this is a video that i took of myself about a week ago during my first trip to safeway

well, im leaving back for baku tomorrow morn. i have to be at the airport by around 10 in the morning, and i won't get to baku until sometime late on thursday :( i did some last minute shopping with nona today, and then we went out to dinner, which we just got back from. also this morning we went to a stampeed breakfast whish is basically a free breakfast of pankcakes and sausages, that is served almost every day all over calgary during stampeed week. i just started packing today, which was sort of stressful for me because my suitcase can not weigh over 44 lbs, or else i have to pay extra, so i had to leave behind 4 of my books, which, even though i had already read them, i was sad to leave them behind. oh well.

i just finished watching all three Anne of Green Gables movies with nona. they are a big thing here in canada since they are set on prince edwards island, which s just off of the coast of eastern canada. I think that my favorite movie was the third one because it had alot more history and action than the other two. it also made me cry, and a movie has to be pretty good to do that to me. right now i am watching a dr. phil episode about a girl who did not step out of her house for about two years because she thought that her face was so utterly hideous, but in reality she looks quite pretty. i don't understand how some people can spend hours in front of the mirror every morning, but maybe that's because since i live overseas for the majority of the time, i'm not really influinced by the looks obsessed culture that people in first world countries have to deal with. i mean, yes, looks are still pretty important at TISA, but people aren't about to go and beat you up becasue you don't look the same as them. i mean, i've heard stories of people in my old school in america, about kids who would pummel their classmates if they were overwieght or had a funny accent. if people at TISA beat people up because of how they spoke, then 75% of the people in the school would be going around with black eyes. i actually like listening to people with accents talk, because it makes me focus more on what they say for some reason. i myself have a somewhat canadian accent, even though i'm technically american, because my dad's side of the family is canadian. however, i think that some of my top favorite accents are english, scottish, irish, aulstralian, and south african. yours? do any of u guys have accents? please comment if you do...

ok, the only reason that i'm really writing this post is because i am pretty bored right now and have nothing else to do right now. if you were wondering (which i highly doubt you were) i am actually in calgary, canada right now. i flew here about days ago to visit with my nona (grandma on my dad's side) and the rest of my dad's family. i leave back to baku in around 5 days. while i am here, i have been staying w/my nona and her foster baby Kairi, who isabout 7 months old, and is really sweet. i've had such a great time here so far, and have done A TON of shopping, since shopping is basically non-existant in baku. today i met up with one of my friends from TISA who moved here to calgary last summer, Kate. She and i went to an amusement park here called calaway park, and had a blast. She and r both lovers of scary rides and such, so we went on almost every single ride there. however, we had to go home early, because nona wasn't feeling vey well, and needed to rest and relax. so now i'm at home looking after Kairi and watching some real life medical drama on tv. And writinf this post of course. I am looking forward to going back to baku, because although my time here so far has been absolutley heavenly, i do miss my family and even the city, despite how little i want to admit it! But this trip has been good preperation for my going to boarding school in india later this summer. I've learned how to fill out my immigration card, and when to present my tickets, recipts, and boarding passes, and who to give them to. Byb, i'm going to boarding school for 4 years in Mussorie, India for about fur years. And no...it is NOT a school for deliquients and/or troubled teens as so many people seem to think that all boarding schools are. No, this is a simple Christian based co-ed school where uniforms are not required, which is a definate plus, and which gives me yet another excuse to go shopping :) I'm leaving with my family for India at the end of july, and after they drop me off at boarding school (Woodstock School in India), they will go on touring India and then they will return back to baku for another year until they are assignd to their next post.

Who am I and Why Should U Care

hello world. my name is Shelby Maria Thompson, and i am the 13 year old daughter of two traveling diplomats. Many of you might ask, what is a diplomat...it's basicaly a person who works for the government, traveling around to different countries that no one else wants to go to, doing work, that very few other people want to do. A very rewarding career indeed...well, that's what my parents say. As of now, I have moved approxiamtley 9 times, and have lived in 6 different countries, and have gone to 8 different schools. Quite a bit for a 13 year old girl to handle, huh? Well, you get used to it after a while. Right now i am living in Baku, Azerbaijan. Now i want all of yu to go and find that on a map...you have 1 minute. Go. tick tock tick tock tick tock. Ok, now how many of you were actually able to find it. I take it not too many, right? Well, it's a tiny country right above Iran and right beside the United Arab Emerites. Now go and try to find it again. Well done. That tiny placed that you've just found on the map is where i have spent the last two years of my loney existence. Well, I haven't been alone exactly per say. I hav my parents, and a little brother who is three years younger than i am. A joy, i know. I just finished the 8th grade at TISA (The International School of Azerbaijan), and i passed every single subject. Sure, i didn't have the best grades in the class, but i was close enough. If advanced math wasn't hard enough, i barely cut the grade in I.T (computers, etc). Man i hated that class. Wait...hate is much to strong a word. Let's just say that i extremly disliked that class w/all of my heart, and i wish that it had never existed. i would have given my left arm to haveen able to not take that class. Wait, i am right handed, so if i wanted to get alot of sympathy and no homework, i should give my right arm instead. The depth of my thinking is absolutley amazing, now isn't it? Well, now we are getting to the why should you care part of the title. In reality, there is really no true reason why u should, but i do, so i guess that everyone else should too :)