A Day Late, A Buck Short

I'm writting the report. :P Well I guess this is growing up...

I keep on missing days, but to my defense this is my last week in Santiago before I go back home and to the real world of job hunting with my parents around to nag me (and I do need nagging every once in a while, I'll admit). Looking forward to seeing everyone back home despite everything.

I'm writting this now as my roommate crochets a blanket for her granddaughter. It's a pretty, almost disappointingly predictable pink. Just Friends just ended on the TV that I'm not paying any attention and a preview for War Horse is on. My earphones are still in my ears even though I'm not listening to anything. Last weekend wenteen out dancing and through more museums and drinking with day-old friends. It's been nice. I feel a bit nostalgic of Santiago now that I'm leaving. It's a bit pathetic, but I'm fine with that.

TV Shows I've started watching again in the last two weeks: Grimm, Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, Big Time Rush. It had been so long since I watched any show. Now I'm piling them on. What's up with that?

Alda, it's funny that you feel old living with your parents now. Here in Chile children live with their parents well into their late 20's, even when they have careers and the means to buy their own place. I guess they move out when they get married.

Stephanie, keeping the blog alive! So...how's it going with this new guy?

Going to a shady dive bar tomorrow. Woo! \o/ Don't know how to feel about that. Haha. Have a good week lovelies. Ciao.

Woooo, I've got new roommates for next fall!

My lab partner is roommates with my friend Sam and they need a third roommate for their apartment in the fall, so I'm moving somewhere that'll probably be cheaper. :D I'm excited, girls. I've seen the apartments before because it's where my friend Don lives, and it's a pretty nice place.

BUT other than that.

I miiiiight have a date. :) Nothing's set in stone yet, but I met a guy and he's pretty nice and we actually get along quite well. We'll see how this goes, but I've also been kind of...weird about it because things didn't work out with Corey and the girl he went on a date with last week, so I'm afraid of that door opening just at a moment like this. So, I don't know. We'll see how things go.

My classes this semester have been going well, but they've gotten really hard all of a sudden. Especially Physics. :|

Not much else to write, though. Life doesn't change much here in Tampa.

Going apartment shopping tomorrow, though! :D

Have an excellent week!

life of an oompa loompa pt. 1

To answer your question, Karena, I didn't feel like moving back to my parents after being away for so long. Plus my brother now has my old room and the room I would be staying in is in the same hallway as my parents bedroom and waaay too close. I'm too used to having privacy I couldn't do it. Too old for this.

I haven't 100% moved out of my parents place though. The apartment I'm living in is my dad's apartment, but he doesn't live there, he sometimes drops off his laundry or chills there for like an hour or two - but that's about it. It's nice, I'm halfway out, not paying rent but I have to buy food since my dad really is never there.

Santiago sounds soo cool! Wish I was doing something awesome too.


Oh, I also have a new job. I work in a chocolate factory, it's nice :).

Yesterday I went to a music award with a local radio station. I love Icelandic artists, you really have to have the talents and not the look to get by here. All the bands that played sounded exacly (and in some cases better) than on the radio version.

You should check out Of Monsters and Men, Samaris and Sólstafir if you're interested in musique :))


Have a nice weekend girls, see you on Monday!

I'd blame my lack of posting on business, but I've really just been lazy.

But I'm here now!

So, my birthday was a couple weeks ago, and it went very well. I went to Busch Gardens the day before with my friends Melissa and Zamia, and I had a blast. Went home and slept FOREVER, and I just spent my whole birthday watching Greek. Corey stopped by on his way back up to Gainesville, since he was in Tampa for Gasparilla, our annual pirate festival. It was nice seeing him. :) And yeah, it's sort of really official that we're not getting back together, not like I had much hope for it. He has a date tonight, and, to be quite honest, I'm a little jealous of this new girl, but I'm holding it together because I'm here as one of his best friends and I don't want to be seen as a threat. So...there's that.

I had exams the past two weeks, and I'm a little afraid with how difficult some of my courses are. I know they're only going to get harder, but I'm so set in my love of this major that I'm still keeping on the best I can. But I got a 52 on my chemistry exam (which with our grading scale turned out to be a high D) and a 45 on my physics exam (which was a C on our scale). So, not THAT bad, but I need to study my classes a lot more. Biology isn't a worry for me, though, luckily.

So, yeah.

Karena, it sounds like you've been enjoying yourself in Santiago. :) Do you really only have three weeks to go? Wow.

Is it just me, or is this year flying by? I mean, it's already halfway through February.

Hope to hear from you guys soon! (And I hope I can remember to actually keep up my posts).

Where's Waldo?

But more importantly, where the heck have we been? LOL, we're all off doing whatever. So what's good ladies?

I've been busy in Santiago. Last weekend I went to Valparaiso with some friends. We stayed in a hostel that a friend of one of the guys I went with owned. It was a little run-down, but the beds were nice, it was professionally run, and the company was great. I liked it. Drank too many beers the first night and too much rum playing Kings Cup the second night (A surprising number of people wanted to play an American college drinking game). We were all tired on our way home.

I didn't bring my camera because of the high crime rate in Valparaiso but we went to the beach in Viña del Mar during the day and there was a forest fire happening at the same time, so an ominous cloud was always looming. Small ashes were falling from the sky. Nobody left the beach anyway. The water was freezing.

The Super Bowl was going on when I got home but I couldn't bring myself to care. Not like it was college football or anything. My roommate went to a Ruby Tuesday that was showing the game for the American Expats. I stayed home and watched Youtube.

Only three more weeks in Chile for me! Now I'm looking for a job. I'm thinking of making Atlanta the next city I live in. It's not as safe as Santiago and I have an embarassing amount of family there. It all depends if I can find a job there or not.

So, Alda, What's the deal with your new place? Got tired of living with your parents anymore?

Have a great week girls.

Faul

now I'm too lazy to blog.
Or well, not blogging because I'm on my mom's laptop and I don't have internet at home (because I moved out). Really have to fix that.

I'd write out a post, but I'm studying for my chemistry exam.

It's tomorrow. :|

By the way, I had an awesome birthday, you guys. :D