Man do i love Tallinn....

Yo, just got back from another long, boring trip to Tallinn only this time i have a god story to tell. this story will prove i rock. this story has to do with angels, coke cups and hessburger. confused yet? good!! let me explain. at four on saturday i was supposed to meet up in raekoja plats (town square) with my friends Anton, Anelli and Evelin. on my way walking there i saw a strange sight. angels!! not the halelujah kind of angels but more the chicks with foam angel wings strapped to their backs type. i flashed them a smile and one of them gave me a flirty little wink and i walked on. after getting to raekoja plats i called my friend Anton and he rode up on his bike and we went to hessburger to meet up with some friends of his who were advertising what he said was "sweet angle" candy. i said i had never heard of sweet "angle" candy and asked if he meant sweet "angel" candy. he did. so we went to hessburger and bought some cokes and sat down with our two fallen angels (fallen because they were on break and had taken thier wings off) and talked about anything and everything (they didn't speak english so my poor brain got quite a work out pumping out all that estonian) until in a acft of extreme boredom me and Anton decided to show them "the cup game". if you've ever watched "zoom" in america, or spent much time with me in estonia then you probably know the game. it was fairly lonely at first, just the two of us passing the cups accross the table all to our own rockin' rythym (is that how you spell the word?) until two random girls sitting at the table behind and to the right of us said they wanted to play too. it was true love at first sight. one girl had the same bracelet as me (you know, the "P.U.S.H. pray until something happens" one) only hers was green. so now with six people we played the cup game until our hands were numb and the hessburger workers gave us nasty looks. it was quite fun. so then after this our angel friends went back to work (they were advertising on viru street...hmmm. sorry all non-estonians that a estonian only joke) and me, Anton and our two new girlfriends, Ragne (i think) and maria (i think) went fr a walk through old town and finally ended up in a park i never knew existed and sat down on the grass to eat some mandarins. so we sat and talked and the girls decided that they wouldn't talk to me unless it was in estonian, forceing me to practice more estonian (my poor brain) and i learned a new verb, jalatama, to stalk. because me and Anton were stalking these poor girls. not that they minded much. they asked us to come. but anyway as we talked more i heard that they were going to the Rebecca St. James concert that every other christian in the country except me was going to. not that i don't like Rebecca St. James, i just don't want to scrounge up 200 kroon for a ticket. so then we split up (so sad) and they refused to give anton their phone numbers or E-mails ("i forgot it", what flirts estonians are) to Anton but the one girl, Ragne, gave me her E-mail. so i feel very proud of my skill with the feminine side of humanity. but the only problem is she said i can only E-mail her in estonian, that should be interesting.

anyway, this whole experince made me start thinking about my three favortie "school" subjects. these are extra curricular studies that i take on for the pure love of the knowledge i gain from them. first of there's cultural studies. which basicly means getting my butt into the culture. which really means hanging out with estonians. so every time i go out with friends its school work. it's cultural studies, duh. then of course there is music studies. which goes hand in hand with cultural studies because it mean listening to my friends musi and seeing if i like it. at the moment on my MP3 player i have some deepack (don't ask what deepack is, i still don't know) which i am listening to because my friend Ats is a fan of this type of music. plus this particualr song (DJ Noiserr vs. Deepack-The Prophecy (Qlimax Anthem Pumpin' Mix) whew, long name) has this wicked cool part where this dude goes "what? over? did you say over? NOTHING IS OVER UNTIL WE DECIDE IT IS!!" and then the music goes all cool. and thats just cool. and then my third and final extra curricular study, which is by far the most important, dificult, dangerous and enjoyable. i call it female studies. no, i'm not talking about female BODY studies, no need for that. i mean study of the femal mind. which means see the way all you nasty smelly chicks react to things. like right now your reaction is "i'm not smelly!!" see, i've been doing my homework. at the moment i'm in the middle of a very important experiment. this experiment is seeing how girls react to me not hitting on them, not staring at thier chests and basicly treating them almost the same as i treat a guy. the results are very interesting. i now hang out with many more girls than even my great imagination could dream of. so anyway i have no clue why i wrote all that. maybe now my mom will know that when it looks like i'm not doing any school work it's really "music studies" or something like that. so i'm gonna go now, bye bye!

kas coke paneb eine rokkima? ei!! mina panen elu rokkima!!

