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Saturday, April 19, 2008

what a troublesome, baffling, weird week…

first things first. i generated a sort of a, let’s say, disaster...
well, marilia (my argentine friend) told me a few days ago that a friend of hers (name is luis. and is a friend of my oldest hostsis, too) told her that my oldest hostsis flor has read my diary.
thing was flor has told this certain luis that she has read my diary. luis asked her why and what for. she said that it’s because i dont talk to her and she wanted to know how i feel and what i do.
then, luis told marilia about this, asking her to promise that she wont say a thing.
apparently, marilia told me about it. she said that it seemed so unfair that someone has been reading my diary.
obviously, i couldn’t keep my mouth shut.
i WOULDN’T keep my mouth shut.
so i kept on asking marilia, insisting, that i want to confront my hostsister.
she kept on saying, ‘we’ll talk about it. we’ll talk about it.’
after 3 days of ‘we’ll talk about it’ stuff, i became sick of it.
so a couple of days ago, i asked majo about it. she told me that she doesnt believe that coz flor is not a kind of person who would stick her nose where it’s not wanted...
i told her that if that’s so then ok no prob. i was just asking and that she doesnt have to tell flor about it.
then, one day, marilia told me that luis told her that flor has sent him a message cursing him with every swear word possible...
the thing was majo sent flor a message asking if she has read my diary or what. then, flor confronted luis coz he was the only person who knows... then luis told marilia...
it was a freaking chain.
now, everything’s fine.
i mean, im still so freaking annoyed that someone has read my diary. and im freaking annoyed at myself coz it was very foolish of me to write my diary entries in spanish.
i mean, i already have two diaries.
the first one was written in english.
the second one is already in spanish.
and i freaking dont have any idea which of these two diaries has been read...
so, now, im writing everything in english again.
geez...
when marilia told me about this stuff, flor was with her father in aguilares.
when flor put all the blame to luis, she was still in aguilares.
then, when she came back home, she just greeted me ‘hola’ like she did nothing wrong.
fine.
as long as i know that i havent done anything wrong to them, im cool.
at least, it was her who did something wrong.
i already shared it to someone from AFS.
and nope, im not going to change host families.
i mean, i’ve got less than 3 months left. im not going to change families. never. besides, flor treats me better now. i mean, maybe it’s because she knows that she has done something unacceptably wrong...
that’s cool.

okay.
so im getting along really well with the exchange students who arrived last february. it’s like we’re going out every single day...
last day, majo sort of gave me a curfew...
that was like ‘is that you??’
i cant blame her though. i mean, im so having a blast with my argentine life that i totally use the argentine culture to my advantage. i mean, they dont have any curfews here. you can be out and about at 3 in the morning and no one’s going to say anything.
so a couple of days ago, i was out with the other exchange students and i went home at around 30 minutes past midnight...
i was in the bus when i received majo’s message.
it was in ALLCAPS.
translating the message in english, it says “where the hell are you? what are you thinking? i want you home right now. you have 20 minutes. hurry up.”
cant blame her though. i mean, it was actually a weekday... and i have classes the following morning.
yeah. what was i thinking??
the truth was i wasnt thinking. i mean, 8 months of total cultural immersion!
so the next day when i told her that im going out with the exchange students again, she gave me a curfew.
10:30.
that was like sooooooo early here in argentina. i mean, back in the philippines i cant even stay later than 8!!! geeeeez.........
but here, 10:30 is absolutely early to go home. people meet up at around 7...
but that’s fine. i went home at exactly 10:30. the others went home at that time too! so everything was cool.

i’ve got heaps of relatives from all over the world!!!!
an argentine mom and two argentine sisters (my hostfam)
a german sister, rebecca.
an austrian brother, sebastian.
an australian ‘father’, lawrence.
another argentine sister, marilia.
and as of this moment, i’ve been invited to many countries...
if only i am rich...
im going to travel the world.
i WILL travel the world.

sometimes, when lawrence and simon talk, i want to tie them up and drop them in an underground sewer...
why?
geeez!! when they talk, i was like ‘was that even english????’
i mean, their accents are sooooooooooooo different. if im not paying enough attention, it would seem as if they’re speaking in some other unknown language.
the accents are just so strong.
i mean, the north american accent is just normal. keith told me that i speak with an american accent. the british accent is also normal. i can understand that. the irish accent is a bit strong. but, hell... the accents of australia and new zealand are like “ENGLISH, PLEASE??”
lawrence can speak in a normal accent. simon cannot. well, their accents are normal for them but not for me.
now, im getting used to simon’s accent. it’s like he’s not pronouncing the words completely but you get used to it...
but when those two are talking and they dont want me to know what they’re talking about, simon’s going to say ‘in australian! in australian!’, then lawrence’s accent is going to change spontaneously.
and that’s the moment when i have this urge to feed them to the sharks...
i mean, it’s english, but my brain cant recognize the words properly...
that freaking accent... and he wants me to speak with that accent!
i cant recall when was that but lawrence told me that i speak with an american accent and that he wants his ‘daughter’ to speak in australian accent...
he was like actually teaching me his accent!
but the accent is like their somewhat eating their words...
i like the accent, mind you. you can speak english but at the same time not every english speaker can understand you. but hell...
it’s english, dude, but at the same time it seems to be some foreign language from another planet!!!!
and when they have secrets, they freaking use that accent!!!!!
yeah, i understand, boy stuff and everything but i still want to feed them to the sharks... it’s english but at the same time, it’s not.
it’s just weird.
and mind you, the australian accent is stronger than that of new zealand...
i wont even call it ‘accent’. it’s like a different sort of english.
i swear.

i want to upload all of the photos that i have but the connection is not that fast and there’s just soooo much photos.
im going to upload them little by little.

