Saturday, January 7, 2012
Processing Algeria
Now that I'm back from Algeria, there is so much that I want to blog about. It was the most amazing three weeks of my life. I met my new family, learned more than I could have imagined, fell even more in love, saw incredibly beautiful places, and ate delicious food. In Algeria I was able to see my whole life in front of me - everything I want fits there so well. I haven't felt that way in the US before... so now I'm just waiting until we can move there. I don't know how to begin taking all the experiences and putting them into words here. So stay tuned for more. Here is a few teaser pics of Algeria.
Friday, January 6, 2012
A Rant About Airports
I got back from Algeria yesterday. More on that later. After spending the night before at Newark Airport and having visited more than 10 airports this year, I realized that there are whole lot of things that airport designers should think of when making an airport. So here is my list of things that would greatly improve the air travel experience. Some airports do these things well. Some do them terribly.
1. Water. There should always be water fountains next to the bathrooms. I don't want to spend $2 on a bottle of water. Now that liquids are banned, I bring a stainless steel water bottle specifically so that I can fill it up before getting on the plane. Airports in the US are generally good about having lots of fountains, but in other countries they're almost impossible to find. Give us our water!
2. Bathrooms. Frankfurt airport somehow had single stall bathrooms in the US terminal. Planes to the US hold hundreds of people and the terminal holds more than a handful of planes. Do you know how long a line gets when there are less than 20 single-stall bathrooms in the whole terminal? Airports, of all places, should have, if anything, many MORE bathrooms than they think necessary.
3. Outlets. Everyone wants to charge their phone/Kindle/laptop/iPad at the airport. The worst thing is when you need to call home to tell them your flight is cancelled and you're stuck in X city but your phone is dead and you can't find a charger. Just put them everywhere. People will find them. And don't limit outlets to the charging stations. I don't want to sit in a small space with a bunch of businessmen who are talking on their phones. I want to sit on the floor somewhere with an outlet in the wall or in the floor and well away from obnoxious talkers.
4. Carts. There is no way a cart is worth $5. Or $4. Or even $2. At the grocery store you don't have to pay for a cart, even though it's a convenience. Now that people have to pay to check luggage this is an even more ludicrous fee. If I paid $50 to check the 2 big suitcases I now want to put on a cart, the least you can do is give me the cart for free! The worst part is in airports where it's banned to take the cart onto the train that connects terminals. I'm expected to pay $5 for a cart in Terminal A only to realize soon after that I can't bring said cart with me to Terminal C? So, I have to unload all my stuff, schlepp it onto the train and to Terminal C, where I have to pay $5 for another cart? Ridiculous! One could say, "Just don't pack so much stuff if you can't carry it, you hoarder." But sometimes you just need a lot of stuff, and don't want to drag it all around. And many times the wheels break of a rolling bags due to rough handling by airport staff, making even one bag a pain to drag around. Carts. Free. End of story.
5. Flight departure/arrival screens. There is nothing more infuriating than trying to find a flight time or gate only to realize that the screen, situated in a public space in the middle of the airport, only lists US Airways flights. Just put all airlines on the same damn board! Does it save anyone time to have to wander around aimlessly until they happen on the screen that is for their airline's flights? Sort them by time, not by destination city. I don't want to read through a list of 7 flights going to JFK until I find the one I'm on. Logic has it that people are thinking more about the departure time of their flight than the destination. So, put them in order by departure/arrival time. And, list the current time on the board as well. If you don't know what time it is now, how do you know how much time you have to get to your gate? And that leads to my next point:
6. Clocks. Not everyone wears a watch. Not everyone has a phone. And even those who do, phones don't always automatically update a time zone change. So put clocks everywhere. No one wants to miss their flight because their watch said 12:30 but it was actually 1:30 and they didn't know there was a time zone change. Often on flights, the attendants announce the current time upon landing, but not all do, and not everyone hears the announcements. Put clocks on every wall if you have to!
7. Food. People spend time at airports on both sides of security. Make sure there are food options on both sides, or at least make it painfully clear where the food purchase options are. There is nothing worse than going through security early to play it safe only to realize there are minimal food options. I want food court options, not just the short section of refrigerator space where shady fruit and $7 sandwiches are sold. Airports suggest people go to their gate immediately and not dally on the check-in side of security, but who wants to sit at their gate where there are no places to eat? Since flights don't serve food, there should be many options within the terminals for connecting passengers and departing passengers, but also on the public side of security. Nothing worse than a long drive to the airport only to find out that there's nowhere where my dad can buy a coffee or where we can have a last bite to eat as a family. Put food everywhere! People will buy it, even though it's absurdly overpriced.
