The buckeyes won. So that's reason enough to celebrate with a pictures post. Tomorrow (fingers crossed) I'll give an update post.
This has been one of the longest and shortest summers of my life. Being a teacher, I have a chunk of the year that is all mine. To do with what I want. After working for 3 years in the 'real world' post college, I fully realize and appreciate how much of a difference this is from other working joe schmoes out there. For the entire 3 months of summer, I had approximately 3 weeks of downtime. The other 9 weeks were spent camping, glamping, traveling, and sleeping on a train. So here are some (way too many) pics from my summa summa time, summa time.
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| First camp! Two hours of English teaching + 4 hours of laying on a beach = perfect balance |
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| my buddy |
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| 7 puppies I came home to after a camp |
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| the house that kolya built this summer. soon we'll have piggies and chickies. |
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| an impressive teekva growing in our garden |
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| my neighb, billy |
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| baby watermelons |
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| the only way to cool down during summer afternoons |
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| iced coffees |
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| the chase |
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| the hunt |
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| the capture |
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| baby wine in my yard |
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| Alyona's Birthday Bash! |
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| prettiest holodets (aka meat jelly) i've ever seen |
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| there is nothing wrong with this picture |
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| neighbs |
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| shots |
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| birthday girl and my favoritist landlady |
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| the siberian cohorts (not joking) |
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| get it gurl |
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| party favors |
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| how to take a shot (of apple juice...) without hands is taught at the ripe old age of 9 |
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| tha girls. we spent about 85% of the time on the dance floor |
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| kitten purse |
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| Camp Model United Nations! and brick face. |
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| BiH doing some research |
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| 'nastya, hold up our sign!' |
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| killing it, as usual |
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| this is what donetsk does |
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| donestk |
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| honeymooning in donetsk |
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| donetsk |
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| like a school girl |
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| my heart was all a'flutter at finally meeting this stadium |
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| coal mines in the distance that built this city |
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| it's just pretend |
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| more honeymooners |
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| WWII understated statue |
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| you've got some coal dust there, right on your face |
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| dead cat pose |
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| our first restaurant in budapest, OFFERED HOT SAUCE!!! |
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| our second restaurant in budapest, we ordered all the things |
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| not a postcard, or hogwarts, or a torture chamber |
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| we touched the iron curtain, and survived. but cody slept through it. |
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| hero's square |
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| pesht |
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| reunited with my love |
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| croatian farmer's market |
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| someone had a late night |
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| he's on vacation |
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| i'm on vacation |
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| oh yea, we witnessed croatia officially joining the EU |
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| led by this guy |
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| then we went here: Plitvice Lakes National Park |
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| i never wanted to leave |
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| ever |
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| my happy place |
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| are they just floating in air?! |
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| on the road to dubrovnik, down the croatian coast |
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| no one was home |
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| saw a pirate ship during our island hopping tour in the adriatic sea. NBD |
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| camp EXCITE counselors! |
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| ukrainian dancing my tail off |
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| me and a camper, coordinated ukrainian flag nails |
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| teachin 'em the dance of the irish |
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she learned some new skills this summer
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So that was the majority of my summer in picture form. Missing are pictures from the actual city of Dubrovnik because...well those are on a disposable camera that hasn't been developed yet. Someone's camera ran out of battery and someone decided not to take a charger with us on vacation so someones had to purchase a 1990s style kodak camera from a souvenir shop just to get pictures of one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen. Anyway, on a more random note, here's a
blog post from my friend McLain that accurately spells out a lot that I've been wanting to say for the past few months. So read it.
Yay summer but even more yay is FALL!! I can't express how happy I am that the weather is cooling and football is back on. Even if that means that first bell starts tomorrow. Happy buckeye season!
