i watched dirty dancing 4 times yesterday
okay, so i'm having some sleeping issues, but that's okay. i used to watch dirty dancing basically every night to go to sleep to when i was in grade 6. my cousin, whose room i'm staying in, has it here, so i'm getting back into that habit as i keep trying to fix my sleep cycle.
g-damn, i'm having an excellent time. this is my first vacation since i was about 14 where i wasn't worried about getting to a phone or getting home to contact a lovah/love interest/s.o. it's nice to be able to enjoy the trip without counting the days down.
my family is too fucking funny. my dad's first cousin gary was trying to convince me it was okay for me to mary his son because we're only second cousins. no wonder i am such a funny person (ha!), i think everyone in my family, with perhaps the exception of my sister, just thrives on sitting around laughing and making other people laugh. i think it might be the scottish sense of humour. it's so dry and saracstic -- love it love it love it!
i went to an achive today of the jewish history of glasgow. it was crazy. i started to tear up a lot. there were sooooo many pictures of my family and especially of my grandparents. my family was involved in a group called 'the jewish lads and girls brigade' (jlgb). there were pictures of my gradparents going back into the 1930s when they were in the group. there was a list of people killed during world war II and i saw my grandma's two brothers on the list and the old man showing us around told me that he was at "heder" (hebrew school) with one of my great uncles that was killed. it blew my mind, cuz he might not have even been twenty when he died. my grandma's mom was a dream interpretor (or something like that), before her son's went off to war, she had a dream her late husband came to her and gave her 5 oranges and then took 2 away. in her dream she was crying and distraught. two of her 5 sons then died in the war. ahhh... it's overwhelming being here, in some ways. it makes me really miss my grandparents. there was a great picture of my grandma in drag in a jlgb variety show and my grandpa, who taught the bagpipes and was both a boxer, soccer player and antique dealer, looked like such a tough guy. i want to get copies of the photos i saw. i want to maybe make a little display or album or something to have in my room. i don't even have photos of anyone up. my auntie faith told me i also have hundreds of relatives in edinburgh -- i had NO IDEA about that!!! i have to go hang out with my dad now, cuz he's getting restless. i think we might go on a some day-trip adventures. we're going to a place calleds "largs" on tuesday. it's okay 40 minutes from this rainy town, but it's on the ocean and there are palm trees... i just don't get it! oh, last cute, sweet thing: we got lost last night and i asked some people on the street for directions, they didn't know, so they brought us into their home and one guy went and looked up the directions while the others brought us into their living room to sit and keep us entertained. it was blew my mind how friendly they were to wandering lost people at midnight. okay, that's that. mwah! i don't have time to read this over well, so i'm sorry if it doesn't make sense.
g-damn, i'm having an excellent time. this is my first vacation since i was about 14 where i wasn't worried about getting to a phone or getting home to contact a lovah/love interest/s.o. it's nice to be able to enjoy the trip without counting the days down.
my family is too fucking funny. my dad's first cousin gary was trying to convince me it was okay for me to mary his son because we're only second cousins. no wonder i am such a funny person (ha!), i think everyone in my family, with perhaps the exception of my sister, just thrives on sitting around laughing and making other people laugh. i think it might be the scottish sense of humour. it's so dry and saracstic -- love it love it love it!
i went to an achive today of the jewish history of glasgow. it was crazy. i started to tear up a lot. there were sooooo many pictures of my family and especially of my grandparents. my family was involved in a group called 'the jewish lads and girls brigade' (jlgb). there were pictures of my gradparents going back into the 1930s when they were in the group. there was a list of people killed during world war II and i saw my grandma's two brothers on the list and the old man showing us around told me that he was at "heder" (hebrew school) with one of my great uncles that was killed. it blew my mind, cuz he might not have even been twenty when he died. my grandma's mom was a dream interpretor (or something like that), before her son's went off to war, she had a dream her late husband came to her and gave her 5 oranges and then took 2 away. in her dream she was crying and distraught. two of her 5 sons then died in the war. ahhh... it's overwhelming being here, in some ways. it makes me really miss my grandparents. there was a great picture of my grandma in drag in a jlgb variety show and my grandpa, who taught the bagpipes and was both a boxer, soccer player and antique dealer, looked like such a tough guy. i want to get copies of the photos i saw. i want to maybe make a little display or album or something to have in my room. i don't even have photos of anyone up. my auntie faith told me i also have hundreds of relatives in edinburgh -- i had NO IDEA about that!!! i have to go hang out with my dad now, cuz he's getting restless. i think we might go on a some day-trip adventures. we're going to a place calleds "largs" on tuesday. it's okay 40 minutes from this rainy town, but it's on the ocean and there are palm trees... i just don't get it! oh, last cute, sweet thing: we got lost last night and i asked some people on the street for directions, they didn't know, so they brought us into their home and one guy went and looked up the directions while the others brought us into their living room to sit and keep us entertained. it was blew my mind how friendly they were to wandering lost people at midnight. okay, that's that. mwah! i don't have time to read this over well, so i'm sorry if it doesn't make sense.