scottiehottie08

argh! wtf?!

2008-01-10T21:42:42Z

im beginning to horribly hate being single.
i havent bitched about it for awhile but as many of you kno this is the longest i've ever been single. its been almost a year now.
not that i havent been on any dates but i just feel like nothing is going to go anywhere with anyone. or i'll meet someone who i think is interesting and then they turn out to be an ass who then complains to ME about being single. wtf is up with that shit?! i dunno.
i'm starting to think that mayhaps i need to give up...even though im not really trying that hard at all.
i think that maybe i'm really and truly in the wrong country for meeting men. everyone i meet either wants to jump me or is way too shy to even consider jumping me. there's no decent in between for american boys even though they claim there is. american boys are just a bunch of crap. give me an israeli, a danish, chilean, argentinian boy and they'll be cuter (well maybe not for the chileans...), nicer, and kno how to treat a lady. alright mayhaps i'm stereotyping. but still.

omg...5 more months?!

2007-12-10T03:14:50Z

im sure as hell glad the semester will be over as soon as i finish these last two papers! but the scary thought of graduating in five months is weird. granted for those who kno me i'm not stressing about it. i guess my only real concern is that if i dont get into the peacecorps then i'll be stuck here. not that that's necesarily a bad thing b/c i love all my friends here but that means i'll have to find some suit wearing job or something. but hopefully whatever happens wont' be too horrible.
it has been awhile since i last posted but nothing that excitin has happened since then. really.
aside from every time im over in the tech area i obviously run into people that i know. well yesterday i ran into arie. ick.
on the note of boys they are confusing. they suck. and make no sense. like ever. i may as well buy up my cats and cane now. either way im pretty sure that no one is ever going to be good enough for me. like seriously guys wtf? why cant any of you be normal and like issue-free? so here's a list to all the people i'd like to say i hate you to, or fuckyou or id wish you'd never been born and/or brought into my life....
most recently...Alex
Stephen
Steven
Michael
Arie
Jon
Kramer
Josh
Andrew C
both James only b/c i cant have either of them
Josh
Arthur

where the hell is mr.halfway decent?! haha.

just friends...

2007-10-28T07:34:31Z

yea that seems to be the case these days. anyone i meet is just interested in being my friend or something. do i give off the i just want to be your friend vibe or something?! i dunno. and tonight sort of blew up in my face...well a car on the highway literally blew up in front of my face so that wasnt fun... but yeah. im starting to think that maybe i just need to give up. i mean seriously if someone i've liked for over a year now can't take a hint and then starts hitting on my friend, in front of me, clearly i must be doing something wrong. clearly. meh. what can a girl do. i think part of my problem is that a. i think that most of the guys im interested in could never be interested in me. b. i know they're not interested in me or c. they have no way of knowing b/c im too much of a chicken. yup yup.

i miss .. chile?

2007-09-24T04:27:48Z

it's true. even though it wasnt always a blast (i.e. failing a class and living with a weird family) it was so much more stress-free. i loved being able to travel the country and sometimes it felt like i was traveling the world. i miss certain people like Mallory, Heidi, Hanna, and Ryan and the whole ciee gang. We had some crazy fun times. Like on my birthday weekend fitting like 15 or so people into Berta's smallass apartment. That was a fun night.
being back and still single has given me the chance to do some soul searching of my own. i kno its a strange concept...i always have a boyfriend but i guess i've just been looking in the wrong places and correlating hookups to something with deeper meaning. i've done a couple of stupid things since i've been back like hooking up with an ex....but im still learning to live with myself and realize that one day is going to make or break me. that everyone has bad days.
i dont kno if i'll even have a date to black cat at this point but i do kno that i am going to make the most out of my last year here at agnes scott. i mean, i'm an amazing person in my opinion and other people cant see that (like some stupid boy) than they clearly aren't worth my time. Obviously if i had it my way i'd be in denmark....wait no...hold that thought...Tobias is in Iraq at the moment. okay so maybe denmark when he gets back...okay brilliant! though i think he has a girlfriend.
but neway i guess the point is that i would rather keep being single than to be with someone who doesnt value me. unfortunately at the moment it seems like most people who do are ex-boyfriends and some creepy stalkers. can i take dr. bob as my date to black cat?! hehe.
i went to oglethorpe last night and as i was driving over there i was inspired to write a song after the doria roberts benefit concert. she was absolutely amazing btw and ya'll should check her out on myspace and itunes. the song i wrote is totally awesome btw.

