still in tallinn...

i´m still in tallinn. are all you tartu people missing me? yesterday i missed the yugioh thing, which is probably good cuz it means i didnt get humilated (again), and it saved me 25 kroon i probably would have lost. the only bad thing about staying in tallinn is that while everyones at school i have nothing to do...except sit around and listen to music but i forgot evanescence cd and i miss it already =(. i would go to the international school but i´d get beat up, and thats NOT because i´m a nerd or an idiot or something (which i´m not) itś because because of my "good" friend at the international school who would sic all her little friends on me (shes tried it before). so right now i´ve stooped to going to the evanescence website and listening to sound clips since i forgot my cd. so let me see, so much has happened but none of it i can write about. ok, i got something. thank you bree for posting on my blog. i thought everyone had forgotten me by now but i guess its hard to forget someone as annoying as me, right? ;). lol. ya i do have a lot of girlfriends (as in friends who are girls), and you people who knew me in america probabloy can´t believe that i even ever talked to a girl. ah, life is interesting. i have been thinkign of starting a "private" blog that only my close friends will read, but i´m not sure. and yes, my enemies should read it to to, have you ever heard the video game saying "keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer"? thats me, friends close, enemies closer ;). since i´ve been bored a lot lately i´ve started reading "acts of gord" again. do you know acts of gord? NO!?!?! the sinfulness...ok, www.actsofgord.com is a hilarious website full of supposedly true stories about the owner of a video game store. some greats ones are when "the gord" uses his "backhand of justice" to smack around some thieves, or the time when one boys father finds a rather, er, "creative" way to tell the gord he does not mind letting his son play violent video games. or heres my personal favorite qoute...

"We would like a quote for the front page of the newspaper talking about videogame violence, and it's possible impact on society."
"Video games don't make people more violent, and I'll kill anyone who disagrees."

"I don't think we can print that."

...see? and i´ll kill anyone who says this website is boring. ok, see i have nothing to write about so i´m giving you gord quotes. thats just bad, i need to go do something random and then blog about it. let me see...hmm. i´m braindead for strange things to do. sarah told me i was becomeing more normal but this...this is to much!!! i´m kidding, i´ll think of something stupid in a minute. i have an idea, i´m tired so i´m gonna stop typing, Cya.

writing from the wittenberg's.....

i am currently staying at the wittenberg's house in tallinn. i am loving this keyboard, its all nice and black, i love black...but i keep hitting caps lock!!! stop!!! whatever. today i went to viru keskus (a mall) and chilled with chicks (yes!!!). it was fun, first i had to choose between the 2 "girl crowds". one consists of "hot and popular girls", the other of "nice and beautiful but not quite so popular girls". so i had this choice, "popular" or "not quite so". if i went with "popular" then i would meet a new girl, lindsay, who is 17 and goergous (the first time i met her i greeted by saying "wow!! your hot!!" without even thinking). and with the "not quite so" girls i would spend time with just anneli and liina, who are 2 awesome girls, they're nice beautiful...i don't have time to write all thier good quality's. so at i choose to goe with the "popular girls" (meaghan, sarah) to meet more "popular girls" (elise, lindsay) so at first i was gonna go with them, but then i got a call from anneli, telling me to meet her at viru keskus (i can never say no to her!!!) so i start heading to viru keskus. then meaghan and sarah say to come to the radisson hotel to meet lindsay and elise so i turn around, then i get another call from anneli. turn around again and we did this for a while. but then finally meaghan and sarah had dragged me to the raddison and i was actually in the lobby before i decided to leave. so then i finally make the right choice, ditched meaghan and sarah and go to viru keskus. i had to run the whole way. so then i get there and hang out with liina and anneli. and so then the popular team got jealous, you don't want to get popular girls jealous, ever seen the movie "mean girls"? so they come and start kiddnapping me (flipping thier hair and looking georgous) and i am just helpless when it comes to girls. so they take me and the nice girls get mad!!! at me of course...but im used to that now. so after teen girl freak out i ended up buying lunch for sarah and evilin and everyone else left. so then i spent a long time with them and then we met up with anneli and liina and hang out with them. but now i'm at the wittenberg's house and i'm tired of typing already so i'm getting off, bye!!

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my life, just got turned upside down, shot with several million rounds from a machine gun, and then torn to pieces by wild animals, and THEN cut into even smaller peices by a katana. now you might be there saying "oh my god, chris finally snapped", but i didn't snap. yesterday i come back from english camp i'm happy i'm exuasted, everything seemed good in the world. and one of the first things i hear when i walk through the door is that my grandmothers in the hospital. shes dieing from a brain tumor and so i thought "of course shes in the hospital", but i didn't get it. so this morning i wake up and, BAM!!!!! my grandmothers dead!!!! GOD!!!!!! WHATS WITH THIS!!!! FIRST WE GET SETTLED IN, ALL OUR STUFF GETS STOLEN, THEN WE SETTLE IN AGAIN, MY GRANDMOTHER DIES...cursed. this is just to much. i guess you could say we must be stepping on the devil's tail but you can't blame everything on the devil. so now i have a choice, go for 3 weeks or stay. for some people this is a no-brainer. but i want to stay, i love estonia. everyone looks at me funny when i say it but i prefer estonia. and also i'm gonna feel depressed enough without everyone around me screaming and crying. maybe this will be good. but i want to stay. i'm not physically or mentally up to a 3 week time in america. so i might stay here with kuldar (a guy who usually stays in our house when we go somewhere) abnd just chill. i can do school, hang out, go to tallinn and chill with friends...it has potential to be great. any way i need to be at the opening, i've invited so many people people will expect me to be there. by the way thats tommorow, 2:00 (14:00) at raekoja plats, 3:00 (15:00) at the illusioon. but right now, i'm gonna try to shove down some food. even though thanks to this whole thing my apetite is dead, i'm gonna need to eat. well anyway, just sorta pray for me or whatever. and DON'T YOU DARE LET THIS GET YOU DEPRESSED!!!!!! if you get depressed cuz of me i will not be happy with you so lets end this on a happy note.

