Train Excapades

So let me start off by saying, this def qualifies for Foolishness status.....

So on Tues, I went to Sofia to get some shoppin in. I finished work pretty early, bout 12 or so, and decided what the hell, your bday is tomorrow. I usualy take the bus cuz its closer to my house, and Ive just got accustomed to travelin that way. BUT on this particular day, I figured sonce I was goin to the mall, I should take the train since it will put me closer to the mall which = more time to shop.

And here is where I say a big damn you b*tches for sayin people need to take the road less traveled......

Wouldnt you know, one stop away from where I got on, we stayed at the station for damn near 2 1/2 hours (I sooo which I could caps lock that for emphasis)?!?!?!?! Apparently when we stopped I thought it was something routine, a short delay or what have you. But noooooooooooo something happened to some guy at the next station which prevented his train from moving, thus preventing our train from moving, thus further preventing me from gettin to Sofia earlier to shop. Chain reaction........

Folks got off the train to play cards at a table at the train stop. The ticket checkers started unbuttoning their shirts and gettin comfy, the damn train driver got off the train to start yappin his gums. Folks were drinkin beer to pass the time, or just plain knocked out/mouth open in a deep slumber. And the funny thing is, I didnt dare ask for a refund so I could go take the bus. The seemed almost ridiculous.....

So here I am, playing with my phone, eating chips and chocolate, hoping that someone wouldnt snatch a cute bag that I might want, or take the size I needed and bought something that I could have worn so much better. Finally, the train begins to move. I thought maybe I would see blood/guts/someones head at the station when we passed it, but honestly everything looked to be like normal and I was wondering what the hell could have happened to hold us up for 2 1/2 hours (insert emphasis here)...

So some guy gets on the train and asked me for the time, altho he had a watch on. I suppose he just wanted to make sure his time was correct, altho I really suspect he just wanted to say something to me. And mind you this dude looked to be like 65. So as he is gettin off the train, he extends his hand to me and says have a nice day. I shook it to be polite and said the same to you IN BULGARIAN. That must have been a test to see my skills cuz this MOFO gon tell me that at the stop he was gettinoff at, there is a really nice hotel nearby. At first I thought maybe I didnt hear correctly, but then he started talkin shit bout how his town is so nice blah blah blah and mentions the hotel again. I just shook my damn head and turned away.....the nerve of these people.......

Then I had to go to the bathroom. And thank the lord for those lil tissue things cuz there was NO type of anything that resembled toilet paper. And not to mention the smell. Oh my Goodnes it smelled so damn rauncy in there I almost couldnt use the bathroom.....

Oh so then there were these drunk dudes on the train. They started walkin back and forth from car to car arguin about something. And besides the fact that they were slurrin their words, wobblin from side to side in a drunken stupor and reeked of booz, one dude had the audacity to be holding a freshly poured to the brim plastic cup of beer...ON THE TRAIN. I was beyond stupified......

Train ride from hell. Im takin the bus like I usually do from here on out damnit.....

Rihanna Nude Pics

As if she isnt surrounded by enough controversy, some nude pics of Rihanna have flooded the internet. The nude pics dont necessarily show her face, just a body. So one could argue that in fact its not her. But folks are sayin these pics are her. And because I love to keep my loyal supporters/readers up on the latest, Ive took the liberty to post the link where you can see a slideshow of the pics in question.

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/player4.swf?autoplay=0&tinyimg=http://api.ning.com/files/sehTXWcpNaHCt7kkDJhr8kvrtkRXVy3cHYjFondwe6jCK5jGYr8*1L3ez9x*tIPt*2opEitj2B23WTI1O6ftKtLTi8xcUCuk/6.jpg&Addr=http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos&v=playFLV.php?loc=http://api.ning.com/files/sehTXWcpNaHVTZvT9j0zjkGwnzP0sRd1f7qfpNkotvE7ZP9k2KpbmnHBaAPgRO8g21*Nn81fYCEsn22*X7GES23dC0jtCvIH/tmp110052.flv&play=1&vCode=q3407mZHZrM63Bi4&enctrch=&vl=wshh4iB36MrZHZm7043q&ens=2&vid=15971

The first pic is obviously here actually....oh hey Chris Breezy, is that you?!?!

