A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Well, hello everyone! How are you guys doing?

The week here went flying by, but three interesting things happened:

- I went back to Van Dyne Elementary School (the place I was going to volunteer) and then I was told that I could only volunteer there with my background checked by the U.S. authorities and that would take a long time (more than 2 weeks!) according to my mom so I gave up the idea of volunteering there.

- In the other hand on Wednesday (January 27, 2010) evening I went to church to help in a weekly event where they gather the children of the community and play games and make crafts with them. It was awesome!

- Finally, my new school schedule started! After convincing the counselor to change my classes, I finally have the classes I want (At least Mondays and Wednesdays). How is it now? Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays I have the same schedule (History, P.E., Geometry, Biology, English, Computer Applications and Spanish), but on Mondays and Wednesdays I have a different one (U.S. Government, P.E., Pre-Calculus, Biology, English, Comp. Apps and Chemestry). Awesome.

Well, besides that the week was fine, but I'm not here to talk about the week, I'm here to talk about the super-awesome weekend!!!

It started with me going to Leslie's house and meeting with Maite there, so we could go to Muncie in order to volunteer. In the way we talked a lot about everything it was going on and it was awesome. Getting to Muncie we were supposed to meet everybody at Pizza King for lunch but we arrived early and then we went really quick to Walgreens, a giant pharmacy that even sells clothing! When the time was right we went to Pizza King and there we met everyone else. It was so good to see each other again! There I also met some of the members of the host families. They looked pretty awesome. After a delicious pizza and some breadsticks (don't forget the incessant talk in portuguese between the YA's!) we headed to the place we were going to volunteer. There we met a lot of persons and we made blankets for Riley's Children Hospital. It was awesome!! After that Leslie took me, Maite and Gabriel to a jewish deli called Shapiro's. It is a very good deli. Then Leslie drove Maite and me to Terre Haute and my mom picked me up at Leslie's house. It was a very good day. In the next day, after some donuts (!) I spent 3 hours in the shopping mall, shopping. It was awesome! Then I went to the Youth Group that Jordan and Brooke participate and it was fun.

Well, it was a very good weekend, and I can say that this week is also being pretty good. I'm very excited about what's coming on, what can I say: "Bring it on!!!"

Over and out

P.S.: Check the other YA's blogs for more pictures