Ok. I have a lot to get through tonight.
Well, yesterday I went to Planeta. It is a camp-in-the-making for kids all over the country.
It is already a summer camp for 640 kids a year, but now they are making it a year-round camp for thousands of kids. It is cool -as I say about a lot of stuff- and has a very good potential.
They want to make each "cabin" from a different country. It is a really interesting idea and me and my family want to get more involved.
EEEEK!
Ok. As usual we stayed home all day and did something AWESOME in the night. WE WENT TO THE CIRCUS AND I IT WAS THE BEST ONE WE'VE EVER SEEN! It was circus of the fountains. And there were bears, (unhappy face due to animal cruelty) cats, dogs, taxi dogs, and my favorite, the monkeys. They were amazing and I am too full of adrenalin to explain it tonight. Maybe later. But it was really cool.
Ok. thanks to a comment by Evan on yesterday's post, I will tell you what is so amazing about Belarusian shopping.
So.
Starting with the buildings, the malls are either underground and "akkuratno" (precise and clean), or above ground with stores in big booths.
The stuff, ranges from American, all the way around the world to America again. Clothes are covered in English words and people. I saw a shirt with 1D on it today.
The trinkets seen more organic and delicate than their American cousins. People have kiosks selling glass animals and matrushka instead of t-shirts and hats. There are kiosks for really, really, REALLY big pencils made out of real wood. You know, with the bark of them!
Ya.
Anyway, the real excitement that comes from shopping in Belarus is the thrill of getting out of the flat and onto the streets. And believe me, the streets hold some pretty cool stuff.
Toys?
Again more organic and "handy." There are more things made out of wood and more of other stuff.
All together, shopping in a different country is pretty exciting compared to shopping in your own country.
Duh.
Well, yesterday I went to Planeta. It is a camp-in-the-making for kids all over the country.
It is already a summer camp for 640 kids a year, but now they are making it a year-round camp for thousands of kids. It is cool -as I say about a lot of stuff- and has a very good potential.
They want to make each "cabin" from a different country. It is a really interesting idea and me and my family want to get more involved.
EEEEK!
Ok. As usual we stayed home all day and did something AWESOME in the night. WE WENT TO THE CIRCUS AND I IT WAS THE BEST ONE WE'VE EVER SEEN! It was circus of the fountains. And there were bears, (unhappy face due to animal cruelty) cats, dogs, taxi dogs, and my favorite, the monkeys. They were amazing and I am too full of adrenalin to explain it tonight. Maybe later. But it was really cool.
Ok. thanks to a comment by Evan on yesterday's post, I will tell you what is so amazing about Belarusian shopping.
So.
Starting with the buildings, the malls are either underground and "akkuratno" (precise and clean), or above ground with stores in big booths.
The stuff, ranges from American, all the way around the world to America again. Clothes are covered in English words and people. I saw a shirt with 1D on it today.
The trinkets seen more organic and delicate than their American cousins. People have kiosks selling glass animals and matrushka instead of t-shirts and hats. There are kiosks for really, really, REALLY big pencils made out of real wood. You know, with the bark of them!
Ya.
Anyway, the real excitement that comes from shopping in Belarus is the thrill of getting out of the flat and onto the streets. And believe me, the streets hold some pretty cool stuff.
Toys?
Again more organic and "handy." There are more things made out of wood and more of other stuff.
All together, shopping in a different country is pretty exciting compared to shopping in your own country.
Duh.