vent session

2007-09-20T03:41:42Z

nothing seems to be going right anymore
im way too stressed but dont have time to resolve my stress. i went to the gym on monday...i didnt really have time to go today but i think that i shall go tomorrow. I spent so much time studying for my spanish test that it took me up to today to catch up on some other stuff only to find out i failed my spanish test. yup thats right. 20+ hours of studying for the damn test and i cant even pass it. the average was a 79. i dont kno how our teacher is still teaching here. she's horrible and not much help and its all her fault that i have to take five classes this semester b/c she wouldnt give me an extra spanish credit for my chilean classes. on top of that apparently someone stole my debit card number and tried to use it at western union yesterday so now i have to get a new card. i still have no idea if the books i tried to buy on half.com will come or not b/c half.com is officially horrible as they have the shittiest customer service ever and take at least two days to reply by email. and they keep telling me the same thing. to contact my bank. even though i already told them that i had. twice. what kind of customer service is that? seriously. i also found out my sister has mono. so im like shit i shared a bunch of food with her on saturday...hopefully i dont get mono. that would be just my like right. and finally still no date to black cat and no prospects. and i barely have time to study for the gre..as in none. and i have no clue how to act around boys nemore. im trying to just be myself. maybe i dont kno who i am...i'd like to think i do though. who knows. i dont kno if i have time for boys. dry spells suck, esp when everyone else has a boy. maybe boys just dont like me anymore aside from strange ex-boyfriends. but anyway, im still trying to figure out life after agnes shit as well though not awhole lot since i dont have much time to dedicate to it. who knows. maybe i'll just be a cat lady in a box.

meh

2007-09-09T19:00:54Z

for awhile i've not been able to figure out my lack of having a boyfriend and/or why previous boyfriends have been crap until this afternoon. i keep having to settle. this seems like a stupid reason but the more i thought about it the more i realized the truth behind it all. the guys that i truly want to date seem to not be interested and/or just want to be my friend...sometimes a combination of all of those things. this is truly into a repeat of senior year as a result. like the entire senior year of high school i liked this one guy and he just wanted to be my friend so as a result towards the end of the year i settled for something less satisfactory. Ever since then i've been settling. After my horrible break up with jon and unable to get back together i settled for something less. So now for a few month i've come to realize my extreme liking for a particular person and i'm realy getting sick of everyone trying to get in the middle of it and being all like ...you're so cute together...you guys need to get together blah blah blah. But its not me with the problem...its him. There is no way you can force someone into dating you...sadly...so i woke up this morning semi tear-drenched and came to my sad realization of settling. Whoever I date next unless if they happen to be totally amazing will be just me settling b/c i can't be with the one perosn that i want to be with. Why I am constantly stuck liking people i cant be with I dunno. Perhaps its some kind of punishment/karma or something like that. I dunno. So i dont really want anyone's comfort I just want people to stop meddling in my life. I kno that for right now i have no date to black cat...no boyfriend prospects, and that I'm just going to have to settle once more or not date neone for a really long time. Neither seem very desirable but what can i do? Magical powers seem out of the question.

interesting week thus far

2007-09-06T05:57:22Z

this week has definitely been interesting to say the least thus far. On Monday i did something really dumb that I prolly shouldn't have but seemed like a good idea at the time. The sad thing is that for some random reason i still have feelings for that person but unfortunately that could never work out which kinda blows. Also on Monday night they showed shrek3 on the quad but forgot to turn off the stupid ass sprinklers so we all got a lil wet. Lauren T. brought these people from spain who are studying abroad at emory so that was cool. sarah also came down to watch it too so that was fun. yesterday sarah and i rewatched my big fat greek wedding and ate cookies and i also ate sushi from kroger. their spicy roll is actually pretty good. we also did some drinking. today we had our first jsa meeting of the semester and had a good turn out but i think we made one chick feel uncomfortable when talked about supporting this prochoice group. apparently the two first years thought the meeting was a lil weird too but whatever. i think we'll have a fun year. yay for JSA! I also have an interview tomorrow w/ amnesty for an internship. sadly i cant do one this semester cuz the deadline has already passed but i could definitely shoot for the spring ya know as long as they dont forget about me and shit. i also hung out with andrea and dave and ricky who;s this guy i met on saturday at the oglethorpe party. he seems cool thus far. well i should prolly get to bed soon. party at andrew's this weekend for all interested persons....should be good. there will be chilean booze too!

first week of school...

