Sorry about not posting yesterday, but there wasn't that much to tell so I decided to put Thursday and Friday together. Thursday was kind of like a bye... there wasn't that much to do, but yet I was busy all day. I didn't have anything going on that day, so Guna and I decided to go shopping for Saturday. 2mrw Guna and I are going to the orphanage in Ergli, to color some of the young girls hair, and do some makeup. There is also rumors that a couple boys need haircuts but we'll see how far we get. But yeh.. we decided to do this all on our own, and I'm so excited about it. The only bad part is we have to catch the bus to Ergli at 7... which means I have to get up earlier, and then walk to the bus station with a huge bag! not real excited about that! ANYWAYS... back to Thursday. So i walked into town, we went shopping, then walked back to my house, where we were goin to make plans for Marvin's going away party on friday night. and we ended it up watching small Diks, for late in the night, becuz the parents were in Riga. so lets just say on a regular basis, small Diks hate me. he wants nothing to do with is english speaking, foreign exchange live-in sister. unless i give him gum, which i use as a tool for bribery. but anyways last night we got on just great, he played with me, talked to me... sat with me. and he and Guna even taught me how to count to 10 in latvian. i'm quite proud. so ill have a couple pix of the rocking out we did to Paramore. I'm on the sax and he's on the electric guitar. and we are both headbanging! it was great fun. and then there is also on of me walking to town. did i mention it snowed?! so Friday, the plan was for me to get up and go to the salon in the morning, like most days. then Guna would come and we would talk to Initina about my hair, then we would so shopping to get all the things for 2night. sos we did our shopping, quite a bit, might i add. and then we walked back to my house to do some baking. Guna was goin to make a chocolate cake and i was goin to make chocolate-chip cookies. little did i know this simple recipe would prove to be quite a job. so first of all in latvia they don't have regular vanilla like we do. what they use is vanilla flavored sugar. so 2 tsp.s of vanilla was out of the question. also they don't have brown sugar, and they all think raw sugar is brown sugar becuz its brown, so that was out also. another thing... is measuring cups. they have some i think, but they are not in our increments like in everything else, the US just had to be different. oh and no chocolate chips.. so Alyssa, the cooker who doesnt cook took in this supposedly simple task. long story short, i did it. and the cookies tasted great. oh and the oven temps are not the same as ours... or elevation. it was just crazy they didn't turn out horrid. so i have some pix of baking today. also today we had so watch small Diks again.. so there are some of that as well. Guna has babysitting down to a science. lol. and then 2night at 6 we had Marvin's going away party with the youth. it went great. yet again, i love it here. so 2mrw im goin to ergli, i'm not taking my computer, ill prob be able to use Dan and Katie's though. so until then..
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