Traveling Pants

     Tis I, the lil' Russian dumpling with some lovely hand-me-downs. Damn straight, all the way from New York..my momma went back East for a family reunion this past August, which I of course missed (again) : (

But, she brought back with her this mighty'o treasure. Apparently my Grandma gave them to her and said that she was too tired of holding onto them..and now she (my mother) doesn't (didn't) know what to with them-so I grabbed them as if it was a no brainer and put them on. Not to my surprise they fit magically, and now I too have my very own pair of traveling pants, well shorts really.

And so the lineage begins:

     First they were my mom's Levi jeans back when she was in high school, perhaps her favorite pair. Very stylish indeed, "you should have seen the bell on these" according to mommy dearest. She also took them to Brazil when she lived there for her junior year, where she embroidered 'cogumelos' (mushrooms) and added many other embellishments..

        Second, my mom went off to college and left behind her beloved Levi jeans..and she thought she would never see them again. Much to her surprise, my Aunt Susie (the fourth? of eight) took them as her own-adding her own embellishments and drastically changing them for the 21st Century. 

Thus turning the Levi jeans into short shorts. 

Now, some thirty/forty years later-they are mine...did I mention they fit absolutely perfectly?

And to think I was always ridiculously jealous of all of the girls in my class that had hand-me-downs from the seventies..

My embellishments are still in the works..right now I am focussing on patching up all the holes first, a final picture to follow ;)

Language Barriers.

The best part about working with campesinos is the feedback.

I was doing the participatory evaluations for community close-outs and my oh my, I think I would spend hour trying to ask one single question. Finally, towards the end of the evaluation (I did all of mine as one-on-one interviews) I would ask, and do you have any specific recommendations, suggestions or concerns for potential future years?

The answer:

• I think that they had a really hard time communicating. 
• I had a lot of trouble understanding them, more often than not, I had absolutely no idea what they were trying to tell me. 
• I think that in future years their Spanish should be better,               the students would just stare at them.
• They should teach us English, and we will teach them Spanish.

The very definition of PROUD. This is PRIDE. 

I am sad I could not be there this year.

Junior!

    
    Oh me of my, Netflix-you're the apple of my eye..

    Please say that you've seen this film too, and if not please do!




    Really though, I don't know what could be better: the pregnant Govenator, and Danny DeVito...YES PLEASE! PG-13, I'm all over that..'romantic and goofy'-straight up me.  Thanks Drea for sharing your account!

Junior

1994 PG-13 110 minutes

Their research threatened when they fail to nab a grant, two fertility doctors, Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Larry Arbogast (Danny DeVito), test their theory and implant Hesse with an embryo. They'd initially planned to terminate the pregnancy after the first three months, but Mr. Mom-to-be soon decides to go the whole nine months ... morning sickness, stretch marks and all. Plus, Hesse is smitten with a fellow scientist (Emma Thompson).

Cast:

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson,Frank Langella, Pamela Reed, Aida Turturro, James Eckhouse, Megan Cavanagh, Welker White, Kathleen Chalfant, Merle Kennedy, Judy Collins, Mindy Seeger,Christopher Meloni, Antoinette Peragine