I tottally rock!! so here is my rockin' certificate just in case you didn't believe me. i just love to brag and show off so...yeah. isn't that a pretty picture?

Post #150-My life is no longer pointless...i now have FOUR WHOLE POINTS!! (6 ECTS)

i rock. as in totally, completely, without even the tiniest doubt, rock!! why am i suddenly so optimistic about my rockingness? because sitting in front of me on the desk here is a certificate from tartu university that says very simply "Chris Clark, you ROCK!!!" or more like "This is to confirk that Mr Christopher John Clark participated in the Estonian Language Continuation Course for beginners taught by Ms Katrin Jänese from Fegruary to May 2006 and completed the course on 17 May 2006." now tell me that doesn't rock, i dare you. if you do i'll just bust you up with some tricked out advanced estonian. because today, i rock! do you notice they called me Mr Christopher? isn't that a horrible little rhyme? but whatever. i just want to thank you all SOOOOO much for praying for me. i don't know how else i would have survived the test. unlike my last test where i freaked out and failed all my past tense i walked in there, looked that test in the eye and punched it square in the nose. this time i was a COMPLETE success. and now that i have the bragging rights (a certificate from tartu university is definitely bragging rights for a 16 year old) i will brag more. there were like 20 people in my class and barely any of them got the certificate. but i did. maybe 5 out of the 20 got certificates for passing the class. i was one of them. i rock!!

but that's not all my certificate says, it also says "The course lasted for 15 weeks (60 contact lessons) and yielded 4 credit points (6 ECTS)." now i have no idea what the heck a ECTS is, but i know that i now am in the possesion of 6 of them. and i do know that credit points are good for universitry and college junk, and i possess 4 of them too. isn't that impressive? of course my dad made a joke out of it which i thought was funny, which is pretty rare with my dad's jokes so i'm gonna tell you about it. after we got the certificates we went to papa pizza to celebrate and while we were waiting for the pizza i explained to elizabeth how awesome it was that i have this certificate and i tried to explain the points to elizabeth and so i said "elizabeth, i have FOUR WHOLE POINTS!! do you know what that means?" and of course my dad had to cut in and say "it means your life is no longer pointless." haha, very funny. but anyway that is true, my life is no longer pointless, i am worth four points. so now i have official bragging rights and i'll never shut up about it to anyone. i thought maybe a good way to show off would be to turn around translate this whole post into estonian but i don't want to start getting annoying so i won't. so anyway, i'm gonna go now, thanks for reading and praying!!

Hey, guess what? Today is the last day off my Estonian class!! Yay....kinda.

today at four i will start my final Estonian class, which is good because it means less work, but bad because it means i have to take the final exam. i am not looking forward to this. i failed my last Estonian test and i had been so confident. now i'm not at all confident, so i'm hoping that means i'll pass. i really can't fail this time. that would really suck. i really want to get the certificate that says "You're so smart you finished a university language class!! whoop-dee-doo, hooray for you!!" because then i wil be kinda officially able to wave that in someones face whenever they call me an idiot and say "i don't see any papers say you went to, and completed, any university level classes, punk, so don't mess with me. ma räägin eesti keelt!! (I speak estonian)" so yeah, i need that certificate. which means i've spent all day today trying to study for the test and catch up on my missed homework, which all needs to be turned in by four o'clock or i fail. but i'm doing preatty good. i only have one more homework assignment left. but anyway i'm WICKED NERVOUS!!! so can you do me a quick favor? just really, really quick? around 16:00 here in estonia and 11:00 am in New York i'm going to be starting this test, so if you coul just say a tiny little quick prayer that i keep my head and don't freak out and mess up the test? because i am really, really nervous. thanks for that. i'll Cya all later.

signed with dove (who wants love anyway?)
Chris

beware the ides of...may?