i had a wonderful time at english camp!! it was so awesome. i wish english camp type stuff lasted forever. and i spent time with people, actually a lot of time. so it was great. and i had written a huge happy thing about english camp but blogger seems a little unstable and deleted it. so i'll write more later. Cya.

and today i write about...whatever i feel like!!!

ok, so today is, let me check...sunday!!! today i went to church at kolgata which was good (as always). and then we ate good food and stuff. ok, so let me see, i didn't really blog yesterday or the day before sooooooo...BLOG TIME!!!! friday we talked about...(don't guess) SEX!!! and that was that, and now i don't want to talk about sex no more. and now...

A TALE OF TWO KRISTIES

ok, someone asked when i was gonna write about 2 kristies, i don't really have much to say i just thought i should give a explanation because you would get them mixed up. ok so first i was at youth group and we were celebrating kristie(from tartu)'s birthday. so i was so proud i said palju õnne sunnipaeviks (happy birthday) and everything, and i found out something i never knew before. kristie seems to think she is both fat and/or ugly. but, i swear, if she is fat and/or ugly then every person on the planet must be extremely fat and/or ugly. because (and no, i'm not flirting, i'm just stating fact) she is truly one of the most beautiful and perfectly formed girls on the planet. i don't know how she could ever consider herself ugly or fat. and so, ya, i think i got away from my point there. so she got a shirt for her birthday that said "thank god i'm not fat and ugly" in estonian. ok, that reminds me of a funny story i'll tell in a minute, so keep reading. and the other kristie (from tallinn) came that night and stayed the night because the next day she was gonna do something with us at eeden.

so thats "THE TALE OF TWO KRISTIES", you happy anonymous? ok, and now the funny story. it was around the time school started and we had this little prayer thing in the morning to pray for school. so i'm there and we do that and its cool, but, theres only like 3 guys there including me. so after it's over they leave, but it was the guys who were translateing, and no one told me it was over. so i just sat there, and all the girls are chatting and stuff. and i'm trying to figure out what going on because they kept weighing themselves. so after a while im just clueless as to whats going on and then eva, the leader, turns to me and gos "chris, just so you know we're talking about how fat we are". and i'm like "o-ok", you know i was kinda freaked out. and so after a minute it registers, i'm in a room with a bunch of girls talking about how fat they are. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i'm just like "uh, i, uh, gotta go. uh, Cya". so that kinda freaked me out, but i'm used to that now.

so theres funny story. ok and let me see...oh, yes. this week i'm going to english camp. its to help estonians learn english. and as all of you know...muy angleesh ish no gud. so i gotta go learn english. actually its estonian camp for me but english camp for everyone else. and on saturday we went to eeden and everything went perfect. except for a few small things that put me in a heck of a bad mood. but i'm better now and why focus on the negative,right? so that was good, and all the girls were beautiful ; ). and now i have nothing else to write about, so, Cya!!

and tonight...we have even more about...sex.

ok, thats it!!! i'm all sexed out (sorry, bad joke)!!! i think i get the whole point now. but toay i went to home group and we talked about sex (again) and i'm to tired to write about it now. *yawn* and one thing i think i need to say is that in the next blog post i might be talking about 2 different kristies, one who lives in tartu, one from tallinn. one whos my age, one whos not. so i'm gonna be talking about 2 different kristies. and all have to say right now is neither one is fat and/or ugly. but thats it for now. check back tommorow because the youth group from tallinn is coming down and i'm sure i'll write something ineteresting then. the youth group is gonna do a big thing at eeden. so if you live in tartu and want to come check us out (i think i'm gonna be in one of the dramas) then call me at:56469016 and i'll tell you were and when. but call me tommorow (saturday), because i don't know when its gonna be yet, and i'll give you all the info i can. well good night now, i'm gonna go crash. talking about sex really exuasts you ;). 'night, head ööd, bye bye.

And now, more about...sex!!!

sorry, sorry. i just looove writing about sex on my blog (hahaha). ;) ok this is gonna be quick. i was reading today a old TIME magazine (not that old, just not recent) and one particular article caught my eye. it was called "a snapshot of teen sex", well i saw this and i thought "i'm a teen and...well i'm a teen so maybe i should check this out", so i did. and i read the article and aside from almost laughing and puking (that ever happen to you?) i noticed something. it said the "NORMAL" (notice the ""s) age for american highschool teens to become sexually active is 15 and a half. "wait a minute" i thought "i'm coming up on the 15 and a half mark". and i was thinking that if i was a "normal" american teen than maybe i should not be a christian. because there is NO WAY i'm having sex. sorry girls, i...wait, i'll stop there. do you know how hard teenage girls smack? but yeah, so if i'm "normal" than i should be having sex soon...hmmmm. makes you think doesn't it? it just kinda sucks though...cuz I'M NOT NORMAL!!!! or at least not normal if it means sex at 15. so now i'm sorry to inform all of you that i am now now officially abnormal. i'm wierd, i'm strange. I'M NOT NORMAL!!! I'M NOT NORMAL!!!! BLAHHHHHH!!!! o yeah.

