It's Been a While!

Well, I know this blog post is longgggggggggggg overdue. It seems like Ive just fallen off the face of the Earth. Which in a way is partly true. After that 4th of July post, things got really crazy. Ill try to be brief and catch you all up to speed. So here we go.....

First there was MST (Mid Service Training), yet ANOTHER training offered by PC to help volunteers..um, refocus?!!? I used it as a small get away from my damn site, and a chance to reconnect with Matt, Amanda and some other volunteers to 1. make fun of other volunteers, 2. talk shit about our sites, 3. drink my ass off, and 5. relax and eat on PC's dime, and last but not least, 5. get juicy blog material. And as I suspected, all of the above was completed to a T.

Matt and I hung out as usual and made fun of the usal suspects. But time has turned most of the vols in my group into great candidates for mock and I was actually excited. I took notes to ensure I wouldnt forget anything, but just to move this process along, Ill keep those to myself.

Next was the Diversity session for the new group of vols. I had to talk about being a Black vol in my site and in Bulgaria. I tried to be as honest as possible, and told the new vols about my negative experiences. Other than one black girl who for obvious reasons was very interested in what the hell I was saying, the other vols kinda just listened and kept it moving. I suppose I cant really blame them, at no point in their service will anyone scratch the word nigga down their door, I can guarantee that. But they all just seemed so unphased by what we had to say. Well anyway, Crystal was there and she spoke about her experiences as a Black vol too and after we got to hang out.

Oh that reminds me, another one of the vols in my group spoke. Now Im not gonna say any names or tell who this particular vol is, but I will say homeboy is greatly disallusioned. He had the NERVE to say that while here, he has NEVER felt any type of racism or anything negative due to his physical appearance. BULLSHIT. thats all I kept thinkin while he was talking. He felt that his "positive" experience as a minority here was useful for the new vols to hear. He uses his experiences as a teaching tool to Bulgarians who look at him differently or inquire aloud in Bulgarian what race he is. PURE FOOLISHNESS. I think he is bullshitting himself and choosing not to see that people can be rude or mean to him due to his race. Now thats not to say that because he is a minority that this WILL DEFINATELY happen, but I happen to know for a fact that he had problems with his host family, and it was partly due to the fact that he did not "look like the stereotypical American white male" (his words) and because he closely resembled Roma people (a PC staff members words). Anyway, someone needs to slap some sense into him...ASAP

After that, came Milan, again. Mom was there again and needed me to help with something so I went to chill for a couple days. It was really nice. I LOVE Milan and had such a good time. The food was awesome, we went to this one bar that had the best Vanilla Cosmopolitans EVER, and there were a whole bnunch of sales. I spent way more money than I wanted to, Snapped some nice pics of the city, and even went to a photo shoot with one of the models and conducted a open casting call for a future show in NY. Friggin Amazing....(pics to come soon)

Then I got back Milan and a whole bunch of drama happened with PC. Then I decided to leave Bulgaria for good. YES I know, this may come as a shock to a lot of you, but I am actually writing this blog post from New York. (Ill blog about leaving lata). Now Im lookin for a job, a place to live and wondering how to fit in to a place that is so damn big and has so much goin on. Uuuhhh, my f*ckin crazy life......

4h of July

Happy Independence Day guys!!!! If I've never been more proud than I am now to be AMERICAN, I must have been crazy before....

I can remember having cook-outs in the park near my house when I was younger. My mom and some friends would set up the BBQ thing and we would just play games, eat and chill. It was so fun. Another 4th of July my friend invited me to the United Nations to see fireworks. Her dad worked there and I was so amazed cuz the fireworks looked so damn close to us.

Since Ive gotten older, I havent really payed attention to these holidays much. But I remember goin to the pier in NY one 4th and watched the fireworks. They were really exciting. I do wish I were home now tho, so I could take Tiff to the pier and we could watch the fireworks or do something together.

Well anyway folks, Have a safe and happy holiday!!!!!

Friday Night

Its 8:50 on a friday night. Im drinkin alone. watchin tv, and of course, checkin my email every 4.7 seconds for a new mess.

I wish I had a life.....

FYI Update

Andy Roddick (No 6) has just beat Andy Murray (No 3) I cant believe it! The match was so intense. I thoguht Andy Murray was wipe the floor with Roddick honestly. But Roddick hung in there and beat the Brit. The look on Murrays face was priceless, and it kinda reminded me of when Nadal got beat by Soderling recently. NO ONE SAW IT COMING.

Ok, so Im indeed rethinkin the point that I think Roddick should retire. Ok, actually Im not, he needs to get that poppin....He is facing Federer in the finals, and Ill put any amount of money that Federer is winning that joint. I know it!