don't beware the ides of march, they rock. it's the ides of may you've gotta look out for. rain, plants growing, maret's birthday, and ants everywhere are all reasons to beware the ides of may. right now it's raining, and raining, and raining. and yes, i have gone and danced in the rain, it was most enjoyable. so anyway today i had to commit the unforgivable sin, do the ultimate evil, the thing most abhorrent to me. i had to MOW THE LAWN!!! AHHHH!!! no!! anything but that! well i had to, it had to be done and no one else could do it. so anyway for the first time in months i pulled out the old lawn mower and filled it up with gas. and then i got down to the problem of fixing the handle. last year i broke the handle somehow and lost the pieces so it couldn't be fixed and ever since have mowed the lwn useing a lawn mower with a broken handle. i've tried everything to fix it. i've used sticks to hold it together, grass to tie it together, and even the little twisty things that comes with bread to hold it together. they all worked. for about 10 minutes. so today me and my dad put our heads together to figure out a way to get that handle to stay on. so my dad went and poked around the shed until he found a big long screw and a plastic thingy that fit together loosely, but well enough to hold the handle on. well, that's only half true. it held the handle on until i actually turn on the lawn mower. i found this out when i started mowing the lawn and felt the handle break, then heard the sound of bits of plastic flying out of the lawn mower. the plastic thingy holding the screw in had fallen off and because i'm so inteligent i ran it over. oops, there goes my fixed handle.

so then i went inside to try to find my dad to put our heads back together but to my great dismay i found out he was in the shower. so i went outside, pulled out my mp3 player and put my head and my mp3 player's headphones together and i came up with the most inteligent idea over. i would use the world's greatest invention, the most powerful weapon and yet the most useful tool. something strong yet small, flexible yet (almost)invincible. i used...a rubber band. i love rubberbands. i always have a bag of them handy just in case. if i get attacked by big meanies i can shoot them with rubberbands. if i need to tie stuff together...rubberband it!! so i went down to my room and pulled out three wonderful red rubberbands, i then went out and useing all my rubberbanding skill rubberbanded the handle back on. i rock!! rubberbands rock!! so then i mowed the lawn as i listened to all sorts of fun music on my mp3 player. and now i'm done, it stopped raining as i blogged so the day is beautiful again. now i gotta go, Cya!!

Scroll down to see all the pictures and read about Maret's birthday.

I have no idea what we're laughing about but it must be pretty funny. i hope you enjoyed these pictures, if you would like to wish maret a happy birthday comment on my blog and i'll make sure she gets it. so anyway, one last time lets say "HAPPY BRITHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MARET, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!"

Here's the cake!! maret didn't know that we had a cake for her so we had to bring her back to the house without telling her why. when she kept bugging us we joked and said me and liis had just fallen in love for no apperent reason and had a date, but wanted to bring friends along for some strange reason. it didn't work. she still bugged us to find out why we wanted to bring her home at five. but it worked, and she had a nice birthday surprise. (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!)

"Happy Birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you look like a monkey...and smell more like an elephant. (HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARET!!!!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARET!!! yesterday was may 15th, or maret's birthday! it was very exciting, it included ice skating (not), pizza (yum) and washing dishes (yay!!) this is a great picture of her eating her cake (notice me on the left) which i will put on a picture of in a minute. we got so many great pictures i have to show you some more. this particular picture maret specifically asked me NOT to put on my blog (she reads it so she'd know) but i'm doing it anyway. this picture is just too awesome to not put on my blog. so anyway here's more pictures!!!

It's officicial!! As in officially kinda more official than it was yesterday, officially!!

it's official? what "IT"? well "it" is a two letter word which in y opinion deserves much more use than it gets...but i'm sure that's not what you mean. i actually have two official "its" today, the first you already know...and the second is a great big, really big, super duper big, just plain old big anouncement!! the first one is this. i am officially moving to tallinn. there's now way around it. do you know why it's more official now than it was yesterday? because i just packed up the most important thing, my most prized possession, to go with me to tallinn. i have packed up...MY X-BOX!!! NOOOO!!!! NOT THE X-BOX!!!! now i must officially move to tallinn because i can't play it in tartu anymore. it's packed up in it's box (the "x-box box" or "XBXBX" which looks much cooler.) and the x-box box is taped shut for two important reasons. first of all so my darling x-box doesn't become a smashed-box on it's way to tallinn. and second of all so that even if i am dying from the need to play it i can not get to it. well if i really needed to then neither tape nor box could stand in my way. but anyway, the box is all boxed up in it's box, so i must officially follow it to tallinn. sorry tartu girls, where the x-box goes, i must follow. lucky tallinn girls....

