this weekend has been mediocre. tomorrow i have 2 essays due. yikes!
and then a final wednesday night AND I AM DONE!
yaaaaaaay

i'm excited for next quarter. all my classes will be fun i think.
last night i didn't go to bed until 5!

SUMMER!!!!!!

and today i went swimming in our schools gym. so fun! they provide swimsuits, towels, lockers, everything! thanks, expensive tuition. -_-
they don't however, provide goggles. and my eyes hate me for it now.

i went to trader joes today too and bought some yummy foods! i'm so excited to cook without a dining plan next year. and grocery shop! GAH now that's something i absolutely love.

saturday oli and i went downtown. i bought a watch and the two of us bought matching shirts. when it gets warm, i'm really excited to wear it! it'll be a nice thing to remind me of oli after she moves back.

here are a couple pics of the brazilian dinner with the foreign folks and coffee with oli the next day








on another note, oli taught me how to change language settings on my computer! now i can have áccént márks whérévér ì wañt thém tó bé.

this week has been so great!
tonight i'm going to dinner with a bunch of egyptian/italian/balkan students. we're gonna have brazilian food!
but really, i feel so utterly content.

this is me, in current picture form, oily hair and all:


lol, i'm silly and this picture should not be posted in my blog. meh, too happy to care.

LOOP just got accepted into UCLA!
he just texted me!!!!!

aw man, now i'm sad i'm not there celebrating with him. :-/
he called me today, and made me talk to mr. herrera in real time. (real time=via telephone)
it was funny and awkward. and i'm still in love with mr. h. hahaha

hello blog world! sorry it's been so long.

p-town was fun, but not as fun as i was expecting to. i loved taking the greyhound though! i met a super nice guy on my way there and we talked all three hours. he was a missionary that had just gotten back from india. interesting views! i didn't really agree with him on a lot, but he was still interesting.
my ride back SUCKED. but that's okay.

i stayed with my cousin the whole time. i don't know her well at all, but we got along surprisingly well. she got me mad a lot too though, but that's okay. i still had a lot of fun with her.
i took a bunch of pictures, but she's one of those people that likes being in front of the camera instead of behind it, so i don't really have any pictures of me. that's fine, i just wish i had one or two pics of me from portland. but whatevs. i'll be back there in less than 2 weeks.










one thing that was surprisingly cool was that...
okay, so these pictures don't really do her justice, she's makeupless and all grubbed out, but my cousin is absolutely beautiful. she may be one of the prettiest people i know.
and i guess i've never hung out with anyone as pretty as her before, but EVERYTHING, and i mean EVERYTHING was free. SO AWESOME.
she's such a free spirit. we were walking down the street, for example, and she randomly wanted tea. so we went into this indian food stand (portland has food carts moreso than actual restaurants, which are sooooo delicious), and asked for tea. first of all, tea wasn't even on their menu. but they made it special for us. AND IT WAS THE YUMMIEST THING EVER.
2 teas came out to one dollar. it has sweetened condensed milk and everything,
then as we were waiting we said it smelled really good, but we couldn't eat because we were eating later with her mom (my aunt)
so they "awwww'ed" us and gave us a free dish on the house!!!!!!!! and it was soooooooo good. and it was just like a normal thing for my cousin!
and shit like that happened all freaking weekend. being pretty really gets you places.

we saw alice in wonderland in 3d. it wasn't that good. :-/
we had more fun playing in the arcade. we told all the random people (everyone talked to us...everyone talked to her, because she was so pretty.) that were flirting with us that we had more fun killing people in the arcade than the movie. which is so true.



so that's all i'm gonna say about that. wish i had more pictures. :-/

um....
today, since one of my classes was cancelled, i came home early.
i baked 2 loaves of bread from scratch!!!! i had never done that before! SO MUCH FUN. i love kneading the bread!!!
and waiting patiently forever and a day for the dough to rise. it was fun but really time consuming.
i basically did it for oli because one of the things she misses most about home is the food. she always talks about how her mama bakes fresh bread and they eat it with fresh feta and tomatoes and stuff.
so by the time she got home, i had just put it in the oven. it smelled so SO good!

and when it came out of the oven, the look on her face was just pure bliss. seeing her that happy made me happy. so we pigged out and ate a whole loaf with fresh feta and tomatoes. DELISH! i was so proud of baking, i can't even tell you. especially since i had never done it before.
what was sweet was oli said she was lucky to have found a friend like me. so sweet.
pics from today (i look so ridiculous, and chubby. whatevaaaa):












and my roomie got lunch with me! she never goes out! so nice to finally have bonding time with her!!!

and i have an official friend! (besides oli)
we text each other and plan on hanging out soon.
things are looking up, i'm telling you. it's because it's march



tomorrow's my papa's bday. i miss him. 51!


i see him and my mama in a week and 1 day! pretty nice.

