раз, два, три... прыгай!

(One, Two, Three, Jump!)

Today was an awesome day! I went to Fishhook State Park today with my friend Jimmy. Jimmy is a friend from SIFE at Walla Walla College. He also was a student teacher in Almate in Kazakstan a few years ago. He is also the one who got me interested in going to Russia to teach. Today we were meeting Luke Hamilton who is a fried of Jimmy's. Luke was a student at a different university, but was also teacher in Moscow, just like I was. Maybe some of my readers in Russia know Luke. He says "привет" by the way. It was really neat to meet him (and his family) today. The three of us former student volunteers had so much fun talking about our experiences in Moscow and Almate. We even got to practice a little Russian - "хочешь арбуз?" We didn't just stand around eating арбуз (watermelon) though. Oh no... we threw in a little insane danger into our sabbath afternoon activities. We decided to jump from a 5-meter high cliff into the Snake River several times. It was a hot day (35°C/95°F), and the water was nice and cool. Should I mention this was my first time ever cliff jumping?