so yeah, from both the youth group and that article i have drawn the following conclusion: even though if i were "NORMAL" i would be haveing sex soon, i'm not. so i guess that makes me quite abnormal. BUT, now i shall be proud to be abnormal. because i have a good reason, SO CHEW ON THAT, WHY DON'T YA!?!? ok, thats it, i'm abnormal, and strange, and happy because of it. and did i mention i'm single? i mean, if any of you girls are interested in a abnormal guy...I'M KIDDING!!! ok, i'm done, good night. i suggest that all you people (whoever and wherever you are) be abnormal too, because, if everyone were abnormal, we'd be the normal ones wouldn't we? you get it? good! ok, goodnight!!

abnormally yours,
Chris

ok, now i'll write about sex.

ok, so let me tell you about yesterday. last night i went to youth group a kolgata baptist church. the theme for the night was sex. when, where, and with whom? the answer to those 3 questions was this (i thought this was funny, i don't know about you.), when: whenever you feel like it, where: wherever it's comfortable and apropriate, and this is the important one, with whom: your spouse. i thought this was really funny. so that was the topic and we started out going in the other room and talking about sex, what it is, what it does to you, and what the Bible says about it. even though i had no "hands on" experience on the subject i was still able to understand what they were talking about. i thought this whole thing was very interesting, but i don't know if thats a good thing or a bad thing. one little thing about sex i thought was cool was this little analogy: sex is like fire, if its in the right place (fireplace, furnace, etc.) it keeps you warm and your happy with it. but, if you decide you don't want to wait until you can go over to the fire place and you want to have a nice warm fire on your couch, then yeah it'll keep you warm, but it'll burn your house down too!!

i liked this analogy. then after just talking about sex for a while we split into small groups to talk about sex even more. my group was fun because even though it's almost impossible to try to have translation when you split into small groups (which i'm used to now) they kept telling jokes about sex, even though i didn't understand a word but it was nice to be with a bunch of people laughing. i kept thinking of all the american sex jokes i've heard...WHAT?!?! YOU REALLY THINK I'M GONNA PUT AMERICAN JOKES ABOUT SEX ON MY BLOG!!!! YOU CRAZY!?!? ok i think i lost my line of thinking there...what was i talking about? oh yes, sex. so we had our discussions in our small groups and then we went back in the room and we had put all our questions about sex in a box so they could answer them, so they answered all our questions and it was good. so then we were done talking about sex and it was time to leave.

what a great topic, sex. it ended around 30 minutes later than normal, i mean come on, get a bunch of teens and young adults and put them in a room and tell them to talk about sex then of course thier gonna take thier time! i was very happy because somewhere in the middle there someone told me they read my blog, i love it when people tell me they read my blog. have you ever seen anime? you know how when a character in a anime cartoon is very excited then it shows them stand on a rock in the middle of the ocean with waves all around and in a very cool pose? thats how i feel when i hear someone reads my blog i'm like "YES, SOMEONE KNOWS I EXIST!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!" she said she liked it because its very sincere. i try to be sincere, especially when talking about sex. ;) she said she saw the link on kerli's blog, i really need to figure out how to put links to peoples blog on mine. but thank you very much for whoever has alink to my blog on thier blog. and also i asked Eva, who is in charge of the home group, when and where home group is. so now i'm definitely going to that.

and now i'm done, i think i might blog later tonight or i might not. todays a thursday, thursdays are always boring for me...=(. well, Cya.

hello children!! tonight we have a very interesting topic...SEX!!!!!!!

actually, thats tommorows topic. i'm to tired to write so i'm gonna flop on the bed and take a snooze. but tommorow i'm going to talk about sex (cover your young childrens ears and RUN IN TERROR!!!), because tonight i went to youth group and the topic was sex, so i'm gonna write about sex, you get it? good. now i'm going to bed, but check back on my blog all day tommorrow because i'm gonna try to write ASAP. i mean come on. sex is such an important topic i have to write about it first thing. ok, enough for now. Cya, good night, head ööd.

yugioh champion of the world!!!

yeah right!!! i wish!!! today i went to the yugioh tournament and...well i have to say something first. first i want to say sorry. i was in a bad mood yesterday. it is true my life sucks but i can't name one person who doesn't have a reason why thier life sucks. so i shoudn't have said that but i'm NOT taking it off. and no, my mom did not make me write this apology, i wanted to and so i am. but now i'm having a good day even though i just got my butt kicked by a bunch of kids.

let me tell you about the yugioh tournament. i spent all morning preparing my deck and re-reading the rulebook. and then after that i went out with my dad to put up posters for our corp opening (march 26th, be there or be square! or is it be square or be there? or...). and then i went in to the place where the tournament was. i was around 10 minutes early which was good becuase i got to check out other peoples cards and they checked out mine. and i found a kid who would translate when needed. so after having the rules and setup explained to me i entered and had my name randomly paired up with someone else. and then i find the kid and i see that hes like only 9 or 10. most of them where. and i sit down and i'm all like confident and ready and it sounds so stupid now but i sat down, shuffled my cards, and went "lets do this!!". now you guess who was desperately trying to sound cool and desperately failing. so i sit down accross the table from this guy, we cut our decks and start. i draw my 5 cards and look at them. "wait a minute" i think to myself "these cards aren't in my deck!!". but i had already started the duel (yugioh terminology for round of the game) and just decided to play anyway. let me explain a bit about yugioh, a game consists of three duels, best 2 out of 3 wins.