8. Chairs. Why on earth would you put horribly uncomfortable metal chairs in an airport, one place where you KNOW people are going to be sitting for potentially hours at a time?? And for those people stuck at an airport overnight or due to long delays, just don't put armrests on the chairs so that people can lie down. Everyone within security is paying, traveling customer, so there's no excuse that if the chairs are too comfortable, the homeless will flock there. People want to sleep, and no one wants to sleep on the floor! Pad the chairs - it can't be that much more expensive. And your customers will be much more understanding of their long delay if they can nap comfortably while they wait to get home.
9. And finally, we get to my last rant. Code sharing. Twice this year I went to the wrong terminal because, while my itinerary said Continental Flight XXX, my flight was actually United Flight YYY. Duh? No! There must be some reason for the airlines to do code sharing, but I don't think it should involve me. If you want to sell me a flight as Lufthansa that is operated by Air Canada, fine, but just tell me what I need to know. Print my itinerary with information that is actually USEFUL to me. Put on the paper what the plane says on the outside. That's all. I don't care that the Air Canada flight is also Lufthansa, Delta, United, American and Alitalia on paper. I care that I can find the right terminal and the right check-in counter. I care that I'm flying the airline I think I'm flying - it's not cool to get to the airport expecting good international airline service and instead getting American airline service. Save the code sharing stuff for behind the scenes.
1. Water. There should always be water fountains next to the bathrooms. I don't want to spend $2 on a bottle of water. Now that liquids are banned, I bring a stainless steel water bottle specifically so that I can fill it up before getting on the plane. Airports in the US are generally good about having lots of fountains, but in other countries they're almost impossible to find. Give us our water!
2. Bathrooms. Frankfurt airport somehow had single stall bathrooms in the US terminal. Planes to the US hold hundreds of people and the terminal holds more than a handful of planes. Do you know how long a line gets when there are less than 20 single-stall bathrooms in the whole terminal? Airports, of all places, should have, if anything, many MORE bathrooms than they think necessary.
3. Outlets. Everyone wants to charge their phone/Kindle/laptop/iPad at the airport. The worst thing is when you need to call home to tell them your flight is cancelled and you're stuck in X city but your phone is dead and you can't find a charger. Just put them everywhere. People will find them. And don't limit outlets to the charging stations. I don't want to sit in a small space with a bunch of businessmen who are talking on their phones. I want to sit on the floor somewhere with an outlet in the wall or in the floor and well away from obnoxious talkers.
4. Carts. There is no way a cart is worth $5. Or $4. Or even $2. At the grocery store you don't have to pay for a cart, even though it's a convenience. Now that people have to pay to check luggage this is an even more ludicrous fee. If I paid $50 to check the 2 big suitcases I now want to put on a cart, the least you can do is give me the cart for free! The worst part is in airports where it's banned to take the cart onto the train that connects terminals. I'm expected to pay $5 for a cart in Terminal A only to realize soon after that I can't bring said cart with me to Terminal C? So, I have to unload all my stuff, schlepp it onto the train and to Terminal C, where I have to pay $5 for another cart? Ridiculous! One could say, "Just don't pack so much stuff if you can't carry it, you hoarder." But sometimes you just need a lot of stuff, and don't want to drag it all around. And many times the wheels break of a rolling bags due to rough handling by airport staff, making even one bag a pain to drag around. Carts. Free. End of story.
5. Flight departure/arrival screens. There is nothing more infuriating than trying to find a flight time or gate only to realize that the screen, situated in a public space in the middle of the airport, only lists US Airways flights. Just put all airlines on the same damn board! Does it save anyone time to have to wander around aimlessly until they happen on the screen that is for their airline's flights? Sort them by time, not by destination city. I don't want to read through a list of 7 flights going to JFK until I find the one I'm on. Logic has it that people are thinking more about the departure time of their flight than the destination. So, put them in order by departure/arrival time. And, list the current time on the board as well. If you don't know what time it is now, how do you know how much time you have to get to your gate? And that leads to my next point:
6. Clocks. Not everyone wears a watch. Not everyone has a phone. And even those who do, phones don't always automatically update a time zone change. So put clocks everywhere. No one wants to miss their flight because their watch said 12:30 but it was actually 1:30 and they didn't know there was a time zone change. Often on flights, the attendants announce the current time upon landing, but not all do, and not everyone hears the announcements. Put clocks on every wall if you have to!
