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so let us see, since july...

what've i done, since july...

july...

ah yes, got a job working at this place that sells a bajillion kinds of liquors, including but not limited to beers wines and hard alcohols

i learned a lot this summer about all of those alcoholic drinks, and i learned to appreciate beer like i had never done before, making sure i smell it and taste it, not just down it like no other, ha! wine as well, we had to go to this wine seminar thing and learn all about the different wines and how to tell things about it and blah blka blah, now i can go up to some snooty person and tell em you suck! bah....

also had a seminar on hard alcohols and it sucked... i learned form that seminar that i do NOT like drinking vodka at 10am :S

and i made some new friends, randomly went to phoenix for a few days, came back and continued work. at this point i was still living on campus, squatting at a friend's summer apt. it wasn't that bad a place at all, it just sucked because i didn't have a key to the place so sometimes i would have to wait outside until someone came home or something... :/

so that's how the summer went, a bit of surfing here and there, LOTS of work, i got to working full time and plus, and the zine project guacamole which i'm very proud of :D

so that was july slash august

in september i had to find a place to live, found one moved in, got a crush on a kid but that went nowhere, and found a really cool rooftop overlooking downtown

in about 9 days imma leave to texas, and then the 1st week of february i'm off to argentina

october brought nothing new, found some cool coffee shops and started hitting up some local bars and watching local bands, also hung out with a bunch of new people and met and made a lot of new contacts in the music/art scene

november came and went and it was fun, something unexpected happened, in a good way

and now it's december, and that's crazy. finals week is this week, everyone is fretting and i have to start packing as well, ugh...

i'm hungry now

i'll start with london and the lot
what i wanted to do while in london:

• go see a show
• • didn't get to do that, although the girl at the hostel invited me to see her band, i left the day they were to play
    
• visit the free museums [the modern one sounds cool]
• • actually got to go to the tate modern, very cool :]
    
• put ksdt stickers all over the place
• • i put some on and around the london bridge bwahhaha
    
• eat fish and chips aaaahahaha
• • psh more like sandwiches and an apple
    
• take a shower
• • yeah, that was great
    
• try to get adjusted to the time difference
• • meh... kinda did
    
• figure out where i'm going to stay in spain and how i'm going to get to france
• • ended up taking a flight from london to madrid and got picked up at the airport by Hector who then took me to a hostel, where i ended up meeting a whole bunch of cool people :D
    
• oh and go to the zoo
• • nope, didn't get to do that
    
• and check out the giant ferris wheel
• • aaa the eye of london, i only observed it from down below
    
• and i know i will most definitely get lost mmhmm!
• • oh boy i loved the getting lost part :D i think that was the funnest ;P
    
• send postcards
• • yep, did that, from the post office right of the victoria station

Then I spent a few days in Madrid, missed my bus to the south of Spain so then I took a bus to Lisbon, got off in Evora accidentally, spent the nite there, got to lisbon the next day, got a room on the 4th? 6th? floor of the place, nice hike up the stairs, and walked around lisbon until almost nite time. 

then i met up with ricardo and his friends and had an amazing time, and then ended up staying at ricardo's place for a few days. I met some awesome people, and they showed me a whole bunch of places, and i got to go to the beach and boy is the water cold! brrr... then went to a music festival in the north with some of the people i'd met: paredes de coura, then came back, spent a few days at joao's missed my bus to madrid, then decided to go to the south of portugal with him and his family, spent a few days there, came back to lisbon, took a bus to madrid, took the plane to london, tried to sleep but failed to do so at the airport in gatwick, then finally flew back to los angeles where there was no one there to pick me up. so i called up hector, who'd been back in the states a few weeks, and his sister picked me up and took me home, where there was no one there... 'cause they'd all left to mexico without meeeeeeee! le sigh...

spent a few days at home by myself, hanging out with friends, baking cakes haha

then came back to san diego...

then a few days later i went camping with my friends a bit north of santa barbara

came back, started school

and... that's about it until december when i went to Costa Rica woot woot!

Costa Rica: Spent a month there with friends.
I got there, but my luggage didn't arrive for almost a week.
The first couple of days I spent it in Alajuela with friends, then we went to Jaco, a beach town, then came back a few days, went to San Jose where I spent x-mas with another friend and his family, then went to the east coast [caribbbean side] and spent there a few days with 2 friends, then came back to the city, went to alajuela and the next day left to jaco again to spend new years over there.
Celebrating the new year on the beach is awesome, i wanna do that every year! woot yeah!
Then came back to Alajuela after a few days, and left again to another beach on the Pacific side, where we camped out a few blocks from the beach and met up with more friends there. It was awesome :D
And then we finally left that beach and I bungee jumped right outside of the town and I started saying my good-bye's to everyone and then a few short days later I left :/

then i started school again and now i'm here... 

and this blog is gonna be 2 years old soon ;P 

wahoo! in about 14 hours i will already be on a plane strapped down and ready for take off

ches ches ches! [happy panda dance]

i can't wait to get there

what i want to do while in london:

• go see a show
  
• visit the free museums [the modern one sounds cool]
  
