Well, I'm not dead. Sorry I've been lax with the blogging, it's just kind of taken a backseat with everything piling up right before November break. Term papers and stuff. Haha all that testing and assessing was something I thought I'd escape when I left the American system...oh well. At least I've been trained my whole life for it.

We had a random show that I had to dance in yesterday. I had to redo the Maldivian dance and the Arabic dance, and on short notice, those two were quite amusing. The music stopped in the middle of the Maldivian dance...if you've ever seen Mean Girls, it was exactly like the Jingle Bell Rock scene. We all just froze, and then I started laughing my butt off. Haha.

I think I've got a mild obsession with this Swedish jeans brand called Cheap Monday. Perhaps the only Scandinavian thing I've taken a liking to besides the people...haha. I mean, to be fair, black licorice, brown cheese, fish pudding, dark days, cold weather, rain...all of these aren't really the most pleasant things on Earth. But I exaggerate, I know I'll be crying to be back at this place one day.

Being away, it's funny to see what kind of things will make you homesick. For me, homesickness isn't a constant state of being (I hope it's not like that for anyone). It's more like a small, triggered feeling of nostalgia that makes my eyes well up for a couple minutes but then passes. The strangest things seem to trigger it though. I think I'd be homesick after eating food from home, or talking to people from home, and basic stuff like that. But it's the stupid stuff that gets me. Like last night we watched The O.C., and as soon as that theme song started playing, I was right back in my living room with a big bowl of cereal, curled up to watch an hour of T.V. And the other day, I was struggling with some math homework and I just had this overwhelming urge to go ask my mom for help with it. It's funny, the things you learn about yourself at this place.

Alright well, I'll try and blog some this week but like I said, things are crazy. And besides, I'll be home in 12 days and 5 hours anyway. Haha