Culture differences

I'll talk about the offensive things first, of course playing got your nose is a really bad idea. It is most places. Another really offensive thing to do is to tap someone else's shoe with yours, they'll get mad at you. Also don't let other people see the bottom of your shoe. So watch out! These next ones aren't offensive as much as they are superstitions, drinking cold water is really weird, they think drinking cold stuff is bad for your health, and it's not just water too, it's juice as well, ( not sure about milk)) but we drink warm juice sometimes. Whistling isn't offensive but they think you're blowing your soul out of your body or something, so they'll just look at you funny and tell you to stop. Also, it is bad luck to do anything between a doorway so be carefull when you offer your hand.

And that's about all I know.

Enjoy this picture of this lake we stopped at on our drive to sumy.

The metal park

We went to this metal park were there is these little metal statues, here are some pictures 

The mission home.

We got on a  overnight train on I think Tuesday night, we woke up on Wednesday and as so as we got off our train there was president Lockhead ready for us, we went to the mission home which is one of the nicest places ever. President and sister Lockhead are really nice and spoil us. That morning we had a nice breakfast and grandpa and pres. Lockhead got in a really deep doctrinal discussion which was basically general conference at the breakfast table.

I couldn't believe how much room was In my room.

The grocery store, temple and military museum.

Side note: it has been difficult to fun Internet acces, I will bring you up to day though.

We went to the grocery on Monday evening, we bought a bunch of stuff, and there was a miscommunication so we thought it was 600 grieven and we did not have that much, so we pranced around trying to talk to someone we figured that the total of our stuff was about 75 to 80 dollars, needless to say it was only  76 grieven or something, which we could easily pay. So it was embarrassing as I stood in front of the cashier while she was just getting ticked off, moving on!

We went to the temple which was a good experience this girl tried to talk to me and it was embarrassing because I couldn't answer her questions, although we established that I was from Utah and her name was Olga. I got in two sessions  in the time that we were there. 

( looks like the timp temple doesn't it?)

We went to this military museum which Mitch went ecstatic In it.

My trip to Ukraine part one!

Yup, I am in Europe right now, I left Saturday evening to my grandparents house, spent the night, woke up the next morning to go to the airport. My first flight was from slc to Atlanta, it was 3 hours and 7 minutes, then we had a one hour difference between our next flight which was to Paris, this was the long one, the first thing I noticed was that this plane didn't have tv's on each seat. Which meant you couldn't control what you watch, so I watched this movie called "mud" and "chasing mavericks" there was another movie playing but I didn't watch it. The flight was seven hours and 35 minutes, we got to Paris at 5:35 am, which was one of the weirdest things ever because it felt like the morning because it was even though my body clock was winding down. We had two hours this time. The next plane was with air France and the seats were really squished and crowded and it sucked, at least it wasn't the 7 hour flight.

Airplanes. Airplanes are really cool because when you get on you feel like you're getting on a Disneyland ride. And then you go like 600 miles an hour.

Anyways, now I am sitting in my hotel room which I will be In for one day, it will have been about 30 hours without a actual nights rest. By the way did you guys know that the earphone jack on planes are on your seat handle in most cases? It took us about an hour and a half to find out.

I think this is the slc airport. So yeah, recap. I'll try to keep up.

Me in my bed!

The time I went to Walmart for the keys to the demon prison.

On march 23 of 2010 ''Keys to the demon prison'' the fifth and final book in Brandon mull's ''Fablehaven'' series was released. Me and My buddy Mitch were so desperate to go to the launch party for it. luckily we had a friend that was going to go so we somehow managed to hitch a ride with his family.

We were at his house at the time that they asked, for some reason we had to wait for almost an hour and a half for before our friend got home before we left. luckily his little sister was watching a movie called felicity (a movie I hope to never watch ever again). so we didn't die of boredom.

By the time that we got to the launch party we had found out that the book was selling for about $21 I had scraped every last penny in my house and racked up about $16.74 Ahh I was so upset I didn't have enough money for it.

And so my quest began, I was going to buy that book no matter what it took. one problem though, I didn't have enough money. I went to a store every day of  the next week and no visit was as memorable as the one to Walmart. I had gone to Walmart and I could not find the book. I was not very happy it was supposed to be the cheapest one, the one I could actually afford. so I went to an employee  and asked her ... and I quote ... ''do you have the keys to the demon prison''... Her reaction was PRICELESS. After all I had indeed just asked if she had the keys to the demon prison. she was about to ask me if I was on drugs before I explained that it was a book. a book that was supposed to be in that very Walmart building and I was supposed to be  able to afford it. unfortunately I didn't get the book that day.

I had to wait a couple more days before I could finally get the book. but the moral of the story is :don't ask a random person if  and I quote:'' if they have the keys to the demon prison''. they will never look at you the same way ever again.

The lawn business

k I know this is long but please read it anyway.

5 years ago My 14 year old brother decided to create a lawn business with his friend Casey Christensen.

 He started charging his clients about $40 dollars a month ($10 a mowing job) Soon realizing that he had several younger brothers he could hire for Extremely little pay. I was then 9 and my younger brother Andrew was 7. Casey did not Like the idea of a 7 year old mowing the lawns for him and talked to David about it. David assured him that if he did anything wrong he would fix it. Pretty soon within the first year or two something happened to the partner ship between David and Casey and the split their business.(whether David was cheating him or something I do not know)

Paying  us $1 a lawn that we mowed we soon realized that it wasn't worth it. I started begging for a raise he then told me that he got more money because he started the business, he was the only one who could trim, and because the mowers were his. he told me he would give me a raise when I learned to trim so I started to trim in our backyard, when ever I would show him my (then not so good) trimming skills he would  tell me to try again later. soon enough we were tired of David bossing us around so we decided to quit unless we got a raise, David knowing that he couldn't afford to lose us (whether I could trim or not) then offered us $2 per time. We continued working, slowly and gradually getting raises $2 turned into $2.50 then for the past two years he started paying us 5 dollars a lawn! it was soo much better than 1 dollar only a few years before.

I knew that soon he would have to go on his mission and that this business would soon be mine I was secretly waiting for the time. I soon noticed that a lot of the neighborhood boys were talking about starting their own law business. I was getting worried, and on top of that David was telling me that I was not going to do his lawns because I didn't do it good enough and that his clients might not higher him after his mission.

Now that David is on his mission the business fell into My hands. I now work with my brother Andrew and My trimming has improved A LOT! We work more as a partnership than a slavery. We often look at our 9 and 7 year old brothers and laugh that David hired us when we were that age and that he paid us so little for so long. we also get paid allot more than we ever did with David. We haven't had to worry about neighborhood kids stealing our clients. It has been very successful  and we enjoy it