after a little break, i'm back
i've had a relatively eventful month, with some peaks and some valleys.
I dont remember all ive done, and definitely not when everything happened since last time, so i'm just going to throw in some events from here and there to give you guys something to read, and me at least something to remember for the future.
so, first of my host parents went to Barcelona for a week a couple of weeks back. For various reasons Tim and I got a babysitter for those 12 days. All in all the week was pretty smooth. School and activities made time fly by, and I have to admit that I didn't really mind taking care of my own dinner every day. It gave me some interesting room for culinary experimentation, usually with decent results (i did have an accident this morning though, when i poured bacon fat into a styrofoam cup, unaware that it would dissolve upon contact). But it was still great when they came back from Barcelona!
On April 4th mom drove Tim, Trym and me up to Enfield were we got on the bus to Washington. I met a cool swedish guy, Alex, who is in a situation much like mine (except from being hid away far up in the cold north of Maine). There were a lot of people on our bus (the red one), some cool, and some incredibly annoying. The first night we got set hotel rooms, but the second we were allowed to change. After a lot of chaos, manipulation and drama i finally managed to get a good room with Trym, Pedro from Brazil and Alex. The morning before the roomchanges pedro broke the shower and flooded the room and became a celebrity.
We then saw a bunch of momunents and museums. That didnt really make my trip, to be honest. But i guess it was cool for all the tourists in the bus with cameras glued to their faces. However, the capitol and white house were cool.
We ditched the smithsonian to check out the shopping of washington, and didnt buy anything. In phildadelphia we ditched the liberty bell to go to some crazy foreign market inside a huge warehouse like building. It all looked old and partially rundown, but it was great.
We then arrived in New York, which i've visited a couple of times before. that status/knowledge immediately gave me the honorable title of tourguide amongst my friends, and i quite enjoyed it. It was especially cool the day we decided to check out shopping in soho instead of going to chinatown and i showed them some sweet stores. We all got some nice stuff and walked on the bus with our "urban outfitters" bags to a bunch of jealous faces.
Cool sights in new york were the statue of liberty, some tall building with a great view ("top of the rock") and ground zero. However, im not the big sight fan, so i think i forgot the rest.
The last day we were supposed to have a dance at the hotel, but some morons decided they had to drink. They also needed to get some girls drunk so they could get laid. So the idiots decide to take their alcohol and go OUTSIDE. There they get caught by hotel security and the entire dance is canceled. They didn't even get sent home, so I guess we all get an second chances over here (and in some cases, second second chances)..
It was slightly depressing to come home from hanging out with friends around the clock to two slow nights here, but probably the most intense monday nights of my life sorted that out pretty quickly. But i'm still gonna miss you guys.
Other than that I have spring break this week, and a lot of homework that i dont do. I better get working on that, but who can write 1500 words on some random Einstein quote on money? Not my favorite brand of cookie, thats for sure.
I got in the newspaper for running twice, once for getting "all conference" and once for running along a road where a woman was taking "spring pictures". My knee hurts really bad lately, but my coach always yells at me whenever i'm hurt, so i pretend its not nearly as bad as it is.
I think that's it, but feel free to ask in the comments if there's more you're wondering about!