Watchmen

So I decided to go see a movie this weekend. I saw the Watchmen. Um, Im not gonna even dignify that fuckin foolishness with another word.....

Madoff Madness

I usually try to keep up with the news happening in the US and around the world thru CNN and the internet. I just read a very interesting piece on yahoo news about this Madoff guy. He was denied bail and sent back to prison after he pleaded guilty to 11 charges that included theft, perjury and money laundering. According to the article "The scheme evaporated life fortunes, wiped out charities and apparently pushed at least two investors to commit suicide. Victims big and small were swindled by Madoff, from elderly Florida retirees to actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel."

Thats some ole BUllshit right there....

Anyway, Madoff faces up to 150 years in prison, even tho he is 70 and probably wont even do a sufficient amount of time that will appease any of his victims. His "I am deeply sorry and ashamed" has DEFINATELY come too little too late, and I for one hope this man gets the maximum.

Ive always found it so interesting how "white-collar crimes", such as fraud, bribery and insider trading has always got slaps on the wrist, while you could get caught with possession of like a vile of crack and get like 20 years in jail. I suppose because blue-collar crimes include force, and injured people, then its different. And also, blue-collar crimes occur way more frequently. The law as to catch up to computer crimes and insider trading, cuz when the laws were made, these things didnt exist.
But why should a stock broker get several months or probation from stealing a clients money as opposed to someone who breaks into your home and steals your TV. Aren't they both theft? Aren't there both victims who have gotten something taken away?
I suppose the law is cracking down on certain things these days. The fact that Madoff stole almost $65 billion from his victims is wayyyyyyyyyy different then if I stole say $10,000 from someone (altho that shouldnt be an excuse). And also I think people are realizing the effects that these things have on people. Folks lost EVERYTHING they owned in this lil scheme he had going. Pensions, retirement packages, all folks had left after working their asses off for years and years.......And I know you all remember Martha Stewart. Yeah she got the short end of the stick by doing several months in prison (and I use that term VERY lightly), but that who gave her the tip got like 6 years in prison.

This whole thing is a bunch of foolishness. Money makes people THAT crazy that you gotta steal it from others. And $65 Billion. What the hell could he possibly have done on NEEDED with ALL that money? He is 70 for heaven's sake. Was he buying gold/diamond encrusted diapers for him and his wife?

Again, 150 years is lookin like a just desert for this guy........un huh, deeply sorry and ashamed I got CAUGHT is what his ass really meant!

Pot callin the Kettle Black

Well aint this some shit?!?! I was flippin thru the channels when I came across this foolishness. Some tv shoe actually was doin a story on famed soccer player Christian Ronaldhino (I believe thats how you spell it). They had the NERVE to post these pics with a "Gay-O Meter" which read "How gay do I look?" I believe it was broken down into straight, tutty-fruitty, and I forget the other one.

I find this VERY ODD when I think some Bulgarian men looked gay-ISH themselves. The summer when I first got here (I remember it like it was yesterday) some guy rolled into the ID office with some TIGHT white pants, and a PINK FLORAL shirt. I kept thinkin to myself how "tutty fruitty" he looked. Oh and of course he had some flip-flop/borderline open-toe sandals on. Ive also been out in the club or walkin down the street and have seen men wearing tighter jeans that me, very bright shirts and carrying purses (I believe the correct term is man bag...whatever....).

Aint this the pot callin the damn kettle black?!?!?! (altho I have to admit that first pic of homeboy and the one of him in those black shoe boots look a lil bit suspect. Im just sayin....)

Stop foolin yourself....

Those of you who know me, know that I love the kids right?

WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. That was obviously a lil test for yall. I really cant stand kids. Its the small ones from like age 0 to 14 that I cant stand (I have my reasons). Anyway, for this reason I have no reservations about postin blogs about those lil fuckers, especially my students. I make fun of them all the time (get used to it).

