Happy Thanksgiving! I really want some stuffing.... Oh well. Next year.

I'm hyper. I just ate a chocolate snack wafer cookie thing and tomorrow I'm going to bake chocolate chip cookies at a friends house! And there's only 2 weeks of school left, which scares me because there's people I'm not going to see anymore because they live far away and I don't know what I'm going to do with all my free time unless it turns out ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the most fantastic evening musically. First I had clarinet, which is always fun, and I got the music that I'm going to play for the recital in December. It's a POLKA!!! I'm really excited about this, and I find it funny that the first time I play a polka is in a tropical country several thousand miles away from Minnesota. And, if the ( Read more... )

Another Friday and another AFS presentation. Only this time I had to stand in front of a roomfull of people and talk about Minnesota. It was horrible. I was incredibly nervous, which made me stiff and awkward, and my voice was jumping octaves and wavering. I didn't use the notes I wrote because I wanted to look more natural (ha!), so the ( Read more... )

PSATs are OVER!!! Okay, so they were over on Wednesday, but I haven't been using the computer too much. And yesterday afternoon I actually had a good time spending several hours at a mall with my host mom, despite the fact that we went to a couple expensive clothes stores, which generally depress me. I got new running shoes (which I badly needed), ( Read more... )

I'm happy today! Diego Torres rules. I am hereby recommending him to everybody in the world, whether you know Spanish or not. I especially recommend Color Esperanza, which is all optimistic; and Alguien la Vio Partir, which isn't really happy at all but makes me glad anyway for some indefinable reason ( Read more... )

Okay, so I was feeling bad earlier and was on the verge of writing an entry, but then I decided to answer my email first. And I am so glad I did. Telling people back home about Costa Rica means that I have to think about the positive things first, and the negative parts never (or very little). And it made me feel so much better to think like that ( Read more... )

Yay! Oh my god, yay, yay, and yay! I just finished my application for PSEO! Okay, so actually Mom and Dad filled out all the forms and are delivering it and all that (millions of thanks to them), but I still had to write the essay and personal statement in roughly 24 hours. And I did it! Wow, energy rush. So, at this point my hypothetically riveted ( Read more... )

I went running today! I don't do that nearly often enough. It was only about 20 minutes (like every time I run here because I'm not all that self-motivated), but it was really fun, and gave me energy! Yay ( Read more... )

My new avatar is possibly my favorite photo of myself that I can think of. One of the standard questions that people ask here, after 'where are you from?' and the ubiquitous 'do you miss your parents?', is 'do you have a boyfriend?'. At first this meant back home, but it's coming to mean a new boyfriend, from here. And when I say no, they ask me if ( Read more... )