I'm happy!!

do you know why i'm happy? one simple reason: YOU!! you make me smile!! thank you guys for complimenting me on my estonian. and thank you guys for reading my blog. i checked my E-mail this morning and i counted 1...2...3...4...5 comments on my last blog post. wait a minute, did i say 5 whole comments!! whoa!! that rocks!! thats 5 comments in less than 24 hours!! that's slightly impressive!! and i have this to say about your comments: maret, i am never getting you any tsiki, so don't get your hopes up. Kristi, i am not really good at speaking estonian, but i can write it okay, thank you very much for the compliments (big smile!!). pia, mida kurat on kumbki? ja kas kurat on paha sõna? ma õpin see sõna telekast, ja ma ei tea kas on paha või ei. Anneli, i can't believe your phone got stolen! i'll get that little punk someday...or he'll get me, either way, whatever. nice to hear i'm cracking you up, that is always my goal ("GIMME SOME SUGA', I AM YO FLAVA'!!"). and you, little ms. anonymous, this is, i think, your third time commenting in what i believe to be russian and i have one thing to say, quit it!! tell who you are!! ja leblu tebia too i think, but i wont know until i find out who you are! whatever, now i'm gonna go play internet pool with my friend Evelin, Cya!!

I got a...digital camera? And soon a...sensual mobile? what?!?

I know some of you got very excited when i wrote that i had a girlfriend, and then were dissappointed when i said it was a lie. so now here is truly exciting news, i have a digital camera!! is that awesome or what? through a long set of circumstances that i don't want to explain this camera was stolen from my parents and then returned broken. they said i could keep it if i could fix it, so i did! and as an added bonus i get a sexy picture of Vanilla Ninja that whoever stole the camera took! (i know who you are, thanks for the pics of your dog.) rockin'! and also because of another long series of events that include my mothers phone getting lost under a pile of laundry and my phone being broken i am getting a new phone! and lucky mister me only has to pay half of it!! so anyway i am now getting a brand new phone that the nokia website describes as "stylish and sensual". sound exciting? now i'm scared that i'm gonna be walking down the street talking on my phone and some chick will walk up and say "hey man, your phone is sensual!!" "jou kutt, su mobiil on sensuaalne!!" or something like that. because princeton's website tells me that the definition of sensual is "sexually exciting or gratifying" so i'm gonna be very sexually exciting as soon as i get down to Tele2 and get the phone. by the way, that's a picture of my new-phone-to-be up there at the top of this post. i hope it's "sexual exciting" enough for you, it is for me so i love it.

now anyway i need to explain something from my last post. in estonia we have a wonderful company called "Limpa" that makes all sorts of wonderful drinks, such as limonaad, tsiki, and briki. here is an awesome way of looking at thier products, check out the link! http://www.limonaad.ee/tooted.html
now the two newest drinks from Limpa are Tsiki and Briki, which are advertised in the greatest commercial since "Purk on lahe!! Jee, Jee!!" where the Limpa pig is in a spaceship with two "sensual" (love that word) young ladies and singing them a beautiful song that goes something like this: "tule beebi, ole minu tsiki!! tule beebi, ole minu briki!! tsiki briki, oh tsiki briki!!" which would be translated as: "come baby, be my tsiki!! come baby, be my briki!! tsiki briki, oh tsiki briki!!" or that's my best translation anyway. and then of course the commercial ends with him burping in a most sensual manner, just like me! now i know why estonian chicks like me! i remind them of a pig! oh wait, that's bad...so anyway as a conversation starter i always ask this simple question: "mis on parem? tsiki? või briki?" and everyone has a fun opinion. aga kogu aeg ma ütlen et tsiki on parem sellepärast et ma arvan tsiki on natuke magusam, ja see meeldib mulle. võibolla tsikil on maitse rohkem nagu sidrunid, ja see meeldib mulle väga palju. sidrun paneb eine rokkima!! i'm sorry but i'm not translating any of that, if you are really dying to know then E-mail me at chrisjohnclark@juno.com, okay? and here is some homework for every in estonia, comment on this post and answer this question: mis on parem? tsiki või briki? ma tahan teada mis on rohkem populaarne. siis palun, palun ütle mulle mis sa arvad on parem. not translating that either unless you E-mail me. so anyway i've gotta go eat lunch now, tsau to all!