Oh, I just finished eating another awesome sandwich and broccoli!!!! It was sooooooooo good. Uuhh, my fat-kid tendencies are just slowly but surely catchin up with me. I need somethin to do....like drink...hahahaha yall already know i got that Green Apple vodka poppin off....WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FYI

Watching the Wimbledon's men's semi final match between Murray and Roddick. Uumm, Roddick, Im SO ready for your ass to retire....Like tomorrow....If you win against Murray, I MAY reconsider. I MAY!!!

Just got ANOTHER vanilla ice cream cake cuz the other one is DUNZO. Damnit, I can feel the pounds just piling on me....

Barf

Just ate a boatload of honey and butter flavored cookies. They were good as hell, but I think I ate too many. My stomach hurts and I might have to barf....

Well maybe just one more....

Major Misunderstanding

Ha cant believe I just blogged about my lil sis being so stupid.....

So Im watching Mad TV, which is a music video channel out here. They do these themed countdowns, and one came on yesterday. Even tho they play BG and English videos, the themes stream across the top of the TV in BG.

Ok, so the No 6 video was Eve-Who's that girl. And thats a throwback, so I was kinda surprised to see it on there. So Im lookin for the stream at the top to see what the theme of the countdown is. It said in BG Top 10 chervenokosi matski. So seeing Eve and then reading that, I IMMEDIATELY understood that to be "Top 10 black-skinned chicks" I honestly was kinda excited.

The Eve video goes off. The next video is by some group named Garbage, and CLEARLY had no damn black people in it. WHATSOEVER! So at this point Im confused. I keep reading the countdown theme over and over again, thinkin, this chick in the video is NOT black at all. So then the No 4 video comes on, and its No Doubt. So Im thinkin now, these MOFO's DEF aint black. What the hell is going on.

Eh hem, Um I read the damn theme WRONG. The words for black and red are very close, just as the words for hair and skin are. So I finally figured out that I was making a mistake. The theme was "Top 10 RED-HAIRED CHICKS"

What an idiot!!! And when I thought about it, In the Eve video and the other 2 thereafter, they ALL had red hair.....

guess the "stupid apple" doesnt roll too far from the tree....lol

Aces Up!

Shout out to my Ace-Supernova. We been chit-chattin it up these past few weeks. She is uber excited im makin my reappearance back in the states.

OOO-OOP~

Oh, I didnt know that....

So um yeah, I was on the phone with my sis today and she said the dumbest thing Ive heard in a while.

So I sent her an email and was expecting a response. Never got one. I decided to call today. So I asked why she hadnt responded. I needed her to print something out for me and wanted to know if she did it or not. So she has one of those smart phones, and can check her email from the phone. She has a registered email account through the phone but she also has a gmail account. So I asked is she printed the paper out yet. She said no, there wasnt any printing paper in the house. So I said why didnt she go to an internet cafe and print it out there. You wanna know what this dumb ass says to me?!?! "I cant cuz its on my phone"

Now Im a bit confused as to what the hell she is talkin bout so I inquire about this statement. She proceeds to offer this long as explanation of how she has an email account through her phone and how she can only check it on the phone and that I sent the email to her phone so she couldnt print it out. But I said "Tiff, I sent it to your gmail account" so she says and I checked it on my phone. So I go, "Tiff, you can check your gmail on the computer. If you go to gmail.com, you just type in your info and you can check your messages ON THE COMPUTER."

Her reply, "oh. I didnt know that"...she was dead ass serious!

WTF?!?! Are you kidding me? You mean to tell me that you SERIOUSLY thought you could only check your messages from your phone and that was it. Did you NOT know that gmail was created by Google, the global search engine. Oh My fuckin goodness.....

This shit right here, is a PRIME example why kids really need to stay in school and their education. I was relaly in disbelief when I heard homegirl say that hot shit. I mean damn, how dumb and unaware can one be. I tell you boy, some of these kids today aint concerned with nothing else but lookin fly and the latest new dance move.

Foolishness in my own home.....damn!

Kudos

Its an all Williams final at Wimbledon folks, prepared to be amazed. I was on pins and needles I must admit watching Serena battle her way through 3 sets against the 4th seeded Dementieva. Elena took the first set and I was literally screamin at the tv for Serena to get her damn head in the game. After almost damn near 3 hours, Dementieva fucked up and Serena came back to take the game. Whew that was close.....

So then Venus plays the world No 1, Dinara Safina. And seriously, homegirl is a joke. She lost to Venus 6-1 6-1 in UNDER AN HOUR! She only came to be the No 1 cuz Serena had a few injuries that didnt allow her to compete in a few matches. She damn sure wasnt ready to face Venus and it clearly showed. So, now its an all Williams final. As much as I love Serena, she looked a lil rusty and amateur-ish on the court today. Suffice it to say, she got her work cut out for her. Even with that leg brace Venus was sportin, she looked to be in top form!!!!

Uumm can I just take a sec to talk about this sandwich I made today. OMG so damn good. Toasted wheat bread, smoked ham, feta cheese, mustard, pickles and tomotoes. So damn good.....