Poor Kitty, Hindi Convention, and A day in NYC

Picasso IS Alive. He needed an estimated $900 to save him! (catheters, updated shots, anesthesia, intensive monitoring, antibiotics, removal or crystals in bladder, and the list goes on) ahhh I just started crying ridiculously and told them to put him down. Well the vet staff all started crying too. And I heard the cat doctor saying "she better not feed him that crap food anymore" They did the surgery for the same price I was going to pay to have him put down.

WOW convention was very different! Hearing things in your mother tongue makes such a difference! I can't wait for English next week! I had to listen so hard! It gets so tiresome so after 6 talks of that I just zoned out. But then I remembered ha this is in English just across the hall. So, yes, brother Losch's concluding talk was absolutely amazing! It was very encouraging seeing people from so many different Hindi groups. There are a lot more than a thought! I met the nicest people from Montreal and now I really want to go visit them! It seems like quite a lot of the Indian people speak English better than Hindi. (The younger ones did their schooling all in English and a lot of the older ones have just been here such a long time that speak english better) But, they all seem to love listening to Hindi. So many people said that Hindi is just so comfortable to listen to. I bet it just sinks into their ears they way English does to mine. Pretty much all of the groups I think have had a class, so maybe we will too!!!

I have a new found love for Indian food- I think its called jumbaleya- mushy vegetables have never tasted so good! The family I stayed with were so nice and cooked like crazy! Oh and the Indian Chai tea every moring! Starbucks doesn't even come close.

I haven't gotten to NY but i will finish later

Augusto

HOLA! MI HERMANAISIMO EN COSTA RICA. LA PLAYA DEL MAR MUY CALIENTE EN EL VERANA. CIAO

This has been a very good month! Doing nothing but service last month was awesome because you get a fresh set of calls! I only need like 40 hours this month so I got to work a lot.... and skip service and just go on calls/studies. I was so thrilled to have all these regular bible studies but tried not to get too excited knowing they could all quit anytime.....Then sadly my favorite one!!!! weirdly decided not to study anymore. :( Which was super sad!! But I am determined to find new ones.

This week is Convention in New Jersey!! YAY. I am so excited, I hear Stanley Theater is amazing. And I can't wait to go to New York, only for a day but it is going to be awesome!!!!! And then there is English convention the next week!

Even more exciting news-In 2 weeks we are having our first CO visit for the group!

Played a surprisingly not so long game of risk last weekend. That game is so addictive and it can keep you up way to late. Me and kathy formed a very secret alliance via text..... hahhaha then we both right after each other turned on our former alliance and yes took over the continents!!! (we would have beat you too....SEAN) P90X cardio is my all time favorite exercise video. The more I do it the more I love it! I just want to be able to finish it sooooo bad!

NEW arcade fire

Wow the new arcade fire album is not like anything else I have heard before. I love all the songs, some of them are so heavy.... Sprawl II- This song reminded so much of driving around the outskirts of San Francisco. And the crazy commuting they do from the suburbs to the city everyday. And the giant bridges that they cross to get from their house to work. And yes, the mountains of malls.
I really like Modern Man, too. It made me think of the internet for some reason. It is so modern but its so intangible that sometime it seems so absurd how much time is spent on it. And I heard that there is this big place where you can turn the off switch and it will shut down all servers. Here today, gone tomorrow.

In line for a number but you don't understand
Like a modern man
In line for a number but you don't understand
Like a modern man

Oh I had a dream I was dreaming
And I feel I'm losing the feeling
Makes me feel like
Like something don't feel right
I erase the number of the modern man
Want to break the mirror of the modern man
Makes me feel like
Makes me feel like

i got it!!!!! for real

I am so excited. I officially got the job as the after school music teacher assistant!! My mom is rather appalled that they would let me assist in teaching! Whatever! I can read the left hand notes and its more like babysitting! They are going to look for schools that are a half an hour away, hopefuly they have some close. I am so excited, such a change of pace, I love little kids! I was so irritated at my boss the other day... oh I just kept praying for self control not to call him a cheap old grump- He literally probably said 5 sentences to me all day- "I need you to work next saturday"-great, then after he makes the wrong drink because he refuses to let me recite the customer's order or write on the cups, he says "she'll come back if she really wants the white mocha"!!! Ahhh. And it hurts to make iced coffee out of days old light roast just because he is so cheap! Then I can't suggest iced coffee throughout the day because I know it is old and watered down when it is usually bold and double brewed and delicious. However, I do really still love my job- its fun when its busy, and its great to get to study when its slow.

This has been a very hot hot hot month. Pas Secret did not play. Because the song we are learning sound like a dying cow. We will, however, practice again soon sometime maybe, ah its a secret.

Travis and Avril are visiting soon!!!!!!!!  AHHHHHH 

I am so excited! I got a job as a music teacher assistant! I haven't officially accepted it, as of yet, but I plan on it. I think it is more like babysitting-after school care, which is good because I don't know how to play the piano, yet they still said I could jump on board!!YEAH. I hope they transfer me to being Ruby's assistant- she is a teacher there. The classes are only one hour a day though! So I'll keep my Barnies job- But they said I could work the days I want- mon tues wed- which is i think will be great because those are the days I work at barnies AM!

Oh my preparing to apply for this nurse program is quite difficult. I can only imagine that a lot of interested people became very not interested after seeing the check list to apply. That's nice, less competition. I bought the official study guide for this entrance test- most boring 60 dollars I have ever spent- But it will be nice not to stress and just read the book and then hopefully pass it! YES!

I'm finally ahead of my service time!!! I only need like 40 hours this month oh it feels so good. 

