no idea how much they meant to me. So now, I will start with thank you things. First of all, Sarah. Thank you so much for the CD, I’m listening to it right now! ;) You have no idea how great is to be able to have these songs available to me whenever I want, it’s like having a little chunk of America with me, thanks. And next, Evelin. Today when I dropped you off at the bus station you said you don’t normally give guys hugs, but for me you said you’d make an exception for me. ;) Thanks for that, that gave me just a bit of a huge self esteem boost, it’s so great to know I have such great friends, thanks. And last but not least, Anneli. I put you last because I have the most to write for you. Thank you for giving me a “extreme make over:Chris edition”, for one day I thought I really, seriously looked good, and so did everyone else apparently. That rarely happens, thanks for that. And thank you for inviting me to do some writing for the site your making, I guess someone likes my writing (by the way everyone, I’ve started a book. But I doubt any of you will ever read it), thanks. And last I want to thank you for letting me read your diary. When I read that part that went something like “…I hate it when *people* (can’t say who) talks bad about Chris and says he’s stupid. If they think he’s stupid why do they hang out with him? I don’t think he’s stupid…”. When I read that it made me seriously happy, thanks freaky friend.
Thanks to all of you guys (or girls, who cares), I couldn’t imagine better friends. Now I think I gotta go, tsau (Estonian slang, tsau=bye)!

and more and more to blog about

where did i leave off? oh yes, me and anneliplaying x-box. see i told you shes the only girl nerd i've ever found. so anyway we finished some wonderful games of "swoosh" we went and picked up sarah at the bus, so now reunited as friends we had fun just kinda coming home in the car and then walking in the house. and then it was time for me and sarah to go party (rock on!), so we met up with liis, maret and liis's friend, karin and went out to pizza at pronto pizza, at first liis tried to order for all of us and for some reason they were a jerk to her. she asked for some quattro formaggi pizzas, they said they couldn't make them any more. she asked for just plain cheese pizza, they wouldn't make it for her, it wasn't on the normal menu. so she comes back and tells us all this and i get kinda angry, it was her birthday and they wouldn't make her pizza? thats just wrong. so i say "sarah, come here. we're gonna try our american touch.", i have her grab her CD walkman and put it on, and the 2 of us go up to the counter together, wait in line, grab some sugar cubes out of a bowl and sing and talk loudly in english. so as we get up to the counter sugar cubes in our mouths i exageratedly look at a menu (i knew what i wanted) and said slowly and loudly in english like i thought she was deaf "i would like this (exageratedly pointing at the menu), the (looking at the menu like i have trouble reading) quattro formaggi? ya, quattro formaggi, i want that.".so as sarah dances with her music the girl behind the counter stares at me blankly and "says we can't make that, sorry" so i say "then can we have just plain cheese pizza, like only cheese and suace?" and she goes "sure" looking extremely happy to get me out of her face. so as we go we pop more sugar cubes in our mouths and start loudly singing linkin park. and no one has any doubt, we are american, really and truly american. we go back, tell our amazing story and got our pizza, and much fun was had by all. especially me, because i got most of the pizza, 2 of the girls wouldn't eat all theirs. stupid girls, never eating all thier food. why do you only eat a half portion of whats put in front of you?

so then we go and went bowling, or tried to, but we had finished eating early, like really early, and could't go bowling for a hour and a half so what had fun slowly, very slowly, walking to the bowling place but of course i don't walk slowly, so i quickly got bored and started jump up high places and stuff because i was so bored of going so slow! man, never tell me "slower" it's not good for my health. so then eventually we get there and wait outside for half an hour sitting on a bunch, well the lazy girls sat on the bench, i tried to climb a tree but noticed that i was getting just a bit to big for that and kinda almost broke the branch off. so then after a while of sitting around joking for a while we finnaly went in and found out we had the whole place to ourselves, so we got lane 3, justy because we felt like it and commenced bowling. i used to be in a bowling league and therefore getting my butt kicked in bowling is very humiliating, especially by 4 girls, but sadly, i did get my butt kicked by 4 girls. i stink. sarah wasn't doing to good and we decided that it must be the music, they where playing some annoying euro-techno thing, and so me and sarah decided to ask if we could have them put on our music, they could, PARTY! so as our american music came on we started doing better, but i still lost every game.