7. Food. People spend time at airports on both sides of security. Make sure there are food options on both sides, or at least make it painfully clear where the food purchase options are. There is nothing worse than going through security early to play it safe only to realize there are minimal food options. I want food court options, not just the short section of refrigerator space where shady fruit and $7 sandwiches are sold. Airports suggest people go to their gate immediately and not dally on the check-in side of security, but who wants to sit at their gate where there are no places to eat? Since flights don't serve food, there should be many options within the terminals for connecting passengers and departing passengers, but also on the public side of security. Nothing worse than a long drive to the airport only to find out that there's nowhere where my dad can buy a coffee or where we can have a last bite to eat as a family. Put food everywhere! People will buy it, even though it's absurdly overpriced.
8. Chairs. Why on earth would you put horribly uncomfortable metal chairs in an airport, one place where you KNOW people are going to be sitting for potentially hours at a time?? And for those people stuck at an airport overnight or due to long delays, just don't put armrests on the chairs so that people can lie down. Everyone within security is paying, traveling customer, so there's no excuse that if the chairs are too comfortable, the homeless will flock there. People want to sleep, and no one wants to sleep on the floor! Pad the chairs - it can't be that much more expensive. And your customers will be much more understanding of their long delay if they can nap comfortably while they wait to get home.
9. And finally, we get to my last rant. Code sharing. Twice this year I went to the wrong terminal because, while my itinerary said Continental Flight XXX, my flight was actually United Flight YYY. Duh? No! There must be some reason for the airlines to do code sharing, but I don't think it should involve me. If you want to sell me a flight as Lufthansa that is operated by Air Canada, fine, but just tell me what I need to know. Print my itinerary with information that is actually USEFUL to me. Put on the paper what the plane says on the outside. That's all. I don't care that the Air Canada flight is also Lufthansa, Delta, United, American and Alitalia on paper. I care that I can find the right terminal and the right check-in counter. I care that I'm flying the airline I think I'm flying - it's not cool to get to the airport expecting good international airline service and instead getting American airline service. Save the code sharing stuff for behind the scenes.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Adventures in Kabylia
I went to Istanbul and came back It was awesome. Mosques, mosques, and more mosques, with some chips-covered-peanuts, ferry rides, hookah, and lots of shopping.
Now I'm in Kabylia, the Berber region of Algeria. I figured out how to switch the keyboard from AZERTY to QWERTY, and now I can finally do functional things on the internet, like update my blog for the first time in ages. Kabylia is amazing. It's better than anywhere else I've been. It's James Herriot's Yorkshire mixed with a greener Pamir Highway, snowy Kyrgyz mountain peaks, rolling hills of Austria, and Bulgarian mountain villages. There are palm trees, donkeys, wild monkeys, lots of outdoor markets, and beautiful views everywhere you look. I wish I never had to leave! When I get back to the US where I'll have more reliable high-speed internet, I will add many pictures of this wonderful place.
Now I'm in Kabylia, the Berber region of Algeria. I figured out how to switch the keyboard from AZERTY to QWERTY, and now I can finally do functional things on the internet, like update my blog for the first time in ages. Kabylia is amazing. It's better than anywhere else I've been. It's James Herriot's Yorkshire mixed with a greener Pamir Highway, snowy Kyrgyz mountain peaks, rolling hills of Austria, and Bulgarian mountain villages. There are palm trees, donkeys, wild monkeys, lots of outdoor markets, and beautiful views everywhere you look. I wish I never had to leave! When I get back to the US where I'll have more reliable high-speed internet, I will add many pictures of this wonderful place.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Wishing for Istanbul
Today is October 4,
and there are 47 days until I leave for Istanbul. There is nothing I want more
than to skip straight to November 20 and be in Turkey already. Now that fall is
here, wanderlust has struck heavily again and I would much rather be living
abroad somewhere than being here in Minnesota. Istanbul is never far from my
thoughts - last week when flipping through a new Turkey guidebook, I was brought
to tears by the thought of being there again (Mosques! Lagman! Hookah! Elma
çay! Isik Cikmazi 26! Ortaköy! Adhan! Cheap clothes!). Then, I found a
wonderful poem by Turkish poet Yahya Kemal Beyatli about Istanbul that made me
miss it even more:
BİR BAŞKA
TEPEDEN
Sana dün bir tepeden baktım aziz İstanbul!
