


So much more happens in the book that could not possibly fit into a movie without an intermission or something.Īlso, I would like to add that I LOVE the Christmas season.

And I concur, the book is MUCH better than the movie. If you don't know me, then you don't quite understand the amount of nagging it takes to get me to read even my assignments. So I borrowed the first book from one of my friends and I just started it last night and I'm already on page 136!!! THAT IS SO EXCITING. But I saw the movie Twilight (twice!) and my friends finally convinced me to at least TRY to read the books. Somehow, my school ALWAYS has exchange students.I can't think of a year when we haven't had one, if not more.Īlright. But I just call her Tib most of the time.Īnyway, she's a foreign exchange student from Germany and she's leaving in early January. Her name is Tabea, prnounced "tub-ee-uh". And I got to bond with a dear friend of mine (well, she's "dear" now.). On the bright side, they had two chocolate fountains and a whole bunch of delicious strawberries and marshmallows, cookies, brownies, etc. He straightened and brushed a bit of Caroline’s hair back. So I guess it really wasn't that bad.those are all just the negative things. Doesn’t count against a curse if I kill him here, he said. G) no matter how many school functions or dances I go to, I will NEVER cease to be baffled about how the faculty members say they're "going to crack down on the inappropriate dancing," and yet, never do leaving me in an uncomfortable situation and under a lot of peer pressure that I've put up with for much too long now. Here are the reasons I would care sharing with you.BECAUSE sharing IS caring!Ī) it was my first time going to a dance with a designated person to go withī) I don't like the repulsive "dancing" people do nowadays that's really just a bunch of disgusting and utterly repulsive suggestive jerking and swaying movements that does not appeal to me ONE bitĬ) I can't really dance.not because I physically can't, but because I don't like people to judge me or think that they should have the nerve to come up to me and start convulsingĭ) none of my really really truly close friends went this year for reasons beyond my comprehensionĮ) I was tired and I actually wanted to sit and read a book by the fireplaceį) because I didn't want to participate in any of the so-called "dancing," it was slightly awkward when I was jsut standing there.I would try to explain it, but there aren't really any words for me to use that would make it sound just right.everything would make it sound worse than it actually was I got asked by a friend of mine and I decided it couldn't hurt! So I went with him, and it was.oh.an experience. I couldn't possibly have realized what momentous events would take place in the world and my life during the years to come.Tonight was what we call our Winter Ball at my school. Monet, Kandinsky, Aivazovsky or Andrei Rublev, the great medieval icon painter, they all made their impressions on me and nurtured my dreams. Petersburg, Russia, I was inspired and undeniably influenced by the artwork I would see around me, such as the treasures of the Hermitage Museum. My passion, is to seek out the beauty and the joy in all things and bring it to life for all to enjoy. Tatiana says: “Art is a gift that has been given to me to share. She has also created spectacular monumental works in downtown Montréal and as far away as Ontario and Russia, and has participated in numerous exhibitions throughout her career. She has lived in Canada now over 30 years and has been very successful selling her paintings to collectors all over the world. 10 years after the release of the Basic Set of Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons, one of the biggest conversations fans are having revolves around character Race/Ancestry. She completed her studies at the Mukhina Higher Institute of Art and Design, a few minutes walk from the world-famous Hermitage Museum. Mastering Dungeons Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. A Montreal artist whose work is collected worldwide, Tatiana Iliina was born in Russia, grew up near St.