and then after that we went to her house and had fun eating marshmallows, and watermelon and other such delicious stuff. and i tried petting her cat and that thing scrathed my hand, ow, that hurt! theres these two scabs on my hands from where two of its claws got me, that hurt! so for the rest of the night i knew to fear the cat. FEAR THE CAT!!!! so then we looked at pictures of liis when she was little, which i guess is what girls do at parties like that. and i started to feel more and more akward by the minute. then the ultimately akward thing happened. one girl (i won't give names) almost had a a girly meltdown, which i must say was a very close shave, too close for my liking. and then another girl (no name) had a full blown girly freak! curled up on the floor crying included. man i was freaked out, for like half an hour now i had been saying "hey sarah, WHEN SHOULD WE GO!!! hint hint!!" and a minute before the meltdown we had been about to go. so then the meltdown started getting worse "i wish i were dead..." and it eventually ended with a 20 minute phone call on MY MOBILE PHONE!!! when this type of thing happens girls get sympathetic, but i get mad. and i almost did get really mad, i needed my phone, and i wanted to leave. and i couldn't do either.

well anyway, me and sarah finally ditched them and took off, glad to get home i checked out inuyasha (a cool anime) online with anneli, and had fun reading about giant hairballs and cursed combs. then we played swoosh more while everyone else watched "joe someboday", we had both seen it and swoosh is so fun. so then next day, oh wait, this post is already so long, i'm gonna finish it later. tsau everyone, Cya later.

so much to write, so very, very little time!!

ok, i have 1 hour to write, and i have like almost a week, no wait, it's only been a weekend!?!? well anyway, i have a lot to write! and only an hour, ugh! ok, this will be hard, i have 2 chicks bugging me on MSN and i don't have the heart to tell them i'm busy...whatever. ok, once again i shall start where all good stories start, if you haven't guessed, it's the beggining! ok, as i stteped outside of my "bubble of non-reality", and as i looked at the world around i was filled with fear...no wait, that never really happened...oops! well anyway on what i believe was friday (my brain seems kinda screwy) anneli and sarah were supposed to come to tartu, anneli to help translate with our first church service, and sarah to go to our friend liis's birthday party(i really wanted her to come so i wouldn't be the only american). but becuase of a wonderful set of events sarah got left in tallinn but anneli made it here, lifes crazy, whatever. so anyway that was nice, me and anneli got to have a nice talk without any amercan interuptions, which was cool becuase one thing i love about talking to anneli is that we just talk about anything, nothings too stupid. so we talked about her time in america, my summer in estonia, our wonderful adventures (some the you will NEVER see on this blog, hehehe.....). and after a while our talk digressed to sailor moon (hey, i said nothings to stupid for us) and we ended up trying to read a sailor moon book she had in japanese. oh, what fun.........

now let me clear some things up, anneli is 16, really into anime, and i call her my freaky friend and she calls me her freaky friend. she is the first real girl nerd i have ever met, and so i love hanging out with her. and no, shes not like wierd or anything, just becuase she's 16 and still likes sailor moon doesnt mean shes that crazy....

so then after a nice nights sleep (i got the couch, anneli got my room) i woke and tried to watch TV with elizabeth and anneli, which was torture becuase it was a mix of info-mercials and dubbed over amercian cartoons...oh, the evil! and so after learning about the wonderful qualities of the "h2o-vac" we had breakfast and decided to go into the town center in search of good times, americans and nerdy landmarks. being me i knew where to find all 3, so with video camera in hand we went out and scared the crap out of everyone we could find, we only got 8 minutes of video tape but it was still awesome. we went around town and visited all the famous landmarks from our world famous "home video #1", and had all sorts of fun. we even visited nerd central, võlukamber (magic chamber) and checked out the anime. then we came back home and played some wonderful games of "swoosh" (star wars:battlefront on xbox). and then...*yawn*...oh look at the time, im going to bed, Cya.

the comic about my life A.K.A. zits

this is me and my mom, i swear this has happened before...only about a million times......

and becuase i love putting on pictures so much, heres on more just for the heck of it.

this is all us cool people at the airport, anneli and evelin (in the middle) had just arrived back from america and we had to go and give them a great greeting. i'm above anneli and sarah's heads, i think i look a bit like mr. bean in this picture...cool.........

and finally......

the picture you've all been waiting for...the big exciting watchamacallit...the picture of me in prague with all the people from finland/estonia territory! notice me and tanel holding up the estonian flag. and notice me standing next to maria, and tell me, don't you think her hair looks good black?

