New Year is a rather strange holiday for me. Although they signal the start of a new calendar year, for me it doesn’t really signal much else. My own personal New Year has always been around my birthday, mostly because in August my age changes and a new school year begins. But alas, 2010 is [...]

Earlier this week I found out I wouldn’t be able to return to my seasonal job for winter break. Apparently all my files were already gone from the system and it would have been too much of a hassle to do paperwork again just for two weeks of work (which is totally unfair because I’ve [...]

So my body’s been suffering from the most random ailments lately. Before I left Costa Rica I started getting an extraordinary amount of bug bites, something I still can’t pinpoint to this day. They obviously weren’t mosquito bites, since my anti-mosquito wipes didn’t appear to work against them. They itched like crazy, and some even [...]

Ugh. Well, not completely ugh. It’s nice to be able to sleep in my comfy bed again, watch TV whenever I want, and have my entire wardrobe available to me again. But needless to say, I’m already missing Costa Rica dearly. It’s the weirdest feeling. I don’t want to hate being home, but at the [...]

What a last-week-in-Costa-Rica it’s been. Tuesday night I got into a verbal altercation with another member of my group. I don’t care if people think if I’m being bitchy or whiny about something trivial (like a certain bar tab), but if I dislike someone that intensely I ain’t holdin’ back and will let my mouth, [...]