2007-09-02T18:13:47Z

so this week has certainly been an interesting one. First off...it feels really awesome to be back at agnes with likeminded people and not having boys in my classes once again. My classes seem like they will be okay even tho I'm having to take an extra class this semester but its all good. I've been hanging out with a new friend who was here my first year and now she's back so thats cool. I went and saw superbad w/ her (sarah) and Lori on thursday and also hung out w/ her and Rachel on wednesday. At the activities fair we also got a lot of people to sign up for habitat and JSA. I even won a gift certificate to raging burrito which was pretty cool. I went home on friday during the day to see my parents and to pick up some stuff.. namely to get my paycheck cuz money is good. Then i came back and went to this party at phi sig with Lee and her friends which was okay but it definitely wasnt as good as the AEPI party we went to later which had a really amazing band and the lead singer was so fuckin' hott it was ridiculous. I also ran into a bunch of people that i hadnt seen in awhile and got lots of hugs, which is always great, and people asked me how my trip was. The only downside was that all they had to drink was shitty beer and that i had to run into kramer, but it was only very briefly so it wasnt too horrible. As many of you know, I'm trying to steer clear of him for the time being. I was also semi frustrated with lak of guy interest. I went to three parties this weeknd and only one person asked for my number. one. i did meet this cute guy at the party last night whose uncle was my econ teacher here at agnes back when i was a sophmore so that was kinda interesting..he also looked like Mike. so that was great i guess. the house had a cool stage to dance on but it was really slippery due to all the foam and i almost got knocked off a couple of times. aside from that it was fun. but i have this really sad/horrible feeling that im gonna be single for quite some time. even my guy friends arent seeming to want to hang out anymore. it's like i have cooties or something. i mean i dont want just anyone...i want someone who's really good quality. i want someone i can have a long relationship with. why is that so hard to find?

oh life!

2007-08-11T04:41:47Z

So life is pretty decent at the moment but certainly was not this exciting or interesting in chile. no possible interviews for amazing internsips no jobs/income or even possible boyfriends when i was abroad. i was free as a bird and didn't have to worry much about what i did outside of the academic sphere. but now i have all these issues and responsibilities to deal with once again. I dont mind flirting w/ my guy friends but i think that fro now on i there is going to be anything physical it needs to be in the form of a relationship. Unless its like a drinking game a party or someting but thats a diferent story. i dont want to be viewed anymore as leigh cheap piece of ass or an easy piece of ass. I want respect. From boys and from my friends. Im an adult and it's about time that i started acting like one. I think that that's how it should be. Otherwise someone is just gonna end up getting hurt and i would never want that to happen or to ruin any friendships. I want this year, my senior year, to be perfect.

good to meh to hopefully good again

2007-08-06T03:28:00Z

so my party went pretty well and it was really awesome to see old friends again. receiving multiple bear can barely breathe hugs from lisa, getting people to sign the happy book and write happy things, reminiscing at taco mac and having my first frozen martini there was awesome. continuing the party at amelia's place also went well. for the most part. spin the bottle ended interestingly and now im kind of kicking myself. ive been trying to convince myself to not get reinvolved with a certain someone and that kinda didnt happen. its a catch 22 situation. i know there is no chance of me ever dating him so thats a plus but on the other hand every time we hang out something happens. there were two guys i kinda liked there and now i've royally screwed up any chances with either as a result of flirting and makign out with someone else the entire time. i thought i had grown out of this foolish phase while in chile. i thought he'd grow out of it as well but i guess not. what is wrong with boys. why cant they ever do what you want them to!? im sooo destined to be unfortunately single for a very long time. i know ive been kinda wishy washy on getting married recently and i know i still have a long while before i get married but i realized that i do want to get married. i dont want to end up alone by myself. i want to be surrounded by someone who really cares about me and loves me and not someone who's just looking to get some action. meh.

