clementines are mandarins here, duh

okay. so i can officially say that the homesickness has set in. and i was going so good too! i'll put all the blame on jonathan. i finally figured out the network downloading thing this morning and i was putting all my new videos and music onto my iphone. so i put on the 'going away to australia' dvd that jonathan had me for me before i left and watched only a minute of it before i was like "no! bad idea! put it away!" but it was too late...

don't get me wrong. i have a strong base of friends here - i just got back from downtown with a couple of them. i'm keeping busy all the time and not getting home till late at night. so it's not that i'm lonely, because the friends i have here are great and fun and all that. i don't know what it is. i was walking down lygon today and i saw this man standing in front of a restaurant who looked like a fatter version of my dad. and for a slim second i thought it was him, but that went away fast because obviously it wasn't. and that's when it hit me that i'm here for 5 more months and there's no break in between it all. i want to be here. i like it here. it's just that i like it at home, too.

so today all the rest of the 160 kids at mary's are moving back in and i'm fully prepared to be completely overwhelmed. it was nice for the past week when there was only about 40 people back, it was easy to get to know people and go out. so tonight is going to be crazzzzy with people. i'm excited for this week, though. we have a back to school themed pub crawl tomorrow, tuesday is senior dinner night, wednesday is christmas in july, thursday is trivia night, friday is the dirty 80s turn, and saturday is...saturday? wow. so it's going to be out out out every night.

you're in australia, alycia. suck it up.

okay!

i think the main thing is to just keep busy - kind of hard to do with only 10 hours of class, right? also, i need to get on sending stuff home to people. i'm gonna go to the market sometime this week (let's be honest..probably not till friday) and pick up a wide assortment of souveneirs.

obviously iron&wine tuneskis are not helping. christina aguilera? yes! oliver would be proud.

alright, kiddies. enough sap time. also, i'm joining the gym tomorrow. and i'm gonna start running again - i think that's a big part. i just haven't the motivation to go. but i have a marathon to run in 3 months that i should probably start training for. or something like that.

peace out!