I thought I'd commemorate this memorable day. Here's to a... more mature me. haha, no there's no hope. Well it's been a very exciting day so far. I just finished taking a three-hour final and taking care of money business at my school. As the wise Shania Twain once said, "up, up up, it can only go up from here". I've at least started eating my ( Read more... )

My parents get here Sunday. They stay three days then are off to the azores, their new home. I'm pretty excited and am already planning what I'm going to cook. I copy my sister's boyfriend Miguel with food and house stuff. He learned how to cook the best way, basic recipes from his parents. I like the way food and cooking is here, people enjoy it a ( Read more... )

My internet is finally working again, it wasn’t for a while. I meant to respond to Nancy`s post but it only started working yesterday . I don’t usually like talking about spirituality or the Church this way, but I did want to respond from my viewpoint too about catholicism at least ( Read more... )

i'm like high on adrenaline. today was a huge, huge derby (that's what they call rivalries, like between two enemy teams in a country) between benfica and sporting in the portuguese championships. so obviously i was rooting for benfica, since it's the oldest and coolest team, but they haven't won in eleven years so everyone was very nervous. they ( Read more... )

I´ve decided that it´s useless to try to stay in and study during the weekend and I just have to do it during the week. This weekend my cousin is in Lisbon and it was fun to see him again. I really like him, he´s sweet. Cousins are a cool thing to have ( Read more... )

olá meninos what's up? I've been pretty busy lately. Two weekends ago I went to algarve, down south where there are more english people than portuguese. This weekend this really nice spanish girl, who we met through our english friend, came to visit lisbon again. This time she brought three american boys! (studying abroad in madrid) They were ( Read more... )

I thought I'd put on here, just in case, that my address has changed. Our street is pretty new and people here like to mix it up every now and then, add some excitement to everyday life. So it changes and then we have to change all our correspondence and it's a blast. So it's just the street name. Instead of Impasse 2 à Rua Antonio Albino Machado ( Read more... )

So after a hectic week of insomnia, my sleep schedule is back to normal. I haven't studied at all yet, I'm so behind it makes me not get started at all. It was nice to see everyone, almost everyone, during spring break. Spring break was nice, just weird. The way I acted I guess ( Read more... )

I'm almost in turlock again! Saturday morning bright and early. I don't understand why teachers give so much homework for breaks, especially like entire reports. Studying on planes doesn't work and during the break is just heresy ( Read more... )

Well going to Spain was fun and I fell in love with bullfights. Like my sister’s boyfriend says, you either hate them intensely or love them, there isn’t really a middle ground. They killed the bulls, but it wasn’t all that gory after all. They’re pretty different from Portuguese bullfights, the focus is on the matador and footwork and such, there ( Read more... )