Well, life goes on here in La Chorrera, same as always, I guess. My mom and grandma are furious with Jaime, my brother, and I don´t know why because with raised voices, fast speech, and intense amounts of swearing it´s hard to glean any content from what they say. Therefore things are a little stressful here at home, and kind of leave me confused.
Last night I went to the movies with some friends from school, including a kind of attractive Chinese guy who´s favorite singer is Alanis Morissette. The movie, Invisible, was actually good, so I enjoyed myself. The night before I went to another movie with Kate, my American AFS friend, which was not really my kind of film. I had a great time anyways because Kate is awesome and it´s always a relief to hang out with somebody who has any kind of clue what you are dealing with on a daily basis.
Today Maru tried to give me chicken sausage and I told her that I didn´t want any and she started yelling at me about how it is still chicken and how there is NO difference between that and any other chicken, blah, blah, blah. My grandma interjected feebly, "We already know that she doesn´t LIKE sausage," but to know avail. Then Maru said, "She´s not vegetarian, she´s just a weird eater!" and I interrupted in my `icy voice of steel´ that I am vegetarian, I do not normally eat chicken, and I am only eating chicken here so that I do not starve. She looked shocked and said, "Really?" and I thought, how many times have my mom and I told her this already?
Similarly, last Sunday we were at Mass and she was telling me what to do in Church and I told her that I didn´t feel comfortable crossing myself, etc., because I respect Catholicism and thus do not want to imitate it without belief. The response: "You´re not Catholic?! You never told me!" Yes, I did Maru. More than once. Do you actually hear a single word I tell you or do you hear what you tell yourself?
School is boring but okay. People are nice, but I wish that my classes were challenging in any way, shape, or form. Also, my chemistry teacher keeps giving me zeros because I´m not on his class list or because he supposedly can´t read my name (which was quite legible, thanks, I asked my classmates) when, uh, he has to ADD ME to his class list because I´m a NEW EXCHANGE STUDENT. D´oh.
Whatever. So in some ways things are great and in others they are stressful as hell and not so great. If anyone wants to send me books, cds, or rainbow things that would be very appreciated.
Love,
Laurel
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I'm tempted to copy the pages in the book we're reading so we can discuss it, but I think it's a bit long.
Try projectgutenburg.org, lots of free books, though they're all a bit old.
Oh, and my mom just found the genderqueer book on my floor.. that was a priceless expression.
Oh, my. I would kind of pay to see that. No, I would definitely pay to see that. Next time, take a photo.
I would think she'd have learned not to poking around on my floor by now if she didn't want to notice things like that..
hah yeah, really. well just be happy that you don´t have to be at school tomorrow at 6:30 to decorate a wall display... I did volunteer because it´s with my friends, but hah, still. me, wake up at 5:30 am voluntarily. who´da thunk it.
What's the display for?
You're going to miss a couple tests in aikido, Devlin's is in early October, and I think I'm up soon too...
Everyone: Nomi, Tenaya, Nico, Shanti, etc... say hi. Oh, and wombat too. :P
For national book week.
Damn it, all these people testing! This could have been me! aaaaaaaah! I am going to feel lonely and sad as an inexperienced white belt when I return. Then, of course, I can work my butt off and make up for it. Maybe.
That sounds cool, what's the display of?
You won't be the only one, a lot of people aren't around much. I actually just screwed up my knee, so I won't be at aikido for a bit.
When you get back we can all drill you in the easy stuff at least so that you know all the names.
I don't suppose there's a dojo nearby is there...?
the nearest dojo is in panamá city, so it´s only like an hour away but I have no safe convenient way to get there on a regular basis without spending a lot of money...
yeah... but my mom sent me your tajikistani pop/bach partitas! so life is happy.
Nice!
If there's any other music, I might be able to email you it. If you have iTunes or a way of playing it...
How's violin going? Do you have enough music? Is your violin still in the normal amount of pieces?
My computer is dead, that wouldn´t work... :(
I don´t have enough pieces but it´s making me work really hard on what I do have. Plus, I brought the D minor partita (don´t tell!) and that is fuuuuuuuuuuuuun.
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