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Elena

what about the great commitment?

About Me

Strolling along the edge of the sea, a man catches sight of a young girl who appears to be engaged in some kind of an artistic dance. She stoops down, then slowly straightens to her full height, and casts her arm outward in a graceful arc. Drawing closer, however, he sees that the beach around her is littered with little starfish and that she is throwing them gently one by one back into the sea. He laughs light-heartedly: “There are starfish stranded on the sands as far as the eye can see, for miles up the beach. What difference does it make to save just a few?” Smiling, she bends down and tosses another starfish out over the water saying serenely, “It makes a difference to that one.”

I love people ♥ Grew up in Europe (Latvia). Moved to the States two years ago! Never knew about drive-through coffee in a paper cup till moved here! Love coffee! Miss snow for Christmas! Love to cook with my friends! Love flowers! Back at home we had so many flower shops and flower markets! Flowers are beautiful! Love surprises! GIFTS! Music! Love music! Love the arts! Passionate about life and everything in it! :)Have a lot of dreams! Interested in social issues! Especially Human Trafficking and orphans! Believe there is more to this life than just to survive, make money, "built a house and plant a tree" :) God gave us dreams in our hearts, talents and giftings to achieve those dreams! Wouldn't make it without Him in my life :) Want to direct a play and preform in it, make a documentary, open an Art House, a theater, open care centers for the kids who were sold into slavery by their own parents... and lots of other things :)

My Interests

Love to read, to walk, to take trips to the mountains. The ocean!!! There is something captivating about it! I just love it! What else........ Love theater, live preformances! love to act, to create!!! To make scarfs for my friends!

I'd like to meet:

you for coffee ♥ ♥

Seriosly, love meeting people who have passion for what they are doing! Who have a vision for their lives, who really want to make a difference in this world, who love people, who are open minded and love different cultures, who traveled a lot, who have a lot of crazy and funny stories :)))))



Music:

Different music! I love folk music! Irish, GIPSY... their music is so passionate. Love listening to violent, guitar, etc. Not into country music but love line dancing! It's fun. Anyway, back to music. Love U2, Coldplay, R. Williams has really interesting songs. Love Jazz. Basically I love variety in everything... including music!

Movies:

Lots, Lots, Lots... Crash (very creative) LOVE IT!, Trapped in Paradise, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Green Card, The man in the Iron Mask (love everything with musketeers), Mission, Amazing Grace, City of God, Lord of War (last two are really disturbing but amazing films), ok... "Everything about my mother," Hero, God Father. Anyway, lots of those :)

Television:

"Friends" Hockey World Championships, Figure Skating and Olympics. But really try not to watch TV too much.

Books:

"Quo Vadis" - G. Senkevich (Poland) "Jan Eyre," "Three Musketeers," (Different A. Duma's books) "Resurrection" - Tolstoy, "Evgenij Onegin" - Pushkin. Love Shakespeare, Moliere.

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

But make allowance for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,

If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much,

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

Heroes:

I think one kind of people who I would consider my heroes is people who keep on following God no matter what! I just love listening to old people who were with God 40, 50, 60 years and see how they still have the passion for God, they still love Him more than anything else. To see how HUMBLE, SIMPLE but at the same time DEEP, spiritually RICH and WISE they are. It just captures me! It inspires me and encourages me so much! I want to be like that one day! Also, people who would ay down their lives for somebody else, get out and risk in order to help somebody, who would fight till the end against injustice.

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Trade

"Trade" movie is coming out this fall. Check out the preview http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/trade.html 
Posted by Elena on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:25:00 PST

My Birthday Dinner!!!!

and we rock, russian style Category: Parties and Nightlife HI!! This is my Birthday Party!!! Thanks everybody for coming! You made this day very special for me! :)  Allie did the pictu...
Posted by Elena on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:49:00 PST