currently the score is as follows ( Read more... )

here we go: currently in cuzco. maccu picchu is tomorrow and then it´s the hot springs. afterwards return to cuzco for another day, then fly to lima. spend a day in lima, then fly home. scholarship program retreat and then college trip in which my number jumps from 19 to 20 colleges visited so far. a couple of weeks and then the drive north. then ( Read more... )

hello there. i´m in chiquian, peru on the second homestay enjoying myself somewhat. most of my family is old, but they make good food and well it´s like having grandparents again. so that´s nice even if they do go to bed at ungodly early hours. most of the kids are chill. the only other guy, alic, is quit chill. he, these two other girls and i hang ( Read more... )

it feels like somebody bathed my shoulder in napalm. damn those typhoid fever and hepatitis A shots. today was a busy day and tomorrow isn't looking any better: communtiy service @ 11:30, pick up-anti-malarial pills on the walk home, dentist appointment @ 2:20, scholarship program graduation celebration @ 6:00. lotta people to see. last night i had ( Read more... )

Let me tell you 'bout this girl ( Read more... )

back from TMS. it's over. soon i will be gone. but for now there are things to be done. always there are things to be done. the staff fighting i choreographed went well in front of all of the rents at the closing ceremony. then i put my stuff in the time capsule and got a free bottle of maple syrup with my diploma. sadly sweet. i will be here until ( Read more... )

Credo ( Read more... )

finals coming up. creepy. saw bush's address to the nation last night. he said one thing and then said another. politics is a synonym for corrupt. i'm working on a slide-show flipbook on the history of the universe for an e-sci course synthesis and i have fifty six slides and have only reached plate tectonic theory/ mountain formation. i still have ( Read more... )

mom came up to visit for mother's day. of course she talked to my teachers. supposedly they all said i was doing fine. cool. she brought with her: hugs and my class ring. we are going to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy later on this term ( Read more... )

back from the four day excursion. they gave us plenty of food but i barely ate anything. although i did take the bratwurst one of the guys bought me and cooked in in apples and then put it on a grilled everything bagel with melted cheese. very choice. i guess that's the cook in me. after that i danced around with the staff i made wearing nothing ( Read more... )