I don´t know what the weather at home has been like lately but here it has been positively PERFECT (think beach weather!!). I´ve taken to sitting in Parque García Sanabria in the shade of a palm tree to read and study.
Speaking of studying, I´ve been doing a LOT of that. Next year I plan on applying to MIT, Stanford, and UW (at least, probably one or two more...) so I need a super good SAT II score in chemistry and math. Therefore, in addition to the normal (rediculous) amount of studying, I also am studying for the exams at home :O.
It´s pretty crazy, living here now just feels like regular life. None of the things that happen suprise or shock me like they used to (ok, guys with shaved legs still makes me furrow my brow but...:) ). Even though I´m in Spain I realized that I should probably start planning my next year at hom ei fI want ot graduate and then go on to an Ivy league school! Silly SPSCC doesn´t have the current course catalog online, making it a bit difficult to decide which courses I want to take there in the fall (and registration is sooonnnn!).
Also, I decided that as my culminating project next year I want to start a robitics club at Jefferson Middle School. If anyone has any tips, ides, sugestions, etc that would be fabulous (especially if you know about finding funding? It´s possible that the OSD has the necesarry supplies, but I don´t know, and with a bit of a budget we could build a lot cooler robots, and there fore that the kids more excited and interested xD!).
Ok, thats my update for now, A bit run of the mill I know but I still have 100 pages of Mararía to read TODAY for my lengua exam on the book tomorrow,
Peace everyone,
Molly
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Mango Juice
It really is the small things in life that count. Knowning that someone thought about you matters more than whatever it is they give you. Of course the fabulous jewlery I got for my birthday is gorgeous, but I swear the Mango Juice abuelo (one of the grandpas, abuelo is granpa in spanish) has for me whenever I visit him makes me feel just as special. I´m not really sure where the idea came from (probably something I said about mango´s when I first got here, A very typical exchange student experience, the one word you know becomes your ´favorite food´, one of the girls I know now has her family thinking she´s CRAZY abotu strawberry icecream jaja!!).
I´ve had a few very serious revelations lately. First of all life is fragil, seeing Tita (my great aunt here, who lives next door and has parkinsons) slowly loose her ability to walk alone, to dress herself, and now even to feed herself makes you realize that even getting up in the morning is a privelege. The other thing i´ve realized is that there are no rules. Meaning, the only thing which is obligatory in life is to eat sleep and drink water, money is a societal concept as are all of the behaviors we do besides those which are directly fufilling a physical need (even the WAY we fufil them is cultural!!).
For instance sleep, there can´t possibly be very many variatons on something so normal right? Wrong. Here, even in spain where the beds look just about the same as at home, and everyone sleeps at night (everyone is an exageration, but you know what I mean) the hours of living are different. It literally makes my host counselor and her family giggle when I go to bed at 9:30 or 10pm on a school night! For them that sthe time to start the videos before going to bed. And it´s not just because they don´t ahve to get up very early in the morning. Most of the kids in my class have the same late to bed schedule (except that they all also have to but up by 7 to be to school by 8!!). I really don´t know how they do it!
What I think we should take away from these fabulous revaltions of mine is that the world is our playground. It needs to be taken care of, of course, but there are no limits on what is possible.
Peace out and happy easter!,
Molly
I´ve had a few very serious revelations lately. First of all life is fragil, seeing Tita (my great aunt here, who lives next door and has parkinsons) slowly loose her ability to walk alone, to dress herself, and now even to feed herself makes you realize that even getting up in the morning is a privelege. The other thing i´ve realized is that there are no rules. Meaning, the only thing which is obligatory in life is to eat sleep and drink water, money is a societal concept as are all of the behaviors we do besides those which are directly fufilling a physical need (even the WAY we fufil them is cultural!!).
For instance sleep, there can´t possibly be very many variatons on something so normal right? Wrong. Here, even in spain where the beds look just about the same as at home, and everyone sleeps at night (everyone is an exageration, but you know what I mean) the hours of living are different. It literally makes my host counselor and her family giggle when I go to bed at 9:30 or 10pm on a school night! For them that sthe time to start the videos before going to bed. And it´s not just because they don´t ahve to get up very early in the morning. Most of the kids in my class have the same late to bed schedule (except that they all also have to but up by 7 to be to school by 8!!). I really don´t know how they do it!
What I think we should take away from these fabulous revaltions of mine is that the world is our playground. It needs to be taken care of, of course, but there are no limits on what is possible.
Peace out and happy easter!,
Molly
Saturday, April 11, 2009
The Parents visit :)
And here is some visual proof! We also took a trip to fuerteventura, although my parents have all those pictures, i´ll post some when I get them.
The other picture is the view from teh roof of my host counselors house, amazing eh?
Ok, I dont´really have time to write a long post write now, but this is 17 year old Molly checkin back in with olympia, I´ll try to write a longer one later!
P.S. I passed all of my classes for second tri too!!
Whoops, Due to technical difficulties the promised images are not currently availible, check back sooN!
The other picture is the view from teh roof of my host counselors house, amazing eh?
Ok, I dont´really have time to write a long post write now, but this is 17 year old Molly checkin back in with olympia, I´ll try to write a longer one later!
P.S. I passed all of my classes for second tri too!!
Whoops, Due to technical difficulties the promised images are not currently availible, check back sooN!
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