Crazazy

Life is pretty crazazy over here.

I've started volleyball and art school. And so now, taking into account the compulsory procrastination, I have no time to do anything. Art school is a bit of nonsense but it has given me more motivation to learn Latvian. I want to be able to tell the teachers to stop giving me stupid children's projects and to just let me do what I want!! The IT teacher got the message when he saw that I already knew the ctrl-c, ctrl-v shortcuts and so from now on I can do my own projects, the only problem is that all the little kids are using the computers! Once I've sorted out a way to scare them off I'll soon have some work to share with you guys. :)

Last week we had a B'day at school. (Dzimšanas diena in latvian and Gerburtstag in German. Aren't I a poncy multilingual show off :) ) . I've grown quite fond of birthdays and names days because the norm seems to be that the person whose day it is brings in sweets for eveyone else. This is fine with me and I think it's a good move. Instead of giving more gifts than you get each year you receive more :) Especially with all these names days!! For those of you who don't know every name (or most names) have a 'day' and you celebrate on whichever day your name falls. Personally I think it's an excuse for more food and parties but that's fine with me :)

Anyway so one of my class mates had a party and we had a nice cake. And then later they did what I had only ever heard of. The boys all got together and chucked the birthday boy (who was sitting in a chair) up into the air 18 times (one for each year). It was awesome but left me wondering whether it'll happen to me. I can't decide what I think about that. On one hand it could be fun, but on the other hand scary as hell! We'll see...
There has also been a birthday in the family ... Riča the dog's. In my aus family we don't even know our dog's b'day, let alone celebrate it. But here they have a nice tradition. They give their dog a cake. Here is proof.

(If my dog ate this he would explode)
Apparently this cake wasn't as tasty as some in the past, something to do with the quality of the cream. :)

So somehow (seriously I have no idea how, I didn't ask anyone about it) I have managed to join the SRC. It must just be in my blood because the SRC came and found me. And I love it!! The teacher is awesome and basically I just go for her. She spends a bit of time each meeting talking to me in Latvian and unlike everyone else she understands I need everything said twice and v e r y slowly. But SRC isn't just a free language lesson it's serious stuff and I have jobs to do. I'm going to buy valentines gifts for Valentines day tomorrow and I was also chosen (unbeknownst to me because I can't understand most of what they're talking about) to be on the jury to judge the valentines day plays. I'm not sure anyone thought about the fact that I won't be able to understand what they're saying. But I suppose, as I have said before, that bad acting is a universal language.

NEWS FLASH: I have actually done some school work despite my initial intentions to slack off this whole year. I agreed to give a presentation on the great nation of Australia to my English class. I managed to keep everyone happy. My teacher loved the pictures and the depth of my speech while my classmates liked the fact that I took up both English lessons and gave them food. Well, they were keen on the food at first but when they actually tried the vegemite they weren't so happy. :)

And on the vegemite note. I have never liked it but for some reason I keep eating it. Maybe it's because I feel I need to hold onto my inner Aussie.

So it's all smiles over here (I promise/d) :)