life back in the states

2007-07-30T03:26:36Z

things are kind of going as expected. obviamente hay diferencias varios entre estados unidos y ameria latina. i mean i have not seen so much diversity in six months. not saying i dislike chile b/c i dont but it is not really diverse at all. but ameria isnt perfect either. people only seemed concerned with their social bubbles and not much else outside of it unless its something they do with their friends. i cant really blame them. i guess i get like that sometimes as well. but at the same time its been hard to adjust. girls wearing shorts so short you can almost see their underwear is disturbing. even if you have really nice legs and ass i dont want to see all of it!! i also forgot how expensive things are here. i mean sometimes you can get stuff on clearane but you cant ever bargain a price or buy stuff from street vendors who made the stuff they're sellign and whatnot. you cant really walk around that much either. you certainly cant fly to another country and stay there for under 200 for the flight and stay.
aside from the adjusting ive been keeping myself amused for the most part. ive been working and hanging out with friends. im looking forward to seeing a bunch of people on friday. that should be fun.
im also a little weird about going back to agnes. i havent seen most people in a long time. i kno i will have to deal with certain people and their antics but aside from that it will be weird in the sense that a. no more boys in class b. i can roll out of bed five minutes before class starts and not worry about being late. c. i can eat at school d. i will be living at school again. e. i will have to do my own laundry again f. back to the warm fuzzy agnes feeling etc. plus....i just a few months i will be graduating with (hopefully) two bachelors degrees. i could be taking a bunch of easy classes if i wanted to just have one but im going to everything i can to make it happen.
ive also been considering going to sdsu or maybe even back to chile for grad school. chile would be really cheap but the problem is that i wouldnt be able to work so i'd have to figure something out. but we'll see. i also dont know what kind of test id have to take for that either. but i do know that i want to take the gre this year while its all still fresh for me.

life back home

2007-07-23T18:13:21Z

two nights ago i got to hang out with andrea and phoebe which was fun. we went to taco mac and then hung out at my house afterwards. of course we ordered from the kids menu and i got to legally order a drink. it was weird having to show my id for once. yesterday i went and saw hairspray with my mom. it was a really cute movie. and then we came home and did some errands and went to the new super-h-mart where i was able to get some yummy manju. tonight im working again. woot.

finally home!

2007-07-21T02:32:55Z

so yea i got home yesterday and somehow had a lot of energy to do all my unpacking, cleaning, throwing away old shoes and clothes, etc. my parents were impressed. it seems some people havent been having such great luck as of late. mostly angela and my sister though im sure others as well. amelia should be home soon so thats happy. seeing her was very happy. we had an amazing time together on easter island and in santiago. i have pictures now up on fb for your enjoyment. it was just so amazing that i cant compare it to anything else in the world. we met some cool people there as well from england and this one guy let us tag along in his car which was really awesome b/c they're kinda necessary to get around the whole place. we ate twice at this really cool japanese place there once for sushi which was amazing and the second time for some satai which was also really good. it was really nice to see a familiar face again as well. on easter island we shared a room just the two of us and we each had our own bed. the breakfast was really good too. they had really good juice, bread with butter and jelly, the first day they had a pancake rolled up w/ manjar, a banana and coffee or tea. the people there were very nice too. the heads were absolutely amazing. we saw one with painted eyes and it was weird, it felt like it was watching us! there were other sculpture things on the island as well that werent heads. but pretty much everything there was amazing. but pricey as everything had to be imported from the mainland of chile. the airport was also really small and consisted mostly of tourist shops. the flight there was pretty cool though. everyone got their own tv to watch movies, tv shows, play games, or listen to music. also a lot of leg room and pretty decent food. i unfortunatley missed my delta flight to atlanta so i had to stay in scl for an extra day which was fine as i got to hang out w/ amelia.
now that im home it feels very surreal. i kno im hoome but it is still strange. my family in chile was very different than my real family. my mom took me shopping yesterday and i definitely experienced some culture shock. im sure that i will tomorrow as well. i also couldnt believe today that i paid sixty dollars for a crap phone where my new phone is only going to cost 15 dollars and i wont ever have to pay to put minutes on my phone again. i also have to stop myself from saying names of things in spanish. it is definitely going to take some time to readjust. like taxes being added on to things when you buy them instead of being included is a weird concept at the moment. in south america tax is included in the price.
i got to see angela for a lil while tonight but she didnt stay long as she had other things that she had to do.
it will certainly take awhile to adjust to being home again. right now its just weird in a way that i cant really explain.

possibly last post for awhile...