• put ksdt stickers all over the place
• eat fish and chips aaaahahaha
• take a shower
• try to get adjusted to the time difference
• figure out where i'm going to stay in spain and how i'm going to get to france
• oh and go to the zoo
• and check out the giant ferris wheel
• and i know i will most definitely get lost mmhmm!
• send postcards

oh yeah and i also need to change some money into euros
man it sucks butt how expensive it is over there

oh well 

CHANGE OF PLANS

 

woo
still leaving in 5 days
BUT
i'm gonna spend 3 days there
then i'm gonna fly to madrid
from there i'll be off to portugal
and from there who knows?!
oh yeah, then back to spain
then england
then mexico

if it were up to me i wouldn't come back for a very very very very long time
fuck school i'll finish it later
work? ha!
friends, i'll miss 'em but they can come visit :]
family, they should love me no matter what

bwahaaaaaaaahahahaha
if only dreams could become reality haha

all's i know is that i want to go see bauhaus in portugal and if i don't see them i'm gonna be highly dissapointed
crap. i forgot about the tickets
no matter, i'll get in somehow
psh yeah!

my eyes are shutting
so tired
found some pool toys in the pool drain
wahoo! [dance dance!]

got another postcard
and my ticket came in
it's almost 400 buckaroos :(
i don't have that kind of money!!!! ugh
asked for an extention

so it's been a while

i was just listening to the tender box hence the title of the blog

ok so here's the deal: bought my ticket to london for the 2nd of august, to land over there on the 3rd in the morning

from there my plans are to hop on a train to paris and from there onto another one to madrid, i already looked up the times and prices and such

london - paris
Depart: Thu 3rd August 2006 - 15:11
Arrive: Thu 3rd August 2006 - 18:53   Duration: 02h42m

paris - madrid
Depart: Thu 3rd August 2006 -  19:43
Arrive: Thu 4th August 2006 - 09:13   Duration: 13h30m


and so that's what i have so far

and then for my return i have to catch the train in madrid on the 21st at the latest if i want to make it to my flight on the 23rd

 i wish i could stay in london a bit longer... but the youth tickets are only for like monday through thursday or something and if i don't get on the train that same day i'll have to pay way more :/

perhaps on my way back i'll catch an earlier train so i can see what london has to offer :D

boy would it be cool to be able to go up to scotland too!
i remember when hylton studied abroad over there, very cool

[22 Aug 2005 | Monday]

Heredia.... so we were passing the university in heredia when the bus went... BAm!!! we crashed with this little white honda. good times... and then we had to walk like 14 blocks to stay somewhere, 'cause the bus was going no where with half its bumper inside the other car. so then we walked and walked and found the place and it was getting dark and didn't want to walk anymore... so we got the room there... oh man... hooooorible! it was in someone's house and they were all loud and some little kid was crying and the old lady... NO ONE could understand what she was saying. and i think that people just go there to fuck. 'cause we saw this couple just get a room... no luggage with them. and i mean we only paid 5 bucks, so i guess that's what was expected. but it just kinda... sucked. ha so theeeen... we went on the hunt for food... buuuuuut it was SUNDAY and apparently everything is always closed here on Sundays. So we ate at this fast food joint called Testy's... some burgers.... which tasted NOTHING like burgers... grah! to think of it makes me not hungry at all. atleast the fries were ok then it gets better.... we go to the parque central to digest the gross food and ice cream (which was good) that we'd gotten when this chick who was seriously on drugs comes up to us and said something we couldn't understand and asks for 100 colones *a bit less than a quarter, but we were like nahh so she sees nicole smoking and says "give me smoke!" damn chick is demanding a cig and then says "fire!" when nicole gives her one so nicole is gonna light her cig and the girl more or less ripped the lighter outta her hand and just walked away we were like, what the fuck?!? whatever... we just let it pass, and we thought about throwing a dirty diaper a dog was playing with at her head, but we didn't want to touch it. so then we were just chillin' there for a while and this homeless guy comes up to us and he's been drinking and is super old and we couldn't understand anything he was saying... i think we can't understand anything anyone from Heredia says. ha and he's like trying to speak english but just kinda mumbling wrshu wrshu wrshu and we're like "whaa?" so then he says "son de california?" and we were like woaah! and then he said something to the extent of he had a daughter in cali with green eyes like mine and something about a man and a woman.... i hope he didn't want to prostitute himself to us hahaha but yeah, so then we left and had nothing to do and it was like 7pm and sucked. and the place we were staying at sucked big balls too and we organized our backpacking backpacks 'cause we had nothing to do... and couldn't go to sleep... and the walls were super thin... then we woke up at 6:30AM, the US's 5:30 AM and decided to go to the post office and the like and leave that place ASAP stupid sun. and hard bed. and bus crash. the end.

Wooo, I'm finally back from Costa Rica!!

 Man, i had soooo much fun... I wish I coulda stayed there for longer... or atleast in Alajuela/San Jose for a bit longer to chill with Melvin and Arny and Leo and everyone else! Le sigh...

 The last nite we were there we went to McD's... but it was closed, so we had to use the drive-thru... hahaha

 

oh yeah, and i'm going to costa rica in august. woooooohooooooooo!