Al Fin! Finally!

Lina, Stephan, Rose, me, and my sister Ambar. ^
My sister Alba and her son, Iker. ^
My cousin Lina and I! ^
And my two nieces! ^

Hey! I'm sitting in my bed writing this blog waiting for internet so that I can post it, and just hoping that it will copy and paste this time. I've been having a really great time lately, without really even doing anything actually. Last sunday my family and I went to Santiago (a town sort of in the middle of the country) with the rest of AFS for a family day. Fourteen hours in a Diablo Rojo for about six hours at a pool, but I had a lot of fun because I got to see all my friends and eat fruits all day! A few really good friends of mine left the day after so it was also sort of a good bye for them. My family and I got home at around ten, and my oldest sister was having a party (she didn't tell mom and dad) which ended up in a lot of family drama, as well as a bunch of nonsense with my cousins, which unfortunately I don't want to talk about on here. The next morning my sister and I just did chores and cleaned the house up from the party. I don't ever want to wash dishes again. Rose has been coming over lately a lot, and yesterday we took a little bike tour around the town. I was on the pegs for the better part of the ride... We thought we were going to die, and we actually crashed a few times. Nothing else has really happened around here, but somehow I'm not completely bored out of my mind, instead I'm very happy. It's really crazy to me to think that maybe a month ago I was thinking about coming home and not enjoying myself at all, It's completely turned around and I don't think I ever want to go home.

Future plans! I'm going to my first quincenera, I have no idea if I spelled that right, plus my keyboard doesn't make the squiggly thing over the 'n'.

ANYWAY, I'm really excited, everyone says they're really fun. I'll take lots of pictures! Which reminds me why I haven't uploaded any pictures, It takes a freakin' lifetime to upload them. I tried the other day, and after three hours of waiting for five pictures to upload, it told me that I should try again. Sorry people, unless I find a way to make it go faster, not happening. I think that's it for now, I'm gonna go check and see if there's internet and then watch some telenovelas! I'm getting hooked as I can now understand mostly all of it. Even though I can understand conversationally, and speak, TV is completely different. Plus they have different accents and words because most of them are from Mexico or Colombia. Ok, bye!! Alrighty, so it didn't let me just copy and paste the blog, fantastic. So I just googled how to copy and paste it and it says that I can if I download google chrome. So while that's downloading I'm sitting here with my cousin looking at a magazine. Just to tell you guys!

Google chrome rocks so far, copy and paste totally worked, and it's really fast. I'm gonna try and upload some pictures. Love it! Yay!

Ok, soooo. We've missed a lot. Christmas and New Years are both pretty big things to talk about so it's gonna take me awhile to get this blog actually published, being the huge procrastinator I am. I love it. Christmas was extremely fun, I was with my family the whole day and night and it was just wonderful. It was very different than christmas in the U.S., we did so much more! We ate so much food, and opened presents at midnight, fireworks, and went to friends houses to wish them a Merry Christmas and deliver presents. We ended up staying up until 6:30 in the morning, dancing with friends, drinking of course, and talking until the sun came up. It was honestly the best christmas I've ever had, no offense to any of my family...

New Years! This was also extremely fun, and since then we've actually been having parties almost every night.. It was almost the same as christmas minus the gifts, and we were more with everyone rather than just a small party. The parties since then have been mild, but really great, mostly with just family, and a few with friends, but sometimes they're better with family, it's more personal and they're just different somehow. I've been starting to have the best time in, Panama so far.. My spanish is getter much better and I've been making really good friends, I feel like I got through the hard part, and since I did, I realized what I was doing wrong and I fixed it somehow.

Oh, last night we also had a going away party for one of the exchange students who will be going away next week. Her name is Rose, and she's from Cleveland, Ohio! We're going to really miss her. :(

This blog is probably the most weird, scatterbrained blog yet. I really am not able to think right now. My cousin is watching every move I make as I write, and they're watching movies in the living room.. I'm just pretty distracted, but I'll try and get a better one up soon. With pictures! Finally.

That's honestly all I could think off as I wrote, I'll try and have a more planned blog next time! See you guys later! Loveeee, Raven