so first duel. BOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!! i got blown away. i didn't even touch the guy. i swear it took him 5 minutes. next duel. KABOOOOOOSH!!!!! i held out longer, did a little damage, but in the end i went down. so we were the first done. he was quick, eficient and skillful. so in the break i had waiting for everyone else to be done i started to look through my deck and noticed something. half the cards in there weren't supposed to be in there!!! one of my decks of cards to trade had gotten mixed in, meaning my deck was half full of good cards, but half full of bad also. and so far, i had gotten bad. i asked the lady behind the desk and she said that once i entered the tournament i wasn't alowed to change my deck. so there i was, in a tournament stuck with a bad eck. so i decided i'd just make the best of it. so next game, i'm against someone older this time, but still not quite my age. BOOOOOM!!!!! BAAAANNNNGGGG!!!!!! i held out longer than with the first guy but i was still beaten really badly. so in the break i watched the other players and tried to learn their stratagies. third game i'm against this younger kid who looked pretty new to the game. every else there kept thier cards in nice plastic sleeves, he kept his in a plastic bag. i keep mine in rubber bands but...still, he looked new to the game. so first duel. CRABOOOOOOMM!!!!!! blasted, truly blasted. but he was obviously inexperienced, which actually made me feel worse becuase i've been playing for 2 years... but then, next duel, we start out in a bit of stalemate and then i pull out some of my best cards (about time i started drawing something good!!) and BOOOOOOOM, win for me. so we were 1 to 1. we play again and i drew well yet again and beat him horribly. i almost felt bad for him. he was never able to hurt me and(if you understand yugioh) i got a total of 14000 life points! i mean, just getting 10000 is good but i've never heard of anyone going as high as 14000. i finally had won one game.

so now i had won 1 game and lost 2, but i still had one more guy to face. this guy was my age (finally someone my age) and had a broken arm. i felt bad for him with the broken arm and everything but i'd already lost enough and he had been doing quite well. so we start the first duel. i pull out a aweful hand and he pulls out a great one and i still can't figure it out but...BOOOOOOOOOSSSHHHH!!!!! i beat him. i beat him so closely, but i do beat him. and the reason why it was so close and what was kind of bugging me was...he was using the exact same stratagy and cards as me!!! we kept pulling the same cards on each other, then using the same cards to block each other. it was actually kind of funny. and then we play again and boom (i'm sick of putting the sound effects in all caps) i get squashed. so now, once again, we were even, the result of this next duel would decide it all. so we play and once again we use the same strategy, only this time, i got all the perfect cards at all the perfect times and sent him flying. it was an extremely well fought match. i felt like shaking his hand, but, i didn't. it took forever though and we were the last ones done. and so then i find out i didn't come in first, second or third (so i didn't win a prize =( ) but i didn't come in last either =). and then there was like a door prize type thing and i could have won something but didn't =(. seems luck wasn't really with me today.

so now i'm done. i'm gonna go rework my deck in my new room. which rocks because the floor is heated and i have a ton of room. i even have room for a friend to move in so if anyones interested... the only 2 bad things things today were these a. i usually wear a black pullover fleece with a black fleece jacket, but even i have to wash clothes sometimes. so today they were dirty and had to be washed. i had hoped they'd be clean in time but...that didn't work out. i had hoped to look kinda like some dark lord and when i walk in have people run in fear and drop thier cards. i mean i have the look, i have dark eyes, dark hair, a unibrow (which no matter how much you make fun of me for it i still think its kinda cool, meaghan and sarah), and i hadn't shaved in a few days. so i certainly looked kinda evil dark lordish, i just was missing my black fleeces. so to make up for it i wore a black t-shirt that said "mida oli?" and below it the english translation "what's up?". i doubt a dark lord would wear a t-shirt that says "what's up?" but...who cares. and b. the other bad thing was that there was a sad shortage of girls!!! as in none!!! i mean i didn't really expect a dark haired, pierceingly blue eyed, eerily fair skinned, gothic looking Amy Lee clone to challenge me to a duel but still...i was hoping for some sort of girl!!! well thats it for today, i'm going now, Cya.

i don't want to blog today...

today is today. wow chris, thats some reeeaaal deep thinking you got going there. today i am not in a good mood. theres no real reason for it, i just am. but i'm gonna blog anyway. ok, so today i started moving out of my room and moving into the basement. i'm moving into the baement because elizabeths sick of sharing a room with my parents, and we found out how to heat the basement. i'm not done yet but i already have the basics moved down. chair, bed, bongo, xbox, you know, the basics. so ya, i've been working on that all day. and today my parents met wth this person whos gonna give us estonian class's (ABOUT STINKING TIME!!!). so thats gonna be cool.

let me see...what else happened today? oh i know, i finally figured out how to put cool music on my mobile phone. i got the simposons theme song and "bring me to life" by evanescence. so i've been waiting all day for someone in my VIP group on my phone to call me so i could hear my music (meaghan? anneli and evilin? could you call me and hang up so i can hear my cool music?). let me see...what else. uh, thats it.

oh wait, i know why i'm in a bad mood. MY LIFE SUCKS!!! sorry, just wanted to throw that out there. Cya.

monday...i mean sunday!! urg!!

sorry, i keep forgeting today is sunday. what a nice day i had. yoday my parents let me sleep in till like 8:30 (thank you very much, i needed that.), and then i woke up and went to church. and we went to kolgata (calvary) baptist church and even though we had no clue what was being said it was still good. the place was full of kids. i like it when a church is full of kids. my old church in PA had like 3 kids (including my sister) and the youth was me and a teenage girl (which some of you might say was heaven for me but...not really, no). and here we have no church (yet) so its just nice to go to a church full of kids. then during the meeting peter started fussing so i took him into the little nursery, which was fun. and so he had fun playing with some other baby's, which was good.

