I'm glad I married young

So the green card interview went well.  It was pretty easy.  And kind of lame... I was a little disappointed when they didn't put us in different rooms, shine a bright light in our eyes, and ask us what color each others toothbrushes are... but that's okay.  They did ask Anton:  are you a terrorist?  Are you involved in any terrorist groups?  Have you ever killed anyone?  Have you ever imprisoned anyone?  Have you ever tortured anyone?  Are you violent?  Are you a communist?  I'm pretty sure he said no to all of them but my mind wandered a little.

Shantal's wedding was beautiful.  Anton had to leave to do school and work stuff, so I hung out with Grammy most of the time.  I miss Grammy.  And everyone else.  After I graduate I'm going to take road trips to visit family too.

I heard that school would get harder as I go, but I think it's getting easier.  Maybe I'm just taking easier classes (except Russian).  And classes I like better.

I am so tired of feeling so helpless and dumb in my Russian class-- I found the story we were reading by Pushkin online because I knew my computer would offer to translate it into English.  So I read it in English and then aced the in-class quiz... does that count as cheating?  I still read it all... and it didn't make sense in English either.  For the first story we read, my teacher told me I could find it in English.  So I assumed it was okay for this one too.  I think we're going to have to bring Anton's mother over here to be our nanny, because  my kids aren't going to learn very much from me.

I keep hearing talk about how dumb people are for getting married at 18 because it's WAY too young.  That they need to be ready for it first and date seriously for a long time to know they're making the right decision and a bunch of other crap.  Incidentally those who speak like they know so much about this are mostly single.  Well I'm not sorry I got married at 18 and only dated my husband for 2 weeks before we got engaged.  In fact, if I could go back and do it differently, I would have married him sooner--in November instead of February.  Age is not the most important factor in being ready (even if it does have a fairly significant influence), there are plenty of perfectly mature 18 year old people and plenty of perfectly immature 25 year old people.  And everyone else's love life is none of their business anyway.  I just wanted to get that off my chest.