Someone told me I had "more legs than a table" the other day. I´m still not such if I should feel flattered or insulted. Discuss.

I´m going to miss the Andes so much :( Every time I try to summarize my trip, my mind goes blank and I don´t even know where to begin.

• Eating chrorizos in La Union.
• Driving past La Ceja, which literally means The Eyebrow. Why would anyone name their town that? Idgi.
• Having a 40 year old hit on me in front of my uncle (AWKWARDDD).
• Eating maracuya, guanabana, mora, tomate de arbol, granadilla and the little tiny tomato-fruit things.
• Taking taxis around the city, pretending I actually know where I´m going.
• Family trips to Santa Fe de Antioquia and waterparks; trips that consist of traveling with a bottle of Aguardiente and a bottle of Jose Cuervo.
• Getting drunk with my mom´s best friend and dancing around in her living room until 3 am.
• Watching Ice Age 3 in Spanish and still cracking up.
• Waking up and watching H TV all day, every day.
• Listening to more bachata, reggeatton and pop-en-español than I have in my life. And I am loving it haha.
• Spending time with the Aranzazus and laughing til I can´t breathe anymore.
• Meeting my half-sister for the first time and having someone call me their sister for the first time.

I´m having a blast and I´m planning to make this last week here the best ever. Also, I´m definitely planning on coming to celebrate my 20th birthday here, wooh!

I have this thing that if something is bothering me (usually because I wait until it´s too late to fix the problem), I resort to not mentioning it and ignoring it, in fear that if I mention it outloud, the problem will become real. Idk if that even makes sense. The point is, I think I´m in a really deep hole I need to get myself out of. Damn procrastination.

I sprained my foot like a week ago and it´s still so swollen and gross.

I´ve been WoW-less for two weeks now and I´m dying. This sucks haha, I miss my blood elf, and yes, I do realize how nerdy that sounds but idc! The best part is that when I get back home and log in, I´m going to play for an hour and then be bored as hell, exit the game and go watch some crappy reality show because I love those haha.

16 days until I get backkkk.

Yesterday while at a library here, I fell in love with this book. It literally was love at first sight, so much so that I went to Amazon.com asap and placed my order. I´m super excited. The drawings are amazing and $·&%$·". I wish I could show this literary masterpiece to everyone!

Medellin is beautiful and the people are so vibrant. Here everyone lives in thin (but long) brick houses, most of the brick still exposed. If not, the bricks are painted green, blue, dark purple. I´ve decided that when I have a house, I´m painting it dark purple. That, or my bedroom, or something.

My family is amazing, beautiful, spectacular. It´s smaller than I thought (8 uncles/aunts, 13 including spouses and 9 cousins). I´m trying to spend as much time with them as possible while I´m here, going on walks around the city with three children that run around screaming and laughing. I´m leaving to another town today, without any idea where it is or what the hell we´re going to do there, which is what makes everything so exciting!

The food is $%$/·"&$&· crazy, they eat like 9 times a day here, jhc. I´m going to be a whale when I get back. :(

I miss Val (I KNOW YOU´RE READING THIS) but I know she´ll be right there when I get back, yes/yes? As to the other people I know who have been sad lately, smile! Life is too beautiful to watch it pass by with a frown. Michelle, save me a breakfast date for when I get back?

I had a mini episode last night where I got really lonely and sad and blah blah blah. I hope I don´t feel like that again because wtf, I´m in a beautiful country away from everything, why am I feeling choked up about the past?

As for right now, I should get going because I leave in an hour and haven´t packed a thing yet.

LJ friends: your posts lately have been beautiful and I love love love catching up with my FP and seeing letters and pictures of you guys.

Love, love, love,
Viviana :)

After 6 hours at the Colombian Consulate debating whether I should set myself on fire or shoot myself in the face, maybe do a combo and put on a show for the crowd, I finally got all my paperwork done. South America, here I come!

Diego was cheating on me with my roommate.

Dear Aaron Shacklette,

I didn't really know you at all but I hope you're okay now. Watch over Alicia, she must need you horribly right now. Rest in peace.

Sincerely,
Viviana A.

There's like 13543 inches of snow outside! #@&^%$#@&@ I wish I had a camera! No one knows if there are classes yet (because it's 7 am.) I'm disappointed in Rihanna for getting back with Chris Brown, but I know there are no "rules" with abuse, etc etc. I got to level 80 in WoW, which also functions as a validation that I can get anything I set my mind.