then after church we went to this place we went to like almost 2 years now (2 whole years? wow...) and ate there while we were visiting estonia. this trip 2 years ago was great because for some reason before this trip i had thought that all estonian girls where ugly, but meeting the girls in tallinn that time changed my mind about THAT!! ;) ok so we went to this resturant and the food was good, just...expensive. and then as we were leaving we got a call from the piips (yes that an estonian last name) who are american and they had invited me over. so i went over to thier house and had a good time watching anime and playing dungeons and dragons. the anime was cool, we have been watching this series together called fruits basket. its very funny because theres this HUGE family of people who whenever they huig a member of the oppostie sex they turn into a animal from the japanese zodiac. now don't get the wrong idea, no one EVER hugs on this show. they just fight, ALOT. and so when they fight they constantly run into each other and "hug". its really funny.

and now i think some of you might have noticed that in the above paragraph i mentioned that i played dungeons and dragons. yes, i do play dungeons and dragons. and yes, i am a christian. how is this possible you ask? tell me, how is dungeons and dragons bad? i have heard that dungeons and dragons is evil and satanic but i have yet to find one offensive thing in it. the only thing i might find offensive is these 2 facts: a. you use magic in this game. BUT, it is not real magic. in my experience there is no such thing as magic. it is purely role playing. its like 2 kids pretending they can fly, they can't really fly. and, b. its violent. but go check out what your 6 year old watches on tv. and anyway, same thing, it's roleplaying, it ain't real folks. BUT, if any of you has any biblical or logical reasons why dungeons and dragons is bad i would love to hear from you. please do not say "my friends, friends, friends cousins, girlfriends, friend read in a magazine its evil.", give me good logical and biblical reasons here.

ok and now that i'm done i just want to say thank you to all you people who read my blog because alot of times i feel like i have no friends and stuff but people read my blog so at least someone likes me, right? so i'm gonna go watch wallace and gromit which if you've never heard of you won't understand why everyone thinks its so cool. and if you've never heard of it i sugget you look it up. so, Cya.

p.s. yes meaghan, we all missed you at mission team. especially me, becuase you were supposed to be my partner in that heart drama. Cya.

All Hail the Mission Team!!!

dude, i just got back from mission team and aside from feeling dpressed that its over, exuasted from the work, and sick from trying to eat and talk at the same time, i feel GREAT!! i love mission team so i'm gonna tell you people everything about this cool weekend i just had. ok so first me and my dad get in the car and drive there. the drive was good, except that like 10 minutes from the place we where supposed to go, we got stuck in traffic. but thats was ok because it gave me time to finish the book i was reading for school, and sit and be bored but you dont wanna hear about that. so then we get there (30 minutes late) and almost everyone has finished eating. and instead of getting myself a plate, someone else got a nice, nutritous, plate of estonain-finnish food for me. now usually i can stomach anything, no matter what, if i'm hungry, i eat it. but i wasn't that hungry, and this food was...different (that does not imply anything) from what i was used to. so i ate the chicken (of course, chicken rules) but then i wasn't hungry for more so i tried handing off my plate to my dad, but he didn't want it. and then i'm just trying to figure out what to do with it and then this finnish girl, (can you call 18 year olds girls?) maria, says "just eat it". now as an american this revolutionary idea of eating food that i did not want was just amazing. i thought she must be crazy, either that or shes finnsh. ;) so then i ate most of the food anyway (these finnish people are crazy!!). and then we danced and sang and did dramas and stuff. and then we had this really cool little prayer thing where we were supposed to fingerpaint a picture. wait a minute, fingerpaint? yeah, you heard right. so we fingerpainted which was awesome. and then we did devotions and took a snooze.

the next day i woke up at 6:00 am and COULD NOT SLEEP!!! it was SO COLD!!! so got up and put on a fleece sweatshirt thing to keep warm and then since i coudn't sleep i walked, back and forth, back and forth. becauseas long as i kept moving i woudn't get to cold. so then we wake up and all that and me and evelin had a argument because i said she looked good without make up and she said she needed it or she'd look ugly. i will never understand girls. nor do i wish to. so after this we sang and i played drums. that reminds me of one of the coolest things. i got a drum!! its one of those congo-bongo drum things. it is so bueotiful. its in perfect condition and it has this really cool looking design on the bottom. and it sounds perfect. but i, uh, need practice. i'm not that good yet.

so after that we learned practiced a new drama we had learned the day before (i like this drama because i get to hit sarah wittenberg's hands and then pretend (haha, ya "pretend") to hit her in the head. and anelli taught us a new dance. and then through dicussions with this finnish girl, maria, i figured some things out. first of all, after long deliberation and many, many, deep thoughts we have come to the conclusion that anneli is...a girl. i mean looking at her i never would have guessed... ok, and we figured out that maria is the only person on earth (not related to me) who does not,not like me. actually sarah figured that one out. and then maria thanked me at the end because i had show her that she could be juts friends with a guy. i can understand the feeling, before i moved to estonia hanging out with a group of girls would never happen.

so then we said bood-bye and everything and i left. and now i'm home. and i'm tired. and i'm done now, buh bye.

A typical morning in the life of chris...

since i'm gonna be gone all day and probably not gonna be able to blog 'til tommorow, i thought i'd blog now. and since now its morning, i'm gonna tell you about my mornings. usually it starts like this, i hear this really annoying sound coming from next to my bed, i look down, my mobile phone alarm is going off. i smack it 'til it turns off then my mind and body have a kind of battle.

