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im at the point in a study abroad in which they call the end of the honeymoon phase. which is all too true.
russia is less enchanting. i ate mcdonalds. [a rare occasion in the USA]
russian is really hard. and everything reminds me that i don't speak the language.
i guess this is really tender subject right now for me because of this:
i don't understand anything on the phone. at all. because there is just a bunch of slurs. and murmurs. and i can't see how they are acting. well. here i am. listening to my dear maggie talk to me. and what do i say, "good, i'm glad" to? oh, just the fact that her father is in the hospital with a heart attack.
please. let me just go crawl in a corner. i feel so horrible. i don't even know how to help. and, i guess all i can do is pray. so, reader friends. please find somewhere in your heart to pray for maggie and her family. and, pray that she will be able to let me do something. like make dinner. or something. i just want to be able to help.
luckily i just ate dinner at my professor's. she is amazing. she has helped me realize that i can progress. it has been really hard for me. i've felt amazingly discouraged because of so many circumstances where i have had no idea what was being said to me. but luckily i can keep pressing forward! i still have 6 weeks to improve my russian. slash my whole life!
and soon i get to start my ethnographic research project. which i decided on interviewing women and if they feel as if the media and men expect them to be stick thin. Becky and I have realized that women here seem a lot more confident with their body. we also have realized that there are an amazing amount of skinny skinny minnie girls here. and we just want to know. our professor likes our idea. so, we are going to run with it. if any of you have some ideas, hit them at me!
and since i have been here, i talk to someone somewhere at least once a day about the gospel! which is a great testimony builder. like when one of my professors asked me today: what does your gospel believe is the meaning of life? [why can't people ask easier questions? haha]
thank you everyone for your prayers! i guess this post was less peppy. but i really do like it here. its just been a hard week. and, i just still feel so badly about what i said to maggie!
russia is less enchanting. i ate mcdonalds. [a rare occasion in the USA]
russian is really hard. and everything reminds me that i don't speak the language.
i guess this is really tender subject right now for me because of this:
i don't understand anything on the phone. at all. because there is just a bunch of slurs. and murmurs. and i can't see how they are acting. well. here i am. listening to my dear maggie talk to me. and what do i say, "good, i'm glad" to? oh, just the fact that her father is in the hospital with a heart attack.
please. let me just go crawl in a corner. i feel so horrible. i don't even know how to help. and, i guess all i can do is pray. so, reader friends. please find somewhere in your heart to pray for maggie and her family. and, pray that she will be able to let me do something. like make dinner. or something. i just want to be able to help.
luckily i just ate dinner at my professor's. she is amazing. she has helped me realize that i can progress. it has been really hard for me. i've felt amazingly discouraged because of so many circumstances where i have had no idea what was being said to me. but luckily i can keep pressing forward! i still have 6 weeks to improve my russian. slash my whole life!
and soon i get to start my ethnographic research project. which i decided on interviewing women and if they feel as if the media and men expect them to be stick thin. Becky and I have realized that women here seem a lot more confident with their body. we also have realized that there are an amazing amount of skinny skinny minnie girls here. and we just want to know. our professor likes our idea. so, we are going to run with it. if any of you have some ideas, hit them at me!
and since i have been here, i talk to someone somewhere at least once a day about the gospel! which is a great testimony builder. like when one of my professors asked me today: what does your gospel believe is the meaning of life? [why can't people ask easier questions? haha]
thank you everyone for your prayers! i guess this post was less peppy. but i really do like it here. its just been a hard week. and, i just still feel so badly about what i said to maggie!
You can do it Kylie! You are learning a lot, and not just about Russia. These are the experiances that will form your character. Thanks for posting, I love reading it with James and Charlie.
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