2007-07-12T13:53:23Z

yesterday was a pretty decently chill day. woke up and had breakfast here and then went to the grocery store with naomi and then waited for what seemed forever before i found a taxi that didnt have neone in it and went to the shopping center. it was insanely overwhelming. it probaly wasnt as big as the mall of ga but i havent been in a big mall in awhile so it was a bit much for me. went into a couple places to look around and then decided to eat at the food court. paid about three dollars for a personal pizza, flan (which tasted more like custard) and a drink. then i went back up and found the movie theater and bought a ticket for 540 the earliest time they had available so i wondered around for a couple of hours. i did buy a couple of things as well. i went into the music store and bought a cd there as cds here are very cheap and then bought the cd of the music they were playing in the store as it was only a dollar more. it was like an acoustic relaxed verison of some hard rock songs. i liked it. i also bought a mendoza shirt and then a really nice collection of the last four harry potter movies. that was my big purchase of forty dollars. each one came with an special dvd with bonus features and even stuff for your computer. now im very glad i have an external drive waiting for me at home. hehe. harry potter itself was pretty good but not as good as the last one in my opinion. on my way home i walked through the plazas again and this time in plaza independencia there were a good bit of vendors. some of them were already dismantling so i figure there were more there before i got there. came back to the hostel and ate dinner and watched the game which argentina happily won. thats about it for now kids. i might not get to post again for awhile so yea.

aun mas sobre mendoza

2007-07-11T14:02:30Z

ayer fue otro dia muy tranquilio tambien. fui a una tienda con cosas para la cocina y fue un poco similar de la tienda china cerca de mi apartamento en santiago pero mas pequena. yo hable un poco con la dueña y despues fui a plaza españa por acidente pero la plaza fue muy linda. todos los fuentes y sillas son de `tiles´ no se la palabra para este ene espanol pero fue muy interesante y fueron algunos cosas para comprar. Despues fui a plaza independencia otra vez y fue mucho mas gente tan como domingo. yo encontre el mcdonalds y otras tiendas americanas y tambien fui un supermercado chica. compre cosas para cocinar. tuve una buena/interesante almuerzo en una restaurante se llama miraflores. tuve ravioli y fue con pan y una salsa muy rica. no se que fue en la salsa pero fue muy bueno. despues fui un poco perdido pero fue bien y yo busque mi hostel. yo comi un poco de los chocolates compre en la tienda el otro dia y fueron muy ricos. uno tuvo una crema menta al dentro tambien. yo lei y mira una y media peliculas en el television. fue dirty dancing pero en espanol. fue interesante. cocine una sopa buena con champingones y las personas de irlanda hicieron una salsa para pan. fue interesante. jugamos juegos de cartas como 500 y danish bastard. tambien jugamos con las chicas de dinamarka. fue un buen dia.

more mendoza...

2007-07-09T21:23:38Z

yesterday afternoon i found a cute wineshop and bought a nice malbec taht the owner recommended to me andthen came back to the hostel and dropped it off before heading out to check out the plaza independencia. not alot of people about as it was a sunday but it was still entertaining. i had lunch at this place that was just aight but their pie was amazing. it was like a custard with strawberries and strawberry sauce on top. amazing! then i came back to the hostel and hung out for a long time. played some pool, watched the soccer game argentina v peru and of course argentina won 4-0. it was a pretty exciting game. i shared my wine with this really cute argentinian guy named pablo...everyone has that name here i swear!...and watched the soccer game with him and then ate dinner with him and his friend. apparently they flew here from ba and were doing some light traveling before going back. they flew the plane themselves that they had rented from a friend. his friend..marcos made an amazing spaghetti it was sooo good. and then the irish couple also let me have some of their soup so i didnt have to make or pay for nething i ate last night. it was amazing. the cook of the small restaurant here also gave everyone a small slice of pizza. but yea so argentinian guy...really, really cute! i have a photo i will later post to fb. and he was really nice and awesome.... yeah ill stop there. he ordered us daquiris that they gave samples of everyone in the hostel too as well. the people who work here are really awesome. i went out last night with these two girls from denmark and then these two other people...one of which is from brazil...to this party-club thing. it was a weird place. the dancing didnt start till almsot three and like the place i went to the night before you had to be 21 to get in. so weird. stayed there for awhile and then came backso i could get decent sleep. talked to a couple people when i came back and then went straight to bed. woke up today and ate breakfast with cute guy pablo and his friend and then went on a wine and bike tour. it was fun and pretty cheap. one place made chocolate so i bought some for my fam to take back. it was only like 4 bucks and really good chocolate..they let us sample some of course. me and christy ended up not going to the third one so we found this really cute place to eat lunch and im totally stuffed. we met up with the other girls and came back and then since they hadnt eaten we went to get food for them. thats about it for now. im excited about this weekend going to easter island! good times to be had for sure.

