Settling In with some Teenage Drama : 18

7-III-94

I'm so excited, I'm in such a good mood, today is the first day in a long time that I wasn't bored!  Nothing interesting happened, I just had something to do whenever I wanted something to do.  I took lots of notes today which really helps my Spanish, and after school I helped in the store, did sit ups, got my school supplies together, covered books, Trudi came over and we went on a walk, ended up at her house, sat around and talked, then she went with me while I ran, then home to eat empanadas in the garden with my family.  Nothing interesting, yet, a perfect day because I was living a typical kids life, which is what I'm supposed to do here.  I'm not here to be a tourist, I'm here to be a student, and this was a typical day of a high school student, granted it wasn't the typical day of a Paraguayan student, yet it wasn't completely American, it was something in between, a happy median.  Now if only most of my days would be similar to this.  The key to outwitting boredom, is to plan ahead of all the things I want to do each day: play my guitar, work on Spanish, review notes, sit ups and run, write a letter or in journal, help in store, etc.  My three main goals on AFS is to learn Spanish good, get myself in great shape for Cross Country, and learn to play guitar really well.  I know I can do these things if I just apply myself, discipline.  All 3 of these things can be great sometimes, yet all of them can be tedious as well, I need to work hard through the tedious times. :)  Fun things.  This guy, Diego, who doesn't go to school (got expelled) and who drinks and seduces girls like Trudi.  And Trudi unfortunately like him back (he's gorgeous) and even more unfortunately Trudi's parents know all, and are very unhappy about it, they really don't like Diego, no girl's parentsin Caaguazu like Diego!  Last night at 9pm I got called over to Trudi's house to be an interpreter in this whole Diego schmeel.  It was quite funny.  Trudi would tell me Ask them why we can't just be friends, and then Trudi's parents (especially her dad, her mom was pretty cool through the whole deal) not a boyfriend, not a friend, he's bad, etc.  I was there for an hour.  And after all of that, when Trudi and I went to the sports center this afternoon, Diego was there, and I told him everything that happened, then I went off on my run, and Diego and Trudi talked (sort-of) the whole time.  Stupid girl!  Looking for trouble.

<3 Trudi told me that Frederick likes me, Swedish Romance!