I Laughed A Lot Today

I don't exactly have a whole lot to say, but my host mom said she likes to read these so I'll just write something down...

New song obsession: Hallelujah. I'm constantly humming it or singing karaoke to it in my room. It's a really beautiful song. In fact, I'm listening to it right now :) I am soo happy at my new school! Everyone is so nice, I already feel at home there.

Last week we had a project. We had to give speeches in English about the rights of children. My group's assignment was to oppose deporting fully naturalized children from the Netherlands. My group won 2nd best group and one of my team mates won best speaker. Dutch kids are so good at English!!!! Seriously, their vocabulary is better than mine sometimes. Anyways, it was a pretty fun week, but tomorrow it's back to normal school.

Last night I stayed up until 5 am watching Tila Tequila's Shot at Love on MTV.nl. Maybe a little pathetic, but it was so interesting! So suspenseful! Then I did a Wikipedia search about her. She never actually started dating the winner of the show. Then she did the show again, and the winner walked away from her right away. Poor Tila, she can never find love. And she seems so sweet on TV. I felt sort of bad for her.

So today I went to Amsterdam with the other AFS kids in my region. It was great to see them all again, and it was such a beautiful day for a walk through the city. They got to meet my three host siblings, which they liked. They said they were impressed by my patience with the little kids. That was nice.

Hey! My host dad promised me a group hug and I never got one!

Oh well, maybe tomorrow. Or whenever he happens to reads this...

You won't get out of this that easily, Matthias! Hahahahah...

By the way, dinner tonight was super delish. (It was beef / cheese stuffed bell peppers with rice and corn....mmmmmmm!) So thanks for the lekker avondeten.

Oh man!!!!!! I'm already half way through my exchange!!! In four days I'll have been here for five months, and I have only until July......... I'm really going to have to start doing more things while I'm here (I mean, better things than watching MTV until the wee hours of the morning).

My host parents laughed so hard at me. This is why:

Carla: When you leave in the summer, the weather will be really nice. We can have a barbecue outside for you and all your friends.

Me: *grumbles* Don't talk about nice weather.

Carla: Why not?

Me: Because I'm leaving pretty much as soon as the nice weather starts.

Carla: But you're going back to California. It's probably even hotter there in the summer than it is here.

Me: I'm only going back for three weeks. Then my family is going on vacation.

Carla: Where are you going...?

Me: Alaska.

Carla: Alaska......?
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Oh, sorry...........................gggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAHA!

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Zo is mijn leven.

What should I wear tomorrow....? Ah, whatever, I'll figure it out later.

Why is it that whenever I clean my bedroom it just gets messy again, like, 2 days later?

What should I do after school tomorrow.....? I don't want to just come home and do nothing. I guess I could work on my English class..... or my math homework.... or clean my room (but what's the point of that, really?) or...... draw a picture? Nahh that's not very productive....

Oh yeah, I'm going to a birthday party next Saturday. It's a funny story...

Friend at School: Do you want to go to this girl's birthday party?

Me: What...? Do I have an invitation...?

FaS: (to the other girl) she wants an invitation.

Other Girl: Do you want to come to my party?

Me: Are you inviting me....?

OG: Well, yeah... I mean, I think you're nice, and it would be fun if you came, too.

Me: Wow, thanks! I'd love to come!

(This was a really, really thoughtful thing for this girl to do for me, because I had literally never talked to her in my entire life. I really appreciated it. And I'm looking forward to the party.)

Alright, it's almost 11:30 pm, and I'm pretty tired. Just one more listen to Hallelujah, then off to bed :)

I hope this was entertaining enough for you, Carla.

Tot ziens,

Emily