Hmmmmmm. What to tell you about me? Well.... I'm a girl. A pretty typical girl I'd say. I'm a first year university student taking Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies. I have four brothers and four sisters, seven of which are adopted. So okay maybe my life isn't all that typical. All of my adopted siblings have some kind of disability hence the reason I am studying what I am. Well that's not the sole reason but that's where it all started. What else? I absolutely love canned tuna. I want to see the world. I plan on having a ton of kids. My favorite colors are green and turqoise. I'm passionate about woking with and advocating for people with disabilities. There. Now you know me. Kind of. If you want to get to know me better you really should just try reading my blog :)
1. Do you have polarbears?
2. Do you really live in Igloos?
3. Is everyone actually super nice?
4. Do you speak French? How can you have two languages? I don't get how that works?
5. OH it's reallllllly cold there isn't it?
6. Do you know the names of the Slovak hockey players playing in Canada?
7. Canada's the really big country with lots of beautiful nature right?
Mix ups
In my seven months of being here it has come to my attention that the three word pairs that give foreigners the most grief are:
SOAP and SOUP
BEAR and BEER
BICH and BEACH
As you can probably imagine there have been many funny moments when these words have been mixed up. "mmmm this soap is delicious!" or "Oh I'd really like some bear right now". So if you have any plans to go anywhere you should know that to foreigners these words are interchangeable. :-)
All the things I've always wanted to but never had the guts or the time to do...
Read
Bake
Play on a real sports team
Para-gliding
Debate
Ballroom dancing
Play Poker
Hiking
Dance in a club
Learn A Language (or two or three)
Act
Go Running
Ride a Horse by Myself
Draw
Actually Fish
Ride on a Boat
Roller Blading
Bike Riding
Photography
All the things I've been able to do in Slovakia from the List Above
Walk and explore
Rafting on a river
Draw (ok maybe just doodle but I have a whole lot of time to do that here and I realize how much I love it)
Skiing (well you've read about those adventues)
Photography (I've taken over a 100 pics since landing in Slovakia and have really gotten to know my camera)
READ!
Bake (including brownies in a microwave)
Play on a real soccer team (or futbal!)
Dance (I've tried belly and theatre dance)
dance in a club (the disco to be exact!)
Hiking (considering I've pretty much climbed three mountains... i think that qualifies)
Learn a Language (okay I'm still in the process but I think it counts...plus i'm learning german too!)
Biking
Being an Exchange Student...
- is fantastic - is meeting hundreds of wonderful people - is giving speeches and writing letters - is gaining weight(or losing) and at times being poor - is seeing a new country and experiencing new things - is being homesick and at times, miserable - is getting tired - is being an ambassador - is personal growth
Haha I tried to rotate them but it failed i guess.... oh well! next time!
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