Well, I thought sense I blogged about a typical day at the start of my exchange I would blog once more about a day that I have had.
I am going to blog about my Monday, April 4th, 2011. This wasn't a typical day but it was a busy and fun day that I have had!
8:00 am, Time to wake on up and get myself ready for school. This includes the usual shower, do my hair, find something clean to wear, and then possible grab something to eat (I am not a morning eater, never have been)
8:50 am, look at the clock and realize I missed my bus...My bad.
9:15 am, Take the second bus, better choice actually I get to school still with plenty of time! Only 15 min from school by bus at this house. (I am currently at my counselors house again due to some other stuff but I will be back home on Sunday)
9:40 am, I arrive at school only to find out my choir concert, which I thought was after lessons, was at 1100h. Meaning I got to miss my, canceled history lesson, my window(break/lunch lesson) and my Lithuanian Lit lesson!
9:50 am, I hurry to change out of my blue dess shirt into the required white dress shirt for concerts.
10:00 am, I have roughly 45 min repetition of us singing and going over the songs we are going to sing at the concert.
10:45 am, we hurry ourselves down the street to the University because that is where our concert is being held. It was some sort of German thing and we sang the European national anthem (in German, YUCK!), another song half in German and half in Lithuanian, then two songs in Lithuanian. We ended with Vasaros jūra (summer sea), otherwise known as the fish choking song. Because when Eva first translated it, that is one translation it could have been. About a fisherman choking a fish and the fish begging to be let go. When, in reality, it has to do with love and a man in love with a women and her telling him to let go but he is saying how he can't.
*Side bar: I dislike singing in German! I can handle singing in Lithuanian but German, not so much. They make all these difficult sounds when pronouncing their words. It is much MUCH easier to sing in Lithuanian. Okay side bar complete*
11:30 am, After our wonderful performance me and a few other choir mates decide before heading back to school we will go and get something to eat. We go to a Chilli's Pizza Cafe, I attempted to order my spicy mexican soup in Lithuanian but I got nervous and my words kept getting all messed up and with them all watching me so I awkwardly had to give up half way through the order and just ask in English. It was okay we just laughed it off, and went on with enjoying our meal.
12:35 pm, I go late to my Math class, but it is okay the teacher is very sweet and didn't mind at all. We are learning Trig, what fun! NOT! It is all that; Sin, Cos, and Tan, with the formulas and solving for stuff. I didn't like it in English and surprise, surprise I still dislike it in Lithuanian.
1:10-1:15 pm, I am done with math and get to go to my next class, gym class! It was a very easy day. Just a choir concert and then three lessons. I had a double lesson of gym class.
So in gym class, we got to go outside and do our warm up run out in the arena because the weather is just beautiful! After our run, we went back inside. I would have preferred to stay outside and played soccer with the boys gym class but we couldn't do that. Instead we played volleyball, we just did some drills and practice for the first lesson. During the second lesson we were joined by a couple of the boys from the other class and played a volleyball game! I am actually not to bad at volleyball, I do very well usually when it comes to serving the ball over the net, on occasion I hit the ball to high but usually it is nearly perfect.
*Side bar: Okay, nothing against volleyball it is a fun sport BUT I would have much rather have been playing soccer. It is a sport that I enjoy more. I like the running, bumping into people, stealing the ball, making goals, throw-in's, and just the excitement of the game. Side bar done*
4:00 pm, I walk over the my bus stop and wait for a bit until my bus comes. The one bad side of being with my counselor is that the buses to his house runs only twice an hour or sometimes once an hour. Unlike my usual home which has at least two trollybuses I can take from my bus stop or a few others but I just have to switch to another trollybus later on if I take on of them.
4:30-5:00 pm, I put on some water to heat up and get my tea ready. I have become accustomed to drinking tea after school, before school, during school, at night. I just over all like tea now. Especially dark tea with a tiny bit of honey or lemon in it. Yum!
6:00 pm, Dinner/Late lunch, We had blynai which is a potato pancake and then we added meat inside. It is good. I like them more with fruit but this was good.
7:00 pm, I start or well continue working on my history project. It is about the USA and some historic things that are interesting or just interesting things about the USA. I am including; The Roaring 20's (mostly about us banning alcohol which I guess is interesting to some of my classmates), baseball because they just don't seem to understand the joy of baseball plus it is the start of baseball season and I miss it and from there I am lost of ideas, I need to speak for like 45 min so I need more I just don't know what else. Any ideas?
10:00 pm, we eat supper, it is pasta with cheese and tomato sauce. Their tomato sause is like ketchup but more runny. Plus I had some more tea.
Now it is around 11:00 pm and I am just about finished and going to go off to bed. Well maybe go off to bed but at least finish this up. Good night all!
Also, I found this great author of a cook book, Beata Nicholson, she is Lithuanian but married to a British man and now living in England. I am going to hunt the internet for an english copy of her cookbook because there are so many yummy things!
Night, night don't let the bed bugs bite!
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