across a continent and time zones.

when it's 11:27 pm pacific time and 2:27 am eastern time, it gets a bit lonely sometimes. the californians in my life are great because they are in the same mindset as me, same rhythm of life. today was chill.

i woke up at 8 and rolled out of bed to make it on time to meet jess, john, and willem for breakfast. i had french toast with syrup, peanut butter and banana. of course i also had some raisin bran, there is something about that cereal of which i just can't get enough. then we hung around the cafeteria until they kicked us out to clean. we went to our 10 am meeting early, but clifton sent us to clean water balloon remnants from last night. the meeting was good, we got our buddy assignment to send cute notes and whatever. i had lunch with al, chris, natalie, keara, jess, and katie. i had vegetable chili but it was more like a watery soup with a greek salad on whole wheat toast. i had a piece of chris's carrot cake before going to bake with keara and whoever was interested. IT WAS AWESOME. we made brownies, funfetti cupcakes and chocolate chip cookies. after the baked goods were good to go, we whipped out the ice cream! it was delicious. i felt so sick after, but i was happy when i ate the sugary and buttery mixtures. i made danielle cookies in the shape of D-A-N-I since she was my buddy. ana lost her keys so i ran around looking for her to give them back, but to no success. then at 4something, katie motivated me to go to the gym. after i showered i met up with my girls and had dinner. it was another slice of veggie pizza and salad. then at 7:15 pm, i met up with everyone (since some had to go to their room to get their stuff, whatever else). telmo came with us and took pictures of the group. i don't know if he was supposed to be there, but i couldn't say no. it was cool he was there though since he connected the spanish girls that he helps to everyone else. he asked people questions and was interested in whatever anyone said. we walked to walgreens to develop pictures for the girls. they got to pick their favorite and i printed one for them. the above picture is the one i printed for myself :) they were posing for a photo scavenger hunt and this is what they did when i told them to pretend to work out in front of the recreational sport facility. so cute! then we walked back up the hill and telmo joined the senior staff as i picked up the projector to watch the ugly truth. it was a terrible movie choice, but the girls voted for it since most of them like katherine heigl and haven't seen it. the dialogue was spoken too fast for most of the girls to understand. i apologize for my crudeness, but one of the girls from shenzhen, china asked her roommate what a "cock" was. I CRINGED. we ended around 10:30 pm and i walked the games and projector back to the office before running into alterrell and chris in the rec room as they were finishing up their night. we walked back to our suites at 10:50 to hand out lunch money to our students. AFTERNOON OFF!! i plan on going to the botanical garden :) feel free to join me.