So today, Im in class and I hand back the book reports that my students completed. This one girl, who is one of my weaker students, STILL has not handed it in. She think she slick, like I wont fail her ass. So anyway, I gathered some incorrect sentences from their work and put them on the board so that we could go over them together. I wanted them to try to correct the mistakes first, then we could talk about why they were written incorrectly. The activity went smoothly and the students asked if for the last 10 minutes of the class, they could have some free time.

I obliged and they did they own thing. I look up from my desk, and low and behold, the chick who STILL has not turned in the book report has head phones in her ears, holding up a book entitled "An Outline of English Literature" I seriously had to chuckle to myself cuz homegirl cant write for shit, and really cant say more than Hi my name is such and such and I live blah blah blah. Her english is HORRIBLE point blank. So I found it mighty funny that she THOUGHT she was reading this book. I thought to myself, that shit MUST be a picture book, cuz she is straight foolin herself with that shit.....

Oh the games people play....

Really???

Ok, so yall know I know ABSOLUTELY nothin about cricket (that game stupid). But I was watchin CNN and saw that some cricket team was attacked my masked gunmen in Pakistan. What the hell is that about?!?!

Its bad enough that wars are goin on for no damn reason, and people are dying everyday. But SPORTS PLAYERS gotta fear for their lives now? You cant be serious.

The players were travellin by bus when they were shot at. And I aint talkin bout no lil 45 or 32 calibur. The Sri Lankan players were shot at with big guns, grenades and ROCKETS (wtf). Apparently it was a terrorist attack. Several of the team members were injured, and about 5 police officers tryin to protect the team were KILLED.

SMDH. This is ridiculous........

How CREATIVE am I?!?!

Well what do we have here?!? I always think its good if students can have fun when they are learning. It helps them to feel more relaxed and encourages them to want to learn. So I decided since the students were havin a hard time with some of the new vocab words we were learning, that I would make some games to help them. I slaved until 2AM makin these damn games. I did a "Chutes and ladders" game (pictured below). I even got all creative and made the pieces from Bulgarian change. Then I created a "Vocab Dominoes" game. Like dominoes but instead og matching the same number, you had to match the word by its Definition, Antonym, or the part of speech that it was (verb, adjective, etc).

The second half of the the 10g class seemed to like it somewhat. I played the Dominoes game cuz it was the hardest. You really had to study to play the game. But the first half of the class just got on my nerves. They were totally unappreciative of the games, and seemed bored to death. Now granted, these were learning games, probably less fun than playing one of their many wack ass card games, BUT this is still school. And the point was to help them learn the new vocab. The first half of the 10g class is so much worse than the second half. They get on my nerves for real, but not more than the entire 9g class, they really make me sick!

Shut the *Bleep* Up

You see how that works? The *bleep* in the title of this post is blocking out the bad word (fuck for all the slow bunnies). That is what the *bleep* is for. So we dont hear any bad words, even tho we know what they are.

So everyone who knows me knows that I watch TV from sun up til sun down. At this point I would be totally out of my mind if I didnt watch tv (altho its gettin a bit redundant now). And I watch music videos like its no ones business. So naturally I found it quite funny when I heard several songs where the *bleep* is in the most ridiculous places. For example in the song "Pop Champagne" the third verse by that guy from Dipset (cant think of his name) goes "I wanna see you move, I wanna see you dance. Without that shirt, without those pants" You wanna knwo what the *bleep* was covering

SHIRT and PANTS!

In another song (I forgot to write the title cuz I was laughin so damn hard) the line was something about "sex in the city* and the *bleep* covered....you guessed it, the WORD CITY!

Now this is completely hilarious seeing as how they ferociously play Game's "My Life" and he says nigga in that song about 6-7 times (I counted) with no damn *bleeps* AT ALL (I turn when the song comes on now cuz I dont condone that language).

FOOLISHNESS INDEED!

Alex my little doll.....

I guess you were semi-right. I had one of the English teachers speak to some of the science teachers about a possible science fair. NOTHING. No one has said anything to me about it. Im gonna try to ask myself (once I identify who the hell teaches science here) and see where that takes me.

