Some Random Stuff

I have been waiting for the invitation letter for my parents to be ready for quite some time now. The first dateline given was end of April, then it was 'come next week', 'come on Thursday' and in the end 'come at the end of May'. Yesterday (Thursday), most of my friends were able to collect their invitation letters. I did not get mine.

Olga (the @#!& responsible for the letters) said that all the letters will be ready by noon today (Friday). After living in Russia for 6 years, I know better than to believe her. I can only be sure when the letters are in my hands. If they are not ready tomorrow, I don't know what to do anymore. Should I wait till next week? Should I just do the visa through an agent in Malaysia although it is expensive (without invitation letter)? I don't know. I feel like I am waiting for an exam result to be out. I am nervous. I hope tomorrow brings good news.

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Another worry of mine (and also all the other 6th year students here) is how to bring back all my stuff. 6 years is long enough to collects loads and loads of junk. It's not just the things we buy here, but also those that we bring from Malaysia when we go back for holidays. Each year, we go back home with empty bags and come back to Russia with bags over the 30kg weight limit filled with food stuff and clothes and the occasional text book. Food stuff finishes, no problem there. Textbook, we tried our best to sell during the garage sale. So, now, we are left with the clothes, lots of them.

I have lots of clothes that I don't wear anymore. I even have clothes that I have never worn, and may never wear. But then, to throw away clothes that can still be worn is such a waste. Thankfully, a donation to the orphanage is being organized and we can donate whatever clothes that we want. I knew about the donation a long time back, but I never got around to sorting out my clothes. Yesterday, a notice was posted up saying that the donation is going to take place today. So, last night, I went through all the contents of my cupboard (which is small but messy) and tried my best to weed out whatever clothes that I no longer wear. Some clothes I could not bring myself to donate, so I just kept them, although the chances that I will ever wear them is very slim. Anyway, I managed to collect to Ashan bags of clothes to donate later today. Now my cupboard is less messy, but I doubt it will stay that way for very long, I always manage to mess it up somehow.


*the bag on your right contains only my winter jacket. One winter jacket. I bought it in my first year, and that was the only year that I wore it. It is super warm, super soft, super heavy and super bulky. I have another winter jacket which I am also going to donate, but that one is smaller. I still have that jacket and my winter boots to pack, which means that by today evening, I will have 3 bags of stuff to donate.


*a picture of me wearing my 'super' winter jacket. See how excited we were to see snow in our first year.

It is 3.15am now. I really hope the day goes on well; in other words, I get the invitation letters. Fingers crossed!

Kahov's Garage Sale

Today, there was a so-called garage sale in Kahovs. I don't know who organized it, but it was a welcomed thing because we really want to sell our stuff, but don't know to whom and how. It was meant mainly for the 6th years (to do the selling), but even some of the 5th years decided to take the chance and sell their stuff as well.

The poster was up quite a while back, but being the last-minute-person that I am, it wasn't until yesterday that I snapped the pictures of the things I wanted to sell and did the price list. I wasn't the only last minute one though, there were many others who were doing the same. I was planning to sell one of my jackets (which I almost never used), some books and some containers/boxes.

I think everyone was rather looking forward to today. The sale was supposed to be from 3-6pm, and we expected quite a number of juniors to be here, especially the 1st and 2nd years because they are the ones who will most probably be moving in to our hostel. I, personally, was looking forward to selling off some of my stuff..especially my jacket and my surgery text book (the heaviest one).

Unfortunately, the crowd never came. I don't know what the condition was like on the 2nd floor, but up on the 4th floor, business was slow. I only managed to sell off 1 book, and it wasn't even my surgery book!! (However, I heard that someone wants to buy it, hope it's true!). I know some managed to sell off a few books, but I don't know how the overall sales really went; I'm quite sure they expected it to be better though. I was kind of busy today with a project that I'm supposed to submit tomorrow (although, it's a group thingy, so Von Yen did most of the work), so I didn't go downstairs to see how the sales was for others.

The thing is, I heard that the juniors are having tests this week, which may be why they did not come over to our hostel. Most of the one's who did the buying were juniors from my hostel. Well, at least I managed to sell off 1 book, that's something, right? Surprisingly, I did feel a bit heavy hearted when it was sold, never knew I was attached to it. I know the same would not happen if it was my surgery textbook 'cos that is 1 book I really want to get rid off. 5kgs, can you imagine carrying that all the way back when there are soooo many other things to carry?

The garage sale is over. Unfortunately, I still have my jacket and most of my books and my boxes. I now have a few choices- donate to an orphanage (which is what I'm going to do with my clothes), bring it back home or just leave it in the room. Hmm..there's still time..guess will just wait and see..anyway, my Pull and Bear winter jacket is still for sale if anyone is interested...only 300 rubles.