Uprising...We're on the hunt!

Internationally renown FSU Marching Chiefs.  Watch the precision of the snare drums up front.  The song is called "Uprising." It starts with one snare and then spreads to the whole line.  

Public Transport

This is before it gets packed!  I can't begin to describe the aromas that you can experience, especially during the summer months.  I'm glad that I'm tall and my head is higher than everyone else.  Poor stephanie is armpit level

Another sign you're not in America anymore...

When was the last time your pharmacist brought you a cup of coffee and invited you to chat for an hour and a half?  Mine did today!  As much as I miss the convenience of walking into a Walgreens or CVS and getting medicine as well as some other items, you can't beat the hospitality of the people over here.  

Our new assignment: re-create this 1970's Russian masterpiece for our tutor

When we asked our Russian teacher if she knew the song about the red rose that we recently heard in a Russian movie, her face lit up as she began to sing it for us.  Then she asked if she could use my computer to look this beauty up on Youtube.  Stephanie is going to slip into her white dinner gown, and I am going to sport the all black look with the handsome white dinner jacket. We're going to re-create this song for her!  There's not going to be a dry eye in the classroom.

He's my King!

Never a dull moment with me around

After getting in a taxi today, I went through the normal routine of greeting the driver, telling him where to go, and asking him how he was doing.  To which he replied, "sizin Turkje çok güzel."  I thought he was asking me how I liked Turkey, to which I responded (with an Italian hand gesture) "çok, çok güzel." Which means very, very good.  Then I heard some laughing in the back from Stephanie.  She asked me if I knew what was just said.  She informed me that the driver originally said that my Turkish was very good, to which I replied, "yes it is, very, very good!"

We all got a good laugh out of it, even the driver--he still said my Turkish was good, but we all know he was trying to be nice. 

The elephant in the room....learning language

Yes, another post about language learning...

As I sit here thinking about how slow I am learning the language, Veta helped put things in perspective.  The poor girl is constantly getting told to go somewhere, do something, stop doing another thing, and she has no idea what's going on.  She's just trying to pick things up from pointing, voice intonation, and body language.  Pretty much like what were doing!

So, maybe I'm not as slow as I think.  After all, children listen for 2-3 years before they start speaking...and it's years later until their vocabulary allows them to speak well.  Is this a cop-out that I am thinking this way? :)

Our whole family is in this language learning thing together!

It's that time of year again! Go Noles!

I know that some people won't understand, but for those of you who do...We're BACK!  I'm trying to teach Veta the chop as we speak :)