It's day 4 and things are starting to feel somewhat "normal". My homesickness seems to be coming and going...it's definitely worst in the morning, such as right now. Ugh...right now I'm thinking I won't be able to make it until that weekend in October before going home. I may have to find an excuse to beg the parents to come get me in a couple ( Read more... )

Yep, so I definitely didn't sleep too well last night. As you may have heard in Jaime's lovely email, the garbage trucks were VERY noisy this morning. At first I was really confused and didn't know what the heck was going on, but I finally figured it out ( Read more... )

Well, I'm finally here and it has been quite a long day. I'm exhausted to say the least ( Read more... )

Got a lot of packing done today. My mom was trying to help way too much and it was driving me crazy. ugh...not fun. However, I feel that most of my packing is done, so that's good ( Read more... )

I can't believe how quickly Friday is approaching. Only two more days! aaahh!!! And I have like all of my packing to do, but that's what tomorrow is for ( Read more... )

The past few days have been crazy ( Read more... )

Britt and I had a sleepover last night, just like when we were little kids. It was lots of fun. We watched Grease and had juice ice cubes and licorice and sour patch kids. Fun fun! We also watched a video from my 11th b-day party that was quite amusing. Some people haven't changed a bit ( Read more... )

The past couple of days have been quite lovely. We got up on Thursday and went down to Illinois to visit my aunt and uncle. When we got there we were immediately attacked by two very energetic little girls. The happened to be my cousins (2nd cousins to be exact) from Germany who I hadn't seen in over a year. Ella is 5 and Claire is 4 (almost) ( Read more... )

I feel so much better now that I finally got some college shopping done. It wasn't much, but at least I'm making progress. Maybe I'll find some stuff while I'm in Chicago this weekend and I'm going to IKEA next week. I plan on going crazy there and getting tons of stuff. Yay!! I can't wait ( Read more... )

That's what today is, just in case you were wondering!! It wasn't nearly as fun as watermelon day was yesterday though ( Read more... )