Mind says:time to get.
Body says:but i'm tired, lets sleep.
Mind says:but we gotta get up. we have stuff to do today.
Body says:stuff? what stuff could be more important than sleeping!?!?
Mind says:um, well, you know...stuff, stuff!!
Body says:yeah right!!
Mind says:ok, whatever. good night. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

so then i finally do get out of bed (usually because someone threw something at me) and go down stairs. when i wake up i always feel like a have a hangover. actually i've never had a hangover before so its what i think a hangover would feel like. i wakeup and i stumble down the stairs, my vocabulary is something like:ugh, blah, huh, and 'm ti-ed, go 'way. so then i get breakfast and all that and i'm usually still asleep. but then my dad reminds me i still have to get the wood for the fire if i want to stay warm. blah. so then i get my coat and boots on and stuble out into the cold thinking i should try to wake up, and to accomplish this i name everything i see. gate. snow. tree. cat. woodshed. scary guy with a knife (joke). wood. wood carrier thingy. then i get the wood and by the time i'm done i'm wide awake and my thought are more like this. COLD!!!! COLD COLD COLD!!!! WHOS IDEA WAS IT TO MAKE SNOW COLD!!!! and as i'm carrying the wood i'm thinking. HEAVY!!!! HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY!!!! WHOS IDEA WAS IT TO MAKE WOOD HEAVY!!!!!

then i get inside. shiver, shiver, shiver. then i get to work on school stuff. and thats my morning!! isn't that fun and intelligent? i think maybe i'd wake up sooner if i put snow on my face in the morning. i wonder if it would work. well i gotta go get ready for mission team, Cya.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy!!

ho, yeah!! if you've never read the book then i seriously recommend this book to you. this book rocks! and now, praise god, they're making a movie!! go to www.hitchhikersmovie.com and on the bottom it says something like "check out this new trailer! only available online!" and watch that trailer. it's good stuff, man. this is one movie that better come to estonia. if not then you american people better sneak in a movie camera or something. joke, duh. so ya, good book, hopefully good movie. so let me see, today besides watching the movie trailer over and over i have done all sorts of stuff.

i knocked out peter today. he was tired and so i picked him up and sang him to sleep. SHUT UP!! i can hear you from hear. yes, i sing him to sleep. my voice isn't that revolting, geeze. so after that he took a long nap on me and when he finally woke up he smacked me in the face. yes, he hit me. he woke up and BANG!!! he hits hard for a one year old. and besides that i finished reading "the old man and the sea" by Ernest Hemmingway. i don't like most hemmingway books, if i wanna find something depressing i don't have to look that far. so why read about people practically dying just to catch a stupid fish? and then have the whole fish eaten by sharks? thats just to much. i prefer books where theres a evil bad guy who ends up either getting blasted into dust or getting his head cut off. or something funny. if it wasn't for comedy books (like the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy) than life would be so much more depressing.

tommorow i go to mission team. mission team always rocks. we do all sorts of stuff, we sing, we do dramas, and we dance. yes i dance too! i know i stink, but what the heck, its fun! and plus the girls dancing is georgous...kidding! i'm thinking i'm getting a bongo tommorow, i hope. playing bongos is actually a lot more fun than i thought. i'm hoping that they only get me the one drum kind, not the double kind. but if they get me the double kind thats cool, then i can buy a single drum for myself. that reminds me...i need a drum kit. why do drum kits have to be so stinking expensive!?! its been to long since i played real drums and i'm thinking of just going into the music store downtown with my drumsticks and just rocking the place. i really miss the drums. have you heard the evanescence song "bring me to life"? listen to the drums in that song. i think i could do that. theres some tricky stuff in the middle, but still, i could do that. but complaining about it won't get me a drum. i gotta go check out prices. i'm done now so Cya.

happy birthday to you, you live in a zoo...joking!

i believe today is...meaghan wittenbergs birthday!! happy birthday, girl!! i'm not sure so if today is NOT her birthday let me know so i don't make myself look stupid(er). well anyway, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday meaghan, happy birthday to you! um, thats it, Cya.

yo, hey, hi

yo, i forgot to add something yesterday. at youth group, at the end when they were making announcements, they said that next time will be about...sex. when, with whom, and where. as soon as the guy anounced that everyone cracked up. and even before my translater finished i had already understood the basic idea of what was going on. so if any of you reading this have nothing to do on wednesday, and want to come to tartu (you in america can come to, but i suggest you start swimming now ; ) i think that theres gonna be some...interesting discusion next week. i know i'm definetly bringing my eesti-inglise (estonian-english) dictionary. well, that was just something interestintg i wanted to add. i'm still waiting for whoever anonymous is to email me. i got a translation to the russian, but i still wish i knew who you were. so PLEASE email me! Cya.

today i went for a walk!

i know it sounds boring but it was good. i really needed to get outside, i was going crazy. while i was walking, though, i saw this ad that had a picture of yugioh on it, so i thought i'd check it out. so i went and saw it was a ad for a store, so i went to check out the store. i get to this "store" and like freak out. i walk insideand i see a small, long, rectangular room. i see 5 or 6 tables, some with people playing cards on them. i see a wall covered in collectable card game merchandise, and i see that everyone in the place looks like a nerd. i gotta say, i felt really at home. i am a nerd, and proud of it (if you know me well you've probably heard that line before). i went in and i asked the girl behind the counter if she spoke english, she did. i asked her about the store, the tables, the cards, and most important of all, tournaments! every tuesday, 4:00, yugioh tourneys, with prizes! haha! the excitement! to bad its a wednesday. but i have patience. i seriously want to see if estonian gamers are as good as americans. i kind of doubt it, because americans are losers and estonians aren't (don't ask me about my logic). and then after my walk i went to youth group at kolgata, which is always cool. and we talked about the book of ruth. that was all cool. i love this youth group. i gotta go, Cya.

