Blast from the past, posting here on livejournal, huh? There have been a number of times lately that I've thought about typing up a post/personal entry/introspective ramble somewhere, and this seems like as good a place as any to put it ( Read more... )

Why is it my host family only wants to eat dinner super late on the nights I want to go out by 10 PM? fdhajklsd, frustration.

On another note, I AM STARVING.

/gringaranting #firstworldproblems

I've been really meaning to make a post on here for awhile, but life always gets in the way. Hopefully I'll get a moment in the next week or so so that I can write up a summary post of what's been going on (if for no other reason than I like having a coherent summary on here to look back on later), but now is not that time ( Read more... )

So, in my post about last week (which I just wrote, haha), I mentioned "Crisis Sundays." And while there wasn't an actual Crisis Sunday this week, I kind of had my own -- because I was alone. All day long. So, that was fun ( Read more... )

They say that going abroad in a foreign country (particularly one that speaks a foreign language) is a bit of a roller coaster ride. You, as the exchange student, will go through a series of up-and-down changes as you adjust to wherever you are. You get there, feel totally out-of-place (low point), learn what you're doing and fall in love with ( Read more... )

To the THREE PEOPLE of the male gender who I have had/will have to block from seeing my online status on facebook chat ( Read more... )

Oh, look! I'm finally writing a post that isn't friends only or privated! Look at me go ( Read more... )

Things are definitely looking up since the last time I posted. No post-Christmas depression this year, and there's one factor that I think is playing a major role in that ( Read more... )

Here is your first and only warning: this post is probably going to be a mess. I have a lot on my mind right now, and I doubt there's really any coherence to the way this is going to turn out ( Read more... )

So, this weekend I got the opportunity to do something that is always interesting -- immerse myself in some elements of my past. Friday was the day my journalism profile was due (I really do not want to talk about this.) and generally, when I have an assignment to finish that I'm dreading, I suddenly develop all these strange urges to go dig up ( Read more... )