this year is a year of adventure.
of surprises.
of new things.
of opportunities.
of change.
of motion.
i can surely say that this year is gradually changing me.
not exactly changing, though.
it’s just opening a part of me that i didnt know i had.

if only it’s that easy to visit argentina, like once a month or something...
or, at least, once a year...
but it’s like that.
i dont even know when i can visit my 2nd country again...
i WILL, of course. but that would be like in 10 years or more...
and it’s just sad to think about it. i spent a year. less than a year, actually. but i created my own life here. and it’s just sad to think that im not even sure if i can see the other exchange students again...
i mean, rebecca and sebastian dont have any problem with seeing each other again. hell, their countries are next to each other.
but, how about me?
a couple of days ago, sebastian was actually having his ‘dramatic mode’. we were talking on the phone and he started getting dramatic and everything. he said that what if we never see each other again... i so hate it when he does that. i mean, i dont even want to think about it yet. im surely going to cry buckets of tears on july but i still dont want to think about that.
if only it’s that easy and cheap to travel... i would be visiting them every year!! twice a year, maybe...
but it’s not like that.
they freaking live in europe!
why is it that asia seems to be the country with the least currency???
american dollars, australian dollars, new zealand dollars, euro, swiss franc, even argentine peso has a greater value than our money...
sad but true.
and there’s nothing that i can do about that.
well, unless the world turns upside down and inside out, i dont think that the philippine peso is ever going to have a value like that of the other countries...
argentina is a 3rd world country, mind you. but 1 argentine peso is equal to 12 php...
yeah, fine... japan is a 1st world country and a yen is like 2 php... so you cant judge a country’s status by its currency. but still, considering the fact that argentina is a 3rd world country... where the hell should one place the philippines????
4th world???
if that exists... yeah. i think so.
dont get me wrong. i love my country. being far from home makes you appreciate your homeland more...
and every country has its ups and downs...
just a question though...
is there a country whose monetary value is less than that of the philippines?????

till here...
i have two months and a couple of weeks left...
time flies!
it zooms...!!!
i mean, it’s as if i recently got here last september. and now, ive got two months and a few days left??
but, like what i said before i got here, when time flies it means that you’re having fun...

XOXO

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saccharine spice

[+] full-time UP Diliman BS Chemical Engineering student
[+] 50% Filipina (by citizenship) 50% Chinese (by blood)
[+] true-blue argentine kiddo
[+] bookworm
[+] mangaddicted
[+] trilingual (filipino, english, spanish)
[+] aspiring writer
[+] appreciates learning and beauty
[+] dreamer
[+] traveller at heart
[+] linguist wanna-be (at least 5 languages!)
[+] looks at the world through multicolored glasses

esteemed authors

in order as dictated by my memory

+ neil gaiman
+ michael crichton
+ sidney sheldon
+ stephen king
+ jeffery deaver
+ caleb carr
+ kathy reisch
+ christopher pike
+ chuck palahniuk
+ clive staples lewis
+ john katzenbach
+ john ronald reuel tolkien
+ anne rice
+ peter beere
+ heather graham
+ richie tankersley cusick
+ ian fleming
+ chris wooding
+ patricia cornwell
+ mary higgins clark
+ stephen coonts
+ vladimir nabokov
+ agatha christie
+ robert lawrence stine
+ dean koontz
+ john grisham
+ jonathan kellerman
+ paulo coehlo
+ roald dahl
+ lewis carroll
+ sir james matthew barrie
+ frank baum
+ mark twain
+ michael connelly
+ arthur conan doyle
+ edgar allan poe
+ piers anthony
+ clive barker
+ tamora pierce
+ mary wollstonecraft shelley
+ bram stoker
+ dan brown
+ edith wharton
+ sue grafton
+ william blatty

anime/manga

as far as i can recall, these are the animes/mangas that i've read and/or watched. currently still incomplete. blame my memory.

[] one piece
[] battle royale
[] get backers
[] death note
[] bleach
[] ouran highschool host club
[] gatekeepers
[] blood +
[] black cat
[] fushigi yuugi
[] ayashi no ceres
[] full metal panic
[] full metal alchemist
[] fruits basket
[] flame of recca
[] spiral
[] shuffle!
[] slamdunk
[] tactics
[] fate stay night
[] ultra maniac
[] tsubasa chronicle
[] evangelion
[] elfen lied
[] escaflowne
[] ghost hunt
[] elemental gelade
[] detective conan
[] darker than black
[] DNangel
[] gakuen alice
[] gakuen heaven
[] chobits
[] gundam seed/wing/destiny
[] gunslinger girl
[] dot hack SIGN
[] dot hack legend of the twilight
[] harukanaru toki no naka de
[] hayate no gotoku
[] hunter x hunter
[] inuyasha
[] kyou kara maou
[] hana yori dango
[] hanazakari no kimitachi e
[] zombie-loan
[] vampire knight
[] loveless
[] yuyu hakusho
[] you're under arrest
[] yami no matsuei
[] wolf's rain
[] xxxholic
[] weiss kreuz
[] naruto
[] prince of tennis
[] rosario + vampire
[] saiyuki
[] pretear
[] shaman king
[] special A
[] B.O.D.Y.
[] koukou debut
[] kimi wa petto
[] boku ni natta watashi
[] codebreaker
[] lost+brain
[] doubt
[] eternal sabbath
[] luck stealer
[] number
[] liar game
[] kyou koi wo hajimemasu
[] deadman wonderland
[] mirai nikki [future diary]
[] saboten no himitsu
[] koizora
[] majin tantei nougami neuro
[] 07ghost
[] camelot garden
[] blank slate
[] beast master
[] pandora hearts
[] [switch]
[] kuroshitsuji
[] d.gray-man
[] wild ones
[] trinity blood

nexus

propphi anne fernando