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arai

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About Me

A story told a thousand times... i am just your typical all-american girl fumbling through broken russian and kazakh in central asia-on a quest for fame, fortune, camels, fabulous knock-off handbags and shoes, and wonderful adventures. Ok, no fame, no money- tenge or otherwise... (it's the handbags and shoes that get me every time...)... only seen one camel so far, but many many adventures.

My Interests

drinking camel milk. Horse milk not so good even though it gets you drunkeating bishbamarkeating at russian McDonalds.looking at swiss alps drinking cheap beer.practicing my russiangoing to the banya. hurray for kazakhstan my new home!

I'd like to meet:

My new president nazurbaev... he's such a hottie. Anyone remotely close to my age in my new home, Aktobe.Shubat party, anyone???

Music:

russian and turkish and kazakh pop music, bright eyes, crooked fingers, band of horses, nico, seau jorge, joy division, tindersticks, wolf parade, three mile pilot, christian death, cat power, miss kitten, and this f-ing finnish polka i CANT GET OUT OF MY HEAD. and "American Pop Music" is now strangely nostalgic... justin timberlake, you write damn catchy songs...

Movies:

flashdance, before the rain, the lover, in the mood for love, scent of green papaya, nochnoi dozor...and daywatch (but still dont understand everything!!), scarface!! devdas, real genius, requiem for a dream, blade runner, red sonja, lost boys, eternal sunshine, lost in translation

Television:

I don't remember what tv is like anymore. but this brazilian soap opera here is pretty cool

Books:

notes from the underground, a tree grows in brooklyn, the lover, the dark tower, anna karenina, darkness in summer, master and margarita, this bridge called my back, 1984, color purple, the handmaid's tale.

My Blog

i have to eat what??!!

one step closer to leaving. There is no turning back now because now i quit my job. it's all gonna be grrreatt, riight???! so why am i drunk at 10 oclock at night???!!it's all good. even if there ...
Posted by dawn on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:23:00 PST

homecoming

back home sweet home??  but it seems strange... like there is too much english being spoken around me that I can understand.  More culture shock coming home than going away.  It was nic...
Posted by dawn on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:15:00 PST

oh miss kitten

hello miss kitten... where are you??  i have been trying to find you.  I am in switzerland right now drinking very much champagne looking out at the lake... but u are not here. why! may...
Posted by dawn on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:45:00 PST

oh god

i don't know how to do this blog bullshit.  While i am quite handy at handling radioactivity and making small explosives, I am computer fucking retarded. I only joined myspace a month ago, much t...
Posted by dawn on Wed, 10 May 2006 08:23:00 PST