Day 11

Today was good, except the fact that I can't talk to my family! But that will soon be done with because next wednesday here I'll be ichating with them. So I just have to make it through the next week and I'll be good! I hope that they are having a blast in Aruba, but that they are being really safe! Today was good! Woke up, ate cereal, took a shower, went to school, met more people, came home, had an ichat with my soccer wife (molly), ate dinner, had DESERT!!!!, and am now about to go to bed. People here call me a lot of interesting things: Gary, Garrett, Garage, Colorado, The American, Beast, and more recently New Guy! It's hard not knowing everyone like I do at Manitou, but it is just the way it is, and I have to accept it for the way that it is. That's the thing I think, when you leave everything that you know that you just live "ideally." But then again, I could be completely wrong and have no idea what I'm talking about! But seriously, something changes when you leave home for something never done before, something new. I still really don't believe that I am here! I know that my family could tell you that I have been wanting to do this ever since Petra (our foreign exchange student in 2001). But I think that I have been thinking or even TALKING about this before that?! I miss my HOME, but that is a funny word, because home is where and what you make it! Sure, I'm not with my family, but I am! Home... I'm home, even though I'm 14,000 miles from it!