to be all FB on the LJ:
Clarissa is... torn between two worlds.

fucking a.
now i understand why they told me 6 months wasnt long enough to really get it but now im just confused.

my new family is incredible and i ever want to leave them.

i dyed my hair!

my art teacher told me today that i have a natural gift for art ( Read more... )

Today I made a list of food places I missed from home ( Read more... )

i just bonded with my host brothers over UNO. they are 18 and 15. sociable and silent.
more talking with them than i did with my last host brother in all 4.5 months i was with him.
i think we're off to a good start.

its been really confusing lately, being here. i dont know what to make of it or my life anymore.
its really just been hard.WHAT am ( Read more... )

my new host grandma ( Read more... )

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I also realized today, that not only will my picture not be in the yearbook, my name won't even be there. I'm not a registered student at south, I'll never have a senior year. And when I left, that didn't bother me at all I just wanted out, but now I'm realizing thats an experience I'll never have.. No senior pictures, no senior prom, no graduation ( Read more... )

less than a week from four months here, three months was like a day ago, five months tomorrow, and thats half way? what? i still feel so new here ( Read more... )

i had an interesting conversation with my host dad this evening. he started by saying that he was awake until 4, not able to sleep because he missed his daughter, who is on exchange in California. Then how when I leave its going to be even more like something is missing because as soon as she left there was me, and there were still four people in ( Read more... )

life is wonderful. go do something spectacular with it.