Last Saturday I went to the wedding of an old childhood friend. It was essentially the first wedding of my “generation” that I’d attended. And naturally there were waterworks and feelings of depression and lots of alcoholic-induced “I hate looooveeeee” declarations. Yes, I was that single girl last Saturday, drinking her sorrows away at the [...]

My appetite seems to have increased tenfold since my return to campus. I don’t know what it is, but I just keep eating and eating. I’ve eaten practically everything there is on Green Street (it’s rather hard to avoid when you have to walk down a street full of shops and restaurants just to get [...]

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 [...]

I pretty much spent the entire day today brushing myself up on all the popular Latin music I’ve been listening to since I got here. The Spanish-language music on my iTunes hasn’t really grown that much (mostly because a lot of the music I hear here, I’ve already got on my iPod LOL) but today [...]

“I could stand by the side and watch this life pass me by.” – Leona Lewis I swore that I would never be one of those people to agonize over lists of New Year’s resolutions because I always thought those kinds of people were just crocks. So you want to improve your life, why is [...]