Hi, my name's Chris...yup

Yesterday was a very good day. in my opinion it was anyway, i don't know about the rest of you but i sincerly enjoyed it. so i'm gonna blog about it. yesterday i woke up around 9 and freaked out. i had estonian class starting in about an hour. and then at 2 i had to retake my estonian test. crap! so i jumped out of bed, shoved some food down and got ready for class. forget about homework, i just had no time. so i got to class and survived that fairly nicely, despite my nervousness about the test i would take later that day. so after class i went home and studied simple past in estonian language, which is actually not at all simple. ja ma ei teadnud seda("and i didn't know this" done in perfect negative simple past), so i failed it on my test the first time, but this time i think i passed. so after studying and eating some delicious "fantaasia" (fantasy) pizza from pappa pizza i went with my dad to retake the test. he had missed the first try so this wasn't a retake for him, but for me i knew what was on the test and i knew what i had failed. simple past, negative simple past, translation from english into estonian and conditional mode. nothing to hard, just that i was too lazy with it. so anyway i went and took the retake and apperantly out of everyone in my class i got the least wrong so i took the shortest time retaking the test and i was out of there in half an hour. since my dad had to take the whole test he was still going to be a while so i whipped out my trusty MP3 player and went for a walk up on toome hill and visited all the famous landmarks. my favorite part was when i walked across angel bridge, because i don't remember who but someone once told me that if you hold your breath and make a wish as you cross the bridge the wish will come true. so of course i made the obvious wish, not true love, not eternal happiness, i wished to pass my estonian test. and i feel quite confident i did.

but that wasn't the whole day, now at 3 i went and met up with my dad after his test and because we had got a letter saying we needed to go to toll control (really fun in estonian "tolli kontrolli") we went to see what they wanted. it seems that last year when my school books were sent from america to estonia one book, just one, was not taxed right and so we owed the government 17 kroon, about $1.50. so because of all the fun post-soviet beurocracy we got to wait almost an hour while they worked out all the legal junk just so we could give them 17 kroon. which to me doesn't seem logical for several reasons. first of all, how much to they pay employees per hour? much more than 17 kroon. how much did it cost for the paper, envolope and ink to send us that letter? maybe about 17 kroon. so that was very illogical waste of an hour. but i enjoyed it anyway. despite the fact that we were on the edge town in the middle of nowhere i went for a nice walk with my MP3 player and stopped into a tiny little store to buy myself some tsiki which sorry to all you estonians but my keyboard won't let me put in that wierd little "sh" s and every time i try my blog starts publishing this post. and as i was walking there and back i made myself look absolutely insane to all zero of the onlookers, singing along with my "X:Christian Rock Hits 2006" CD which i had just put on my MP3 player. and i have to admit i did really scare some birds because i'm not the greatest singer and so i seemed quite scary walking down the path belting out sanctus real's song "everything about you", going "EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU, IT TAKES MY BREATH AWAY!! HALLELUJAH!!". i'm glad there were no other humans around. and as i sang and walked and drank my tsiki (ma arvan et tsiki on parem kui briki) i thought and planned this blog post. and i thought of something, we christians are really lucky. we have all the best love songs. maybe mainstream music has all sorts of great sexual songs or whatever but i think we definitely can't be beat when it comes to love songs. and so i thought about this and i found the logic, God is love, God's followers sing him great love songs, logical. so...yeah. that's that. so now i'm gonna go, i'll see you all later, buh bye!!

