It has been a really hectic couple of weeks! The details are hard to appreciate if you're not here, so here's the reader's digest version:
School is back in session! It's been good to see my friends again but I'm taking some really boring classes, like Social Bioethics and Technology and Philosophy and Research Methodology-mostly practical, but whoa, not exciting. We have an unprecedented amount of class hours in English now, something like 15 to 18 out of the 45 hours in a week are things like "Business", "Critical Thinking" and "Level 3 Grammar". On Wednesdays, we have 5 English classes. They hate it, but for me it feels like justice. It's MY turn to talk in class!
Got in a few more trips to the beach, one with my friends and another with my host family. It was great, the latter was one of the nicest weekends with this family so far. We played about 100 games of Crazy 8s, we watched Twister [dubbed, of course], we made HUGE banana milkshakes, and of course, we spent the majority of the time in the hammock or in the sand. The weather has changed, though. It's cloudy more, and the ocean is terribly cold- like pins and needles all over. Either way, we had a lot of fun, and I of course got a sunburn... SPF 45 protecting MY skin on the equator is like an inflatable chair keeping you afloat in whitewater rapids... Good luck.
The OTHER countdown is on-remember in July when the countdown to Ecuador began? I'm now in the countdown to Albany-less than 5 weeks and I will be home, sweet home. I'm terrified, sort of digging in my heels, don't want to say goodbye, but there is another side of me that is SINGING! I can't wait to hug my little brothers. I can't wait to drink vitamin water and walk the streets after sundown. I can't wait to see my house, with new siding and an extended deck and the yearly landscaping overhaul. Not to mention going back to my job, graduating high school, seeing my best friend!, and a thousand other things that feel long overdue.
