STAIRWAY TO CALIFORNIA

presumably-ukrainian:

I totally remember learning pineapple in Ukrainian school. I colored my pineapple purple.

Bullshit- they didn’t even have pineapples in the Roman Empire hahahahahahahah.

(Source: shifwa, via theresahodgepodgeonmydesk)

1 day ago -

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Wish me luck!

Interview with Georgetown tomorrow - wish me luck!

Nervous!

2 days ago

I was in my first real earthquake yesterday. I am very happy to say that no harm was done to me or my family, although my house has a few extra cracks and schools have been shut down due to structural damage.

My room has two floors: the original room was 5 meters high, so my parents decided to install a mezzanine to make my room “bigger”. I love my room: my bed and closet are underneath, while my bookshelves and my desk are upstairs. When the earthquake began, I literally thought someone has jumped onto the floor above, because it banged as if someone was jumping on it. I quickly came to the conclusion that that was impossible because the only access to that floor is through the stairs which I was facing. So I decided (all of this in a nanosecond span) that the ceiling must have given up and fallen through, landing on my mezzanine. But there was no dust. I raised my head and saw the mezzanine shaking. I was out of there.

I think that if I hadn’t been under that tremulous piece of wood and iron I wouldn’t have been as scared, but believe me I was shaking like a leaf.

Never wanna be in an earthquake again. ever.

2 days ago

scathingholes:

Dachau Concentration Camp.
Dachau, Germany.

Never ever forget.

3 days ago -

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I swear I love this scene. I could watch it over and over and over again and never get tired of it. And believe me, I have watched it over and over and over again.

Pop Six Squish Uh-uh Cicero Lipschitz.

(Source: jewishvengeance, via musical-obsessions)

3 days ago -

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Se Quest’é un Uomo / If this is a man

Today is the Giornata della Memoria (remembrance day) in Italy, in memory of those massacred in Nazi - Fascist concentration camps in WII. If you can, take some time to read some of Italian Jewish Chemist and WII Survivor Primo Levi’s work. I found a website with a few of his pieces, here’s the link: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4187.Primo_Levi.

“You who live safe
In your warm houses,
You who find warm food
And friendly faces when you return home.
Consider if this is a man
Who works in mud,
Who knows no peace,
Who fights for a crust of bread,
Who dies by a yes or no.
Consider if this is a woman
Without hair, without name,
Without the strength to remember,
Empty are her eyes, cold her womb,
Like a frog in winter.
Never forget that this has happened.
Remember these words.
Engrave them in your hearts,
When at home or in the street,
When lying down, when getting up.
Repeat them to your children.
Or may your houses be destroyed,
May illness strike you down,
May your offspring turn their faces from you.”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz