Needless to say, I've been quite busy the last week and a half, and life's really been picking up! it's crazy. My host family is as amazing as ever, school is not SOOOO boring (we tend to have multiple free periods, and friday, monday, tues, AND wednesday i don't have to go b/c they're writing the equavalent to our TCAP) so, it's not horrible. im having fun talking to people and laughing, and not fake laughing but REALLY laughing. oh the joy.

the pictures in between are from the barbique we had to celebrate Josephine's bday! it was a blast....they have little or no revelance to the text, but it def. spices up the entry....

today at dinner, we were talking about games, and petra said that justus likes ALL games! justuts then said, no i dont. then peter said, ok, justus, what don't you like? and justus was like, well, i don't like hospitals...hahaaaaaaa

There are two people from Nicuragua (spelling...um...) in my choir, both of whom im totally in love with! they're the BEST! so one of them, michael, asked me what i did last weekend, and i told him we partied josephine's birthday and i had to write a mega paper and jazzklub, etc, then he was like, margaret (one of the few people in the world who actually calls me margaret..haa) i party on the weekends. i mean, i can't be at home on the weeekends at all! and then i inquired about what he did if he had a lot of work to do, and he goes "well of course! i push it all onto sunday!" i laughed then he proceeded to tell me that i should party more, because it will make my life last longer. haa oh those niccuraguans!

When i was at the sportstudio, i was watching the news, and a story came on about a boy who needed knee surgery from a serious soccer accident. He went into surgery, and when he came out he discovered the doctors had operated on THE WRONG KNEE. oommmg.....