Hamsters and Heat Stroke

     So its been a while since I lasted posted anything on my blog...I know, I'm terrible. But have no fear, I am here. Since my last post I have nearly failed grammar advance 2, nearly died of heat exhaustion, and nearly decided I never want to see the temperature above 20 degrees C, ever again. Nearly. But in reality, I'm scraping by in grammar, I haven't experience heat exhaustion yet, but I'm confidant its in my near future; and if I was sitting through below zero degree weather I would probably beg for another Argentinian summer.

     Let me back up. Trimester two is already in full swing, in fact i had my first midterm yesterday. I moved up from advanced one into advanced two, and despite the fact that the same professor teaches both classes he failed to mention that the difference between the two classes was....I cant think of a cool intelligent sounding word, so basically its big. Advanced 1 was teaching present tense and command form, advanced two had already learned 10 tenses we had not yet learned. Did we know this? No. It was only explained to us that if you got an A- or A you could move up, so we did. And now....well now every time i sit in class tv/movie quotes run through my head: "You shall not pass!" and "You know nothing Jon Snow". Fun right?

     So all that aside...ask me how summer is down here. Go ahead, i dare you. Oh summer, I'm sorry you meant the 'inferno' right? So far this month its been generally 93-102 Fahrenheit. There really isn't great shade,and  the dorms don't have AC. At night it stays about mid 80s outside but inside our dorms, its more like high 80s low 90s on bad nights. Some nights i legitimately don't sleep at all because I'm just that hot.....But on the bright side I have hamsters. A friend of a friend didn't want them, that friend didn't want them, so now i have them. There are two dwarf hamsters and one normal sized hamster. The dwarves are Gimli and Gloin and the Big grey fat one is Galdalf. Fitting right?

Gandalf chillin' in a boot

Gloin in a cup

And Gandalf doing monkey bars.

Sorry i don't have a picture of Gimli, but he is the cutest so I'm not sharing.

All That And A Bag Of Chips

       For starters, i thought the saying was All that and a slice of bread, however Alex has informed me that i am wrong and its chips. So if the saying in the title is wrong you can blame Alex Thomas. Anyways...I am tired of recapping so.... Christmas was just another day and New Years was great I spent it with Zeke and Callie and all of Zeke's family....And I saw the Hobbit part 2 in iMax 3D it was incredible. That's all you need to know. You are now up to date.

Before going to Zeke's family's party :)

Not only did they welcome us, grandma wanted to dance with us.

      So its the first week back in classes...and both Callie and i came to the realization last night, while doing grammar, and today in literature class, how terrible at Spanish we are. So...I'm going to buckle under and force myself to be fluent by next week. I'll let you know how that goes.
    Its nice to be home, i was all traveled out. I had the best time ever, and now i'm not leaving and you can't make me....So, today has been interesting. I left my windows open last night in hopes of a small breeze and in the morning i discovered, yet again, a cockroach...bugs must love me. Bummer. I kill them all. Actually, i missed hitting it and had to leave for class so later i enlisted Sapphira to help me. Then i cleaned every inch of my room....I HATE bugs. *shudders*. Then it was another normal scorching hot day in la villa. It was so hot i got out of a cold shower and immediately felt uncomfortably too warm. But its ok because in the middle of Literatura it gets all dark, the wind picks up, the power goes off, and its thundering, lightning and raining like there is no tomorrow. It was even raining sideways and i swear i saw a tree branch fly passed the window. So I'm happy. If it wanted to rain for a week i wouldn't even be mad.

     Its January...or so they tell me, but in my head its about...late June in the Rogue Valley, like a hot late June. I should be working and relaxing...i really miss working. its aggravating to not be able to work for an entire year. Its like i panic every time i look at my bank account and see it getting smaller. But why?! I should be refilling it. Working will be one of those things i look forward to about coming home in 4.5 months. I Love, love LOVE it here....but I'm itching to get done. I would like to be fluent and at home. Tadah!