Scurry to the weekend

I've had a wonderful weekend thus far. I was able to relax yesterday (Friday ) after my mornign class by hanging out with some kids from a group project, getting our hw done, and then heading back to my house. I had packed up my things th enight before, the best i could and was getting ready for my move upstairs. I had the otpion of staying in the same room ont the (third) "second" floor in european customs, or moving up to the one above which is the top floor and next to its own bathroom/shower and kitchen/living area... i had some conflict with the girl upstairs, as she heard me 2 nights showering late (not consecutive) and she said my noisy-ness walking up the stairs and having the light on disturbed her, well it could be the owner going upstairs and thsi girl would still have a cow.. (hehe i will first of all say, that i am 25% german and strong-willed and stubborn) but this girl is full-blooded german and boy was she a headache to deal with. anywho, we (she and i talke da night or two ago before i went out to go for a walk with some of my girlfriends who came over to have a bottle of wine (all 6 of us) and walk to a park nearby) ... that was a side note within a sidenote haha
It was great to have those girls here (nikki jordan alysia skye and caitlin) bc i was so frutsrated after talking to julia (pronounced Ulia) and to have those girls hear me out on hwo i was talking to julia tyring to meet her halfway, compromising, all the thigns i would try to do to treat her well, like i  dont know how to resolve this, but im going to need to shower, and i am not one to easily wake up so showering in the mronign really isnt an option for me (and yes, i could consider showerign earlier but many ngihts i dont get home til 11 at night [or later] so i dont have the option) AND its a way for me to loosen up my msucles so i can sleep and warm up to be cozy in bed... i mean so many reasons taht its like thsi girl has never ever ever tried to live with someone before-- things dont go yoru way, life isnt perfect, i mean, i was complaining about the kids waking me up one mronign b/c i assumed it'd be every day and id never sleep in again, but i dealt with it and it really wasnt bad and ive fallen back asleep again with them there.. i mean, its just understanding that others arent going to be perfect .


geesh could talk about that situation for horus..
blah, but i ended up moving upstairs

dan (darcy's boyfriend) moved into my old room below me and he was hoping to get julia to move downstairs into my old room, and he take this one (its a french style apartment/bedroom ) we think its called that bc it has a sink in it.
the italian girl who mvoed in 3 days ago-- martine or martina --is such a cmoplete sweetheart-- i love how laid back and kind she is. she complains about the french beign too snobby to talk to even her and if they wont even talk to an italian NOR the dutch within belgium, then good grief they need to get a reality check , AND of course, let go of some pride.

dan, martine and i sat together tongith when i got home from my looooong day and talked-that was fun. im too tired to give details  i wish i wasnt-- ill push through for alittle while. martine is diong a 2-3 yr program she's 21 too and she lives on the southern part of italy(seaside she says) and goes to school in the north, she is trainign to be an interpreter but in italy they do not respect interpreter profession so she wants to move , as it is she alreayd doesnt see her family, i asked her about warm, hospitable culture (that i ve heard about in italy) and she said, totally, even moreso than the spanish , (so if you've seen the spanish, its even better) so thats sweet and cute of her-- she is very very nice. she's taking englihs, itnernship and french while she's here and will go back in october (beginning)

last night, i made myself chicken with basil, onion, mushroom, and tomato and a piece of whole wheat yummy bread-- it tasted very good, and then met up with everyoen at some location, dan moved in last night and he asked abou tsharing food-- i really dont need to share food to cut costs at the moment, while many will say its cheaper, i never ever end up wasting my food so it actually doesnt save me any to split.. hard to know what to say in thsoe situations, ill see what we want to do. i already know that he and his gf darcy are much much much more structured ppl tahn i am, so having a "6:30 dinner time" that they stick to is probably not very far off.. me, its just whenever i get home and have gotten the groceries and done waht ever else i need to do. i love you mommy you understand me. (and many of the rest of you reading this-- ha-- how did taht happen? ;D )
oh, but before makign dinner, we had sporadic plans, i told nikki and jordan i needed to eat first, and to go without me but they told me to go with them (this is my problem, ppl dont repsect me telling them i wont be able to make a certain time bc i KNOW i need to take care of myself by doing this or that, ) they didnt really have plans, so i figured, send them off, let them go, and ill meet them when i get my food cooked and text them, but theypressured me, i guess i need to learn to respect my own boundaries, and just say no, ill text when im done and ready to meet (but at the same time still hurrying to meet them) it just gets complicated b/c there are always other factors, like dan showing up just as i was about to leave and be done cooking my food, but i let it keepcookign and waited to eat b/c i was helping him and orienting him to our house... whatever, he then decided he wanted to go with m e(which was great and fun, but it always slwos down wahtever plan you may have been doing)  it worked though ,we met them, they were fine, we had fun, we all went to a little otuside cafe/pub and i tried chocolat beer!! how crazy-- i thoguth it smelled like rootbeer (others thought tootsie roll)  it was fun to try, and a stella artois --those are soo popular over here-- then we went to a martini bar, i decided not to get anything, but if you ordered from there, they'd give you a free tequila shot, so our texas girls who know their tequila got those, and so did dan ... it was a great bar bc it was almsot a club with really fun music that we were all dancing to in our seats and fun crazy lights.. i loved that place

