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Yay! Today was the first Sunday in a while that I got to play badminton again! My dad didn't go with me, so I invited Rachel instead ^_-. We played together for a while, and then got to play these two guys in mixed doubles ^_-. My partner had long hair 0___o. *no further comments* . They won, but we got SO close in the second game. The won by one point -__-. By that time, I got all my skillz back, and I asked the Russian dude to be Rachel's partner because I like playing mixed doubles... They were picking on me a bit because I didn't have a partner so Rachel was like "Why don't you ask THAT guy?". Some dude was standing, looking bored. Without even thinking, I went up to him and said "be my partner" ^_^*. He agreed. Then we played and we SEVERELY beat beat Rachel and Russian dude. That was fun , I can't wait until next Sunday!

Before badminton, I basically did nothing. My parents refused to allow me go to the anti war demonstration -__-. Their excuse was "You need to help paint and clean the house" -__-. Yeah right, my dad spent hours lecturing me yesterday about how "those losers out there protesting aren't real Americans if they want Sadaam in power".

SPEAKING OF LECTURING, I've just about had it to here with lectures from my father. When I first was into Communism, he started lecturing me about how evil it was, and now, for some reason, it's starting AGAIN. He just keeps telling me story after story of what happened to ordinary Russian citizens . I mean, they're interesting stories, but sadly, they're influencing me too much.

One he told me yesterday inspecially was sad... My dad was a part of the Soviet Army at my age (school ends for russians after 10th grade). When he applied for this University, a question was asked about his father: "where is he". My dad either said or wrote that he didn't know. The truth was, my grandpa was in America , trying to be a permenant resident . The KGB somehow looked into it, and made it so my dad failed his exams and was drafed to join the Soviet Army. My mom thinks it was because he's Jewish by nationality. For centuries, Russians have always been anti-semetic. I asked his why, and he said "because by nature, Russians are VERY envious people. They saw how well Jews prospered in their country, and became jealous. They did everything they could to set them back". Okay, that's story number 1. He told me some more tomorrow about life under comrade Stalin 0_o. I've heard of these stories before, because my dad calls me this name "Vridetil". I break stuff on accident, and my dad says I do it on purpose because I'm a Vridetil. Vridetils are the name of people in Communist Russia who broke stuff on accident and were sent to Siberia 0__o. He said "If a construction worker accidently broke his drill, someone who didn't like him could tell the KGB 'tavarish, I know someone who broke a soviet drill! He is a capitalist and enjoys breaking soviet materials!' Then bam, the person would get thrown into Siberia" 0__o. Then he goes on to tell me how one time my grandma's relative overslept work and got sent to Siberia for 2 years.

Gah... Okay, these strories have kind of turned me away from Communism... but it doesn't mean that I don't like the idea. I like Socialism better anyway... Democratic Socialism like the Green Party and what they have up in those Scandinavian countries. Capitalism turns people greedy, I'm not greedy by nature. Truthfully, the only material things that make me happy is my computer and my nintendo. My dad is a serious Social Darwinist 0__o. "Poor people are only poor because they're lazy and don't want to work and are welfare bums" He also REALLY likes Reagan, and is mad at me because I don't like him ^_^*. That's all for today, I guess...