Carol Bontekoe

This blog has been keeping track of my adventures since 2004. The stories and the adventures have come from my college dorm room to Uganda, Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan, learning Dutch in the Netherlands to living in the wilds of Homer, Alaska. I went back to school in Amsterdam to study Theaterwetenschap (Theatre Science) at University of Amsterdam. And now my adventures as a Fruit Fly, a Sexy Unicorn, and creating a movement with Team Sparkle in Chicago.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

My middle name is Space Lynn...

... but it should be awkward.
When I even remotely find a guy interesting or attractive or anything slightly unplutonic I consistanly say weird things. I also sweat alot... I sweat alot regardless but it is uped a bit around a funny/cute guy.
Sometimes my awkwardness gets lost on the Dutch. Don't get me wrong they think I'm plenty weird. But sometimes the little weird things that an American dude would catch gets lost on Dutch guys. However, a little while ago I did say something very awkward and was so obvisously awkward that the dude couldn't have missed it.
I was at a Dutch birthday party. Because it was a Dutch birthday party we were all sitting around in a circle- around a table. My foot accidently brushed against a guy I fancy's foot. Instead of just pulling my foot back a little bit and continuing on with my conversation, I choice to jerk my foot back. After jerking my foot back I yelled at the guy, "I'm not flirting with you or anything! I just have REALLY BIG FEET!"
He has never shown any interest in me.... can't figure that one out.


5 comments :

  1. *secret smile* said...

    Hahaha love it. Especially because I can picture the "party" and perhaps the man of which you speak.

    P.S. I love how you consistently spelled awkward ackward... making it seem that much more ackward in my mind. Kinda like that Michigan nasally A sound that I miss so much... sigh...

  2. Anonymous said...

    HAHAHA... i can totally picturing you doing that :P

  3. Anonymous said...

    see i can see you saying that to someone you didn't like too so it didn't seem as awkward... just super funny.
    who was the person you hooked up with in that rumor going around camp?
    -sam

  4. Diane said...

    Oh man Carol that post was delightful...i could easily imagine it happening too lol - hope all is well :D

  5. Carol/K-Roll/C-Bone said...

    I totally did write awkward with a Michigan Accent... good call Shawn :)