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I Have the Best Students
Tonight in my English class, we were talking about catering and food. We were all super hungry, and my students suggested going to Kroshka Kartoshka after class. These are small vending trailers on the street that sell baked potatoes. Don't laugh, I'm serious... and these are good baked potatoes. Anyway, my students asked me if I wanted to come with them. After realizing they were not joking, I grabbed Navina and we headed off into the cold Russian night.
Actually, we rode in one of my student's car. I had forgotten what it was like to ride in a car, since it was over two months since I've been in one! I felt like it was the first time I had ever been in a car, as we sped dangerously fast down the wide Moscow avenue. We came to the restaurant Moo-Moo, which was quite a step above the primitive baked potato wagon I was expecting. I wrote about Moo-Moo recently, but I'll reiterate that it is a cafeteria with some darn good food!
Navina, I and the two students we rode with were met at the restaurant by two more students. I ate two bowls of Borsch tonight, and also had good things like banana cheesecake and Georgian mushroom salad. I love my students. We had a fun time talking about life and food and jokes. Our Russian still is quite bad, and their English isn't at a high level either, but it was definitely a ton of fun. I love doing this job, but I am nonetheless looking forward to coming home in a few months too.
posted by Excalibur at
02:33
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6 Comments:
That sounds like the coolest kind of atmosphere! Lots of friends, jokes, love, happiness--the kind where life seems good, the world normal, the people fantastic. The kind where you wish you could hold the experience in slow motion, never missing it, always able to drag it up in 3-D, the kind you wish you could step back into the mirror, back to the past, and indulge in your senses as you laugh and eat your food, and then afterwards, wishing each other good luck and good night, heading home alone with a smile pasted on your face, looking up into the cold crisp night sky as the street lights flash down on you, climbing up to your apartment, turning on the light, and the smile is still there, even as you blog about it.
yes, I know. I miss those times myself. But I still roll around in the good memories, the lasting taste, of the good times.
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Qwerty, at 00:57
Qwerty, You have a way with words. I think you just augmented my memory of that event in a really good way. Yeah, it was really wonderful. I have been a bit pessimistic of things recently, but when I stop and think about how good life has been to me here, it makes me shake my head in amazement. I have a lot of good friends. Things are good. Life is good. Praise the Lord.
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Excalibur, at 02:05
Yumm....cheesecake.
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cowgirl, at 07:07
But thank you Excalibur for your praise... it was a good solid pat on the back and makes me feel all glowey inside! I'm diggin' the words of affirmation, I am, I am.
I love Garrison Keillor just because of his choice in words--he has a beautiful descriptive way that gently takes one right into the scene he is depicting.
So. Cowgirl, meet Excalibur. Excalibur, meet Cowgirl. you guys are formally introduced. one is in Oklahoma, the other, Russia. I went to school with both, and am pleased to know both. Cowgirl works on soil samples and other stuff because Oklahoma is suing Arkansas because they claim AR is dumping chicken crap into their water system, which the grand people of the city of Tulsa drink every day and flush their toilets with. She's an independent contractor to see if there is a huge waste problem, and if so, how to fix it, and if not, to prove it. Its really quite fascinating to hear about it--she brought up some issues I had never thought of, and actually semi-changed my mind on the topic once I heard some more straight-forward facts from her. Oh yeah. And she's a pagan meat-eater along with my brother ;O) and I'll never forget that description from her because it cracks me up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (btw, I DID NOT come up with those words... SHE DID!!!!!!!)
Anyway. Never accuse me of bad introductions.
in response to Cowgirl....
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I hate cheesecake.
p.s. I managed to reformat BOTH my blogs! I had tried for a long time before and had never figured it out, and suddenly, this time around, it was extremely simple and logical to figure it out. Humph.
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Qwerty, at 09:11
Thanks for the intro. It is fun to make new friends. So if meat-eating makes one a pagan, I guess I'm a PAGAN too!!! (Although it is usually limited to fish). That's alright, let him "whose faith is weak only eat vegetables". (Romans 14:2)
Speaking of tasty but sinful foods, weren't you complaning about clothes never fitting you because they are too big? Cheesecake would totally solve that problem. You should try some, its delicious too. :)
So, you are involved in a waste water management case? Interesting. My grandfather was a civil engineer that specialized in that. Talk about a crappy job. Actually, since he was the superintendent of Tacoma's water works, he worked in a nice office, rather than over the tanks of s***. He even has a water engineering award named after him!
Yeah, blogger lets you do a lot of customizations. I need to see if I can make these comment pages use the main blog template. Ciao!
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Excalibur, at 13:37
Do I hear a blatent smashing of my egotistical self going on? Fine. I'LL JUST STICK WITH MY VEGETABLES THEN YOU PAGAN MEAT-EATER YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! :O)
So I tried Salmon for the first time at a reception last quarter. And it was gross. I heard for some its an acquired taste. I used to think everyone were vegetarians when I was a kid. My my. What has this world come to these days, with everyone eating out of the flesh pots of Egypt (I think it was Cowgirl who told me about the time she visited the SDA church and they said that, or some SDA said that to her? If it wasn't her, it was ROBERT. Wait. I think it was Robert. He also was the good devout Baptist who made the comment as we passed the "Last Chance Baptist Church," that "yup, after THAT, there's HELL!!!!" Robert, Gina, and I were good friends back at good ol' NSU. Nostalgia. I think I'm still in () marks, so I guess I'll end this long paragraph with a ).
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Qwerty, at 00:38
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