What the forum is about - Happy birthday, Myralin Sedai!

well, that's ok. you know, 18 isn't looking that far away any more. then we'll be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

It's not like we're in prison...there is freedom if you look hard enough...OK, really hard.

actually, my school is rather like a prison. there's no windows in any of my classrooms.

Really... That's something that will have to change. How good are your computer skills, by the way?!

It depends on what it is. If it's like document, slide show, and spreadsheet software I'm pretty good at it. But if you're talking about like programming and fixing computers I'm no good. Basically, once I figure something out, I can do it again. But, if it's unfamiliar, then it takes me awhile to figure out. Hence my avatar being missing. :desk

Do you have it in your computer?!...you can upload it from there.

yes, I suppose I'll have to go and mess around with that but I'm too tired. I stayed up late to read.

Such defects in construction like reading can never be fixed (John Atanasov).

There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.

This traverse may the poorest take 5
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!

Emily Dickinson

It's so great! I love it. I don't read poetry that often. I'm usually a huge-book lover (800-100 pages worth of book). There are lots of those in Bulgaria...if you have a pass to the oldest part of the library.

*shrug* that's the only poem I really know. is your library separated by age?

No...by favorite author...RJ first, then Ivan Vazov, Tasla Ferai and so on. A part of my library has some order, at least. The reast is chaotic.

that would never work for me. I'd never be able to pick my favorites. mine is just alphabetical, which works pretty well, except when I have to squeeze a book in somewhere in the middle, and there's no room.

You can always find room for a new library....I have 3 already and my room is pretty small.

I have two six-feet-tall shelves, and they are almost all filled. I also have a smaller one next to my bed instead of a table. not to mention I have about a dozen books borrowed out to friends at any given time. My sister has two bookshelves filled with all my childhood books, and my brother has another. we have a ton of books. I'm pretty sure there's still another box full down in the basement somewhere that we never unpacked.

Now that you mentioned basement...we store our older books there too....well, except for one that is over a 100 years old.

you have a book that's over 100 years old!?!?! that is so cool! our oldest are probably about 60 or 70, they're some of my grandma or grandpa's old schoolbooks.

In Bulgaria ( acountry over 1 300 years old) there are many families that keep old books safe. There are even books as old as 500 years (written by hand). My poetry teacher has a 400-or-so-year old book. The paper is quite different...but it is in a form of Bulgarian I only once read. I only understood parts of it. You can turn the pages by hand they are to fragile.

wow. that is wonderful. our country isn't even that old...
that always makes me wonder what the author would say if he knew his work would last for four centuries.

That's the beauty of it. You don't know for sure. One day it could be a best seller, the next it could be in a puddle. But that's life.

So true. But at least it made it to best seller. That means it was good, even if it didn't last long.

PS- I'll be gone from now until the 12th for sure, maybe longer. until the 17th at the latest.

I suppose you're going to the seaside...

Remember...if you don't come back I know where to find you

I might be gone from 12 'til I-don't-know-when. But I'll tell you if I do go via PM or a message somehow.

the seaside? what? I've only seen the ocean one time in my life, when I was 4 years old. No, I went to summer camp, which is totally not as dorky as it sounds and it's my favorite place in the world. I'm back now, but we're leaving for my grandparents' cottage on Tuesday, the 13th. We'll be back on Saturday the 16th.

You have only seen that much water once?! We live about 300 kilometers from the coast, so there's no problem going there for a week or two.
By the way, do you have swimming pools in your school?! We don't.

I've never been to summer camp. What's it like?!

well, to the coast from here is 1630 kilometers. although we live about a 2 hour drive from the largest freshwater lake in the world (Lake Superior), so we go there sometimes, and we will be going in a couple days, hopefully.

Nope, no swimming pool in my school. It has no money, remember? Some of the larger ones aroud here have them, though.

I can't speak for other summer camps, but mine is the best place in the world. How can I describe it?

It is in a pretty remote place. There is 200 acres of woods. It's owned and run by the local university, and the counselors are almost all college students from around Wisconsin. I like that the counselors are pretty young. It makes them easier to talk to and work with. They are absolutely crazy and any one of them will burst out singing some random camp song at any time. Since most of the camp songs are geared toward little kids, it gets pretty hilarious. Anyway, they have 5 log cabins and 2 lodges to stay in, a big area for fires, and a big beach for swimming and boating. They also have a small store, a building for eating, and a medical building, not to mention a house, staff cabins, and other maintenance buildings. I've been in every single one. I've even used their dishwasher.
The place holds different camps throughout the summer and school trips during the rest of the year. The specific camp that I went to was geared toward teenagers who want to work as camp counselors one day. We were there at the same time as a large group of little kids, and we got to interact with them and co-teach activities with the rest of the counselors. It was so much fun helping the little kids and teaching them new games and crafts and helping them find worms and bugs. Although we were helping out the counselors, we still got to have a lot of fun on our own. We went to a high ropes course (scariest thing I've ever done) and tent camped for two nights. We stayed in one of the lodge instead of cabins, and we had lots of room because there were only 9 of us campers with 3 counselors, and the building probably sleeps about 40. Since we had so many extra mattresses, we built a huge fort. I'll send you a picture if I can find one. We also played awesome games like Mafia, Murder, and Everyone's It, which I'll explain to you if you want me to. We got to go swimming and boating every day and we were outside all day every day. Even though we were so active and exhausted, we went to bed at 11 and were up by 7 every morning. One of the campers with me was my best friend, and I knew a few of the other ones because I'd been to camp with them before. We were a very close group because there were so few of us, and that just made it more fun.
Ok, I'm not done telling about how awesome camp was, but I'll stop because you're probably really bored by this point.