Today was a swell day!
first, it was nice because i got to talk to me bestie all day. she has no idea how much i miss her.
she's the greatest. i love her, but i need more recent pictures! even so, i love this picture of her. she's so mad and small. too adorable.


second, was my school! so much protesting!
i was thoroughly proud of my fellow comrades. they even took over the AVE! (if i ever refer to "the ave" it's kinda the main street of the UW district of Seattle. there's a ton of restaurants, clothes shops, smoke shops...college stuff)
it would be the ONE DAY that i forget to bring my camera to school. bahhhhh! but i'm going to steal some pictures from facebook, and show you what's up at UW today.
they even went in some of our 200+ lecture halls. so good!
all in all there were an estimated 4-500 people. yay for lack of apathy






but my true protesting heart is in california. i grew up with all the issues of this state, and now that they're getting even worse, i feel all the more attached to them. but the UC's did not disappoint!
even RCC got involved!
here are some old MUN friends' (whom i miss very much) pictures of the day:





and since i'm keeping it local i won't forget about UCR:



and although i'm about 99% sure none of these people look at this silly blog, just in case,
thanks to amy (seattle), dane (rcc) and sam (ucr) for the pics. :)




days like today, with inspirational protests also makes me miss my other bestie (who is the brother of my true true bestie), Ryan. I rarely talk to him anymore now that he's in Ireland, but i know he's having a great time. i think about him all the time, especially today. he would have absolutely loved today.
here he is wearing PJ's with yours truly:


tomorrow is a busy day. i hope to chronicle my portland adventure! but we'll see how it goes.

i want a cute blog! good thing i know absolutely nothing about HTML. wahwah. :(



i feel pretty vain in doing this, but here are some recent pictures of me in some of my many adventures through Seattle. i'm posting this because i figured i'd want to see pictures of my friends if they moved away. most aren't flattering, so they're gonna be on here instead of facebook. :)


friday i head to P-TOWN! that's what everyone in Seattle calls Portland. i think it's a catchy name. i'm taking the greyhound! i've never taken it before! hopefully it's fun and i sit next to a cute boy. :)
but in cae i sit next to a stinky greasy girl, i rented three movies today:
shawshank redemption
like water for chocolate
the namesake

all are supposed to be good so hopefully they play on my laptop there.
on monday, the bus ride back is gonna be 4.5 hours. blehhhhh. but that's okay.
like i said, march is going to be a great month. nothing can take me down.

there's a lot of pics! i really am vain!
dad, ignore the one where i'm holding a beer. :)
i miss everyone i love. <3

hola hola

i woke up bright and early this morning to register. 5:30 am is a ridiculous registration time for college kids if you ask me.

but i got all the classes i wanted!
well, all the classes i need to take for my major.

i think it's so dumb how i can't just take classes i want to. we pay so much money for college and we're all still controlled.
ideally i'd want to take spanish, french, danish and some literature class.

which is another thing! at rcc i made finished french 2 and spanish 2.
here though, that puts me in elementary spanish, and intermediate french! it makes no sense!
i really hope the spanish i'm taking isn't going to be too simple. for three years i've taken basically the same level and never progressed in the language because i'm always changing school or something. devastating.

i wish i could just take the level of spanish i thought i was in. even if i'm not ready for it, and fail the class, at least it would be more advanced. too impatient!


in other news,
yesterday had it's up and downs.
i broke the ipod i've had since my sophomore year of high school. devastating.
but stevan told me that the new ipod shuffles are only $49 and they hold something like 3,000 songs!
not devastating.

i bought my bus ticket to go to portland this friday. $51! :(
hopefully it'll be fun. it'll be nice to get out of seattle for a little to be with people i know well. and i'm excited to take the greyhound! hopefully it all works out.

it was warm this morning, and now i'm freezing.

lengingknegeiunhg this was a lame post. sorry

Hello March!
i can't tell you why, but i really feel like this is going to be a great month.
maybe it's because january was pure hell. and february was only semi hell. so if things get progressively better then march should be swell.
i jut hope this pattern continues.

i write to you from the dorms i wanted, but didn't get. there's food here, which is why i'm here. dining halls blow.

i love this dorm building though. it's so nice. and you look out the window and see a great view of lake washington. pretty!

my euro-diet is in full swing. i'm never hungry, but i don't think i'm loosing weight.
breakfast usually consists of a piece of bread of scone or something.
lunch i wait until at least 2 to eat. 3:30 is the best time. and i pig out! seriously i eat soooo much for lunch.
then for dinner i eat next to nothing. maybe spinach salad and a piece of bread.

i eat loads of bread with this though!

we shall see though

a coffee sounds so good right now. hmmm....?



seriously. if march isn't a good month, then i quit.