Sunday, May 30, 2010
Spring!
Hey everyone. Hope all is well in aus and you're all ready for winter. :) Winter is a distant memory, Latvia has transformed and we are well and truly into the summer months. I recently went on a bike ride with my cousin's fifth grade class. It was amazing!! Latvia is so beautiful at the moment. So green!!!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Where am I?
Our thermometer (admittedly in the sun) is showing 34 degrees!!!! Where am I? I thought this place was meant to be cold :) It's soo amazingly pretty at the moment however, I have no pictures to share because I am sick. Which means I am sitting inside staring through the windows at the beautiful weather outside. Hopefully I'll be better tomorrow but ironically the forecast is for rain :(
On another note the Australian posties seem to be having a hard time delivering the letters to me. I have received quite a few very late and a few of them have overseas written on them with an arrow towards Latvia. One suggestion made was perhaps to write Europe on the envelope :)
Hope life is strolling along whistling despite the fact that Winter is approaching on your side of the earth :) Although the Latvians would probably call our winter a grey summer :) Speaking of summer, I only just realised the other day that the summer here is actually quite short. It starts getting cold again in September! I don't know what I was thinking but for some reason I assumed it would stay warmish (around 20) till about end of November and then the snow would fall and I would leave. Not the case my host mother assures me :( I'm going to have to buy another jacket.
Love to all
On another note the Australian posties seem to be having a hard time delivering the letters to me. I have received quite a few very late and a few of them have overseas written on them with an arrow towards Latvia. One suggestion made was perhaps to write Europe on the envelope :)
Hope life is strolling along whistling despite the fact that Winter is approaching on your side of the earth :) Although the Latvians would probably call our winter a grey summer :) Speaking of summer, I only just realised the other day that the summer here is actually quite short. It starts getting cold again in September! I don't know what I was thinking but for some reason I assumed it would stay warmish (around 20) till about end of November and then the snow would fall and I would leave. Not the case my host mother assures me :( I'm going to have to buy another jacket.
Love to all
Friday, May 7, 2010
WE WON!!
I swear I tried posting something the other day but the session timed out. Anyway, in lieu of a thorough update on my life since my last post I'm going to share some awesome news.
My choir won it's division in the finals!!! We are going to dziesmas svētki!!!! For those of you who don't know dziesmas svētki is this massive festival that happens every four years. ( it's really every two because there is the real one and a school and youth one) So basically hundreds of singers come together and sing in one massive event and it is amazing. And we're going (admittedly to the school one but still!)!!!! Check it out! http://www.dziedundejo.lv/
My choir won it's division in the finals!!! We are going to dziesmas svētki!!!! For those of you who don't know dziesmas svētki is this massive festival that happens every four years. ( it's really every two because there is the real one and a school and youth one) So basically hundreds of singers come together and sing in one massive event and it is amazing. And we're going (admittedly to the school one but still!)!!!! Check it out! http://www.dziedundejo.lv/
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