k. so im moved upstairs, i like it a ton a ton, already i can tell its so much better for me, and i went to hans sur lee and dinant today for an excursion with ISA- (they picked me up on the coach bus b/c the tram i was waiting for wasnt going to be there for another 19 minutes). that was funny everyone applauded me for getting waited on ;) took 2 hours to get to hans sur lee almost everyone slept on the way, but i of course couldnt, i was too piled in with ppl and no foot rests,  ... we went to a cave (like howe caverns in ny and that one in branson/st. louis) . that was fun, same ol after a while, but still cool, and then went outside and ate lunch in small gorups at different cafes etc. i got a jambon e fromage hawain (i dont know spelling, but ham and cheese grilled half sandwich with pineapple on top and a small salad on the side) it was 5 euros... kinda pricey but tastey, and then went to the bus again and napped on way over and went ot cutest place-- dinant-- we took a huge 408 + steps (steep , steep steps)up  to a castle (had the choice of a tram/elevator thing)
and then went on a tour, my favorite pats of the castle/fort were the last 2 rooms..
the first was kinda like linos (where they have the lights --oh, or the coronado-- wehre the lights are on the ceiling and the ceiling is painted black/navy and it looks like stars, and they had sandbags set up like barracades and fake ppl looking over the edge and the noise of gun shots and airplanes flying above, it was sooo cool. it really felt like saving private ryan or soemthing, i lvoe those kidn of thigns because i can really imaigne and put mseylf in the situation (its just like playing with the kitchen sets as a 4 year old-- they help you to imagine what its like) ...
then the next room after taht was a "shell-shocked" room of what it was like when a bomb hit and a room would literally be tipped on tis side, that was cool to see-- just like a fun house where the room is slanted and the door gets smaller on one side, except that this was for real as an example of what happened)
very itnersting, we then walked down the stairs, and to a spot for a group picture, then back to an area for cafes/pubs/etc to get a drink,

i got a fruit cocktail, it had vanilla ice cream, nectarines, bananas, strawberries, kiwi, pineapple, and whip cream, and tequila, it was sooo delicious-- it tasted like my crema de tequila with ice cream at home ;)
plus a huge serving of fruit-- it was sooo perfect for me- i could nto have ordered a better one and it took me a while to decide-- see the reason it takes me a while to decide/make decisions is b/c i know if i consider it carefully ill make a decision that i probably wont have any second thoughts on and will be very glad i got, but if i just make a decison b/c everyones rushing me, then it ends up beign i feel bad for it b/c it wasnt actually my chocie, it was out of my feelings of being rushed-- delicate) everyoen's noticing how i take a while to make my decisions hehe, and its wayyyyyyy worse when im tired.. its especially fodo decisions-- bc i care so much about food :-D haha

ok, so almsot done, we got done with our delicoius treats as we sat along the river, outside in the sun, and we went up and down this river seeing some scenery and raelly relaxing, it was fun, then we had a half an hour to find dinner, or whatever was wanted/needed, so Jackson and i ended up splitting 2 apples, olives and cheese (culmpt ? i dont remember exaclty-he picked it out- french cheese it was yummy) and 2 smaller loaves of bread (mine was a nutty/grainy one-yummy ) and we also got some tuna salad to share (i said we'd need some more protein when i saw us just getting a tiny block of cheese-- boys, they have all the right intentions but sometiems dont realize that it may take more than they're getting to actually get full) haha , so anyway, we split for about 5 euros each -- it was a delicious meal and very eruopean, we sat outside by the water for most of it, and then i finished on the bus,

i got home, we talked about what to do, i mentioend i talked with dan and martina and now, might shower and sleep