Making friends in Russia!
Remember how I was saying Russians have many weddings all of the time, well this was a dude that was part of one of those weddings! He was kind enough to let me get a picture with him. (if you click on the photos you get great details, BE PREPARED)
Below the responses to the recent blog from Tumalo are a few other pictures of places we have been so far, a little misaligned but should make sense.
This post goes to all of the students and alumni of Tumalo Community School...
Hi Friends,
I was so excited to see that you have blogged me. It was great to hear from you all and your comments made me smile. So...responses...and make sure to tell Mrs. Riehle that she is right for not getting to this sooner and I am holding my hand in the shape of an 'L' on my forehead.
Caity,
that's so great to hear that you are helping out the animals of our world.
Lyndsay,
Excellent work on improving your math skills! How's the year going?
Brianna,
Russia is amazing! I am sorry to hear Utah was sad. I hope your year is going well!
Bolli,
How's Volleyball going? Say hi to Em!
Marshall, Marshall,
Nice work on your plant! Have you identified it yet?
OH JEREMY!
Nice work at the "football" tournament with your score! I have been playing with the students at our school it is fun being goalie!
Jose,
Sweet Disneyland! That will be a fun time with your family! We play soccer here but they call it football! No grass though we play on gravel!!!
Sarah,
Eurasia is very big! How is school going? I hope all is well!
Sam I am!
I am envious of your road trip and flight to the islands! The plant is... oh I can't tell you it's magic! Let me know when you figure it out! I miss you guys too!
Kaytlin,
I am glad to hear your summer was fun! Which part of the coast did you go to? Teaching here is fun!
Cody,
Nice to meet you, I think I remember you from several years ago! Glad to hear you are part of Tumalo now!
Olivia,
So did you cut it off? How short? Miss you too! How did you do at fair?
Mr. Prince,
How's your drain bramage? J/K! Have you been riding? Thanks for the luck! Luck to you too!
Tay Tay,
I am glad your summer was good! Yeah my students are cool and they all have great accents! There is even a first grader from Perth, Austrailia he has an awesome accent! Miss you too!
Amanda,
Nice to meet you, I am glad to hear that you like animals. My wife loves horses too! Welcome to Tumalo!
Ariel and Family,
I am glad to here school is going well! I am jealous of not being able to go to the Beavers game. Looks like they toasted the Bengals and that Canfeild had an amazing game! What did mom think of the game? Hi Dave I hope all is well!
Grace and Colin,
Are you still in Central Oregon? I hope all is well and that school is going smoothly
Bescetti,
How's school going? I missed you at the movie, I know if you could have you would have! Russia is awesome!
Labowski,
How's high school? Hey thanks for setting up that movie before we left it meant a lot to me to see you guys! I hope all is well!
Tori,
You keeping up your grades? I knew you would! How's school going? Take it easy!
To the many other students and friends of Tumalo,
I miss you guys and hope to hear from you soon! Please give all of your teachers a big hug from me and tell your friends hi!
P.s. Next time Mr. Variel senior guest teaches give him a hug too!
The church on spilled blood two blocks from our house.
The exposed ground at the location of where Peter the Great was assassinated.
Liv and Kat, our new friend from New Jersey and a teacher at our school, posing in the church!
The mosaic tiling of the amazingly detailed art work in the church! Hundreds no hundreds of thousands tiles covering the majority of the walls!
Peterhof fountain grounds; an old palace with amazing statues and water features sprinkling the grounds.
Sweet outfits...even the volleyball players get cheerleaders. We went to a volleyball tournament played on shipped sand in a blustery cold afternoon. Tropics in Russia, maybe...global warming.
Pictures in my classroom, Sasha is our tech dude we keep score on the technology issues that we solve, needless to say he is winning!
