Ha, that last post was an overload, I think, but that trip was a blast. Definitely one of the best things I've done, in my opinion. Quite a few people would disagree with me, but that's fine.
So I kind of want to write something but I don't know what I should write about.
How about a friend and I went drinking with my cousin and her boyfriend on Saturday and had a blast? Yeah, that was a fun night but I felt like shitttt the next day. I was surprised I didn't chuck or anything, just ended up sleeping it off for 4 hours, which is a surprise in itself since my new bed is so much harder than I'm used to without memory foam on it.
I feel spoiled sometimes. I'm determined to get used to it, though, without the memory foam. I don't want to have to buy any.
I'm going to go to the gym today with a friend. It should be interesting, I haven't done any running or major physical activity for a extended period of time for a while. It makes me sad that I'm just sitting around at home doing nothing and it's resulting in me gaining weight. I went on an hour long walk by myself last night at 10:00 because I hadn't done anything all day. Hopefully going to the gym will help improve my energy level and get my weight down to what it was at the end of the summer. That would be awesome.
It sounds like I'm going to be job hunting for a job during the month of December; just for the Christmas season to bring in some more money. It's going towards my Guatemala fund.
I'm really planning on flying down there in the spring! Really, I'm completely serious about going, I've found a decent language school down there where I can organize somewhere to stay and learn Spanish from. The plan is for me to spend a minimum of two weeks there and then see how much money I have and how much Spanish I can understand/speak. My friend said she'd help me with my Spanish too. Then we'd travel around, just living life and seeing Guatemala and meeting new people. It'll be awesome, totally awesome.
My parents aren't really gung-ho with the whole plan, but have pretty much accepted that I am most likely going to go in the spring as long as I have money to get there, which I will. My dad told me that he appreciates that I at least asked them and talked to them first and didn't just go and buy a plane ticket and called them from Chicago telling them I was just waiting for my flight to Guatemala and he should probably pick up the truck from the Calgary airport. Part of me thinks I could never do that, leave to another country without telling them until I was halfway there. The other wander-lust, rebelious part of me thinks that would have been awesome. My sister said if I did that, she would have been irritable with everyone and jealous because I just took off without having to tell anyone and can do whatever I want. And she really wants to travel to, but school is keeping her quite occupied.
Anyways, I still have to pay off student loans that went to waste first before buying any plane tickets to Central America or paying tuition for any Spanish schools. Unfortunately, it's going to cut my fund pretty much in half.. I guess that's why I need a job.
Ah, gotta' love the real world. A piece of me thinks I'm just being ridiculous, planning everything like I am and not investing in something solid like school. Not going to lie, Guatemala seems wayyy better than any college or university. And I'm going to be going to school.. and going to learn a language so I can understand what everyone is saying seems a lot more practical to me right now than writing paper upon paper on theories or something like that.
Rachel.
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