mmm...mendoza

2007-07-08T16:09:14Z

i arrived last night in this beautiful city of mendoza in argetina. their airport is the smallest thing ive ever seen...online two airlines fly to it and the flight was soo short. a lil turbulence as expected and the leigh was fine and didnt get sick...i felt sick but you know...nothing bad actually happened. i met some cool people last night from ireland even and a goodbit of us went to the ´bbq´here at the hostel. it was sooo much food but it was good. and everyone ended up chugging something. we made people who were just walking in chug and this one couple chug about 1/6 of a pitcher of wine. the food was amazing and even a fruit cocktail with real cut up fruit (not the canned stuff) for dessert. we went out to a club but we all lost each other b-c it was so crowded but i can back here and found people still awake to talk to. tomorrow im going on a bike-winery tour with some girls here. should be good times. im certainly having an adventure traveling around by myself. its kind of exciting but weird at the same time. its also snowing here. the snow was sticking earlier but now it just melts when it gets to the ground but theres a good bit on trees and bushes and such. its sooo beautiful. the guy who works here is kinda cute and certainly the ladies man. he was getting drunk with us last night and was flirting with all the girls. hehehe. today i woke up kinda late ..past breakfast at hostel time...so i went and found a cute bakery type place to eat breakfast. not much is ever open on sundays but i was lucky to find one atm center that was. well thats about it for now. im sure more exciting things will happen lata.

made it back alive! and with new friends!

2007-07-05T06:54:03Z

i spent the morning in the hostel admist the annoying pounding that has persisted the past couple of mornings as well...only in the morning but starting around 9 which is early in my opinion. said goodbye as well to the guys from australia and gave them my contact info so they could facebook friend me. anyway, i went into miraflores with cherly, girl i met at the hostel, and found a cool artesania market and wandered around there for a good bit after going to the falabella and getting a united colors of benetton shirt for really cheap. i got a peru shirt/jersey thing. its pretty cute. i went to the dunkin donuts and they had a tutti frutti flavor so i had to try it of course but it was a bit strong as in it tasted like bubbblicious bubble gum on a donut w/ sprinkles. hehe. after that we split up as she was meeting a friend for lunch. i went to the starbucks (again haha) and had a chai latte. ive taken quite a liking to those things for some reason. they're a lil pricey but i figure when i go back to the us it will be a very rare occasion to go to sb as we have black cat cafe at school. there was also a sign at one shop today that said 'happy day usa'. i found that amusing. no one would say that in the states of course so i got a good laugh. i wandered around the restaurant area of miraflores and ended up running into the girls who were staying in my room at the hostel so ended up having lunch with them. they're from canada and were pretty cool to chat with. there are definitely a shit ton more tourists in lima than there are in santiago. and you bargain with taxi drivers over prices as none of them have meters like they do in santiago. so that was kinda cool to be able to that as well. then i went back to the hostel and chilled until the taxi came to take me to the airport. i had one arranged through the hostel so i would be sure he wouldnt rip me off and whatnot. i found a spoon at the airport so taht was happy. it was the last one at this one shop too! i saw some cute ones at market but they were real silver so they were like 48 soles and im like fuck no. but yea. ended up on the same flight as a guy from my history class at uchile so we chatted until we boarded the plane and then left the airport together. tried to get in the same transfer home but that didnt work out even though i passed through his area on the way to my place which was weird but w/e. i was glad to see a familiar face for a good bit of it. so yea. tomorrow (err later today) im gonna go to the ciee office to turn in my paper and donations of clothing. and then off to mendoza in a couple days. woot. yup yup. okay well its like 3am so i should go to bed. chau todas!

amazing time

2007-07-04T17:05:29Z

so traveling alone was no where near as bad as i thought it was going to be. i´ve met some amazing people thus far. on monday i went to miraflores with the british couple that was staying here and wandered around there for awhile which was pretty cool. definitely some good shopping that im gonna go back to later. i came back and went and checked out the electricity museum thats right by my hostel and it was pretty fun. they had really old school electronics and whatnot. it was pretty cool and there were buttons that i could press and lit stuff up on the screen. it was amazing. then at night i went out the two australian guys to watch a couple of soccer games and had a really nice dinner with them as well. yesterday i hung out with them as well and we went into the main center of lima and went to the monestary of san francisco which was pretty cool and has been there since 1620 but definitely built for small people. we almost hit our heads a lot of the timeª! they had this section that a huge mass grave and catacumbs where they split the different body parts and divided them by bone but arranged some of them in a pretty design. it was cool but disturbing at the same time. after that we ate lunch for pretty cheap and then went to the congress and inquiscition museum where we learned about how they tortured people during the inquisition. yea.. then we came back and watched a couple more soccer games with this other girl at our hostel as well and that was fun and had some beers and had a really cool dinner. i had humitas which is like a corn thing and really good. today im off to miraflores again and then flying home tonight...home as in santiago.

all alone! well not really...