Görmedim gezmediğim, sevmediğim
hiçbir yer.
Ömrüm oldukça, gönül tahtıma keyfince
kurul!
Sade bir semtini sevmek bile bir ömre
değer.
Nice revnaklı şehirler görülür dünyada,
Lakin efsunlu güzellikleri sensin
yaratan.
Yaşamıştır derim, en hoş ve
uzun rü'yada
Sende çok yıl yaşayan, sende ölen, sende yatan.
English translation:
I looked at you from
another hill, dear Istanbul!
I know you like back of my hand, and love you
dearly.
Come, come and sit on my heart's throne as long as I live
Just to love
a district of yours is worth a whole life.
There are many flourishing cities
in the world.
But you're the only one who creates enchanting beauty.
I say, he
who has lived happily, in the longest dream,
Is he who spent his life in you,
died in you, and was buried in you.
My friends just moved
back into my old apartment, a friend from Kyrgyzstan is currently living in
Istanbul, and I've been planning a meetup with a Bulgarian friend, so there are
reunions in Istanbul to look forward to as well. I'm also hoping to take day
trips to Edirne and Pamukkle, places in Turkey I haven't been before.
It's been a while since I've been looking forward
to the future rather than living in the moment, but the next months are going
to be just that. It will be interesting to see if I love Istanbul as much in
reality as I have this past year in memory and nostalgia. If so, I will
definitely try to convince Aissa that he wants to live there so that we can move.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Changes in Beyoğlu
In Istanbul, I lived in the district of Beyoğlu. This is often known as the heart of European Istanbul, with tons of bars, outdoor cafes, shops and flocks of tourists. I lived very near to the 'dangerous' neighborhood of Tarlabaşı. Turks were often shocked to find out where I lived, because this is where the prostitutes, gypsies and transvestites lived, and therefore a place I shouldn't go. However, it was one of my favorite places in Istanbul. Its narrow streets were full of food sellers, beautiful decrepit buildings, women shouting to each other out the windows and kids playing soccer. During Ramadan, my neighborhood was one of the few that still had a man walk around drumming at 3 am, waking people up for pre-dawn breakfast. I took many wandering walks through the congested streets and never got tired of the sights. There was always something new to see - a woman walking a lamb on a leash, soccer fans waving scarves and singing team songs, women dumping dishwater out the windows and men praying in the corner of their convenience stores and women lowering baskets out their window to buy vegetables from street salesmen. Here is how wikipedia describes it:
EurasiaNet has a few great articles on the subject: here, here and most recently here. This is a great blog in English about happenings in the neighborhood. It will be a real loss to Turkish culture if Tarlabaşı's traditional buildings are torn down. There are enough places in Istanbul that are modern and Western. Officials should be working to preserve these old neighborhoods rather than destroying them.
In other sad Istanbul news, officials have been shutting down all outdoor seating in restaurants in bars. Istanbul Eats looks at how this has affected these locales here. One of the best parts about Istanbul in warm weather was the number of places with outdoor seating. The alleys off of İstiklal got narrower with tables, the Turkish men enticing you into their restaurant appeared more than ever and there was a wonderful atmosphere that filled these lively streets. The energy was infectious and I could have spent every night walking up and down these streets, people watching. It will not be the same if everyone sits inside. Will the Beyoğlu I see in November be the same one I fell in love with two years ago?
Historically, Tarlabaşı was home to a large Greek population; the neighbourhood's most prominent building is still a Greek Orthodox church from the 19th century. The city's oldest and largest Syriac Orthodox church is also found here. In the 1990s, large numbers of Kurdish immigrants from eastern Turkey moved into Tarlabaşı mixing in with the local Roma population. More recently, it has become the home to many migrants from neighbouring countries and Africa.
I was much happier living in a neighborhood like this than I would have been in one of the bohemian areas full of expats, international grocery stores and trendy restaurants. Now, following recent elections, government officials are working to beautify the city (an urban renewal project) and are evicting the poorer people from Tarlabaşı.EurasiaNet has a few great articles on the subject: here, here and most recently here. This is a great blog in English about happenings in the neighborhood. It will be a real loss to Turkish culture if Tarlabaşı's traditional buildings are torn down. There are enough places in Istanbul that are modern and Western. Officials should be working to preserve these old neighborhoods rather than destroying them.
