November 5, 2012
Hej, bok family!
After my check-up on Friday, I can declare that I am back to
complete normal! We got on the 8:30 bus and got there at around 12:15 (it
wasn't an express bus, so instead of about 3 hours and 15 minutes, it was about
3 and 45...) And then jumped in a taxi to go to the doctors. They did another
urine sample and all came back okay. So hopefully I never have another Kidney
stone again! After, we had lunch at the office, did some stuff there for a
little bit, caught early dinner at McDonalds and then caught a bus back to
Zadar. And this was a weird bus. They played a movie...a strange one. It was
something about Nazis living on the moon planning an attack on Earth and moving
their plan forward by teaming up with Sarah Palin, who is the American
president. So yeah...Space Nazis taking over the earth with the help of Sarah
Palin. It was freaking strange. But it wasn't as bad as the last one. It was some
weird movie that had English audio. So even without watching it, you are
subject to f-bombs every 45 seconds. But the worst part about this movie is
that it was a relatively short movie (figures...where is the plot gonna go in a
movie like that?) on a relatively long ride....so it played 3 times. It was so
obnoxious.
That's cool about the ward split, even though it won’t affect
anything...especially me ;).
That's cool about the cat. He seems pretty cool. I can imagine Simon
wanting to play with him. I wonder if he'll calm down, or if he'll hate him
forever like JoJo does.
Guess what? Even if I get the box early, I might actually wait until
Christmas to open my stuff!
Wait...is that a typo that Jesse graduates from Basic in November? (It is...the correct date is January) Isn't it usually 6-9 weeks? That's cool that he's going to do in San
Antonio...in November. It would bite to do it in the summer there.
That's crazy that the election is this week. I'm kind of sad to say
it, but I'm completely clueless about the whole situation. I've heard bits and
pieces from senior couples and Sis. Rowe. But besides that, not much. It'll
maybe be exciting. That's cool that you dodged Jury duty. That would bite. I
had to go to extreme measures and leave the country to get out of mine back in
March ;).
So question time:
Questions for you:
1. How goes teaching?
Better. We got in while tracting. We got let in tracting and had a
lesson with an old couple. I don't remember the woman's name, but the man's
name was Z*****. They were really cool, but they had the annoying, "Well,
everything is good and correct" thing going. It's kind of funny how it's
more frustrating when people believe everything, rather than nothing. At least
when they don't believe anything it gives you somewhere to go....But they were
really nice and said that they would tell their family about us, so we'll see
what happens.
2. Are you eating enough?
So far....
3. Do you still look the same??
Uh....I dunno. I would assume so. Nobody has ever questioned my
passport yet, so I'm gonna say, yup, still look the same. But I guess you'll
find out in little less than 2 months!
4. Do you still remember how to speak English???
Unfortunately yes....and even more unfortunate is that my English is
still far better than my Croatian.
5. Notice how the question marks are getting progressively
more????
What???????????
So we had a pretty good Halloween party back on Wednesday. We pretty
much just carved pumpkins and ate refreshments, but it was still fun. We tried
to make a "Stick your hand in the eye balls" sort of game just to
mess with the kids. So we over boiled pasta and threw in some cooked mushrooms
(they smelled terrible by the way) and mixed them together for brains, and then
we peeled grapes for the eyeballs. We would have made more things, but it was a
bit of a last minute idea in the first place. For refreshments, Elder A made a pretty elaborate chocolate cake (his mom is a baking master of sorts)
and I made some caramel and cut some apples. Caramel doesn't exist over here
except for in candy bars, so I had to make it from scratch. It's not the best
stuff, but it was decent. Especially if you’re a Croat and have no concept of
what caramel is or what it should taste like. I think it's funny when we make
desserts for them because none of them can take too much of it because it's all
way too sweet for them. It's just our little chance to show them what dessert
should really taste like.
Thursday was Svi Sveti (All Saints Day). That was pretty cool. I
took pictures, but don't have my camera. We went to the graveyard and checked
it out. Everyone brings candles and puts them everywhere...that's pretty much
my basic understanding of the holiday. It has something to do with praying for
souls in purgatory or something like that....But they put
hundreds of plastic candles together and inevitably they melt and catch fire, so
we got to put out a couple of fires at the cemetery.
English class seems like it'll be pretty good. We had 7 people show
up to the first class and 3 came to the second class (It was on All Saints Day,
so we figured as much). They all seem pretty cool...
Funny story: I don't know why, but Elder A went to ring a doorbell
last night, and it shocked the you-know-what out of him. Something weird was going on with that
building mixed with the rain, because the next door did it again. I just put my
finger near the button and could feel it. It was funny to watch him push the
button and flip out though, because I didn't know that could happen.
Another one: So we were sitting in our apartment a couple of weeks
ago, and Elder A asked me if I though that I could dodge a bullet, I said
yes, so he chucked a pen at me and I hit it away with my hand and the pen just
broke into pieces, so on Saturday morning he was joking around and asked if I
could do it again. I said yes. Well he faked me out once and then threw it. I
thought he was faking me out again...Well to make a long story short, I didn't
dodge or flinch at all and the pen nailed me right in the middle of the
forehead and made me bleed a little bit. It hurt a bit. Now I have a scab
between my eyebrows. If it had been a bullet, I'd be dead. Guess I need to
practice more.
I'm trying to think of anything else. I think that's about it for
this week. I love you all a bunch! I bet I'll remember a bunch of stuff I'm
forgetting right after I log off, but maybe for next week!
Love you all!
P.J.
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