Girl Scout Interest Projects Work-Log : 28

Things to do when I get Home : 27

Things to do when I get Home
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1. A long run in my neighborhood with good music and no tracks
2. Go to the beach and get really tan
3. Lie in the sun
4. Walk barefoot
5. Go backpacking with Christopher
6. Visit Winacka
7. Kick it at Bernini's, Panikin and Checkers
8. Iced cafe mocha, vanilla capuccino
9. Pancakes eaten on the patio in my PJ's
10. Lift weights
11. Eat fruit and veggies
12. Hike at Torrey Pines at sunset and watch the stars come out
13. Have a party
14. Take Alida out to breakfast *good luck at college
15. Drink terere at the beach
16. Play basketball with Diana
17. Bonfire with me playing awesome guitar
18. Hug everyone I see many times
19. Driving school
20. Dentist, Cross Country Physical, Orthodontist, Dermatologist
21. Have Randy show me the cool owl caves
22. Get Paraguay patch made for my letterman jacket
23. Get journals from Corri

24. Maybe swich rooms to upstairs
25. Find out about L.I.T.
26. But your new interest projects
27. Check out algebra 3-4 book SAT prep
28. Books from the library (2 weeks summer reading!)
29. Play on swing sets
30. Get my watch fixed
31. Begin Cross Country hill training!
32. Snorkeling
33. Disneyland with Michele!
34. Buy new running and maybe basketball shoes
35. Buy used Maniacs CDs and Cranberries and others
36. Go stargazing
37. Buy abs of steel workout video and go at it
38. Jump off the clam
39. Go to the zoo
40. Go to LA
41. Presidio Park end of Summer picnic
42. Show up at La Jolla party
43. Write letters to Trudi and Marnie
44. Sign up for more guitar lessons
45. Run with Mr. Dorman
46. Find out about sewing classes
47. Get a cookies and cream milk shake at Mr. Frosty's
48. Go surfing
49. Eat an evergreen from the cheeseshop
50. Become a vegetarian
51. Get Delia's watch cleaned
52. Mate with friends
53. Wedding present and visit with Mr. D
54. Lose substantial amounts of weight
55. Cry from missing my family and friends
56.  Read all my poems to someone who might like them
57. Make chip, mbeju, cosido, etc.
58. Eat pizza

59. Scream really loud
60. Wear baggy clothes
61. Act young
62. Bead Party
63. Brother bonding with Randy
64. Stay out late
65. Decorate my room
66. Go to mission beach
67. Go water skiing with Jesse
68. Snorkeling with Seth and his brother

Quotes :24

Playing With Numbers at School : 20

March 14, 1994
this is my 5, 854th day
as of 10:00 AM I have lived
55, 251,960 seconds
If I were living on Mercury
I would be 68.5 years old

second
1 min -- 60
1 hour -- 3,660
1 day -- 87,840
1 month (28) -- 2,459,520
1 year -- 32, 061,600


*you know I find school very interesting

Some Memories : 16

Commentary:  This page shows a butterfly I found dead on the ground and taped its wings onto the page.  Butterflies had a lot of symbolic significance for me at this time in my life.  I felt I was in my cocoon, developing myself to emerge later, magnificent!  There are some quotes on this page that I collected throughout my stay, funny things people say.  The list on the bottom is also a slow list made throughout my stay.  It lists the names of all the poems I wrote while in Paraguay.  At this point in my stay, only the first poem has been written.  I probably wrote most things on this page a few months down the line.

Teenage Love : 10

Noah's Dove

Chords and Denim

Bowtie and Braces

Overalls and Braids

Torrey Pines night hike

Dances

Stars; Orion

Hidden notes

Passionate Kisses

Movies never finished

Spaghetti lunches

Frosty's

Broken curfew

Kiva Grill

Bowling

Moonlight Picnics

Basketball

Baseball

Cheerleading

Cuddling

Massages

Maniacs

Jazz

Silly Moms

Coffee

Watches

Elementary Schools

Beaches

Moon-Lit Picknicks

Swingsets

Ballroom dancing

Break-ups and beaming makeups

Beautiful blue eyes

That look

World's best hugs

Disneyland

Popcorn and Turkey Sandwhiches

Telephones and now letters

<3 Your pen pal, Robin

Miniature Golf

Go Karts

Holding Hands

Engraved ROcks

Tears

First Kiss

First Love

Just Friends

Sad Good-byes

Sunflowers

The List Maker : 9

 It's difficult to read the pencil, it is a list of things I'd like to do to better learn and experience the local culture.  The list says

• ask maid to teach how to make traditional foods--make a cookbook
• learn about the Nanduti lace
• learn traditional songs in Spanish and Guarani
• History
• Quincenera

Below is a scond list, a list to remind me what are on all my rolls of photos, it says:
Roll I - Orientations, Family Lunch in Ypacari
        II - Ciudad dal Este border
             Costume Party
             Terere on my 16th
             16th B-day party
      III - 16th
             First day of school
             Sunset
             Basketball
     IV - AFS B-B-Q @ C. de Oviedo
             Night sky

detail of a small seal of Paraguay on the corner of this page

New Experiences : 8

2-22

I drove to Ciudad del Este then crossed the border into Brazil.  We went there because Nilce needed to buy stock for her store.  It was a nice drive.  The countryside of Paraguay is beautiful.  Everything is so green.  I want to go hiking through the meadows.  It's weird, I really don't miss anyone yet.  I'm really not homesick.  I don't know if that is good or bad.  I really like it here.  I almost regret that I won't be here for a year.  6 months isn't long enough to learn everything I want to learn.  10 years isn't long enough to learn everything I want to learn.  But, I'm making an every effort.  I've tried every food they've put in front of me, including the blood sausage (nasty)!  And I try to speak in Spanish too.  I ask a lot of questions.  There is so much culture and tradition in this country.  I love the Terere.  Not only is it yummy and a good hydrant, but it is such a beautiful social custom how they share it.  One of the few things I am sad about is that every night so far has been cloudy, so I haven' been able to explore the skies of the Southern Hemisphere.  I want to see all of their unique constellations, and be able to be familiar with them before I leave.

I've been invited to a costume party.  It is next Sunday, and I'm excited.  My first Paraguayan Fiesta is going to be awesome, but I don't know what to go as.  It would be cool to go as a butterfly, but that is a hard costume.  Or maybe a cowboy, or something from the beach, a surfer, a pirate, mermaid, something cool.  An American flag, the statue of liberty.  Well, I need to decide soon.

Hasta Manana.

Some First Words in Guarani : 7

In Paraguay they speak the pre-colombian language, Guarani, as well as Spanish.  Here are some first words I learned as well as the name of a book on Paraguayan Sociology.