#100 on my list of 101 things to do is improve my typing speed. I noticed a thread on Culture Shocked that was about Typing Speed so I decided to take a chance and start on marking another goal off my list. The wedsite I used was this. As of today this is my typing [...]
Archive for June, 2008
22 Jun
Finished Black House Socks, via Flickr
Finished Black Socks1, Originally uploaded by me! So I hooked Flickr up to my blog and decided to share a picture of my finished socks since I have never done that before. The only let down of picture posting from flickr is that I can only post one picture per post, which sucks. Alas, one [...]
16 Jun
The Kitchen Boy
Name: The Kitchen Boy Author: Robert Alexander Publisher: Penguin Books Original Publish Date: 2003 Pages: 229 Stars: 5.5 (out of 5) Sometimes it is difficult for me to describe books, and the kitchen boy is one of those uniquely complex ones, that seems beyond words. On the Surface The Kitchen boy is an eloquently told story [...]
9 Jun
Howl’s Moving Castle
Name: Howl’s Moving Castle Author: Diana Wynne Jones Publisher: Greenwillow Books Original Publish Date: 1986 Pages: 212 Stars: 4.5 (out of 5) I rented the movie Howls moving castle on netflix a few weeks ago and watched it with my friend Pickle, and I simple fell in love with it. Thus after realizing that it was [...]
4 Jun
A viszontlátásra
A viszontlátásra was my word of the day, I repeated it constantly and said it to my coworkers dozens of times each, some of them thought I was mad. It didn’t really matter that A viszontlátásra means goodbye (formaly) I still repeated it constantly. But now I know it and that is the important bit. [...]
3 Jun
First Host Family
I got a letter today in the mail which contained copies of several pages from my long form, including my Country Guarantee and First Host family information and a letter from the Rotary Exchange Hungarian Chairman (in this case I think its a woman). The Exciting information in this letter was about my first host [...]