I inherited an old iphone and it is so addicting- me and nina played scrabble for 4 consecutive days ohhhh she is such good competition, I didn't beat her once-but now I can beat everyone else!!!!!! I really recommend the game words with friends free! It is the best little electronic game!

Sleepy friday...

Soooo I actually heard back from one of these jobs I applied for!- (Not that I don't love Barnie's) And get this to be a cello teacher! ha who knew no certification required! It is an after school music program. I think it would be an awesome job! But I am not sure if its really what I want. It's only for one hour after school everyday- (So I am thinking basically to get 5 hours you have to work 5 days a week- but they do pay a lot better....)And you get to be a cello teacher how awesome would that be- or maybe it would be a bunch of whiny kids ahhhh. Well I have an interview Monday!

I kinda missed the service group this morning.... I just love sleeping in and then drinking delicious half decaf SWC coffee and of course doing some search work. We are not going to Cape Coral as planned any more- scheduling conflicts. I hope we get to go another weekend. There over 70 names on one territory that I haven't even finished searching!

Sooo another sunny day

Oh goodness band practice again was hard. I stink at playing with other people. It is just so hard to stay on beat and know when to play. Meagan's singing sounds really good. And well I guess its coming along nicely the piano and Nina sounds great on the drums. I can't believe she learned to play the drums in like one month! We'll just have to keep practicing regularly, that should do the trick!

My mom went to MA for the weekend and my sister was at work all day and I finally got to rearrange the furniture! Ava gave me a pretty sweet bedroom set, but it just fits so perfectly one way in my room that I can't ever change it! However,  the newly formed angles and the "walls" I made by angling the couches are spectacular!! Oh I love it! Av will be soooo proud of our living room when she comes to visit! It looks like a real living room instead of an oddly shaped, empty, and hard, cold tile feel that it had before! It's amazing how angling a couch a certain way makes such a difference!

I got to work till 3 pm today!! YEAH. My bosses are getting very strange and very skinny!! too much herbalife.

I'm going to try to make a dress! I had never seen dress patterns before I went to jo anns and opened a drawer filled with instructions on how to make practically every kind of dress in the world!!! However, their fabric selection was not so good; it's tricking finding gray and white striped fabric. I might settle for something else but not yet!

Musically sloooow ears

Band practice was rather hard....But we made a lot of progress! Considering we haven't gotten together in like a month! We did OK. I think we were all getting a little frustrated. Sticking to a tempo is so hard for some people-not just you vi. I wanted to slug Ben when he tried to help me play Two Birds- the metronome just wouldn't go slow enough....Non the less his help is MUCH appreciated. But Vi's piano rendition sounded great by the end of the night! And I can't wait to hear Meagan's little angel voice singing along.

Ruby came out in service all Saturday- I love her fresh enthusiasm! We even walked into my study's house and she whispers to me "wow, it smells so good here!" Great! As I gag at the smell of cumin and curry...

here to stay!

 I couldn't do it. I couldn't give Picasso away. His big bored eyes looked up at me friday morning and just cried out "let me stay!!!" Enthusiastic internet guy was nice and said he totally understands what its like to lose a cat. (he lost his cat).....But, Sorry for getting your hopes up buddy!

Ultimate frisbee is awesome! I love it when you run so much that your lungs feel like they work really well. It feels like as much running as soccer but no broken toes!! The weather was disgusting. Rainy, hot, humid sticky, mucky, then you slide all over the grass.  But totally worth it!

This should really go in the cat blog

I finally found the perfect home for Picasso. This genius internet geek guy who rides a bike and lives in a fancy apt by Lake Eola. Yes, I am sure he will love his new home. The guy doesn't even mind that he has is balding on his back! His former cat died of old age and he is very sad from it. Mhmmm great. I think Picasso knows that something is up because he has been ridiculously cute and angelic the past couple of days he actually jumped on my bed and rubbed his nose to my nose the last night! OHH he is so cute. Yet,  I feel like I must give him away to this new home because he does not like my Mom very much and yes, he unfortunately sneaks downstairs to the far distant corner of the house and pees on her bed 3 times. So there was really nothing else I could say but I'll find him a new home..... It is just so hard because he is practically the perfect cat. I went to petsmart to get him flea medicine they said they didn't have Picasso in their computer, but they did have Dandy, Luna, Violette, Katie, Rafi, Mersadies, and Ty AHHHH I feel like an animal killer!!!!!! And my poor mom has put up with sooo many cats and kittens that I snuck in the house or LUNA the rat cat who was shipped here and tied up outside one morning.

Well on a happier note- This was an awesome day in service!! I had two amazing studies. And one of them who I wasn't sure if she really liked studying with me, after we had done one subheading, I was like OK well we can stop here and come back next week. And she was like "No no, I am free." YAY you want to learn more OK!!! But then oh nooo I haven't even prepared or even highlighted the next subheading.....But Meagan and Veeta were awesome! She kept saying stuff I couldn't understand and then saying meaning?? Meagan was awesome explaning! Then Veeta had all the Urdu scriptures ready by the time she finished answering the questions-and scriptures are so hard to find in that Bible! So it's a little annoying that I can't even get 20 hours a week at my job and my boss now takes from the tip jar (seriously!!), BUT is it super getting to go out in service everyday I can't believe how fast the days go by!

Our group is going to do a weekend trip to Cape Coral! I am so excited my first out of town Hindi service adventure, then New York in august for convention! Things I want to do-- eat new york pizza and find a real fake coach bag, someone told me that the central perk coffee shop from friends doesn't exist, so I will have to cross that off. I've been reading the Fountainhead and it is getting me very excited to just walk around and see skyscrapers. Plane tickets were only 205! Not as great as the 203 to SANFRAN, but pretty close!

Well this is Picasso's last day here. Farewell little kitty. Tomorrow night he will be off to Lake Eola.