I made another friend today! It never rains, but it pours. Today at lunch, Reid tried to get a group of kids together to go see a movie, but every one cool had been out drinking the night before and wanted to go home and take a nap. Because I'm lame, I had a relatively decent sleep (as far as all that goes) and I was totally up for a movie. However, Reid wanted to go and study for the GRE for a little while first.
So after school, Reid and I met up with Erik, who was also heading over to the Amerikanskii ygol for some hott GRE action. This made me feel really guilty because I brought my books with the best intentions of studying and taking the test and applying to grad school for next year and actually having something exciting like loans to look forward to rather than working for PP&R. However, it's really hard to get shit done over here. I've been tired, and it's always so much easier not to study and I'd pretty much decided that maybe I was actually okay with taking another year off, now that I'm back in school again. However, Erik dropped the bomb that it's not in fact too late to apply since pretty much every thing's due around Jan 1. So I'm thinking that maybe if I start to get my shit together and invest some significant time and money in the internet café, then I could have something to do next year. This is a lot of extra work and stress that I'm not sure I want to do and that I'm not exactly looking forward to. But, if all the cool kids are doing it, at least I'll have company.
On the way down to the ygol, Reid related his opinion of Claire, which can be summed up in the following story. Reid and a couple of the other kids joined one of the gross, overpriced gyms here, and they all had to go together to pay and get the student discount and all that good stuff. However, instead of waiting for the group, Claire takes off ahead of the other four and is done with her tour and negotiations by the time everyone else gets there. Reid said that this wasn't really what bothered him; she wants to do her own thing, fine, that's cool. However, it was when they all had to discuss $$ and she kept speaking in Russian that nobody else could understand that he got pissed off. Finally, when they were fully able to demonstrate her superior command of the language and that they did, indeed, need her to speak English so that everybody was clear on what was happening, she did switch to English. And the first thing she said was.... Does anybody want to guess? C'mon, it's priceless. "Oh, I guess I do remember how to speak English after all! I thought I might have forgotten!" As Reid said (to me, although it would have been much better said to her), "Of course you remember how to speak English, you dumb cunt. It's your fucking native language. You don't 'forget' how to speak it after a month." I like Reid. He's pretty okay.
So, it turns out that the American Corner (where there's a GRE and other standardized test study room) was closed, so Reid and I walked over to the movie theater and investigated what might or might not be playing in English and determined that there was nothing we wanted to see that wasn't super expensive and playing super late at night. So movies another night. Since Reid doesn't like to go home (his host family is out for most of the day and he gets lonely in the apartment by himself) we walked around a little bit, went to the internet café and gave some very cursory glances at some grad schools, and then got some food and headed for home.
Stupid grad school.
So after school, Reid and I met up with Erik, who was also heading over to the Amerikanskii ygol for some hott GRE action. This made me feel really guilty because I brought my books with the best intentions of studying and taking the test and applying to grad school for next year and actually having something exciting like loans to look forward to rather than working for PP&R. However, it's really hard to get shit done over here. I've been tired, and it's always so much easier not to study and I'd pretty much decided that maybe I was actually okay with taking another year off, now that I'm back in school again. However, Erik dropped the bomb that it's not in fact too late to apply since pretty much every thing's due around Jan 1. So I'm thinking that maybe if I start to get my shit together and invest some significant time and money in the internet café, then I could have something to do next year. This is a lot of extra work and stress that I'm not sure I want to do and that I'm not exactly looking forward to. But, if all the cool kids are doing it, at least I'll have company.
On the way down to the ygol, Reid related his opinion of Claire, which can be summed up in the following story. Reid and a couple of the other kids joined one of the gross, overpriced gyms here, and they all had to go together to pay and get the student discount and all that good stuff. However, instead of waiting for the group, Claire takes off ahead of the other four and is done with her tour and negotiations by the time everyone else gets there. Reid said that this wasn't really what bothered him; she wants to do her own thing, fine, that's cool. However, it was when they all had to discuss $$ and she kept speaking in Russian that nobody else could understand that he got pissed off. Finally, when they were fully able to demonstrate her superior command of the language and that they did, indeed, need her to speak English so that everybody was clear on what was happening, she did switch to English. And the first thing she said was.... Does anybody want to guess? C'mon, it's priceless. "Oh, I guess I do remember how to speak English after all! I thought I might have forgotten!" As Reid said (to me, although it would have been much better said to her), "Of course you remember how to speak English, you dumb cunt. It's your fucking native language. You don't 'forget' how to speak it after a month." I like Reid. He's pretty okay.
So, it turns out that the American Corner (where there's a GRE and other standardized test study room) was closed, so Reid and I walked over to the movie theater and investigated what might or might not be playing in English and determined that there was nothing we wanted to see that wasn't super expensive and playing super late at night. So movies another night. Since Reid doesn't like to go home (his host family is out for most of the day and he gets lonely in the apartment by himself) we walked around a little bit, went to the internet café and gave some very cursory glances at some grad schools, and then got some food and headed for home.
Stupid grad school.
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