(thank you to the wittenbergs for letting me steal this picture from thier blog, for more americans-in-estonia goodness check out www.wittenbergs.blogspot.com)

wonderful harmony....

heres the 3 of us singing the chorus in wonderful harmony...not really but it what ever. i can't figure out whats going on here becuase i seem to be sticking my tounge out. what am i doing? what am i thinking? why can't i keep my big fat toungue in my mouth? so many questions, so little time...

my solo!

well no, not really. peter helped me sing, using lyrics HE made up(blah, buhbah, laaa). but besides peters help, i sang all by my self! and i didn't even break a window! theres maret next to me checking out the lyrics becuase she didn't know the song, haha, poor her. ;)

EXTREME ROCKERZ!!!

yo, check out our extreme rock skillz. heres us screaming out the chorus, me with my sprite-o-fone (sprite included) and sarah with her cardboard tube-o-fone, we rock! notice me super kewl little bro in the backround, being held by one of his many girlfriends, julia (prounounced "yulia"). along with veronika watching by the chair and kristel by the door. ROCK ON!!!!!

ROCK ON!!!

here is me and sarah singing that linkin park song, which i still can't remember it's name. i think we were in the middle of a jump right here. notice that sarah has a wonderful cardborad tube-o-phone, rather than a microphone.

picture time!!!

i have finally figured out how to do pictures! so now watch in wonder as i put on 4 beutiful pictures! check it out!

and what shall i write about today? not much really......

well i just got off the phone with anneli, who got back to estonia yesterday. and man was i happy to talk to her again. you know she is the only person i can actually stand talking on the phone with? talking on the phone with anyone else drives me crazy! so heads up, don't call me and expect a long conversation. and so as i was saying (or typing, or maybe writing? what ever!), me and anneli had a nice chat on the phone, we talked about america and other such fun things. it appears that going to america has turned her into what i was (or am), a nerd. i consider my self a recovering nerd/video game addict (you seriously can get addicted), she is now aparently a getting worse anime freak. it's nice to know that now i will have someone who can understand me, at least a little. so hopefully she and her sister will come to tartu soon becuase i am dying to hang out with them! well anyway, as i was writing this i had a conversation with someone who i will name the "dark blank", and the "dark blank" put me in a very bad mood. i will not say more, i will just say goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs bite (and if they do, shoot 'em!). goodbye,

Chris

of brown water, baby poop, and cleaning up the aftermath.

now with a title like that you know this post is gonna be good. first i'll start with brown water, i woke up today to find that all the water in the house was brown. as in all the water from the shower, toilet, or sink, or basicall anything else was brown. so what fun, that meant no shower. whatever, i needed to mow the lawn anyway, that type of thing gets me nice and stinky. so thats interesting, don't know why exactly you needed to know that. but anyway i hear the water is back to normal now.

and as for baby poop, today as i was watching my super cool baby bro peter (17 months) i notciced that he stunk, no offense to hime, but he stunk bad! as a rule, i don't change diapers, thats my parents job. so since my parents where busy at the moment i thought i'd wait a few minutes, the smell got worse. so finally i took him to my parents who were in the middle of discussing one important thing or another, i boldly stolled up and said "peter stinks", but of course i had to wait for them to finish thier talk before they would hear me. so as i stood there with my nose scrunched up i noticed the smell get stronger, and whats worse...i noticed a strange sensation on my arm. i yelled "PETER'S LEAKING ON MY ARM!!!", that got my parents attention. so as they changed his diaper i ran off to wash my arm off in the sink (hey! the waters not brown any more!). oh, what fun adventures me and my brother have. man, i love him!

