December 2009
12 posts
Christmas Week: Gran Torino (2008)
filmosophy:
GRANDPA TORINO
by Tess Lynch
If, when Chad proposed that we do this Christmas-themed week, he meant “any movie that reminds you of Christmas, by way of your own tangled synapses,” then I’m right on target with this essay. If, however, he meant that the movies on which we’re writing this week are supposed to be about Christmas, I’m in trouble. Oh well! I guess I’ll find out...
Tabo at Balde > Shower →
ylai:
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Haha! There is not a single bathroom in my parents’ house with a functioning shower. (Well, Ate Lia’s bathroom has one but she still uses the tabo and balde.) Every time I went to a friend’s house or in a hotel, I was always naninibago because I wasn’t used to water pouring itself on me. Like magic.
When I lived at my old house I never used the shower, though it was...
last night I stepped outside the airport
…after more than 24 hours of traveling. I was hot, sleep-deprived, and cranky because baggage claim took forever and I couldn’t find my dad, who was supposed to pick me up at the airport.
Then a man next to me suddenly bolted forward, and from the massive crowd two small kids ran into him screaming “DADDEEEEEEEEE!!!”
He dropped both his bags to hug them, and I was...
“This year the King holiday will be celebrated on Monday, January 18, 2010 and we...”
– email I got from Dean of Multicultural affairs about Martin Luther King day. I just thought it was a nice way of putting things.
and all they'd want for christmas is...? →
in case you have not realized...
…activity has been slow as of late, and probably will be even more so in the coming month. Partly because I have finals, but mostly because after finals I will then enter into one blissful month of not being a foreigner, if you get what I mean. <3
Happy holidays, everyone!
