the new years kicks off like a zebra

so its almost through the month of january and like always i barley get the chance to blog about things. sorry you can sue me later :p
so i finished out my stay in karsakov during the holidays, it was a really great town full of nice people. the club president took us to the ohotckoe sea, the coldest on sakhalin, where we stayed in a cottage and i finally got to try long waited for "sauna and snow" there you mix hot and cold temperatures by jumping in snow and then a hot sauna. after this, the brazilian girl and i went to yuzhno to ice skate and spent time with the french girl, the brazilian girl fell 8 times, the french girl, once, and me... none... my feet are canoes. while in the square in yuzhno, there were events for kids to play with and ice sculptures. while the kids were playing, a song played that made me really doubt this nation's english ability. the song was constantly saying "murder!" and the image of frolocking kids running about smiling didnt really suit it. so on the 9th, the french girl had her birthday party, we alll went to a karaoke bar. i really liked this day, as she invited some class mates who got to see me in a new light as we werent in school. i started off the singing with "Roxane" by the Police for the birthday girl... roxane. we had recordings of it, but all the camera men were laughing so hard they all turned out bad. after that, i sang some lubeh songs, my favorite russian band. i sang kombat.. with my friend makcim.. after my trying to pull off american ganster with my class mates while singing a disney song.. (didnt turn out well but was surprisingly funny) i had to leave before i got any birthday cake. it was ironic, the french girl cut 8 pieces for 9 people and said "oops" i said "fine, i understand, you dont want me around" and 5 minutes later (coincidentily) i left :/
so when school started the next day, it was like always boring, except a new schedule made our brains think weirdly, the French girl has come and made the interact club which i wanted to do, i have mixed feelings about it, but am happy it has been done because i am now unable to do it.
as for my english student, she has grately improved, and for a day i had another student, a groen man who needed a job which required english and he wanted to practice, however, he didn't get the job... bummer.. wonder why..???
and now in my neighboorhood we have an ice skating ring... its where i use to play soccer... but now someone (many people) turned it into ice. so now when i want, i can ice skate and play hockey. so the final countdown on my sports life... basketball! i was so siked to finally play baskletball here. i was nervous for every game we had. and because we played ball, we got out of school every day early, i never compalined. our first game however we lost 41-38.. i accidedntly threw the ball into the wrong hoop... but it didnt matter because it was a 3 point loss :p. we on the next three games 42-26, 51-36, 66-28. the last game which was today actually. was the determiner round, if we won we got to go on and play more, if we lost, we ended the season. and as we played the unbeaten defending champs.. a 35-30 loss waited for us... just like that my basketball career in russia was over.. :/
as for language, i am getting really good at it. i am able to talk more with friends, and if you count conversations with pals in school who act crazy with me.. then im fluent i guess :p just would like some bigger vpcabulary and people to stop the english and help more.. but ive found ways to self teach myself when nobody is around to talk to, since ive heard the language enough to know how words sound and have better resources to know meanings of verbs and such. also having to do with the other language... english. when i walked into the library one day, my friend anna said "hello Aaron, what about your next presentation?" "ummm... what?" "we want you back to do another presentation for our english club, either about valentines day or presidents day" "umm... ill do presidents day" and like that i have another presentation to do for english club. and one about the USA for geography class... in Russian! i cant decide which one to work on first or which one to be more afraid of..
and a brief thing i will say about food here..
tounge.... i actually ate tounge... i could sense it tasting me back when i tasted it... i cant believe i ate it.. "aaron you want tounge?" "umm... sure?" munch.... "mom was right... this is messing with your mind"
THANKS MOM!