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Dude!!!!!!! So much has happened it seems like!
Well we are for sure (well more like most likely because I have to make sure they gave me the days off) going to Halloween Nights of Horror at Universal Studios next Thursday. It seems like it will be really good/I have heard great things. We are going to stay til Friday evening too. I want to check out Orlando and even see the house we lived in from the time I was 3 til I was 6...the first house I can remember ever. There is a cool site called couchsurfing.com where you can stay with people for free like if they have a spare bedroom etc. I am going to try to do that for us for Orlando or else it's car-camping or tent-camping on the beach maybe.
Work is like a rollercoaster....but an intense one. Some days suck so bad and I hate it...others I make really good money but I still work with ghetto/ignorant people...ha ha ha
Stas got mugged yesterday! Tampa is so ghetto. He and his brother Dima were riding bikes back from Dima's gf's house after midnight. Dima got a flat so they had to walk the bikes. Some huge black dudes asked them for a cigarette. They didn't have one. Same dudes were walking behind them/ following them while walking their own bikes. They followed them for about 5 blocks. A busy road was about a block away so the boys thought they'd be okay. Well the dudes mumbled something and threw their bikes down to run after Stas and Dima. My boys ran different directions and the other guys both followed Stas. Dima was dialing 911. Stas jumped a few fences and the guys caught up and tackled him in the middle of the street and searched his pockets really fast. Only stealing his phone. They didn't hit him or anything. He has a huge gash on his elbow from the cement.
The cops showed up and asked Stas and Dima "Where are you from originally?" They replied Russia and the cop proceeded to make comments about not liking Russia and not agreeing with socialism. He asked them what they thought of Poutin in a derogatory manner. The cops here always ask where they are from...wtf.
This is the REAL south. I grew up in lil ol liberal Austin and my mind is being blown here. Cops are corrupt. There is tons of poverty. Lots of strip clubs. Shitty roads.
Stas keeps telling me "Shelby, this is the South" and I am like "No, no. I grew up in Texas! I know what the South is" but I don't think I do. I knew that the stereotype was redneck, Republican, racist bastards but I thought I knew how much that was true already. Tampa is worse than small town Texas though. They even love football obsessively like I've never seen and I lived in Abilene...football haven. Little kids here know who all the teams are and draw pictures of the logos in their kids' menus at my job.
It's so weird.
I can't wait to go South-South...
Brazil, Argentina, and Peru...watch out.
On a secret note...
I mentioned before I want to be in Austin after the South America trip. I do. Almost for sure. I also want to do some college when we get back. Ideally, we will come back...find an ideal living situation in Austin, get decent jobs (they are shitty here and not just because of the economy) and stick around for like a year while we work, save money, I do some school and we get on insurance to get all our teeth, eyes etc checked since it's been forever for both of us.
Then whatever is next: Australia, Southeast Asia, India...who knows.
Well we are for sure (well more like most likely because I have to make sure they gave me the days off) going to Halloween Nights of Horror at Universal Studios next Thursday. It seems like it will be really good/I have heard great things. We are going to stay til Friday evening too. I want to check out Orlando and even see the house we lived in from the time I was 3 til I was 6...the first house I can remember ever. There is a cool site called couchsurfing.com where you can stay with people for free like if they have a spare bedroom etc. I am going to try to do that for us for Orlando or else it's car-camping or tent-camping on the beach maybe.
Work is like a rollercoaster....but an intense one. Some days suck so bad and I hate it...others I make really good money but I still work with ghetto/ignorant people...ha ha ha
Stas got mugged yesterday! Tampa is so ghetto. He and his brother Dima were riding bikes back from Dima's gf's house after midnight. Dima got a flat so they had to walk the bikes. Some huge black dudes asked them for a cigarette. They didn't have one. Same dudes were walking behind them/ following them while walking their own bikes. They followed them for about 5 blocks. A busy road was about a block away so the boys thought they'd be okay. Well the dudes mumbled something and threw their bikes down to run after Stas and Dima. My boys ran different directions and the other guys both followed Stas. Dima was dialing 911. Stas jumped a few fences and the guys caught up and tackled him in the middle of the street and searched his pockets really fast. Only stealing his phone. They didn't hit him or anything. He has a huge gash on his elbow from the cement.
The cops showed up and asked Stas and Dima "Where are you from originally?" They replied Russia and the cop proceeded to make comments about not liking Russia and not agreeing with socialism. He asked them what they thought of Poutin in a derogatory manner. The cops here always ask where they are from...wtf.
This is the REAL south. I grew up in lil ol liberal Austin and my mind is being blown here. Cops are corrupt. There is tons of poverty. Lots of strip clubs. Shitty roads.
Stas keeps telling me "Shelby, this is the South" and I am like "No, no. I grew up in Texas! I know what the South is" but I don't think I do. I knew that the stereotype was redneck, Republican, racist bastards but I thought I knew how much that was true already. Tampa is worse than small town Texas though. They even love football obsessively like I've never seen and I lived in Abilene...football haven. Little kids here know who all the teams are and draw pictures of the logos in their kids' menus at my job.
It's so weird.
I can't wait to go South-South...
Brazil, Argentina, and Peru...watch out.
On a secret note...
I mentioned before I want to be in Austin after the South America trip. I do. Almost for sure. I also want to do some college when we get back. Ideally, we will come back...find an ideal living situation in Austin, get decent jobs (they are shitty here and not just because of the economy) and stick around for like a year while we work, save money, I do some school and we get on insurance to get all our teeth, eyes etc checked since it's been forever for both of us.
Then whatever is next: Australia, Southeast Asia, India...who knows.