The tank is a highlight with the students they love taking care of the fish, reminds me of being at Tumalo :)
P.s. Lucy wanted me to relay a message, "Hi guys, I miss you and I want you to know that I have finally made a friend, his name is Oousha. He's spastic but fun to run around with. So I was wrong, there are friendly dogs here in Russia. Last the week the babushka gave a me a lemon drop candy, a little weird but I ate it. Also I think Beau and Olivia are visiting another dog when they leave our house, will you try to find out who he is?"
P.s.s. Our Friends Rob and Jill just got a new Chocolate Lab pup, he's six weeks old and he can't wait to meet Lucy once he has his immune system updates downloaded and running. We think he will be a special friend of Lucy!
Good bye for now and take it easy!
~Mr. V
9 comments:
Jared,
whats up and how are you? we miss you and we hope you can see us somtime before we go for summer break.
Zach Morrison,
hi hows russia? i might go to amsterdam in 2 years, have you beat GOW2 well thats all folks.
Curtis,
hey this is curtis is russia cool?
Acacia,
i miss you sooo much. im glad to hear your doing great. have fun in russia!
Marina,
hey mr.v its marina how r u ps we won our first volleyball game at north lake.
hey its teagan!
sounds like your having lots of fun in russia but we all miss you a ton, hows your new class?
daniel,
hey! i have had a great summer have you had a good summer? E-mail me if you want: at hunterboy101@yahoo.com :)
Jordan,
hi mr.v! i saw the pictures they were really cool(and funny) whats your favorite russian resturant? lol hope you (know you) are having fun!
gary
whats up? hows russiatheres so many preps this year you lucky your not here
junior
hi my name is jr> aka payaso how are you good ya me too you rock
Hey this is Sam C. I miss u soo much i hope you like ur new class...but not more than u liked us!!!!
i just wanted to let u now that it would probably be a good idea to send mr commans an email becasue if u saw ur fish tank u would be sad and all the notes u put there seem to be ignored. We tried our best to fix it but we werent sure what to do but it looks REALLY bad and its REALLY sad. olivias dad is going to come in on monday to teach him some things and then hopefully he wont sell it plz talk him out of it we love the fish tank.
WE MISS U SOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!
sam and holli!!!
Hey, im glad that you are having fun with all your kids! I am soooooo jelous of that little kid, i want an accent from Australia!!!!!! Have you tried vegimite? well its good and i bet that he likes is!
Tay
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okay anyways THOSE PICTURES ARE INSANE!!! I am soooo jealous ahaha
Looks like you've got a great classroom...and love the fish tank =P
Yeah the game was a complete blowout and my mom had fun....I think it was a bit loud for her though lol but at least she was in between my dad and I so I didn't have to deal with him AND Parker yelling in my ear lol
I know that I am insanely annoying with how much I talk to you guys and sorry lol
Schools great and all that jazz...in our Science class we do labs literally every other day...we gave a speech the other day and I used my insanely awesome vocab including "nothingness" and "helter skelter" lol It was fairly amazing
My parents say hi and take care and that everything is well here...
~Ariel and all that jazz
hey!! hows life as a science-turned-la-teacher going? plus the whole russia thing...we misss you two much mr.v. this is simply not working for me. biology just isnt as good without the lectures and...class talks. but i guess its fungi. Ha, get it? fungi?? hahaahahaahahahahaha. anywho, thats more like having math with the football coach. he reminds me of you with all the stories in class about....random stuff he comes up with. its great.
hows your new class? we both know they cant compare with Dani's old class. i mean, my (Tara's) old class. but i guess the awesomesweet accents might make up for a little of it.
love the Ferrara's. but mostly me(Tara). and me(Dani).
Hey Young Variels,
Your mom and dad are down here in Davis land for the weekend to see David Holt at the Mondavi Center. Big plans for diner tonight with slow cooked spareribs and abalone. Wish you were here. ;) I have your email now and will add you to the joke of the day disto list. So hows Russia been treating you?... whats your favorite Vodka?
thanx for including me (evan) and levi
we miss u even if u did not include us, but you were the coolest teacher i ever had!
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