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I went to get a gift for somebody from Best Buy. This is where I met Kristi. I was looking for a thermometer for my mom's oven when she came scooting around a pile of DVD's and asked with soft, sweet tone if I needed anything? I said yes. I was telling her about where i lived before London while she was on the phone. She knew somebody that lives there and then told me about how last week it was only 14 degrees F there last week. I said, "No way!" and she said "yes". She said that the reason it gets so cold there is because everytime NASA sends a ship into outer-space, some of the cold air from there comes rushing through the hole that is made in the ozone when the ship cuts through the Ozone Layer. She made a special call to the Best Buy HQ to get more info on this thermometer. Jacki was on the phone and required the model number of the oven, for what I am not sure. Kristi proceeded to tell Jacki that I was a VIP customer, which was funny even though I told Kristi earlier that I was VIP. Kristi needs her house painted, and got some quotes from local painters to get the job done. The man who said he could do it for $250 didn't end up showing up to do the job so Kristi is thinking of doing it herself. I asked her how high the ceilings are. She siad that she had been thinking about this recently, and noticed that it was about "this much" (gesturing about 2 feet) higher than her uncle who was about 6'4". If you're reading this Kristi, have a great Christmas and New Years!! Oh, I almost forgot, when Kristi was on the phone with BBHQ, she was asking if setting a meat thermometer in the oven would work. To Jacki : "A probe wouldn't be able to tell you th etermperature unless it had a piece of meat around it, would it?"

I am in Illinois. On my way here, I heard these things in the airport, post office, train, ect.

1: Would you like any ornaments, baubbles, trinkets, or framed art?
2: I wouldn't want to be black, would you?
3: Have you heard of the Navajo Indians? Well, in high school, my girlfriend moved to a reservation.
4: Cookie Crumb Cruncher
5: Are those real pearls?
6: Bring me a 1/2 gallon of whole milk.

Time for U-Nique. Bye.

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Miki and I went to Amsterdam. We got back yesterday. These are some funny things that happened or that were fun.
1: The diamond museum. For some reason, you had to sign into this museum on a touch screen computer, and give your email and then this guy with a jacket on opened up the doors, and you were led into a room where about 10 tables had people polishign diamonds. About 5 of them were acutally working. It was a huge, disgusting place with tons of little rooms, coffee shops, souvenier places, and weird paintings. Around 5pm, this lady with tiny glasses on told us ''you're going to have to leave quickly''. They treat diamond shoppers with the upmost of care. We knew we were outside when we were under some sort of canvas tarp with a bunch of Chinese guys. There was a big zipper that suggested it was a door.

2: The Cheese Factory . Free samples galore. Lively conversation with the ladies who worked there who wore tripod hats.

3: The man in the octagon store who poured molten metal into a mold to make a spoon. He said he burns himself about once a year.

4: The BMI staff in England. They all stood at little podiums and looked like they were selling lemonade.

5: Hotel Sphynx . The stairs were super super steap and your legz hurt climbing them. we only went up three times, actually. When we got there, our neighbor Olga was having a hard time getting into her room. She said that the night prior, whoever was in our room was really loud. We promised to be quiet. Later we would accidentally fall asleep with the tv on and she banged on teh wall to tell us to turn it off, but i didnt' hear any of this. Miki said she sort of just got up and turned it off and heard the complaining. She teaches art history in Virginia (Olga, not Miki).

6: The wooden shoe factory. Chinese businessmen all ooohed when the craftsman working there blew in a hole and dust came out. One man jokingly tried on a shoe.

7: BMI staff in Amsterdam: One lady had an eye lid lower on the left than on the right and a man looked like Michael Stype. They were both entertaining and were delighted to hear our idea about opening a BMI museum in Amsterdam.

8: The best toy store in the world by the fabric market.

9: The chocolate covered waffles.

10: Conversation eves-dropper in the airport.

11: man who abaondoned his luggage cart.

12: NEDERLANDS BLAZERS ENSEMBLE in The Hague ; their concert was really good and they gave you free booze and eatin's at 1/2 time.

not great things

1: man who kicked us off the train cause we gave ourselves a 40% discount on the tickets

2: baby who miki almost smashed

3: when we were on the train, it was crowded. i had my backpack on. When people were tryign to get out, it rubbed against a lady's shoulder. She said ''Your bag on my head goes Bang! Bang!" Wait, that's not a bad thing. Put a 1 in front of the 3, and make it 13 in the good category.

Much peace and love!

O my god. I have the best idea. I am going to do a play by play.

