Things are going pretty well here, especially schoolwise. The math and physics we are doing here is all stuff I have been doing since 6th or 7th grade, so I want to teach myself calculus. Tomorrow I audition for the choir, which should be interesting, to say the least. After the 12th I start playing in the band, so we´ll see how that goes.
There has been some family drama, because I am always sleepy and cannot eat enough (ME, not eat enough!), but for the most part I really like my family and cannot imagine changing households. Turns out that half the problem anyways was that I was eating cereal for breakfast instead of oatmeal... My grandmother in particular is basically made of awesome, and we get along. We are both kind of uppity people, and thus we understand each other better than Maru and I, who get along but are of entirely different mindsets.
Hopefully not this weekend, but next, my friend Aleida and I are going into Panamá City to buy me some clothes... I´d like to have a few more things to wear and according to my compañeras, nobody shops in La Chorrera.
This Saturday all of us AFSers in Chorrera and our families are going to the house of María Elena, the coordinator, to have a party. That should be fun!
Oh, mom, if you check this, could you send me the enchilada recipe? Thanks.
Anyways, miss you guys A LOT and talk to you later.
Laurel
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We totally should have that party. Maybe on my birthday, the 12th, when I turn a scary 21.I know exactly what you mean about family drama concerning not eating enough. I never ate enough to please my moms in Peru and Spain, especially in Spain. I got teased about it, actually, hope that's not the same case with you. And I slept all the time there as well.
Good luck with your mother, I hope things get better with that.
Have you met the son next door yet? What's he like?
And after Aimen's harping on Devlin's hips at aikido today, any salsa dancing?
Susanna-
21? Aaaah!
I´m glad that my study abroad issues are pretty normal, which I figured they were, but...
Admire my impeccable sentence structure...
Hezaaaaaaa.
No, I haven´t salsa danced, but hopefully I´ll get to tomorrow at the AFS party. Jaime, my "brother" is nice and a medical lab tech. He´s extrememly irresponsible, and today is his birthday!
yeah, I know what you mean (I think). . .normal experiences or not, there's always that "but". Normal doesn't really make it easy. How's the Spanish speaking going?
Okay. It´s harder than I thought it would be but my ears are adjusting. Mostly it´s the simplest part of the whole thing.
I take it that that breakfast cereal was lacking the energy density of oatmeal?
how did the choir audition go? do you know results yet or will that be not until Monday or so?
Glad to see you are doing well!
I have been telling you for years to eat oatmeal. Why didn't you listen?
My team from Austin that won the scavenger hunt required me to dress up as Austin Powers for the celbratory dinner. Result: You now own a burgundy tuxedo jacket.
dude. Dad, you are so my hero. :D I want photos!
Turns out the audition isn´t until this friday... oh well. Me and time= not so great.
Laurel you would be proud of my English teacher. She doesn't refer to the guys in our class as male, but as those of "the male persuasion"
well, she is indeed a man after my own heart. :D
Hey Laurel,
Meant to ask what you cooked for the AFS party to represent CA, USA - and how was the party?
Mom
I cooked nachos. The party was good; I hung out with Kate and these two awesome Germans, and this Hungarian who is transferring to a new city.
Oh, and apparently their official policy on vegetarianism here (which they DON´T TELL THE APPLICANTS...) is "tough luck, they have to eat meat and adapt," which kind of worked for me, but not for the Hungarian who can´t eat meat of any kind because she hates it and it sits poorly...
haha, can you tell that I´m annoyed with AFS right now?
laurellll
i hope you are having the time of your vida.
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