I thought Tuesday was Thursday. But I think today's Thursday.

     Monday - Jhoselyn and I went to our friend Brian/Kemper's house for his going away party because the next morning he left to move to Argentina for five years!! :( It's weird how close I've become with some people here already. Here, family and friendship is above everything. Definitely something I'm going to miss. We're family. I'm lucky to have Jhoselyn as a host sister too, because most of the other AFS students here don't have as many friends as I do, and are starting to feel lonely, whereas I feel like I have un MONTON de really good people around me. <33 But I do really miss you guys at home. Today in colegio we had to make a video of Christmas (and I did mine of Xmas in Canada/north america) and when I was looking at pictures of snowy white christmas trees and stuff, I had tears in my eyes thinking of Christmas at home and how amazing it is. (I know--waaaay too early to be thinking of it right? But apparently we only have a month of school left or a bit more) I never realized how much I love Christmas. I actually used to think I hated it. Except I always love buying presents for people. It's definitely gonna be different!
      Oh! And the taxi driver on the way home was awesome. I love cabbies. Tonio and Jhoselyn were fighting and running around and wouldn't get in the cab so the cabbie was a good sport and drove the rest of us around laughing and talking about young love and life and such while we waited for them to calm down so we could go home from el centro hahaha kinda funny :P

      Tuesday - Tuesday was Johanna's birthday, and so we all went to her host family's house to celebrate (the AFS volunteers Jose, Zoraida and Audrey tambien). The only one who couldn't make it was Mona. She's 15 and her mom's a little crazy, and her sister never goes out so. :S Nancy, on the otherhand is finally starting to trust me a bit more :) Anyways, I gave Johanna some of the fudge you guys sent me (of which we're devouring way too quickly!) and it was a super good time. Us AFSies are sooo tight. I think going through such a crazy and often hard and frustrating experience like this has automatically brought us closer together. We've all gone through similar and different levels of bizarrity and it's so nice to have people of a slightly more similar culture and mindset to talk with! We're already planning future get-togethers after Peru! I've always been planning on going to Europe to travel, either before University or after or take a year of general studies first and then travel, then go back, who knows. Anyways, Louise really wants me to (and I also suuuuuperly want to) go to her home city Gents, Belguim for one of the most amazing music festivals in the world apparently, in July or August of 2011 or 2012. She's seen Coldplay 3 times, the Killers, a thousand bands- I can't even remember all of them but yeah! That would be SO FREAKING AWESOME!!! And I could stay with her and we'd meet up with Laetitia and Emily and probably Johanna, Clemens and Ondine as well, not to mention the 17 other Belgians in Peru right now with AFS (oooh Europe, they all live so close together!) She also wants to travel to London, and Ondine has invited us all to her cottage in the countryside of France for a couple weeks of backcountry powder skiing/snowboarding one year in Decemberish!! Omg I'm such a dreamer, but it would be soooo awesome!!! I'll have to work for some moouuuulah but dude. Sweet. And I told Ondine and Liam (my friend from New Zealand) that we can totally meet up when they come adventuring to Canada in the next few years or whenever. I'm going to cry when I leave this place and these people . . . Amazing. Louise and I were a bit teary even thinking about it! It feels like we've known eachother for so much longer...

      Miercoles (which, I found out, is when they WANT to say Mierda, haha) - Can't remember much, even though it was yesterday, except that I nearly broke down again in colegio. It's been happening a lot. There'es something about constant buye (noise) and screaming over top of eachother in "conversations and discussions" that I can't handle. I'm not sure why it affects me so much, but I am finding it more and more difficult to be around. Today I had to leave the classroom during one of their screaming, knives-in-your-ears sessions because I was literally about to cry. How stupid is that. My head and ears hurt so bad and it's just toooo much. It's totally unnecessary, and it's totally just part of their culture. Even the teachers do it. They can't have a normal conversation without getting worked up and yelling and interrupting eachother. It's always whoever talks the loudest and fastest. But they all try to talk over everybody at the same time, all the time. Or yell at eachother to get attention. Very impatient. I just feel smothered and can't even think or work or breathe. Super hard to get used to, not sure why it makes me so teary so quickly. :S
      It's also kind of weird but I've been SUPER zoned out for the past two weeks or so. Always totally out of it when I'm in class... "afuera" ... on the moon... up in my head and toootally spaced out. For some reason I find it super hard to focus on the real world and I'm just always thinking or pondering about something, or even just not thinking at all. But I never get bored, which is weird. I can be totally content just left with my head. But it'd be nice if I could learn to "zone in" once in awhile. I don't wanna turn into one of those super spacey weirdos who are annoying because it's hard to get their attention when they're always in lalaland! hahahaaa yeah.

      My Peruvian "prom" is on December 17th. Oh my god hahahah so now I have to find a "pareja" (partner) to go with me. It's a big deal; there's no option of not having a date (I tried that. Kinda avoiding this...). Then there's going to be dance rehearsals 3 times a week for some big fancy dance thing and all this craaaazy stuff. Eeek!! And then we have to have the same colour dress as our partner's outfit or tie or whatever and coordinate stuff and ayaaaaai. This is so weird.

      Also. I'm not sure why, but I still laugh hysterically everytime I see an armed policeman on a mountain bike hahahaha