but anyway, what is my great big, really big, super duper big, just plain old big anouncement? you really don't know? well of course you don't, i haven't blogged about it yet! this summer i am going beyond tallinn...beyond estonia...beyond finland...beyond even america...this summer i am going to a place where no man has gone before, the wild coutry of...Canada!!! Vancouver to be exact. i'm going to take over canada, using a suitcase and a backpack. sound exciting? i bet it does but that's not really what i'm doing. i'm doing something a million trillion ga-billion times cooler, salvation army battle school!! no, i won't be shooting guns. no, i won't really be taking over canada. i will be getting hands on training in salvationism. isn't that cool? check out http://www.armybarmy.com/pdf/BattleSchool%20brief.pdf to read for yourself. this is gonna be awesome!! and you know what is awesome about if for YOU!! yes YOU!! YOU get to read all about it, right here on my blog! as often as i get a chance to blog that is.

on june 23rd i will fly out of helsinki and start a trip that will take me from helsinki finland, to london england and then straight to boston USA. and i haven't mentioned the best part yet, i'm going alone. i've never flown alone before, so this will quite an experience. then i'll spend a week in america with family (hey family, who wants me? e-mail me and let me know!!). and then july 1st i will fly out of boston and get my butt to chicago where i will switch planes to go to...(drumroll please)...VANCOUVER!!! and then i will spend some time with my family in canada (who i've never met but hey, anything to add to the adventure right?) and then on the 4th of july, rather than celebrating america's independence (we've been independent so long who cares anyway? oops, put down the gun!!) i will be in canada starting...BATTLE SCHOOL!!! awesome, huh? so anyway now you know what i'm doing this summer and i need to go, my parents are stuffing thier faces with chips and i want to get in on the action so, Cya!!

Blogging on my mobile? Am i nuts? (Yes)

here is a blog post that i wrote in SMS form on my mobile phone, which i think is wicked cool. so anyway here is my blog post written while outside and on the phone, i hope you enjoy it.

"here i am at raekoja plats in tartu, putting my "sensual" new phone to good use. i just decided to start writing a blog post on my phone, simply for lack of anything better to do. right now the spring festival, "kevadlaat" is going on here in raekoja plats, which means three deffinite things:music, crowds and souveniours. and all of that in large quantities. i am sitting on the front steps of the town hall enjoying the view. this is what i see: in front of me, beyond the statue of the kiss students is a small orange and blue stage, upon which is playing a rather traditional looking five piece band (accordian and violin included). the music isn;t exactly my style. but it's not horrible. in front of me now is an awesome looking group of Estonian national dancers in full traditional Estonian dress. those guys always look so cool to me. i'm loving checking out everybody's t-shirts, everyone has something interesting written on thier shirt. i of course have my super cool "mida oli? what's up?" shirt. besides the alwasy popular smattering of Navitrolla shirts one popular is the "F.B.I. Femal Body Inspecter" shirt. i don't really understand the appeal of this shirt because it seems to me that by wearing this shirt you would freak out any females you might wish to inspect! come on guys! but the strange thing is that every guy i see wearing one of these shirts is with a girl! should i get one? maybe girls those shirts attractive? if you girls think i should get one then comment on this post and let me know. now i need to go because my two friends, ats and maret, are bugging me. so Cya!"

and there you have it. a whole blog post written without a computer, isn't it cool? even though it took forever and i barely got any writing out of it. whatever, i'm gonna go now so Cya!

I am now officially "sensual"!

Guess what!! i finnaly got my "sensual" mobile!! there's a picture of it right there, isn't it "sensual"? the website says "stylish and sensual" and it is definitely that. it's so cool...it even comes with a calender!! which leads me to a question...when is YOUR birthday? because i want to put EVERYONE's birthday in my phone. so far i have my dad's, mom's, sister's, brother's and three different teenage girls (one blond, one brown haired, and one who keeps dying her hair and i have no clue what color it's supposed to be). but i want more!!! i'm in insanely in love with this phone. it has 21, no joke, 21 cool ring tones!! plus a ton of picutures. and despite the fact i've only had it a rough 24 hours i have already completely modeled every single one it's features to fit my preferences. it rocks!! anyway that's all i really wanted to say, just wanted to let you know i am now "sensual", and you my stop me on the street and say "hey dude, that is one sensual mobile!!". so Cya all later!