Its not Christmas time yet?!

One thing that everyone should know about me is that I ADORE CHRISTMAS!!! As I am writing this blog I am currently listening to Christmas music, I sing Christmas music in the shower, and in the car.... so shoot me! Yes, I am "one of those." So I guess I should update you on a little of my life since its been a while since we've talked :) Ok.  As you may possibly know there was a life changing announcement recently by the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  This announcement changed the age that men and women can leave on missions for the Church. The age for men to leave changed from 19 years old to 18 years old and the age for young women to leave changed from 21 to 19 years old.  Obviously this makes me able to serve a mission now! As this has been a life long dream of mine this was exciting news, but I'm not sure if I'm going to go yet.  Although a mission is a great opportunity to serve the Lord and bring souls to the gospel and make them happy I do realize that a mission is not for everyone and that I need to pray about it.  Lets see here, what else is new in my life? Oh yeah.  I don't remember if I told you or not but I'm dating this SUPER DUPER awesome guy named Eric! I always have tons of fun talking to him (he's in Rexburg while I'm here in Chile) and am grateful for the blessing that he is in my life.  He just makes me so happy! Okay nobody wants to here me get all gushy and stuff :P So. I have a break coming up and guess what I'm doing?! Going to Argentina!! That's right, be jealous! Mendoza specifically. Gah! Why do I have such an awesome life? Just joking.  So the other day I almost got robbed. I was walking with two of my friends when I felt something shift on my backpack so I spun around and there was a flaite opening my backpack. What did I do? Yelled "hey!" and pulled a kung fu move.  I must have intimidated him because then he changed direction and I checked my bag and nothing was gone.  I sure showed him! Well not really... but maybe next time.  So highlight of last week was we went horseback riding on beach. It was gorgeous, and I learned how to gallop! I feel like this blog post if full of exclamation points... but that's just because I'm so stinking excited with my life right now! The Lord blesses me so much! "Your a bad banana with a greasy black peel..." that's what just came on in the Grinch Christmas Song-hahah! Alright rereading this its really random, but I just think that's how my mind works.
Things I miss from Los Estados Unidos (these are in NO PARTICULAR ORDER)
1. Cheesy grits
2. Mi pololo
3. Banana bread
4. Normal traffic
5. My family
6. English
7. Sleeping in my nomadic state.  I haven't slept in the same bed for this long....well, ever!
8. Dinner.  We never eat dinner here!
9. Amigos (I have them here too, but I miss my State side ones)
10. HOT WATER!!!! (this may actually be no.1 but since I didn't put them in order I guess you'll never know!)

Alright. Now that I have exposed you to the random state of mind I'm in right now I'll conclude by saying "Chao pescado!" (Imagine an upside downy exclamation thingy majig at the beginning of that).
Picture time...

The Chilean Sunset. Gorgeous, no?

 I thought this was an octopus skin... and there were TONS all over the beach. They aren't. 

I made Banana bread for my host family so they could try my favorite food!

Cindi and I decided to take a day trip to Santiago! We even had the bus to ourselves !

I went to Pablo Neruda's house

Eating brochetas at the crazy awesome parties that they have for September 18th! (Its like there version of 4th of July)

At the temple!

More temple :)

Alright I hope I haven't bored you too much! Chao, pescado!

Its chili down in Chile...

Hola! You know those people who only know one word of a language and they use it all the time like they are super cultured or something? Yeah.  I'm not one of those.  I am super cultured! haha.  I'm in Chile for the semester! Thats right, be jealous.  So, Chile is pretty much amazing.  Its a beautiful, but cold.  They have killer awesome graffiti here, but its cold.  They have long stretches of ocean, but its cold.  Do you get my point that everything is cold?!?! Okay, okay.  I'll stop with the cold business... but it is! So this morning I froze off my gluteous maximus to go to my first class.  My first class on Mondays start at 12:20... did you even know school could be so great?! Oh and did I mention... they NEVER HAVE CLASSES ON FRIDAY?! I mean, lets be honest, none of us ever thought school could be as awesome as when we had nap time.  Also some of my classes don't start until September.  And I have beautiful stretches of beach to do my homework on (but they are cold).  So the other day I went to Valparaiso, a near by city, and I'll post some of the pictures from that.  It was awesome.  Anyway I'm having the time of my life down here.  I don't really know what else to say because I'm already rambling so I'll just post some pics now!