In other sad Istanbul news, officials have been shutting down all outdoor seating in restaurants in bars. Istanbul Eats looks at how this has affected these locales here. One of the best parts about Istanbul in warm weather was the number of places with outdoor seating. The alleys off of İstiklal got narrower with tables, the Turkish men enticing you into their restaurant appeared more than ever and there was a wonderful atmosphere that filled these lively streets. The energy was infectious and I could have spent every night walking up and down these streets, people watching. It will not be the same if everyone sits inside. Will the Beyoğlu I see in November be the same one I fell in love with two years ago?
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Language Learning
I have not blogged nearly as much as I would have liked. I went to San Francisco in December and Thailand and Cambodia in June, but just have felt writer's block for so many months.
I haven't traveled as much as I would like, but I have been taking lots of language classes. Since last fall, I've taken Polish, Mandarin, French, Russian and Turkish classes, and one thing is clear. Whether it's innate ability or as a result of studying linguistics, many foreign languages and TESL, I am a great language learner. Things just make sense to me that are difficult to others.
I have been taking community language classes, which are cheap, and so my classmates come from all walks of life. In Polish class, many had Polish ancestors and wanted to connect with their roots. French class was full of retirees who wanted to move to France. Turkish class is a good mix - one girl is taking it because she loves the Turkish restaurant in St. Paul, and a couple is learning Turkish so that they can communicate with their daughter's Turkish in-laws. Whoever they are, most have had no foreign language experience. When genders were introduced in Polish class, one man spent weeks and weeks questioning this since, "How can a chair be a man? Why is coffee a girl?" Turkish is a pronoun-optional language, but one woman asks EVERY time if, for example, "ben yorgunum" means the same thing as "yorgunum." YES, YES, YES! Every time, yes.
It makes it very frustrating for me since classes progresses at the speed of molasses in January. It also means that my classmates turn to me for help, but also secretly resent me. I'm sure they wonder why I'm in beginning Turkish when I seem to know it all. However, it's all new to me, it just happens to make perfect sense. Turkish is the most logical language I've studied, and it boggles my mind that others don't find it as easy as I do.
One would hope that university language classes, which cost about $4000 for a semester, have higher expectations of the students than the cheaper community classes ($50-$100 for 6-8 weeks). However, unless the class if full of linguists and serial language learners, I fear the same frustration would be there, only my bank account would be emptier. Private lessons would be the way to go, but they are more expensive and I need other students to motivate me to do homework. So, I guess I'll continue doing what I'm doing. It is definitely a good practice in patience, something I'll need in teaching EFL. If only "excellent language learning ability" was a real resume builder, and if only serial language learning was a real job I could get.
I haven't traveled as much as I would like, but I have been taking lots of language classes. Since last fall, I've taken Polish, Mandarin, French, Russian and Turkish classes, and one thing is clear. Whether it's innate ability or as a result of studying linguistics, many foreign languages and TESL, I am a great language learner. Things just make sense to me that are difficult to others.
I have been taking community language classes, which are cheap, and so my classmates come from all walks of life. In Polish class, many had Polish ancestors and wanted to connect with their roots. French class was full of retirees who wanted to move to France. Turkish class is a good mix - one girl is taking it because she loves the Turkish restaurant in St. Paul, and a couple is learning Turkish so that they can communicate with their daughter's Turkish in-laws. Whoever they are, most have had no foreign language experience. When genders were introduced in Polish class, one man spent weeks and weeks questioning this since, "How can a chair be a man? Why is coffee a girl?" Turkish is a pronoun-optional language, but one woman asks EVERY time if, for example, "ben yorgunum" means the same thing as "yorgunum." YES, YES, YES! Every time, yes.
It makes it very frustrating for me since classes progresses at the speed of molasses in January. It also means that my classmates turn to me for help, but also secretly resent me. I'm sure they wonder why I'm in beginning Turkish when I seem to know it all. However, it's all new to me, it just happens to make perfect sense. Turkish is the most logical language I've studied, and it boggles my mind that others don't find it as easy as I do.