I was gonna write about this tv show that is UNBELIEVABLE. It is called “world’s worst driver." From here on, I am typing AS IT IS ON TV. THIS IS LIVE TYPING. They are doing this thing where they brought the world’s worst drivers to a stunt course to try stuff. HAHAAH Timid Tim as they call him crashed into a barrel.. OMG they have these awful flash clips of cars crashing that they have used twice already. HAHAHAHA some lady just crashed into a pole and then put her hands above her head. .. She got out of the car and ran towards a sprinkler. OMG These cars are oing so fast. Timid tim just said “WHAT AM I DOING”??? HAHAHAHA. Swiss Lillian is my favorite. She is squinting and frowning and running over water bottles. Now they have a breaking trail, where they put the driver’s prized possession at the end.. and they had to try to stop within ten feet. But everybody is smashing into the stuff. OMG somebody’s favorite vaccuum just fell over. A lady has a statue of Charlie Chaplain and it just went crashing to the ground. SHE CANT DRIVE!! HAHAHAH. I laughed two times but didn’t enter anything.Woah Craig is HAHAAHHHA going really fast There is smoke everywhere and the car is going in one direction, the wheels are spinning in another, and smoke is going in a third. There were two fat people from Australia on before that I really liked, but they’re not in this segment. The bonkers Belgians are losing control AGAIN. And AGAIN.. HAHAHAHAHAhaaa AGAIN.. Those two just can’t drive straight.. O MY GOD.. The sound affects are so good. The narrator is introducing the next segment. He says that bad driving usually comes with bad language. Crazy Carl just got bleeped!!! He can’t see out the window cause it is too steamy. O MY GOD> they did this thing where they put a huge hole in the roof and a gigantic bucket of water on the roof, and if they drive too crazy the water comes leaking in the car!!! Grandmother Kay storms likea storm trooper. They are blurring her mouth cause her language is so bad. The two Denmark kids are swearing so much, it sounds like Morse Code. Even Lydia is getting into the act. She is cussing a lot!! Now, they’ve put them in jeeps in a forrest. The narrator said that following lots of swearing, general hysteria and crying follows.!! The men are mostly laughing though.

Okay, a Pizza Hut commercial is on. I am gonna write about what happened today. I got saxophone reeds, finished my research for “color project” and then went to clarinet class. It was about 10 people that were pretty bad. The teacher is a really REALLY good player though so that might be good. We did a bunch of group thing, and then everybody played a solo that they’ve been working on the whole semester. Then they decided to go to a pub. They invited me but I said no, because I had too much work to do. That was a mistake, cause this one lady in the the class seems really fun. She is about 70, wears super thick glasses, and a huge sweater. OMG she had this clarinet neck strap like you wear for saxophone playing, but instead of going around the neck, it went down into suspenders in the back. The best part about her is that she is partially blind. She told me. So she has to photocopy her music really big so she can read it. IT WAS HUGE and it wasn’t even taped together to be big, it was photocopied really big. I don’t even know of a printer that can print that big, but when she was playing her solo, I could barely see her huge glasses from behind her music. When she was standing there getting ready to start playing, I said she looked like a dwarf elf cause her music was so big, which made her look small. I told her she should get a really big pencil, and music stand and then she’ll TOTALLY look too small. She laughed and said “yeah.”

Ok, world’s worst driver is back on. So far, Dan is in the lead to win world’s worst driver. They offered him 10,000 pounds tfor his car because they felt like he was a threat on the road and he accepted it. Then they had him push a button and his car blew up!!!

This next segment is on driving with your mom. Becky is driving with her mom. Becky is trying to reverse, but she’s not good at it. OMG I love this show. They’re driving on the closed course again. The parts where they drive around real towns is better, cause they are being reckless for real. Becky blew out her tire and it is flat. Also, my favorite part is where they put all the bad drivers in a parking garage and they have to do stuff. Soah, some babe ran into a dumpster, and now it is rolling all around the garage knocking into things and spreading garbage everywhere. Now they have to go around supermarket carts and they are going everywhere!!! The casualty rate for the carts is absolutely epic!! Okay, they’re back outside now.. Some lady in Switzerland is driving over big boulders.. !!! hahahahahahah.. hahahah more funny graphics. The narrator said that “every driver is frighteningly real and nothing is faked to make funny tv. Everything is real, ask the camera men.”

OMG now they are diving trucks.. the guy totally ruined his muffler and it is spraying sparks everywhere.. Itt is funny!!! OMG some guy’s bumper is totally gone and he ran into two other cars that aren’t part of the show and now he ran into a cammeramman.. HAHAHAH carnage!! OH the fat people are back. They are driving through bushes on accident. FYI: most of the cameras are fixed to the cars. The truck driver is back. The sound guy is running like a wild man from the crazy drivers. I kind of wish this was over, but I am still enjoying it. The Australian people are driving in a parking lot and crashing into other cars, cause they can’t drive. She is trying to turn right but not fast enough and ran over two signs!!! And now a garbage can!!! HAHAHAHAHAAHHAH Now a couple is fighting whether nor not the husband went through a red light, he says no, she says yes. Now he is trying to park. PEOPLE ARE HONKING BECAUSE HE IS TAKING TOO LONG. Now she is cussing. Hahahah.. they are driving out in public again, I am on pins and needles. Some old guy is driving and a bus cut him off!!! He got frustrated and turned off the car in the middle of the street!! Some woman wants to quit the show, cause she is so frustrated with her driving. They are on a dirt course, and some lady is afraid to drive down a steep hill. She is crying. SHE DID IT!! She faced her fears!! OMG .. Some crazy guy backed his van into a pile of bikes. The narrator said we are “skidding ot the end”. This shit is almost over. Now they are doing a vignette on how women can’t parallel park. Especially when three firefighters are spraying them with a hose to make it appear to be raining. The “elements”. Welsh Kay can’t do it either. In fact, she’s worse. She is swearing at her husband. She just keeps going back and forth and there is smoke and water everywhere. It’s sunny out, and she has her windshield wipers on and there are car alarms going off . Now she is crying. The guys aren’t much better. He broke off his mirror!!! Now his alarm went off!!! HAHAHAHAAHAH