and cleaning up the aftermath. if you have been paying attention then you know i have not had 1, not 2, but 5, i repeat 5 girls in my room! i had 2 girls from narva, 2 from tallinn (one american) and one from kavastu (near tartu). now don't think i was also in that room, heck no. i was upstairs on the couch. they tottaly kicked me out! but believe me, i thought i was messy until this last week, sarah and the other girls showed me up. im still finding things, a broken pair of sunglass's, lipstick, what looks like 2 shirts of sarah's, and someone forgot thier whole sleeping bag, i don't know how you forget something so obvious. and so now i am busy cleaning up the after math, but it does have its hidden little perks. i found sarah's yellow card CD! i'm thinking of saying finders keepers here, i like yellow card! but anyway tommorow i go up to tallinn and i'm gonna turn over anything i have found to miss sarah wittenberg, and she can find the proper owners. oh and, one nice thing i wanted to mention before i finish this post is that i was in narva yesterday and i was talking with masha and she said she had a picture of me from prague and she showed it to a friend of hers (a girl) and her friend said "oh, what a handsome guy!". ever had someone say something that just about shoots your self esteem through the roof? thats what this did for me. now i guess i'm considered attractive by russian girls everywhere (but, is that a conpliment?), so i feel very happy. oh and another thing, tommorow anneli and evelin return to estonia. i am so totally there! i'm gonna be at the airport to pick them up, this is like super major excitement! these are like my oldest friends in estonia. before me and the wittenberg girls could really be considered friends, before i started hanging out with other estonians, there was anneli and evelin. they will always be my special friends. and, god, i can't wait to see them. so tommorow i am not available to do anything, so dont even ask. so now i'm tired of typing have no reason to stay on so i'm gonna go, Cya later.

your "handsome guy" (thanks masha),
Chris

hey people!

the fact that your reading this makes me assume that you are interested in what i have to write about. like, for example, my life. either that or your bored out of your skull. doesn't really matter much to me, just as long as you read. so now i'll tell you more about this VBS thing we've been doing, which is, sadly, over now. ok so thursday, once again we performed at eeden, and walked forever to hand out fliers, and all that fun stuff. and then at 4:30 (16:30) when we started the kids program we had not 1, not 2, not 10, but 15 kids!! 15!! now to me thats awesomely exciting. we played games and had fun, and the theme was "taste the living water". so we had fun doing taste tests with the kids, giving them exotic foods and candys such as "reeses" and "marshmallows". which i wouldn't think exotic but were very exciting to the kids. and to my great surprise everyone thought that the reeses were nasty, which was extremely upseting to me becuase it meant some wasted reeses, i would have happily devoured the precious candy if they didn't want it (you can't get reeses in estonia, so to me and most other americans here it is a rare and treasured treat). we then had fun having my mom talk about what "living water" was and what it all was supposed to mean. and we did the "river dance" that sarah had been teaching us, becuase you know river, water, they kinda go together. and then we had fun roasting marshmallows, which was of course delicious.

then after all the kids went off home me and sarah had fun doing what i will call "american in estonia idol". which was fun, we started out with me singing some yellow card ("if i could find that cow......" sorry inside joke, hi sarah!) and sarah singing her stuff and it ended with us doing a duet of linkin park's song "numb:encore", which was fun. and then we printed out the words to the song "broken" by seether and learned that song becuase that was a guy-girl duet that both sounded cool and included amy lee as the female singer. so that was cool, and just to finish it all of we did a duet to that linkin park song that i can never remember the name of (you know the one "...but in the end it doesn't even matter..." "....i put my trust in you..." and so on and so on), which was awsomely fun.

then next day we had fun doing all the usual stuff, except today we did "riverdance" at eeden, which actually got us a bit of a crowd. so the fact that sarah and liis spiked my hair and tied red ribbons to my hands and around my head was ok, if not slightly humiliating. and then that night we had some kids come half an hour early, so we said "ok, it's only like 5 kids, they can come in and play" and next thing we knew, BAM 2o kids, we had to organize fast, but amid the chaos we had loads of fun. and in the middle of it all the wittenbergs showed up which was cool. so the theme for the night was "run the good race", so course we had relay races, and just race races, and so on and such. and we did riverdance for them and believe it or not they didn't laugh, they actually liked it! it was all fun, and then after all that we roasted marshmallows and had fun in the general chaos of it all (20 kids=chaos), and it was especially fun for me becuase as the only teenage guy all the boys thought it was thier sworn duty to destroy me, and i'm always up for a fight but with 10 year olds? i have now mastered the art of beating up someone without actually hurting them, or touching them really. so that was fun, especially with this once kid, andre, who kept tackling julia, one of the helpers from narva. so i had to defend her by tickling him to death whenever he'd jump on her. all in all a fun day.