fun with friends

ok, i know that name sounds oh so cheesy but thats what happened today. today my parents had to go to võru (don't ask me how its pronounced, or even worse, don't ask a british person how it's pronounced) and do some stuff. so me and elizabeth went to the harrison's. the harrison's are really cool, they've been missionary's here for around 10 years! i would have gone crazy by then...jokeing! they have 7 kids, don't ask me thier names. i was mostly hanging out with josh, who is 16. we had a good time, playing computer, talking, and when we were litterally walking out the door (i had my boots and coat on) he tried to teach my some guitar while our parents talked, i don't know how much i'll remember tommorow but...whatever. and now i'm home.


i want to know something. yo anonymous, who are you? i have a few guess's but...i'm not sure. you posted saying: "I am a great friend for Chris.Maybe he doesnt know it always.Hopeless?No.He is full of hope and good ideas." who are you!?!?! please email me and tell me!!! good, or great, friends are something that a the moment i'm kinda of low on. any friends (in tartu) actually. so please send me a email telling me who you are!! and then you, other anonymous, my russian friend. you who posted "ia ne panimiu nechigo! shto ti gonish moi drug? lubliu tebia. esli ti panimiesh porusski, , ti uzhe snaesh shto ia napisala." thats russian, da? please, if you can, send me a copy of this, IN ENGLISH! and let me know who you are. but thank you for putting the russian in english letters, or did my computer do that? well anyway please email me both of you. or...wait. no, you email me. if your who i think you are your one person. well anyway i'm still clueless, so please email me, in english. i'm done for now so, Cya.

today in the life of chris...

today there was a big salvation army officer fellowship day in tartu! which basicly means that all the officers from estonia sat around and talked...and talked..and talked, while i sat up in my room doing schoolwork. what a sad hard life i have. when i heard the word "fellowship" i was kinda hoping for something more along the lines of ENJOYABLE and/or INCLUDING THE OTHER OFFICERS TEENAGE DAUGHTERS! urgh, hard sad life... but at last i got a free meal out of it. i had some awesome pizza, andf babysat. that was my compensation for all my hard work babysitting, pizza! such a sad life... but i will SURVIVE!

today when i was playing xbox i was at a slow point in the game so i paused and took a break (yes, it is possible for me to take breaks). i stretched, yawned, and looked out the window. and as i was looking out the window this bird, that looked like a raven or something, flew down and landed on a tree branch right outside my window and just looked at me. and then it flapped its wings. and then it looked at me, opened it's mouth and flew of. and i just sat and thought for a minute, i wish i could fly. i'm kidding. i just thought that maybe that was like a sign of spring coming or something. i'm so sick of winter. i have like cabin fever or whatever, if it would stop snowing a would go for a walk but...the SNOW WON'T STOP!! AGH!! i'm sick of winter now. well i'm done, Cya.

cool weekend

wow, what a cool weekend i had! and now i will tell you about this awesomely cool weekend. first it was peter's birthday. now i have a super cute, super awesome 1 year old brother! he is the best, and the girls can't keep there hands off him!

so on peter's birthday (march 4th) we went up to tallinn and picked up some friends of peters. and it was world day of prayer and stuff so while my parents went to a meeting, i got to go to the youth thing at the tallinn salvation army corps! it was really cool because someone had finally got me a drum (its about time)! now its not what your thinking, they had one of those bongo things. not a drum kit like i'm used to. but it was still awesome. so everyone was practicing because they were going to be doing something special on sunday, and i had been invited to play the bongo. so we all practiced together and it was all cool.

one of the coolest things was the twins. these 2 twin 16 year old girls are both goergous and awesomely cool. and as a bonus they each speak like five languages fluently. evelin is cool because she does drama, she teaches drama for the mission team. and they did this cool drama were this girl got her heart (not physical heart) torn up then they put it in the bible and was healed. and then theres annely (i think thats how you spell her name, correct me if i'm wrong) who is a dancer and teaches dance for the mission team. i never thought i could dance but this girl makes you dance. no, that was not flirting. and her and the rest of the dance group did this cool dance were in the middle they did this little break dance thing. so that was cool.

then kristie, annely, and evelin and our family all got in the car and had a fun trip home. me and annely sat in the back seat together and listened to music and sang along. i'm just gonna say this quick, i'm not a good singer. annely has a beautiful voice but my voice...uh, no. but we sang all sorts of songs in the car, even though one was in arabic and another was in spanish and most of the rest i'd never heard before. and i've gotta say that i was very happy that night because even though i didn't know the words AT ALL, and my voice STUNK, not once did she say anything mean. and we just ad fun, we joked and laughed, it was fun.

so then we got home and since me and annely had had a conversation about anime earlier she had made me promise to show her how to play yugioh cards. so we played 4 games that night and i swear i didn't go easy on her once! but she still beat me 2 out of 4 times that night! so next day we wake up and get redy for peter's birthday party. now i have to tell you who kristie is because you need to know. she works in tallinn at the salvation army in tallinn and is MADLY IN LOVE with peter. and of course, he likes her a lot to. so we had three girls to help us out and they did a wonderful job decorating the house and the cakes, and getting everything ready. and i was supposed to make scrambled eggs and i made the first batch and then kristie kind of took over and made much better eggs than me. so people started coming and everything and we had the party and during the party we heated up the sauna! yes we do have a sauna, in estonia saunas are very important. so we went in the sauna (wearing bathing suits so girls and guys could go in together) and had tons of fun. it was me and 2 other guys and annely, evelin, and meaghan and sarah who are the beautiful teenage daughters of the wittenbergs, the american salvation army officers in tallinn. so we had fun throwing snow and cold water at each other in the steaming hot sauna.