I would just like to add at this point, that I think the teachers at my shcool are all BS. A lot of them are so unimaginative, and have no afinity for creating things, or doing projects (something learned as a result of when they were students). When I come up with ideas and tell them, they all nod in agreement, and say "yeah, thats a great idea" But when it comes to actually gettin stuff off the ground, NOTHING. No one is available.

And I think its quite funny that PC wants us to do skill transfers and help the teachers learn about projects, and good teaching activities etc. The last volunteer did at least 2 projects for the school, the radio/loud speaker system and the whiteboards. Where the hell were the other teachers when that shit happened? Why didnt they learn anything at that time? When I asked where the last volunteer got the funding for the project he did: "I dont know" I asked if anyone helped him with the project: "I dont know" (altho all the teachers were here when he was here). Well what about project design, did he tell you anything about that: "I dont know anything about it"

Im just about ready to fly solo on this..........

3rd time's the charm.....

Ok folks, so quick review: My name is Shaun. I'm fly as all hell. I love Japanese food, and shopping. I'm black. I love making fun of other people. I'm a racist, but only on days ending in "y." For those of you who know me, this is nothing new. Especially the part where I just wrote that I am black. Clearly I didn't JUST become black. With that being said, lets get into this damn blog post......Oh, and while we are reviewing, this past friday, someone shouted "white power" to me, and while I was on the train, some idiot told me I must have stayed in the sun too long.

Ok, so the 3rd time must be the charm, cuz guess what the fuck happened to me today.....Some lil idiots decided it was the cool thing to shout "hello nigger" to me as I'm walking down the street. Yes, you read correctly......but it gets better.....

I went to buy my students some small gifts. Granted it was freezing cold today and I was dead tired. But I trudged through all that and copped (bought for the "other folks who might not understand) a few nice things for my kids. I'm walking in the square on my way home when some kids just blurt out "hello nigger." So I turn around, and look as they all (3 of them) start laughing. I keeps it moving. Then these bastards decide to through something at me and it came kinda close to hitting me. They ran (punk asses!)

Now I'm livid at this point. Rude and dirty looks I can deal with. Apparently I am the first EVER black person in Pernik. But being called a nigger and having shit thrown at me? Come on now, wouldn't you agree thats a damn stretch? So I get back home and right to my local Peace Corps (PC) staffer letting them know that not only am I fucking boiling with rage, that I do not appreciate this type of disrespect and it really makes me regret coming to Bulgaria. I mean shit I just let those other 2 comments slide off my back, but this. uummm something different.

It took a sec for Chavvy D to call me from the Peace Corps. He tried to comfort me with the usual Shaun you are great, ur beautiful, ur so smart, everyone loves you, we can't do this without you (ok ok gross exaggeration) but you get the point. And anyone who knows me, knows that I can be the biggest punk, cuz when I say I was crying like a baby, I was really in tears. Not only were my feelings hurt, but I almost felt less than a human. And granted I know that I am great, smart and all those other accolades people associate me with, but words hurt. And 3 insults like that in a row is kinda ridiculous. I mean I really felt (still do) horrible. And once I started crying I couldn't stop.

This is the underlying shit that creeps up from time to time. At first it was a curious lil boy stopped dead in his tracks staring at me in amazing while I was eating my chicken wrap from KFC. Then it was a kid while I was walking in the park, shouting for everyone to hear in Bulgarian, "looks she is black." Now its hello nigger and white power. And I mean really folks, the Bulgarian word for black person is a similar word to nigger, but I hear them say Afro-american on tv and the news. So I know somebody has heard of that term.

So tomorrow I will miss work to go to the PC office to "talk" about this cuz clearly that is all that can be done. this is one of the low points in my life. Where being smart or good looking just isn't enough. Cuz people first and foremost see your skin color. And I know that it's not everyone. Not all Europeans are racist. But it does still exist and it's fucked up when good people like myself have to second guess who they are because of the comments of some dip-shit little kids who don't know any better. And although while writing this I slipped in some jokes here and there, this shit aint that funny, its real.

*DISCLAIMER* I do acknowledge the fact that not only white people are racist. Anyone can be racist. There are people who base their thoughts and perceptions on the color of people's skin. I'm reporting to you a first hand experience and these are just my opinions.