It's just really good to be with my family, close and extended. Yesterday I was driving around with my three sisters and it was just so nice to BE with them. These are three young women that I grew up with and love - and I will love them forever and we will always be connected simply by the fact that we are sisters. I like them a lot. And they make me laugh.

Another Story.

Today I was driving to my Cousins' home on the outskirts clinton - because I told them I would babysit for the day and when I was about a km away I noticed smoke coming from their property. SO I say to myself "I am not going to take care of their garbage burning for them etc etc." (Because ppl burn their garbage here insted of bringing it to the dump) And then when I got closer I realized their BARN was on fire. It's totally gone now. It's smouldering as I write this. Big excitment though.

Surgery Update

After a long and grueling surgery, Cheyenne - against all odds- is recuperating from her life-threatening injuries. Doctors have a good prognosis for her. The older wisened one compared her to "an old man... ya know, she could have a heart attack at any time eh?" And the younger encouraging doctor said "She's a good little thing. She should be fine"

Cheyenne is resting right now and slowly exercising around Huron County. Its been a rough week for her - first the surgery then extended periods of time with my sister Bethany who is learning (very roughly) to drive standard. Cheyenne - like my Dr. Quinn friends for whom she is named, will prevail... oh wait I forgot Wachita - they all got massacrred - except Cloud Dancing. Maybe I'll have a new naming cemony if she makes it across Canada and re-name her after our friend the wise medicine man.

This is a little prayer request for all of you out there. Many of you know Cheyenne, and many of you have just heard me talk about Cheyenne very often. I love Cheyenne alot and it has been a very distressing week because Cheyenne is going in for major surgery on Monday morning. She already had an ambulance ride from Embro Ontario after she fainted out of the blue and I am very worried about her. Especially that she may possibly not be able to go to British Columbia with me. I'm very sad, and very worried.

Cheyenne

Reporting live from Clinton for WXRP News in Clinton.

Yesterday, found in the basement bowels of an aging chicken barn on London Road, a car was discovered by world traveller Nikki Gerrits. After a long and harrowing search around Huron County a black 1995 Plymouth Neon was discovered on the property belonging to a H. Gerrits. Sources report that the discover-er and the land owner are indeed related. Beneath a thick layer of chicken-dust the car emerged as beautiful and glorious as it originally was made to be. With no brake or clutch problems after a ten month hibernation, Cheyenne, as the car is affectionatley known as, has once again brought much joy to her owner.

I'm a JERK

Tonight Esther and I rented a movie that we both were excited to see. "The New World" Its a historical romance about Pochohontohoas (Does anyone know how to spell her name properly?) Anyways it was HORRIBLE. We watched 20 minutes and were bored out of our mind and so I thought that we should bring it back to Blockbuster and get a different movie in exchange. Heres what 'went down' as they say.

I walked into the Blockbuster and asked the cashier,
"Hey! Do you still have that program where if you rent a really bad movie you can exchange it for a better one?"
"Nope," he responded, "Not for a long time. If we did that people would be cheating us."
"What would you say if I told you that I rented this movie and that it is REALLY bad?"
"I'd have to say 'too bad'" he said looking me straight in the eye, I responded tartly,
"Then I'd have to say 'do you have a customer comment card?'"

I'm a jerk. I threatened the poor guy with a CUSTOMER COMMENT CARD because I was an idiot and rented a bad movie! But wait, the story gets better. He eventually lets me exchange my movie. I choose a new one and go to the counter. He asks for my Blockbuster card. (I don't have one) He says I can give him my drivers liscence (I don't have it on me) I offer him my health card - but it is one of the old school ones from the 1980's with the red stripe and no picture so it is no good either. Finally I offer him my (expired in April 2005) student card. Luckily he doesn't see that it is expired.

I'm a big jerk.

wedding pictures

I have noticed a few things since coming back to Canada. I've only been back for just over a week and I am positive that the main part of return-culture-shock-re-entry-lada-ladadah-laahh hasn't hit quite yet, but I have noticed that a few things that I have picked up since returning.

I have no personal space. In the words of Kim Furtnery "DUDE you are sitting REALLY close to me!" I also noticed that when I am in lines I am very aggressive. For example at Canada's Wonderland today there were a bunch of punk kids in the "Wheelchair and Stroller" line and I just about reemed them off for being in that line. I mean for crying out loud they are not in wheelchairs or strollers. I on the other hand was in an adult stroller because I broke my toe the other day. JUST KIDDING (that was for Rebekah and Daniela because they believe everything I say) I was with kids in a stroller thats why I was in that line!

Sometimes I want to say things in Romanian. At the wedding I met a friends boyfriend who had been to Brah-sov and then I said 'oh Brrrashhov Da! Stiu" Then I realized that if he said Brah-sov he probably didn't understand Romanian.

AND ON THAT TOPIC for all you people out there who made fun of my Romanian I actually TRANSLATED for a little old Romanian woman at the airport in Vancouver! And when I say 'little old lady' I really mean a 40something year old woman and when I say 'translanted' I really mean I just explained to her what luggage rack our luggage was coming out on. BUT IT WAS IN ROMANIAN. And I talked to people on the plane and they thought I was Romanian. Whoop whoop! Its amazing what the phrase 'am paduc' tells people! KIDDING. I complained about the guy who was in the bathroom for 25 minutes. (Saaarrr-eeee-ohhhh-s)

Back in my "Home and Nature Land"

I have a lot to say so I will do point form for you all.
1. I know it is 'NATIVE' not 'Nature' I wrote it like that on purpose for my Romanian friends who think it is nature not native.
2. I like BC a lot and am very excited to move there. I am also excited to learn how to snowboard and how to play tennis and to spend lots of time with my mom, dad and sisters who are pretty darn cool.
3. Karmyn's wedding was amazing. The kind of amazing where you just want to hit things and scream. I had a blast and Karmyn was gorgeous.
4. Rob J still makes me laugh. I'll be honest with you people, I gave him a rock, nay a pebble, from some ruins in Romania and he cried. Just because it was associated with Vlad the Impaler. (IMPALER - Rob J. is wierd)
5. I love Subway. The restaurant, not the mode of transport.
6. I went to Canada's Wonderland today with my sister my aunt and uncle and two cousins and had a blast. I like roller-coasters.
7. I also like driving cars.
8. And Sully

England

Today I was on the Tram and this old man started talking to me. I responded with my regular response.
"I don't speak Romanian"
"Speichen Deuetch?"
"Nu"
"Englaza?"
"Da"
THen the man told me he didn't speak English - in GERMAN because I look German so I should understand German even though I just told him I spoke english.

An older lady got on the tram and told me to get out of my seat so that I could sit there, so I did. THen the man proceeds to YELL at the old lady because:
"Why did you make her move?" He says to the old lady
"Because I was tired" was her response.
"That girl came all the way from England! DO you know how far away that is? It's 40,000 meters. ITs far, she is tired!"
The woman tells him that she doesn't know how far away England is and the man continues to yell at her" (PS he has gold top teeth and no bottom teeth so it is funny to watch him yell)
"I'll TELL YOU HOW FAR IT IS! It takes 8 hours to get there. I have been there six times. Those people in England really have it well there. Their economy is really good and I"ve been there. THey are smart. Those people in England are all very nice and kind and work hard. Yup England is a good country. Their police force is really good too. They have police on horses and bicycles, you call them and two minutes later they are there! England is a good place to be."

THen I turned around and said to him in Romanian.
My name is Chelsea Clinton and I am American.

Actually I didn't do that. But I thought it would be funny if I did.