Okay, Lauren made me realize that I leave out everything ( Read more... )

I have the flu. How nuts is that? I started feeling a little stuffy about a week ago and then went swimming and the day after that I was done for. Today is the first day that I have left the house since Sunday, and I quickly realized that I shouldn't have. James says I look like a drug addict but I think I just look dead. It doesn't help that I ( Read more... )

For New Year´s we went to Valparaiso, a port town on the Pacific. The whole city is on a bunch of hills and cliffs, so we walked up a lot. It was good exercise. There are funiculars for people that don´t want to walk up. In Motorcycle Diaries they go to Valparaiso and ride in a funicular. The first night we stayed with a friend of James and he ( Read more... )

Christmas came and went. We got really confused about the days and on the 23rd we went to a party thinking that it was Christmas Eve. After midnight we were like, Merry Christmas! But then the next day my mom told me it wasn't yet. Funny. Only one person spoke English there and everyone started saying the phrases they could remember from school. "I ( Read more... )

Hello. We are in Santiago. James has a hangover. So do I. We went to this awesome secret dance club where you had to knock on the door to get in. The man opens the door and looks you up and downand decides if you can pass. It was fun and they played mostly good music. Lots of New Wave. We are staying with James' friend Alejandro and he is nice. Let ( Read more... )

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We found an apartment in Austin, and our landlord gave us an awesome deal with a little help from the Red Cross. Three months for $400, which is as close to free as we need. We went to this thing called Camp Katrina to find free furniture and a couple pulled up with a U-Haul full of stuff which they offered to bring to our house. We ended up with ( Read more... )

I am in Austin at Virginia's house. I am having terrible mood swings, one minute being fascinated at how open the world is to me and the next minute crying for home. James keeps taking the remote from me to force me to stop watching the news, which I have been watching almost 24 hours a day. I can't sleep at night so I turn the TV back on and keep ( Read more... )

and melanie got her driver's license! Yay!