10.12.2006

Today is my half birthday. Not really significant, except for one time 3 years ago when a bunch of my friends went crazy and threw me a random surprise party to celebrate. I don’t know what they were smoking. But I recall it with fondness. I still love boston cream pie and apple cider and fluffer nutter sandwiches…. Sadly, I cannot have any of these things for at least 7 months, unless I got REALLY creative and experimental and was a slave in my crummy kitchen. ;)

My friend bought a puppy for 10,000 rubles today. This is about 5 dollars. They were being sold in the…. metro station… (I love the ghetto-ness of this. After all, this is Belarus, and nothing surprises me these days…)

Tomorrow I am helping throw an international party. Those in attendance will represent America, Belarus, Germany, Turkey, South Korea, Canada, Britain, … and most of us only have one common language: broken Russian. I’ll let you know how it goes…. We will bond over our different ethnic cuisines and an excuse for a party, namely, Christmas. A pretty good excuse if you ask me.