Fun Times with the Girls

Disclaimer: The stories that proceed this note are by no means the sum total of the funny, memorable, silly moments with the other teachers. They are, however, composed of the little things that brighten my day everyday. 

Laundry-

We didn't have a washing machine for the first 3 weeks of school but they kept telling us we would get one. *Thank goodness I brought plenty of underwear!* So you do the math, 6 girls + 3 weeks of not washing clothes= a ton of laundry! Also it is important to know that Russians don't use dryers. All of these clothes needed to be hung somewhere and there wasn't room in our dorms for them. Because we are pretty much the only ones that live in the dorms we decided to use the handrails starting on our floor and working up. Imagine about 4 flights of stairs filled with drying laundry. The next day, Chelsea was walking back up to our rooms when she realized she was following the principal taking a group of rather professional looking people on a tour of the school. They got closer and closer to "our" staircase and it was all she could do to follow and hope that they wouldn't go up that one. Sure enough, they did. It gets better. Then he showed them into one of the unoccupied rooms... don't worry that is the room the "delicates" were drying. There are some days I'm glad we don't speak Russian:)

Too Lazy-

We have a basketball gym on the floor beneath our dorms. We recently discovered this during our exploration of the school. One night, Hailey, Chelsea and I were laying in our beds before we fell asleep and I said, "I wish our floor wasn't so dirty so I could just exercise here."

Hailey, "Why don't you just use the gym? It's only downstairs."

"I don't want to go all the way to the gym...." Followed by silence for a bit. Chelsea pointed it out first by saying, "Really Selina?" And we all broke out in laughter. It take takes a minute or less to get to the gym. Needless to say I gained a reputation of being lazy that is stinking regardless of the fact that I do exercise. 

Hailey-in-a-box-

One night our neighbor delivered our fridge to our apartment and we were SO excited! Afterwards the giant box was in the hallway. While I was next door in the other girls' room Hailey jumped in it so that she could scare me when I came out. I came out of the room right as Hailey began to jump out. Only unknown to either of us our neighbor, Sasha, was also playing a trick. He jumped out from behind the door towards Hailey. A blodd curdling scream erupted from Hailey as she jumped INTO the wall and collapsed on the ground. I was laughing so hard I started crying, Hailey was rolling around in her box laughing and Sasha was doubled over a little ways down the hallway. That was the first of many "scares" from Sasha, though I think this was the funniest.

Other Random Quotes:

"I'm so excited for breakfast!" This is a nightly quote from at least one of us before we go to sleep. We have awesome breakfasts here.

"What kind of meeting isn't a no pants meeting?"
"The Talk meeting."

"Just call me Kathy" Thank you Bre.

And of course I can't forget all the back/head scratches while we talk about life, the gospel or random stuff that happened to us. Or about how on days where one of us has a really hard day the other room mates always pull together to make her feel better. Thanks guys:)