Mi nueva companera de cuarto y yo :)

Where I live... just don't come stalking me

My new home, Vina del Mar, Chile!

Another view of the city.

Oh and we can't forget me randomly swinging on a swing!

Another thing I noticed I forgot to mention... um... so I'm not dating that one kid Scott anymore.  That I talked about in my last blog?! Well, now I'm dating this guy named Eric.  Just to keep you posted ;) haha.
P.S.  I see you're turning green with envy from my awesome life.  Its okay, let it go.  Not everyone can be as cool as me :P
P.P,S.  I just realized I didn't post pics of Valparaiso... that will have to wait for next time... because they are still on my camera...

Clay fights, apples, and face painting. How does life keep getting better?!

Our awesome cupcakes made to look like apples

Ice Skating

Well, I realize that it is now in like the second month of the new year but as we all know- I am a procrastinator.  This year has past year has been WAY different for me.  But in a lot of good ways :) I just thank the Lord every day for the blessings that all my friends and family have been in my life.  So... I'll try and sum some things up (hahah sum some).  First off, I have a recently acquired boyfriend (and when I say recently acquired, I mean like 2 months ago :P ) Juana see what he looks like?! That's him.  Now you can say 'aww'! Sorry, just joking. We aren't that cute (jokes, jokes! calm down already!) Okay.  This blog thing a majig is more for me so I apologize if I sound like I'm rambling (to be honest I am).  Anyway, my life is fun to live!  So these past two nights have just been plain AWESOME I'm not going to lie :)  So here are some pictures of my lovely life.  The first picture is these cupcakes that we made that look like apples.  Pretty flippin' awesome.  Then the next picture is us ice skating and falling all at once :) and the third picture is from when we painted our faces and the 4th photo boothy thingy is from our clay fight the other night :)  Also I added labels- so if you still don't know what they are I am seriously questioning your intelligence. Anyway enjoy this little insight into my life I guess !  

Face Painting

Clay fights and goofy faces!

Tornados and Car Crashes... read on!

I thoroughly enjoy making lists.  A lot.  So if you'll excuse me, I think I'll make one right here! :) A list of why my life is strange, but that could get pretty long so I think I'll just limit it to 3... haha.
A. St. Louis is not a dangerous place but where does the tornado decide to hit? St. Louis.  And not just anywhere in St. Louis- specifically Maryland Heights.  Where do I live?? Maryland Heights.  Of course.
B.  Things tend to happen to me.  Like the fact that I was driving home in the rain when I get hit by another car.  And then the tornado warnings started to go off.  AGH! WHY LIFE? WHY?!
C.  Oh! Did I mention the fact that MY CAR WOULDN'T START AFTER THAT? So the police man calls the tow truck.  And that was all fine and dandy, but as soon as the tow truck arrives my car decides to start.  Yup.  Story of my life.

That all happened Friday.

my not too awesome blog...

I've traveled all around the world.  I've been to Australia, El Salvador, Guatamala, Spain, France, Canada (not too foreign there), Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, and many others and when do I choose to start a blog? Nope.  Not when I'm going there.  Only when I'm stuck in good ol' St. Louis.  Of course.  So you can hear about my oh so interesting life.  But mostly this blog is for me to write down thoughts, feelings, and when I'm sitting in St. Louis Bread Co. waiting for three hours to go to work...  But we won't mention that that is part of the reason I am getting this thing. Lets see here, what should I start with? Oh.  I'll start by telling you I recently acquired and murdered my squirrel.  I named him Hammy.  You are probably wondering or thinking- Huh?  Thats kind of what I'm thinking too.  This squirrel was following my Dad around as he was working on a lawn one day so my Dad took him home for me! I was so excited we put him in a box and I gave him some milk.  The next morning Hammy couldn't move.  I was so worried so I read up online (something I should have done before I gave him the milk) of what sort of foods he should eat, especially as a baby.  Apparently Pedialyte was a good idea so I went and bought that,  he seemed to be improving and was sitting on my shoulder but he wasn't as energetic as other squirrels.  My mistake for not noticing.  I woke up the next morning to a dead Hammy.  Thats it.  He only spent two days with me and he still broke my heart! Can you believe it?  Well I have work in a bit, but here are some pictures of Hammy!

Me and Hammy :'(

How can you resist a creature so cute?

But I do tend to have more "interesting" stories... so I'll try to not make it boring for you by throwing a few of those in :P.  Well I don't really know how to end this post.  So. uh. BYE!