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Sooo. Guess what!! I converted a friend to start stretching with me!  The guy she’s been hanging out with does break dancing and I was just doing like handstands and trying some moves with him last night, and I think that got her into stretching!  She has a similar body style to mine and I think she can get pretty flexible if she just works at it!  This is so exciting!  I hope she sticks with it so that I can have a stretching partner!

Besides that…I have been learning Russian!  I really like it..it’s pretty different from English.  All the symbols represent sounds, and you just put the symbols together to make a word.  Of course there’s rules like with any other language, but it’s neat.  So far I can only say simple words like, ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, ‘thank you’, etc.  I’m getting there!  I actually have better handwriting in Russian than in English…although it might be because I’m not used to it and want to write it correctly.

And…I just found an awesome job online today!  It’s a student assistant position at the Berkeley Lab!!!  I’d be assisting an O Chem postdoc researcher with his…research ahah.  It pays pretty good and the description says the schedule is flexible…I hope I get it!  It would look good on a resume as well.

Anyway that’s all I wanted to share for now.  Bye!

Hace frio!

I was actually productive today!  I drove up to the mall and went to Barnes & Noble and got this Spanish-learning set; it has cds, a booklet and a dictionary (I already have one though).  I want to start getting some languages down; it really sucks when there is a language barrier between people.  I figured I’d start with Spanish since I took 3 years of it in high school and have the basics down; I just need a refresher for the easy stuff.  It would really help if I had someone to talk to though; everyone I know personally can only speak English.  Boo.  I know my mom wants to learn too so maybe I can talk to her.

I also bought a book on how to speak Russian which I think will be relatively harder since it isn’t based on the Latin alphabet.  I also bought a calendar!  Of wild cats!  Can’t go wrong with cheetahs, leopards, lions or tigers.  May is a leopard; although I would have preferred a cheetah. 

I’m not really looking forward to school just yet; I have 2 weeks left of break still though.  Well I’m gonna wait for my food to digest and then I’m gonna stretch for the day!

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