Just a quick thing...and a quick request

sorry i haven't been blogging lately, tons has happened but i've just been lazy. and even now i'm not gonna tell you guys much because i dont want to take the time to write. but i do have a request. there is no prise for this but this is more important to me than getting E-mails and picking the "one blog reader to rule them all". my friend Ats is having some troubles and for privacy's sake i won't go into detail. but there's something you can do to help my friend, can you do me a favor and just pray for my friend Ats right now. God will know what you mean. if you could do that it would be great, thanks,

Chris

Sorry, i couldn't help myself! I'm so talented that i made this myself (not drew it, just edited it) and so i had to show it off. This is one of my all time favorite phrases so i just had to share it, hope you think it's as funny as i do!

I got a grlfriend!!

okay, so that's not true. sorry for lying, i know i'm horrible. but anyway here's the truth, in estonian class i finally got paired up with one of the university chicks!! yay!! we had to work in pairs and i got a german chick as a partner!! believe it or not it wasn't as exciting as thought. she was blond (fake blond i think) and had too much make up on. she actually really reminded me of my friend sarah wittenberg if she would wear too much make up and not be cool and american. for some reason this girl made me doubt she'd ever listen to linkn park, unlike sarah (numb!!). but anyway we talked a little bit because we finished our dialogue before everyone else and she asked me you the basic stuff, "so your the youngest in class? how old are you?" 16 "do you like estonia?" yep "blablabla..." the stuff people always ask me. so anyway i just wanted to brag and let you all now i got paired up with a unversity german chick in class, isn't that impressive? no, guess its not. but whatever, i finally did figure out past tense in class today, so i will definitely pass the test on the retake. well anyway i gotta go now, Cya!!

Whats an essay?

Wikipedia.com says an essay is this...

"An essay is a short work that treats a topic from an author's personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. Essays are usually brief works in prose, but works in verse are sometimes dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711) and An Essay on Man (1733-1734). Many voluminous and famous works refer to themselves as essays (e.g. John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)).
Virtually anything may be the subject of an essay. Topics may include actual happenings, issues of human life, morality, ethics, religion and many others. An essay is, by definition, a work of non-fiction, and is often expository."

today i had to write an essay. i had to take a test for the international school, and the main part of this test was that i had to write an essay. now for my i love writng, i mean what am i doing right now? writing. i like to write. and i've won a writing contest in the past, not only do i enjoy writing but i've been told i'm good at it. but today i had only two things i was allowed to write about, some dumb poem and some dumb excerpt from some dumb book. all in all very dumb, dry, boring stuff. but had to write an essay about one or the other. at least i had some choice. so i decided i could squeeze more out of the story excerpt than from some short peom so wrote about that. it sucked. i wrote 519 words about it and i was done. that thing was crap. my essay made no sense. it was all over the place. and i'm sure it would have just bored any one who read it. but i did it, and thats what matters. my big problem was this: what's an essay? i mean i know what an essay is but how am i supposed to write an essay about a poem or a story excerpt? i could have written a great piece being critical of the poem or the story, but an essay? what did they want me to do? analyze it? write my opinion and thoughts of it? i dunno. i kind of mixed all that. it wasn't great but whatever. as long as its done. but now im tired, i've written enough today. i'm gonna go now, bye bye!!

The one blog reader...to rule them all!!! (plus a lot of other stuff)

so its been decided, much later than i wanted but still, it has been decided. the one blog reader to rule them all is...(drumroll please)...Reet Lõpp!! it has been unanimously decided by all of us here at chris chronicles (all one of us) that Reet lõpp is undoubtably the one blog reader to rule them all. i have no picture to share with you but whatever, if i picture says a thousand words than maybe after i'm done with this post i'll count the words and have a thousand. Reet E-mailed me in response to my asking for E-mails, which made me very happy. therefore we must all aplaude her.

*aplause*

but wait!! we have to do it in estonian!! i'll show you how, it's quite simple. just just go...

