This is just absurd.

Everything in Rio smells like someone just took a massive shit about three feet away from where you’re standing.

Which is actually a pretty plausible situation…

Bleh.

Month-long field school is exhausting.

My neighbors are partying and have been partying for about two hours already, and I don’t see them stopping for a solid while…

It’s actually cold here now. (Dammit.)

I can read Portuguese. I can understand Portuguese.
My sentence formation…may never happen. :P

I repeat: Meh.

<3

-Had an amazing workout at the beach with Maeghan (my thighs are sore and it’s awesome)
-Had an awesome conversation with my mom for the first time in almost a week (and although it dwindled away half of the minutes that were left on my calling card, I’m totes satisfied)
-Got in contact with my boyfriend and managed to see my skype struggle for about a minute and half with trying to connect to the Northern hemisphere
-My hair has never been softer than it currently is
-My roommates decided I should be a professional story-teller
-I finally started tackling my laundry (I have to wash it all by hand)
-It’s raining
-I go to Rocinha tomorrow to set up for the party we’re having with the adult students from i2i, and living it up at said party
-The only pictures that have made their way on to facebook just show me drinking and being on the beach, but I swearsies, I’m being productive
-I’m significantly less homesick and upset
-Internet signal has been surprisingly good in my apartment
-I think we broke the TV
-Coke is still really delicious here. As is the mango. As is the pineapple.

…yeah!

I’m homesick already.

I get this increasingly lonely feeling just because I can’t seem to get a hold of my mom every time I try to call (which is not fun to do because I have to dial about eighty numbers for my calling card and then I end up with all that work and I can only leave a message for her) and my boyfriend looks like he’s having the time of his life without me around…

Whatever. It’s only the first week. I need to calm down. This is all just circumstantial. (I just needsta breatheeee)

Guess I’ll go run around Ipanema with Maeghan? (This food will be the death of us, I swear.)

..don’t forget about me while I’m gone…

My eye is falling out of my head.
I need to make more space in my suitcase.
I need to shower and buy my last-minute things for brazil.
I need to clean up as much as I can in my room and in my car. (My mom will be invading both daily while I’m gone in Brazil.) 

I forgot to order a vegan meal for my flight.

Which means I’m going to get handed an overly-salted, chewy hunk of chicken tomorrow with a pitiful side plate of cheese-covered broccoli.

And I will stare at it.
And stare.
And stare.
And offer it to the fat guy next to me.

Can’t wait!