One would hope that university language classes, which cost about $4000 for a semester, have higher expectations of the students than the cheaper community classes ($50-$100 for 6-8 weeks). However, unless the class if full of linguists and serial language learners, I fear the same frustration would be there, only my bank account would be emptier. Private lessons would be the way to go, but they are more expensive and I need other students to motivate me to do homework. So, I guess I'll continue doing what I'm doing. It is definitely a good practice in patience, something I'll need in teaching EFL. If only "excellent language learning ability" was a real resume builder, and if only serial language learning was a real job I could get.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
David Beckham in Salzburg
This is a travel blog, and I definitely think of myself as a traveller. However, now that I'm back to life in America, there has been no travelling and therefore not much to blog about. Every day, I dream about leaving as soon as I can (next fall at the latest), and my current fantasies are Svalbard, Norway; Irkutsk and the Sakha Republic, Russia; Cape Town, South Africa; and anywhere outside of the US with indigenous languages that need preserving.
However, blogging about my future travel plans is probably not very interesting to anyone. Last night I had a very vivid travel dream, so I guess if I can't travel in real life and blog about it, I can dream about travelling and blog about it. So here it is.
It was a beautiful sunny day in Salzburg (that's how I knew it was a dream), and I was shopping in the Linzergasse and looking at the cheap Central Asian bazaar clothes on display with my parents and my brother. We headed towards Theatergasse and were standing on a grassy median between the lanes of traffic. David Beckham (when he was still young and good at football) was standing there and doing some sort of demonstration, and I caught a fly baseball that he had thrown. He congratulated me: "Great catch! As a reward, you get to make the first kick at the season opening Galaxy game next year. What do you want to rename the team? Anna's Galaxy? The NHL Galaxy? (that's what all Americans call us!) The USA Galaxy?"
Then my alarm woke me up from this very realistic scenario of discussing a football/baseball/hockey sport with David Beckham in Salzburg and I was back to real life in Minneapolis, where snow and apathy reign supreme.
However, blogging about my future travel plans is probably not very interesting to anyone. Last night I had a very vivid travel dream, so I guess if I can't travel in real life and blog about it, I can dream about travelling and blog about it. So here it is.
It was a beautiful sunny day in Salzburg (that's how I knew it was a dream), and I was shopping in the Linzergasse and looking at the cheap Central Asian bazaar clothes on display with my parents and my brother. We headed towards Theatergasse and were standing on a grassy median between the lanes of traffic. David Beckham (when he was still young and good at football) was standing there and doing some sort of demonstration, and I caught a fly baseball that he had thrown. He congratulated me: "Great catch! As a reward, you get to make the first kick at the season opening Galaxy game next year. What do you want to rename the team? Anna's Galaxy? The NHL Galaxy? (that's what all Americans call us!) The USA Galaxy?"
Then my alarm woke me up from this very realistic scenario of discussing a football/baseball/hockey sport with David Beckham in Salzburg and I was back to real life in Minneapolis, where snow and apathy reign supreme.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Tattoo ideas
I have been dreaming of a new tattoo for ages, and spent last night searching for pictures. These are some options, but I'm still so undecided! I just want them all...
Friday, June 11, 2010
Looks Are What Really Matter
Now that the World Cup is again upon us and I am for the first time very interested in football, I decided to blog about the only aspect of the game I feel comfortable commenting on - good looks! Using this handy dandy website with all the athletes' pictures, I looked at all the competitors and chose the 10 cutest in my opinion, based solely on these photos. (Cristiano Ronaldo, Frank Lampard, Nadir Belhadj and Nani, to name a few, are good looking in real life but didn't make the list because their World Cup pictures are less-than-attractive.)
1. Samara
2. Boateng
3. Afellay
4. Ljubijankic
5. Ziani
I don't even want to say the rest of the top 10 guys belong on the same list since they are much less attractive than the top 5, but when it comes to footballers I'm sorry to say but there are pretty slim pickings! Besides, leaving this as a Top 10 rather than a Top 5 will better showcase popular opinion which says that my taste in men is terrible.
6. Muslera
7. Beto
8. Silva
9. Jedinak
10. Vela
Who would be in your top 10?
1. Samara
2. Boateng
3. Afellay
4. Ljubijankic
5. Ziani
I don't even want to say the rest of the top 10 guys belong on the same list since they are much less attractive than the top 5, but when it comes to footballers I'm sorry to say but there are pretty slim pickings! Besides, leaving this as a Top 10 rather than a Top 5 will better showcase popular opinion which says that my taste in men is terrible.
6. Muslera
7. Beto
8. Silva
9. Jedinak
10. Vela
Who would be in your top 10?
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
You Know You're in America When...
You hear this sentence uttered in all seriousness:
"He's the most dudiest dude douche of a bro."
"He's the most dudiest dude douche of a bro."
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