and they say crouchy can't score. ha.

[astonish]

oh football, how i love you. i get out of my always boring government class and do a mad dash to the library, and what do i find? a beautiful scoreline waiting for me, that's what. first of all, riise and momo both on the starting team? joy! i had been reading all the articles about momo getting ready to play this morning but i don't think i really

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[mina_pak]

that's one of the reasons i like rps as well. although, i remember when i thought it was weird. :P

thanks for that site. :) i've always hated getty watermarks. they ruin half my icon ideas.

australia seems awesome and so does new zealand. i don't know, i've just always wanted to go to new zealand. :P i think it started with the piano although i guess it's odd for me to want to go there after that movie, i guess. i just love how close everything is in europe though. you can just take a train and be in another country in a few hours. it's brilliant. and italy. *sighs*

i'd love to visit south america. brazil and argentina are at the top of my list. i just don't know if i could go to africa. there's just so many ... shots. *shivers* and i don't know if i'd ever be able to get myself to go to west africa, especially, due to all the fighting that goes on there. i had to do research on it and it's just horrible. raising aids awareness is an important issue but i wouldn't go to a country where there are rebels attempting (or have managed) to take over. south korea is at the very top of my list to visit though. i've never actually been there before.

you can raise aids awareness and i'll do north korean awareness. :) people know so little about the history behind the two countries that it disgusts me. and korea is second rate to china and japan. some people don't even include it as part of east asia! *growl* yeah, that's a sore point of mine.

and i'd love to also be able to do something about the southern mezzogiorno in italy and the poverty there. whether through writing or photography or something. i'm just inching to get my camera and go over to napoli (naples) and take pictures of the real city. people just visit touristy spots by the coast. they don't go deep into the city to see the poverty exists.

when i was there with my student ambassador group, we were watching for our restaurant to open a group of about fifteen little boys came and asked everyone if we'd want to play football with them in the courtyard. it was a lot of fun but then we asked our guide where these boys' parents were. he said that most live in cramped apartments with only their mothers or, on some occasions, both their parents who were working during the day. they would go outside to play to get out of their apartments. you should see it. the streets are so narrow that cars can't go through and they can be dark with clotheslines spread between windows.

i think it's horrible that one half of the country is so rich while the southern half (with farmers etc) currently has about half of the northerners per capita income. it's just ridiculous. and nobody really does anything about it. people know what's going on but they don't think they can fix it so now there's been movements to try to split italy in half which is horrible because it leaves one country very poor.

now i've rambled. :P

o.o you go straight to the hard quotes, huh? :P actually, that's given me an idea.

question: does cris speak very good english? i've never actually heard him speak before so i really don't know. and how about ruud?

[astonish]

rps is what i started out in - well, not slash, but i worked my way to it pretty quickly - so it was never really weird for me. but i can see how it might be.

i went to australia once when i was younger with my dad and it was just the most amazing place. we stayed in a hotel in sydney harbor and one night they did this light show over the water, it's one of the best memories i have. it was cold though, so we didn't really get to go to any of the beaches, so i at least want to go back one time during the summer so i can have that experience too. but i really, really wouldn't mind living there. not at all.

brazil is probably my preferred place to go in south america too. but i'd get the shots if i could go to africa, i think they would be far outweighed by the good you could do there. but yeah, i can imagine my mother going into cardiac arrest if i ever told her i was shipping off to africa with all the strife and warfare they have down there. but hey, someone needs to help those people and since our government's too busy bombing iraq, i guess i'll just have to do it. :P

well hey, rambling's good. it shows you clearly care about the topic. you should do something like that, a journalism project or something. i've fully resigned myself to the fact that becoming an author will probably be a poor life, so i'm all for encouraging everyone else to do what they want to do. i'd rather be poor and happy, then be stuck doing something i hate for a lot of money. but that's just me. maybe i'm too optimistic for my own good. :)

it's a quote i've always wanted to do something with but never managed to, so i thought maybe you could do something with it! it is kind of hard though, sorry. :D as for english, i think ruud speaks it very well, though i'm not sure i've ever heard an interview with him either. as for cris, he speaks some, but not very well. he generally speaks in portuguese.

[mina_pak]

ah. lucky. :P i've never even been in the southern hemisphere. i don't think i've even seen the pacific ocean before even though i was in la for a day.

i can't even describe my fear of needles. it's just ... *shivers* the last time i had to give blood the nurse couldn't find my vein and it was just horrible.

i've always felt strongly about aids in africa. and i'm really happy that it's been getting a lot more attention lately. however, i want to become active with things that people just don't know anything about. celebrities have been getting involved with africa but where's the attention elsewhere in the world? poverty doesn't just exist within that one continent. there's horrible instances going on that people don't see within the same cities that they admire so much like napoli. they just don't want to see it.

*snuggles* i'd be scared too if you went to africa. although i understand why you'd want to do it.

being optimistic is good. but always keep focus on the real world. :) you don't want to get too carried away and lose hold of reality - even though it seems nice at the time.

thanks for the info. :) i've actually changed the beginning of the fic i was writing for sheva/kaka into your ruud/cris fic. it's working out a lot better. :D do you like the song i sent you? and is it too hard for you to write a fic for? i can send you a new one when i get home, if you want.

[astonish]

i was trying to do a reverse of that, change a ruud/cris fic to sheva/kaka, but it didn't work. is it okay if you pick another song? i'm just having trouble with this one. i could pick out an easier one for you too, a song or something. if you want. :)

[mina_pak]

i'm sorry about not getting back to you earlier. i took a seven hour nap. :P and i like my prompt. at least, i think it's going to work out fine. :D

yeah. i kind of figured you would after i sent the blasted thing. it's just not a song that can really be applied to sheva/kaka. anyways, i've found another one and i'm figuring that it's going to be angsty fic but most of my songs are. or at least, most of the them that i feel can apply to sheva/kaka.

travis
the fear

all i wanted was the chance to say
i would like to see you in the morning
rolling over to have you there
would make it easy for a little bit longer

but here
closer every year
so near
the fear is coming clear
my dear
the fear is here

hottest summer in a hundred years
but summer didn't bother
getting up this morning
and so all the trees forgot to wake
they were dropping all their leaves
on the ground below them

all I wanted was the chance to say
i would like to see you in the morning
rolling over just to have you there
would make it easy for a little bit longer

make it easy for a little bit longer

[astonish]

this second song works really, really well! i've got half of a little ficlet done for you, it's turning out to be rather porny, oops. :/ and i'm trying to keep the angst at a minimum, but yeah, it's there.

[mina_pak]

yay. :D i'm happy it's working for you. my fic for you is going a bit slower because i have to do a bit of research for it. :P the muses demand it. porny is good. :) and i was expecting angst with this song so it's all good.

[mina_pak]

i should never talk about my fics before they're done. i think i'm going to switch the sheva/kaka and ruud/cris fics again because this storyline line takes too much information that i don't know.

[astonish]

hey, take your time. clearly i can't talk since i haven't finished mine either. i keep getting caught up. i don't know what it is, but i'm going to keep on with this idea. hopefully i'll have it done by tonight, but if not, definitely tomorrow. :***