Help me: Argentina or Spain ?

So I definitely know I want to study abroad, and I've had my heart set on going to Argentina, but then this weekend I starting thinking. I know, wow... thinking. Yeah, so maybe I should go to Spain. I really can't decide. There are good and bad aspects of both places. Both would totally rock, both I would learn to speak Spanish, both I would go with AIFS, both are home stays with a host family, both come with excursions or whatever in the price, and both sound great. In Spain the university is more well-renowned, more expensive, a better language program, and there's more places to visit. In Argentina it's in a big city (+), warmer even in the winter, cheaper cost of living, less common, and the program's a little longer. How on earth can I decide?

Which would you pick if you were me? Please help me... leave a response. I don't have to decide till this summer, but this is disturbing my peace. I need some advice, or at least a variety of opinions to help me out. Thank you. I know you want to tell me where you think I should study abroad. I'm begging you, please cure my indecision.

HIGH SPEED

High speed internet connection finally!!! Now no more of that getting thrown off the internet, hogging the phone line, and stuff taking forever to download. Thank you to the high-speed companies. *suppressing the tears of happiness* I imagine myself in one of those slow motion commercials-- I have a look of glee on my face, and I slowly push away from my computer and throw my arms into the air, jump out of the chair, and do a victory dance as if I've just made the winning field goal in a championship football game. The camera zooms in on my look of elation and the people in the room, who appear out of nowhere, start clapping and cheering for me, because we are all just so happy. Thank you high speed, we love you.

Heart of Darkness

Tonight I had a book study group meeting and only 3 of us showed up. One was the professor and the other was the guy leading the discussion. Anyway, that was a good thing because earlier the prof said if it was only us 3, then he would buy us ice cream. Much to his surprise, he had to buy us the ice cream. Yay. Not only did I get a free choco taco, but also extra credit for reading a short little book, no papers involved. How much does that rock?

So question, are people essentially good or bad? Or is that even the right question? b/c society will socialize you to be one or the other, to the point where it doesn't matter... Oh the arguments, they are endless.

Stop... did you hear about?... Interupting

Played in a v-ball tournament on Sat. but did not win, we got beat by the amish kids. It's not funny, they had practiced together and we hadn't, plus their guys were really tall. You haven't seen volleyball till you've seen girls in long skirts and head-coverings playing as if they were wearing gym clothes.

Sunday had a quiz in Roaring Spring. Sr. High 2nd place, Jr. High 3rd, I'm really proud of my kids.

Today had classes and honors banquet. Even dressed up and all. This morning I worked on a paper for a bunch of hours for a professor to look at, but then she wasn't even in during her office hours that she announced last week. Needless to say I wasn't too happy, and yet I didn't let it bother me so much. No use in getting upset about something that I can't change anyway. As long as I get an A on the paper I will be content.

I realized I need to work on the whole interupting people while they are telling stories. I shall never know the ending to the hot-guy-in-the-bookstore-asking-for-emily's-phone #-story, but I do want to know. I just can't help inserting things into the conversation b/c otherwise I would forget what I was going to say before they are done with the story. Anyway, I'll just keep my big mouth shut from here on out...sure.

OH, and just for clarification, Emily W. is the one with the pole in the former post, not me, I took the picture. --And it isn't dirty, someone out there with a sick mind, I will find out who you are...

Ugly aye-aye

Is this thing ugly, or is this thing ugly? The BBC news says,

"Bristol zoo becomes the first UK zoo to successfully breed and hand-rear an aye-aye, the largest nocturnal primate in the world and one of the strangest mammals on the planet."

It give me the shudders even to look at it. It is a cross between smeagle in lord of the rings, a bat vampire, and a rat. Yikes, the eyes. They are burning a hole into my soul. Make the creepy thing stop staring at me!

DC day #2

Well, went back to Washington DC again today. This time was just as much fun. We visited the Licoln, Vietnam vet, WWII, and Korean war memorials. Shame on Kristin, she suggested we throw coins into the one fountain and make wishes, but then we walked around and there's a sign that says don't throw coins into the fountains. Whoops. We even took a picture, evidence! We ate egg rolls off of a street vender (ahem a little shady), lebonese food, and gelato ice cream stuff, mmmm, mmmm.

And finally, thanks to my reminders every 5 minutes, we got our picture underneath a cherry blossom tree! Isn't it quite lovely!







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Frustrations

So the team our intramural volleyball team was supposed to play tonight never showed up. What's up with that? I drove in there for no freakin reason. I'm mad. They were probably all sitting around in a circle drinking. Why does it seem like that is all SU students do? Geez, they can't even interupt their booz time for game of volleyball. Ahhh, drinking makes me mad. I know I can have a perfectly fun time without alcohol. Why can't other people see that? You don't have to drink to have fun. Get it through your minds people, there are better things to do than getting drunk every night. --On a much more pleasant note, field trip again tommorrow. Yippy skippy! My dad was just complaining to me that when he was in college, they never got to go on field trips... (they had to walk to school 3 miles, barefoot, uphill both ways. lol).

Mini-break Over

So I got back from Lock Haven. Already missin' Emily, she's so much fun. For the first time in my life I played raquetball, but we didn't really know, so much, how to play, but that made it all the more fun. We just hit it at the wall and then ducked and made the other person run after it. That has to be at least the idea. We also walked along the Susquehana Tues. afternoon. -That's the pic. I got to finally meet all the friends she talks about. We played frisbee and a little volleyball. We walked a lot of stairs, looking at good stuff on campus. We ate in the dining hall, tortured Tristin on IM, watched Boondock Saints, and talked bunches. Wish I could spend the rest of the school year there, but yeah, I had to come home. Had to go to classes. Had to drive for 3 hours to get back to good 'ole S-burg.