Gradients of my room in its packing state: normal - really messy - empty looking. That's a little depressing. I'm really leaving. Really. That's sort of starting to process through my brain now. It hasn't quite gotten to the emotion center quite yet, so I'll let you know how I feel then.

Smiley-happy-Callie is home in three days! Sad-Callie just said goodbye to most of her Costa Rican friends. But smiley-happy-Callie has sad-Callie in a headlock and is keeping her in her mental place, so overall I'm excited ( Read more... )

I'm sick. This is bad. I don't want to go back to the US with a virus at all. But I have pills and gatorade and coconut milk (which tastes not too great but is apparently good for you), so hopefully I'll be getting better before Tuesday ( Read more... )

ONE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And despite all the exclamation points, I really don't know how I feel about that. Predominantly nervous, I think. I'm waking up now and it was just a dream, so how come the real world's changed too?

Scary thought: I can't remember the sound of anyone's voice (besides my parents' and Laura's).

It feels like Christmas - It feels like Christmas - It feels like Christmas!

I don't know the whole song, and I'm not sure anyone'll recognize it from those lines, but that little part is going around and around in my head and expresses exactly how I feel. Even without snow, with a sunburn, and in Spanish, Christmas is here!

Well, almost.

I got sunburned and sick, but had a good time. Ocean kayaking is the second most incredibly amazing adrenaline-rush thing I've done here, and no matter what else could have happened, that made the whole three days worth it. The ferry was a novelty and pretty, though I got used to it distressingly quickly. Overall good ( Read more... )

Shameful. I took an online quiz. But it's a cool one ( Read more... )

So it's late at night and the computer takes a long time to load photobucket photos (account name calliecostarica, if anyone wants to know), so I decided to take this chance to update here. I'm definitely going to be dreaming in English tonight, but oh well. That's just a price I'll have to pay ( Read more... )

The hijueputa mierda maldito listening section of the U of M language test doesn't seem to like Costa Rican computers. Any of them. And if it doesn't fix itself soon I'm going to start swearing in English.

AFS camp tomorrow! "End of stay" (yeah, with another month thrown in for fun) get together at the beach, which would sound a lot more fun except that Salla went to the one for the year students last weekend and said there weren't any activities or anything - just a ton of foreign exchange students getting drunk and smoking while the adults made ( Read more... )