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Pants · 05-15-2005, 12:48 AM

Hey, since we're all telling things about ourselves, guess what? I'm, actually foreign (I think I've mentioned this before on some thread, but not with as much detail). I moved here in the summer of 1998, I was thirteen and just had finished 7th grade. I grew up in western Ukraine (which means I dislike Poles and Russians - not on a personal level, just overall), in a city of almost a million, called Lviv. My parents won a green card and both got jobs at KU Medical Center, so we upped and left.

If you thought moving to a new school was hard, imagine going to the first day of class to a COMPLETELY new environment, not understanding WTF people are saying (don't know where to go, can't really ask, having a piece of shit map showing which rooms are where wasn't that much help). Well, I did know some English, but still couldn't understand 90% of what people were saying. I still remember like it was yesterday walking into my first gym class not knowing WTF was going on. Good times.

Anyway, I was a huge sports fan back in my country (mostly soccer, obviously) so needless to say I fell in love with the Chiefs when I saw the first game in September of 1998 (KC absolutely raped Raiders, don't remember the score). Took me, probably, 1 game to figure out the basic rules, and a few more to figure out the details. By the end of the season, I started seeing the intricate things that make football such a great sport. The one thing that truly made it amazing for me (and really was a first in sports in my experience) was how a lot of the games came down to the last seconds - "****ing incredible" was what I was thinking.

So that's my story. And if you ever wondered why some sentences of mine make no sense stylistically - now you know.

05-15-2005, 12:48 AM	#361
Pants Time Keeps On Slipping Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Overland Park Casino cash: $3599900	Hey, since we're all telling things about ourselves, guess what? I'm, actually foreign (I think I've mentioned this before on some thread, but not with as much detail). I moved here in the summer of 1998, I was thirteen and just had finished 7th grade. I grew up in western Ukraine (which means I dislike Poles and Russians - not on a personal level, just overall), in a city of almost a million, called Lviv. My parents won a green card and both got jobs at KU Medical Center, so we upped and left. If you thought moving to a new school was hard, imagine going to the first day of class to a COMPLETELY new environment, not understanding WTF people are saying (don't know where to go, can't really ask, having a piece of shit map showing which rooms are where wasn't that much help). Well, I did know some English, but still couldn't understand 90% of what people were saying. I still remember like it was yesterday walking into my first gym class not knowing WTF was going on. Good times. Anyway, I was a huge sports fan back in my country (mostly soccer, obviously) so needless to say I fell in love with the Chiefs when I saw the first game in September of 1998 (KC absolutely raped Raiders, don't remember the score). Took me, probably, 1 game to figure out the basic rules, and a few more to figure out the details. By the end of the season, I started seeing the intricate things that make football such a great sport. The one thing that truly made it amazing for me (and really was a first in sports in my experience) was how a lot of the games came down to the last seconds - "****ing incredible" was what I was thinking. So that's my story. And if you ever wondered why some sentences of mine make no sense stylistically - now you know. __________________ "Turn the channel to 26!"
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