OMG>… HAHAHAHAHAHHAHH AHAHAAH AHAHA HA AHHAHA AH AHA HA HAHHAHA Some guy came speeding down a hill so fast and then turned the weel so fast and parell parked and crashed into the curb so hard his coffee went spilling everywhere. MAGGIE CANT PARK IN AUSTRALIE EITHER. She’s a local legend, the narrator says. But at the very end, almost perfect, she crashed into the car behind her. She got out of the car and screamed “I DID IT I DID IT”. Part three is over. Part four is about what makes a bad driver scream. I am gonna enjoy it without typing. See you later.

Hi,
There is some TV show on about soup making. The guy is referring to the broth as “Manish water”

This week has worked out nicely, minus class. Tuesday we started our “color design project”. It started at 10 when we met up in a room and then talked about what we were going to do, go to the museum. Before we left, my teacher started saying something about this Harry Potter store near the British Museum. I went with Betsy and Zoe, and somehow instead of trying to get to the library, it was more important to find this Harry potter place. We found it, and it was an expensive art store with lots of drawers. The British Museum was nice and we got two guided tours, the first of which was on Africa, and the second on Mexico. Some horrible thing in the gift shop told me not to eat my cranberry / turkey sandwich in there, so I went out and waited for friends to stop shopping. As I sat there crinkled up in the corner, I saw about 99% of my class. They saw me as well: alone, sitting on the floor of a huge museum of a sandwich. After that, we split up and Betsy and I went to Boots to get print outs of our photos. There was a screaming baby there. The photo machine was fun to use. After that I told her about the place where I was going to get clarinet lessons and she wanted to find some jazzy singing classes. We headed for City Lit College. It was hard to find but on the way there, we convinced Graham H. Locke of Graham Carpets that we needed to redo our backroom. How big is this room? 600 sq. meters I said. He said no way and that I didn’t have a room that big. So we asked about pile and padding to redeem ourselves. It takes approximately 10-14 business days for the plaid carpeting to come in. It’s “flamboyant” and “over the top”. “especially for a 600 sp. Meters.” So we get to City Lit and it is so well organized, and nice and big and clean, the opposite of our real college. There were two people at a help desk specifically assigned to answer questions. IT JUST SO HAPPENED that in 45 minutes, there was some lady coming in on behalf of the music dept to answer specific music questions. We waited around, had water, and talked to some lady drawing triangles. When it came time to meet with music lady, we were first in line. I asked my questions. She set me up for an audition for the next day to see if I’d fit in with the advanced clarinet class. Then, since Betsy is a singer and doesn’t need equipment, had an audition on the spot!! She was “rusty” she said. She kind of waved her hands around when she sang and cleared her throat and said “o dear” when bad notes came. She sounded good though! The lady said she’d be best suited for Jazz Singing 1.

Wednesday I went and auditioned, and got into the class. She said I am grade 8, but I doubt it. Grade 8 is pretty high. Then I went and saw some contemporary galleries for homework. By went and saw, I mean, everything was either closed, being renovated, or other examples of not being open. The day was worthless and I got nothing done. MANISH WATER AGAIN!!! I came home and went to band. We started Christmas songs cause our concert is next week. It is so fun. At one point, the director came over and sat next to me and asked me to play sax parts on some jazzy number because there are only 2 altos and neither are “spot on”. In one week, I’ll be Eb, Bb, and Eb alto.. HAHAH.. We started one of my all-time favorites, which is Christmas Spectacular, which starts off with a ridiculous sfortzando piano thing. It is by Leroy Anderson. My brother is also obsessed with it. It is amazing on Eb. It is weird when you really like the music how easy it is to play. I told this old wise proverb to the oboe player and she agreed. Then she offered me some Ricos for sax. “I overheard the saxophone conversation.” She said she ahs a blue saxophone. Godspeed.

Today I brought my no-work to class to have a no=conversation. After that, Eureka and I went to an Alien exhibit at a museum. We had lunch at the café, she having two silver fish (spitting out bones) and me having vegetable lasagna. She told me that one time she found 10 pounds on a table at a restaurant and kept it, suggesting that it was stealing. Then I asked her what she did with it, and she said “I gave it to a charity because I was nervous.”