Multitasking

The last few days have been quite variegated here in Groenenland. More for me than the Black Death, I confess. Dad's on a business trip, cut off from civilisation, without a car, a computer… Wait a minute, thinking it well, we're in the same situation??? Yeah, it's true, the system shutdown hasn't ended yet. First his car broke down, then 'mine' (in joint use with my mom), then his computer… Of course this happened now, when there's much to be done about his business and also other stuff, which is on the verge of possibility without a comp and a vehicle. Meanwhile my dear Kia is already safely at home, but the rest is still on hold. So now, besides my regular duties as a student and instructor, I'm functioning also as an economist, a translator, a secretary, a diplomat and a delivery boy, to mention just a few. Bored I am not, that I can say. With all this work I had to give myself a treat – so I did, yesterday my mom and I went to see Champions on ice, an ice-skating show where we cheered for the skaters in person for the first time. yes, for him too. The first minute of the act wasn't that spectacular at all, but then Plushenko got animated and did a really good show. To tell the truth, I think Plushenko could come on the ice with a nail clipper and have his nails done and still get a big applause. To get things straight, he is not my favourite skater, he shares the throne with three other skaters that alternately get to the top position, but one simply cannot deny his talent and incredible achievements.

But enough about my weird taste for sports. Sambo… it still Sambo, still hyper-neurotic, but unlike the last two weeks he spends a little less time in a floating state. But he still spends most of his time with his denture outside, showing it to practically everybody, hopping aorund, running, herding his favourite sheep (his friend Klark) whom he blocks from the front, the back, attacks him from an ambush like a well-trained guerilla, wrestles with him and is all in all so bouncy that one cannot look at him without smiling. Moreover, we made good use of the last week, which was mostly rainy, to start learning three new tricks with which we're making good progress – he already more or less knows two of them so I'm only refining them and we're only shaping the last one, but it's going well too. What else could one expect from such a talented stuednt and such a fine instructor. Speaking of – my second pupil, the neighbour, has successfuly passed the test and avoided a summer school of English. But she managed to give me a good laugh the other day when we were doing some word formation - making different words from a same root. She didn't have any problems with the example 'I value your (friend) very much', she immediately said that the correct answer is 'friendship'. The next example was something like ''This invention contributed to (man) and its future.' She scratched her head for about 15 seconds, then turned to me with a victorious look on her face and said 'MANURE!' At first I managed to contain myself, but then I couldn't help myself anymore and bursted in laughter that lasted for about two minutes. Oh well, I never said we're planning on getting a straight A… (But I sure have to give her credit for originality!).