2007-07-01T23:26:07Z

so today is my first day here in lima. i will try to update this on a fairly regular basis so people can know that im still alive and havent died been kidnapped, etc. my flight left at 625 this morning which meant that i had to wake up at 3am to get picked up by my transfer service to take me to the airport as the metro is obviously not open that early in the morning! it was cool and decently cheap in comparison to taking a cab. there were some people from school that i recognized on my flight as well. i arrived at my hostel too early to check in so i hung out for awhile until the dueña could open up my room. like the hostel is a great place but its a lil odd b-c there´s only one key per room which would be fine if it was me with other friends but its not so like you have to go and unlock the door for someone to come in. the door doesnt stay shut unless if its locked. thats a lil insane. but oh well. i went to lunch with some people i met from england and i semi served as their translator. there are a lot of brits here so its kinda cool. yup yup. i went to the supermarket with them and that was nice. the supermarket is so cheap it was amazing. and so yea. the area of barranco is really cute so hopefully see some cool stuff like the musuems tomorrow. thats it for now.

wow

2007-06-30T22:32:54Z

yesterday was pretty awesome as well. i met up w/ my tandem and we went to watch a play at the spanish cultural center about peruvian immigrants in chile. it was definitely interesting and entertaining. after that i went back to her place and we made and ate tacos. they were yummy. i havent had tacos in ages. then i went home (i actually walked instead of taking the metro) and andrea came over and we hung out for a bit before we went to kmasu. kmasu was fun and some guys bought us drinks but they were a lil odd. we ended up ditching them in the end which was probably a good thing. plus they were smoking and thats just gross. as andrea said "who wants to kiss a smoker?! not me!" hehe. i woke up at like 145 this afternoon cuz i didnt go to bed till almost 5am. hehe. and tomorrow im going to peru. wahoo!! im excited. not excited about having to wake up at 3am but it'll be worth it.

good day overall

2007-06-29T02:59:59Z

so aside from the friggin waiter giving me an entire glass of picsco for my pisco sour today wasa good day...that really only annoyed me b/c i had to pay for a drink i could obviously not finish. i dont get buzzed off of them usually but now i have a pretty bad headache. meh. but yes so onto the good things...
i got to meet the president this morning which was certainly worth rolling out of bed at 730 in the morning for. pics are on fb. i was realy surprised that more gringos didnt' show up. like really there were only four of us including myself. at least 30 were invited so that was weird but w/e. it was an award ceremony at la moneda for students receiving scholarships for english. the minister of education spoke as did bachelet. she is so cute in person. she had on a really nice baige suit too. erm...she gave a cool speech and then everyone and their mother took a picture with her. including the four of us. but it was cool. obviously the press was there so there was a chance i may have gotten on the news but i dunno. i worked some more on my paper when i came back which was kind of a drag as i was not really in a working mood, more in a giddy mood but w/e. i guess it was a good thing that i had my hair redone yesterday!! hehe. i met up w/ hanna and ryan by baquedano for some beer and good times. it was happy and prolly the last time i'll see them. well maybe i'll see ryan if i ever go to north carolina or if he ever comes to atl but hanna is FAR. hopefully we'll stay in touch tho. anyway after that i met up with heidi at the florida center and ate in the food court which turned out to be a huge drag. i went to the telepizza and they wouldnt take my amex. at that point i didnt feel like trying my visa. then i went to kfc and also had a problem with the amex so paid with visa and had to wait friggin twenty minutes for my food. granted it was great food...i got one of the new twister toasted things which are amazing with fries and emapandas and a drink for like 5 bucks but it took forever. they gave me a fruit cup for waiting. then heidi and i went to see the new pixar rat movie and the concession stand lady short changed me and i tried to argue w/ her but gave up. it was only 300 pesos. i can live. the movie was sooo cute though. i think it comes out tomorrow in the states. definitely worth seeing. after that i bought more black ink for the printer which matt has agreed to split with me since i dont really need it aside from printing my mauricio paper. after that i met felipe and daniele at a bar where the waiter got me drunk but w/e. felipe drove me home so i didnt have to take the metro so iguess i cant complain too much. hehe. but defintiely meeting the president was the highlight of the day. im definitely framing the picture when i get home. its truly amazing.

good day!

