First, I'm going to start off with a quick side note- Thursday night I went to the movies. I saw Valentine's Day. I loved it (but for all of you that know me, as in, all of you reading this blog, this fact shouldn't surprise you). However, I'm not mentioning this to let you know how annoying Taylor Swift's character was, how in love I am with Bradley Cooper, how Ashton Kutcher is always incredible or how Julia Roberts just gets more beautiful with age (it's one...

A few non-exciting life updates. I'm addicted to buying movies here. How can you pass up 3 perfect quality DVDs for just 5 dollars? They also have a lot of movies here that aren't readily available in the United States: that old Disney Swiss Family Robinson movie, for example. I loved that movie when I was little and seriously doubt it's easy to buy in the US. I'm also stocking up on my awesome Disney animated classics and old school MK&A films. My most rec...

Ecuador Round 2. Officially 5 weeks in. So far, so good. At first the going was a little slow. It was hard adjusting to a new group of people, as I previously mentioned, and I didn't have the good fortune to be quite as exhilarated as they were at the novelty of Ecuador. It was no longer a novelty for me. I've now readjusted my thinking, knowing that this semester is going to be just as good as the last one, only much different. Things have started picking up...

I'm baaaack!! And it's difficult. I'm back in the place I've been for the last 4 months, a place I'm pretty comfortable in now, but with no one I am comfortable with. I associate this place, this city, with my friends from last semester. It's an odd adjustment. Especially because everyone expects me to be an expert on the city: I suppose I am compared to the new students, but I also feel like I'm a bit of a letdown. I'm not as much of an expert as I feel I sho...

I'm baaaack!! And it's difficult. I'm back in the place I've been for the last 4 months, a place I'm pretty comfortable in now, but with no one I am comfortable with. I associate this place, this city, with my friends from last semester. It's an odd adjustment. Especially because everyone expects me to be an expert on the city: I suppose I am compared to the new students, but I also feel like I'm a bit of a letdown. I'm not as much of an expert as I feel I sho...