then after the party we went to to aura keskus (aura center), which is a water park owned by a big juice company called aura (thus the name). and we had a ton of fun there was this big thing you could climb up in the water that was almost impossible to climb. so these 2 girls in bikinis had sorta taken over the thing and were just sitting on the top and so all the girls with me (who were not in bikinis) told me to climb up and kick them off so all of us could climb up together. so i went up there and me and my friends yelled at each other in pig latin (becuase even if someone speaks english they rarely speak pig latin) and they told me to just stay up there. so these girls figure out i speak english and just keep saying "go! go!" and i'm like "no, you first". so i'm sitting up there and finally they just get sick of me and jump down. so i have the whole thing to myself but none of my friends could get up! so i just jumped down and went for a swim while they yelled at me. so we repeated this a few times because the girls wanted me to. and how could i deny such beauty? so i swallowed a ton of water doing that and then we went into the actual water park part.

after going on the water slides and stuff for a while we wanted to go in the hot tub, but both hot tubs were full. so we went in the baby pool because it was warm and comfortable. so we're in there and theres these 2 girls in bikinis (it's always the bikini girls, isn't it?) and there sitting close to us and they keep looking over at me and like flirting with me. but i was already with 3 girls, so i came up with this master plan. i looked over at the girls and they're looking at me and i'm trying to look all cool and stuff and then since annely is sitting next to me i reached over and put my arm around her and go "hey girl, how you doin'?". first those 2 bikini girls gave me a look that could have dented a rock, and then they left. and then i'm all excited because i got them to leave and then annely smacks me so hard i swear she lmost knocked me out! i guess putting my arm around her wasn't good idea...

then we went home and they wanted to play N64 (nintendo 64), so we played super smash bros.! super smash is awesome anyway but when your playing against girls...hehehehe, its so dang fun! then we watched Mars Attacks and went to bed. next morning we woke up went to tallinn and tried to sleep the whole trip up. then i finally got to play the bongo for real! and i must say, i did pretty good for a guy thats only ever played one of those things for 2 hours in his whole life! and of course annely's dance stuff was awesome, and evelin's drama stuff was awesome. and the whole time when i was playing the bongo kristie and sirie (she played piano, and i know that i'm spelling her wrong) kept smilling at me and giving me thumbs up, which was good because i was like wicked nervous. and now i'm done. i'm tired of typing. i just thought i should add right here that peter is having a blast with all his new toys, he just does't know what to do with them all! well i'm tired now, Cya.

Peter's 1!!!!!

it's peter's birthday! hes 1 whole year old! go peter! he is the coolest guy i know, seriously. well the best 1 year old anyway. it's his birthday! this is soooooo awesome! if your reading this you should send him like an e-card or something. just send it to mine or my parents email. g2g, Cya

i was just thinking...

...about something completely random. well of course thats old news, i haven't thought logically in years. but this time it was interesting. have you heard benjamin franklin's saying "if we don't hang together then we'll hang seperately"? well you have now. i was thinking, who on earth is gonna hang me if i don't hang out with them? i mean seriously, no ones that desperate to hang out with me. and that whole "a penny saved is a penny earned" stuff is crazy. i mean, i have problems with saving AND earning money. so if i save a penny forever and never spend it then i never really earn it. i just save it...and save it...and save it, forever. how boring is that!? but if i spend it on something cool, like x-box games or mobile phone bills, thats worth it see? well i gotta go, i hope you enjoyed my backword logic. seriously benjamin franklin is...was cool, i just thought this was a funny idea, bye.

this is seriously cool

i want to thank kristie from tallinn, estonia for being the first person to comment on my blog. and thank you for not saying something like "chris, you suck". as soon as i figure out how to put on links to peoples blogs and stuff i'm gonna put on all these cool people's blogs, kristie's, my parent's, and i'll put a link to xbox.com and actsofgord.com...lol, kidding. i don't have much to write so this is gonna be short. i'm about to eat some excellent pizza from this cool place in tartu called taverna. it has 4 different cheeses, the only one i can recongnize is feta but it tastes awesome. now if that doesn't make you're mouth water nothing will. now i'm gonna end this post by officially inviting anyone and everyone to come visit us in tartu, estonia. we really need some visitors, especially americans who can bring us reeses. so whether your american or estonian, russian or martian, come visit us. theres a lot of cheap flights into tallin so just come and visit us. now i'm gonna watch galaxy quest, which i've never seen before but i hope it's cool. Cya.

The Chronicles Of Chris!

man this is exciting! i have my own blog! ok, i'm putting a little notice on my parents blog saying that i started this. i'm hoping whoever is reading this read the last thing i wrote on my parents blog about the camp. if you haven't then this little story i'm about to add will still be funny but it will be better if you've read about camp. so i was sitting in the sauna with this guy raido (pronounced ride-o), who spoke good english and translated for me sometimes, and we were talking about the sauna and he told me this story which he says is true, and i have no reason to doubt him so i'm going to believe its true. so the story is the pope in rome wanted to send some guy to check on the spirituality of the estonians. so the guy comes and at the the time estonia was occupied by the germans. so the german guy in charge has a good sense of humor and so he aranges for the estonians to take the guy from rome to the sauna, you understand me so far? so he gets the full sauna experience, first he gets to sit in the sauna sweating away, then he gets to get beaten (and beat others) with a branch from some special tree, and then he gets to drink kali (a bitter estonian drink made from fermented bread i think). so then after all this he writes a letter back to rome and the pope and saysthis about estonian spirituality: the estonian spirituallity is wonderful. they have these little house built especially to remind themselves of hell. in these houses they heat it up up really hot like hell, then they beat each other with sticks and drink a very bitter drink. i love this story becuase i can understand how this roman guy felt becuase if no one had explained the sauna to me i would definitely have thought it was supposed to remind you of hell. thats a cool story and my first post on my new blog but now i gotta go send emails to everyone to tell everyone that this exists, Cya.