2007-06-28T03:19:47Z

today was an amazing day. i woke up before noon for once this week too!! my host mom was amazed im sure. hehe. I met up with hanna and starbucks and then we walked around the los leones area and did some shopping. i caved and got my nose redone but its good this time. if it falls out again i give up but its in for now. I also finished my essays paper so now i just have the one for mauricio's class to finish. thats a very exciting thing ya know? getting stuff done always feels good. i also went to the supermarket and bought more soap and toothpasted. also exciting i kno. i also got my hair recolored so now its all purdy and my roots arent horrible! things are starting to wind down here. i still cant believe that i dont have much more time here at all! this is a weird feeling. but kinda exciting at the same time. im certainly looking forward to the new superhmart that everyone keeps talking to me about. hehe. tomorrow i have to wake up really early (as in 730 which is damn early for me!) and go to a ceremony that they are having for some english students at la moneday and the best thing about this ceremony (aside from the free food prospect) is that they are expecting the president to come. yes. the president. although i have seen her before on the street, i didnt really get a good look at her nor did hear her talk. so this could be really amazing if it pans out. *keeps fingers crossed* so yea. tomorrow shouldbe a good day as well. gonna hang out w/ heidi and felipe and possibly ryan if i get to talk to him. so thats happy. hopefully work on my paper as well. and im starting to feel better too. so thats a good thing.

sies dias mas en STGO...que paso?!

2007-06-26T03:57:39Z

thats right kids, six more days in santiago for the leigh. well technically 9 but three days are like in btwn days. when i get back from peru all i'll be doing is cleaning and packing. not something im looking forward to but i guess it'll have to happen. but six days. it feels so surreal. course i have my papers to write to keep my busy otherwise i might going crazy since classes are over with the expection of mauricio's final clase tomorrow. the paper im writing for his class is definitely giving me nightmareas as was kinda expected. its certainly not as upbeat as my other paper which has downsides as well. for my class w/ mauricio i'm writing about torture methods used against women during the military dictatorship. it is certainly not an easy topic and i can understand why a lot of women didnt and still dont want to admit that they were rapped. its shameful. it also kind of desgraces the family esp if she was a virgin beforehand. those are the worst. or women who were raped while pregnant and/or those who became pregnant by their torturers. or some women suffered a lot of torture while pregnant that they ended up loosing the baby. and thats just one aspect of it. es horrible no? i dont want to continue on my rampage but if you ever have time to read the valech report you should. they have a part of it on wikipedia. unfortuntely the testimonios are classified and wont be released until 2053 and as a result cannot be used in human rights cases. which sucks but ANYWAY...
i the next six days i hope to go to the doctor, redo my nose, finish my papers (well is due friday so i kinda hafta finish it!), have tea w/ heid, hang out with andrea, hang out with hanna and ryan, go to my last class, and pack up some stuff for peru. oooh and hang out w/ felipe and sarah i think that about covers it. yes. i want to go to miercoles po as it will be my last one but it will obviously depend on how im feeling. so we shall see. i'd like to thank everyone i've met this semester and those esp who i had fun travels with. it has definitely been an experience. and also happy that i have passed at least two of my classes. so thats a good thing. and im happy to say LONDON I"M COMIN HOME BABY!! woot. in 23 days i'll be back in ATL. *panda dance*

glad to go

2007-06-23T23:44:13Z

im not entirely happy to go home but certainly happy to leave the current one. im convinced host family is trying to kill me off by a. not giving me lunch and making me go get my own food frequently when its in their contract that they're to provide me with three meals a day. b. not leaving me with food that i could i could prepare for myself as in microwaveable food, lunch meat, pb&j, cheese, etc. c. thinking that feeding me lunch at 6pm is ok. d. trying to freeze me even though im sick e. using cleaning supplies that look like red paint that make the air really hard to breathe f. overfeeding me fried food g. giving me headaches by 1. listening to really loud music and watching tv at the same time in two different rooms 2. doing number 1 until two in the morning 3. talking really loudly on the phone 4. listening to jt's my love and/or horrid 90's pop on repeat 5. the sewing machine. i know that berta has to use it to make an income but its loud and annoying. h. not caring when i'm obviously upset. singing and/or humming while ironing or cleaning. they cant sing. plus its just annoying. if i didnt have to hear it itd be one thing. but i do. daughter smoking in the bathroom and/or carrying in the horrid scent of smoke. i dont mind smokers but living with one is horrid. i really should've moved when i had the chance i kno. meh.