so then after we finnaly got all the little brats home (i'm kidding, they were good kids), we all went inside and got everyone ready to go home, the mission team was leaving. except of course me becuase i lived there, and the narva girls, who go back to narva with us on sunday. but before everyone left me and sarah gave them a final perfomance, we sang that linkin park song with the name i can never remember, with me rapping most of it and her joining me on the chorus. and then we did our grand finale, seether "broken". the whole time everyone was laughing and taking pictures during both songs, though they were both rather depressing songs, the way me and sarah sang it it became funny. and then everyone went home and i had a chance to sit back relax and play on the computer, something i had needed for a long time.

and now it's saturday, i am officially declaring this RNR (rest 'n relaxation) day, god knows i need it. so now i say goodbye, for now. thanks for reading,

evryones favorite idiot, ;)
Chris

yo, guess who?

its me! Chris! everyones favorite funky dude is back for more wondeful blogging action! now let me tell you something awesome. im hoping you've been keeping up with my blog and you know that we're having a vacation bible school (VBS) type thing in our back yard. and so far its going awesome. the first day we had 4 kids. they where all between 9 and 11, except for one little dude who was 5, so technically he wasn't supposed to be there. this thing is for ages 7-18. the second day we had 2 girls, so what if it was half the group we had before, it was someone. i'm surprised anyone actually came, so i'm happy no matter what. and then today i could not believe it, we had 9 kids! so what if 3 kept leaving, and so what if them and 3 others took off as soon as we were done eating, we still had 9 at one point. so now i will do my best to tell you about everything, very breifly.

on the first day, after some fun practicing and teaching sarah the evanescence drama (my personal favorite), we went to eeden (a nearby mall) and did a awesome performance, dancing and doing dramas. the only problem was that the second line dance we do, none of us really knew that well, and, well, i'll say it bluntly, we STUNK! and to make it better, we where dancing to a 5 minute song...oh, well. comedy always suited me better anyway. then we did the evanescence drama and, don't tell sarah i said this but, sarah did awesome! she picked it up so quick, and did it so well! but like i said, don't tell her i said that. and so that was cool. and then that night as we were walking in to town to hand out fliers we met up with liis and maret, who had been planing to come at 4 anyway, and when we told them we were going to hand out fliers they came along too. liis was like super flier hand out girl, it was awesome. and maret had a broken leg so...yeah. and then after a fun time handing out fliers we got home and had 3 kids show up at the door pretty fast, which was wicked cool. and then we knew there was a little girl living a ccross the street so we had liis go and give her a flier, and so soon she was over here too. the theme for the night was "be strong". so we did all sorts of strong type things, like tug of war! which just about ripped my hands off but was still fun. and then that night sarah started teaching us "river dance", which of course made me look like a retarded leprechuan, but was awesome fun.

so then next day in both the morning and the afternoon we went to hand out fliers, and again we performed at eeden, doing better this time. and this time only the girl from accross the street (whos name is "etthel", like ethel in english) and her friend came but we still had fun. the theme for the night was "listen" so we did the evanescence drama, becuase in the drama kristel has to choose who to listen to, the evil one (me, of course) or the good one (sarah). and we continued to teach them the line dance, which we had started teaching the day before. and so we had tons of fun with that. and then since it didn't rain we roasted marshmallows, which was wonderfully tasty! and sarah, liis and veronika dragged me over and made me do more river dance, i'm getting better. then that night me, sarah and maret walked liis home and underestimated the distance, so we didn't get home until almot 11:30. man we were dead tired.

so then today, once again we handed out fliers, did a great performance at eeden, and had people come. only today was cool becuase the girl etthel came and handed out fliers with us, which is great becuase people would much rather take a flier from a nice little girl than from a big creepy dude like me. and then tonight our theme was "follow me" ("me" being jesus). and so we had fun playing all sorts of games, and having to run inside to avoid rain. and then we did a craft where we made cross's and as we did that kristel read from a little book about jesus dying on the cross and everything. and so now we just finished watching "america's next top supermodel" (eva won!), and are now watching "monk". which is hilariously funny. so i'm gonna go now, becuase i'm so tired of typing. bye, Cya.