*aplaus*

yay!! now you know how to aplaude some someone in estonian, just chop off the E. Reet refered to herself as a 31 year old "old granny" in her E-mail to me but i just met her on sunday at kolgata church and i can safely say, no, that would be a incorrect statement. she teaches phychology to kids my age, so besides the fact that she is the one blog reader to rule them all that makes her very cool because i used to want to be a teacher. then i thought someday i might have to teach a kid like me and that scared me away from the idea of being a teacher forever. *sigh* so sad. but anyway can i get one last round of multilingual aplause for...

Reet Lõpp

The One Blog Reader, To Rule them All!!

*aplause*

*aplaus*

whew, so anyway, now that i've finally written about my best blog reader, and hopefully made all the rest of you feel really nasty for not E-mailing me, i can explain why i haven't blogged in so long. it's like a joke i once heard...

dude says "did you know the biggest problems with you are that you're ingnorant and apathetic?"

I say "no, i didn't know. and i don't really care either"

i'm just too lazy and stupid to keep pumping out blog posts. i enjoy it and it helps me slow down and sort out the chaos i call my brain, but it takes energy, and lately i've felt very zapped of all energy. i'm dead. bla. and the only reason i'm blogging now is for lack of anything better to do. no one interesting is on MSN, and most of the other people i don't talk to unless they talk to me first. and all games have lost thier shine, which makes me quite annoyed with reality. and all my music feels old and stale. and worst of all is it is now april, which i've been waiting for forever, and despite the fact that i do feel better i don't feel best yet. i've been learning this in estonian class. hea, parem, kõige parem, parim. good, better, best. but whatever. i doubt thats ever going to happen anyway. but speaking of estonian class...

failure! as in, i failed! last monday i had my first estonian test in my tartu ülikool (university of tartu) estonian class, and i found this monday, today, that i failed. i didn't fail horribly. there were 12 sections on the test and i only failed 4. suposedly i only had to get 60 percent of the test right to pass but...i didn't do perfect on the other 8 parts so i guess thats why i failed. but i only have to retake four parts. i failed at simple past, negative simple past, some simple translation that i just did too quickly, and conditional mode of words. all simple enough but i was overconfident. "your over confidence is your weakness" says luke skywalker, "your faith in your friends is yours" replies the galactic emperor. i always am very confident before, during, and usually after something. but a few days later when i get the results...confidence fades. so now i'm feeling like crap about that, even though i know i shouldn't. because i know i'll easily pass it on the retake...(there i go being over confident again). and this puts me in no mood for tommorow's tests. tomorrow i have the distinct honor of attempting the tallinn international school of estonia math, history and english tests. which reminds me...

if you've been paying attention to my blog you'll know i will soon be moving from tartu estonia to tallinn estonia. and with this move comes many oportunities. one of them is school. for the majority of my life i have been homeschooled, but in the last two years i have found it...lacking. i'm not one of those people looking for a academic challenge, no, far from it. give me easy please. but the loneliness and self motivation of homeschooling in a foreign country is just too demanding on my limited brain. i'm having trouble surviving. so i have recently been considering going to the internation school either part or full time. but man is it a hard choice. i know many of the students at the internation school and half want me dead (don't you love phone calls where you hear some german twerp a foot shorter than you say "come to to tallinn so i can kick your a**" and where you are forced to reply "i would but i wouldn't want to get deported for ripping off a kindergardener's head") a quarter think i'm a loser ("you frickin' loser!") and the other quarter likes me and say the school sucks ("this school is hell!!") so i'm not sure what would be a good choice. because i know that no school is perfect and the students of any school would call it hell. so anyway i'm taking some tests to even see if i could even fit in my own grade level because they have this "rigourus IBO diploma programmme". so anyway i am feeling very negative about school at the moment but i feel happy that i blogged. i'll be back someday, hopefully tomorrow, but for now...

goodbye