Now don't get me wrong, I've had a wonderful time and recognize how blessed we are to have this opportunity, but it's beginning to feel like a long, long time. I think a good part of that feeling comes from the fact that I am not allowed to carry anything and so don't feel very independent right now. I'm grateful to have Del to tote and carry, but I wish I didn't have to depend on him to tote and carry. Well, boo hoo hoo. Aren't I just something?
Moving on...
We had our last official Lithuanian class today. The guys have to take an exam, so Lillija reviewed and gave us an oral practice exam. What a humiliating experience that was. I had sweat rings down to my waist. I knew I was not studying as I should, but it is pretty embarrassing to do so poorly and be aware that for the vocabulary part, it was pure triffliness. Grammar is so difficult that I can sort of continue to hold my head up, but anybody can learn vocabulary if they want to. Oh, well, I did learn to recognize many of the words I need to get around from day to day, and I can ask how much things cost, etc, so all is not wasted. We will go to the exam and drink tea. I will make some sort of treat, maybe with pecans because Lillija did not recognize them in either English or Lithuanian. I even said both pecans and pecahns to see if that would help. I think it is sort of silly that I say pecans and pecan pie but butter pecahn ice cream. I think because I never had it until I was at college and that's what the other women called it.
It was kind of funny at the bus stop today. A lady spoke to me in Lithuanian and I responded in Lithuanian that I do not understand Lithuanian. She smiled and corrected my pronounciation and told me in perfectly correct, barely accented English that she does not speak English, only German. I get so tickled.
We stopped on the way home from class at our favorite pizza place to have pizza and hot chocolate with nuts. I felt much better after a glass of wine and that yummy chocolate. The pizza is so/so, but our favorite server was there, and we like her. Besides, there is half left over, so no cooking tomorrow.
My tip for today really comes from the late Elizabeth Edwards. And it does not relate to choosing husbands. I did like his political views, however. Thinking about that makes me realize just how much I have changed since I was a very young woman so horrified by Teddy Kennedy's actions that I knew I could certainly never vote for him to the older me who has learned to hold her nose and vote for the person I think will be best for the country, no matter how disgusted I am by personal failings between husband and wife. I still have trouble with Teddy, seeing as how he left a woman to drown, but that's different.
But I digress- the tip. Elizabeth Edwards gave her daughter a piece of advice I wish I had followed. She said that you will never regret choosing solids, and boy is she right! I brought a couple of Chico knit tops that are patterned, and I can no longer stand to put them on my body. I will wash twice as often to avoid them. I plan to leave them here at the Humana when I leave, because it's pretty definite that this aversion is not going to go away.
Tomorrow is 101 day, and have I got a great kid story to tell you!
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