I haven't done my FAFSA yet or applied for transferring. I'm planning on doing that next week, since I'll be stuck here for Spring Break, all alone! Idk, there's not much to say. Economics is the bane of my existance right now and I still have a huge headache from last night.

P.S. Since I don't have a camera, I'll just share beautiful photography I find on Stumbleupon. :)

I'm liking my classes so far, except that my Child Abuse and Neglect class is so damn depressing. We watched a documentary about child labor yesterday and I was almost in tears. It sucks. I've also stopped playing as much WoW as I used to, because of school and my life hasn't ended yet, so I think I'm alright for now.
Congrats to Ann, my favorite new wife ever!

No, she really did get married this weekend you guys haha. Oh, and before I go, this whole Rihanna-Chris Brown thing has me going B-A-N-A-N-A-S. I hope she doesn't take him back. :(

PS. I found Anastasia the movie on YouTube! SO EXCITED! Haha.

While everyone is happy and excited about the next four years, I'm completely miserable. Those two things are completely unrelated.

I know I haven't updated in forever but bare with me!

This winter break was full of silly drives with Valeria who is by far the most amazing person ever (we should have hung out more!), lots of WoW playing and a thorough reevaluation of my feelings, dreams and desires. Except not really but whatever. I'm in the terminal now at Ft. Lauderdale International listening to Take This To Your Grave, my plane for Lynchburg leaves in about an hour. Which means....I get internet here!

I have mixed feelings about going back to Virginia. Part of me wants to stay here, the ocean curling at my feet while the waves ebb and flow in front of me and the warmth of home envelops me closely. That part of me wants to stay where I can hug my mom whenever I want, even if the wireless internet does goes down a lot. The other part of me, however, is sort of....looking forward to living alone again. I miss Britni and I miss having control of my life; not that I don't have it when I'm home but it's just...different. Maybe I'll feel differently when I get there but as for now, I miss my dorm room and I miss walking around the campus. I miss Niyati's insaneness and Caity's stories. I definitely need to hang out with them more this semester, it may be the last time I see any of them!

2009 is going to be the year of change, I'm not going to let it suck at much as 2008. I can't!

Every year on Dec. 31st, I always see a cloud shaped like a V, always and this year was no different. :) Damn, I'm almost 20! That shit is B-A-N-A-N-A-S! But we did it, we got through 2008 which for me was a tumultuous and emotional rollercoaster. I began the year as a scared high school senior without any idea what the hell I was going to do with my life and I'm ending the year as a college freshman without any idea what the hell I'm going to do with my life. The difference is that now I know I can get through it, the world doesn't end just because life is slapping you in the face.

This year I left home for the first time and started college in a "city" and state that I had never been before, without knowing anyone at all. I met amazing people that are pretty much insane (but in a good way), a fabulous roommate who I'd do anything for and I'm still with the guy of my dreams. 2008 hurt in many ways but it was also a huge year for learning and maturing, it brought a lot of hurdles to overcome but at the end of the day, I can safely say I came out alright. I have a wonderful, loving boyfriend, I have family who supports me and I have a roof over my head and food on the table, there's not much else I could ask for. Jan 1, 2008 seems so far away, it's insane! 2009 will bring more challenges and triumphs, and hopefully it will be an amazing year.

If I could propose a toast, it would be to the warm feeling you get when you hug someone who loves you with all their heart (in my case my mom), to the butterflies you feel when you talk to your special someone, to the feeling of laying safely in your bed while the rest of the world revolves around you.

So come on LJ, and let's celebrate the end of the year and the beginning of 2009! And remember, less than three years before the world explodes!



Haha, just kidding. :D

I know I'm late, Christmas will be over in an hour but before that I just want to say how much this Christmas has made me realize the importance of family and people who love me. Love, whether it comes from my mom, my boyfriend, my cousins or my friends should be, and are more important than any material gift anyone can give me. This may not have been my ideal Christmas but it was the best one I could get this year and for that I'm thankful. Everyone I love is alive and well, there's food in the fridge and I'm home with my family, there's really nothing else I can ask for. My 19th birthday is next week and I'm looking forward to celebrating it with sushi and a bellini. I'm so excited for 2009, it's crazy. It has to be better than 2008, it just has to.

I'll be making a "how I've grown up this year!!!" entry come the 31st, just like I do every year, woohoo!

You know what would be awesome? If everyone UPloaded or youtube-linked that one song that means the most to them right now or that defines 2008 or something, I'd love to hear it. :)

PS. I'm pretending that P.S. was written about me.

I'm so glad to be back in Miami!

I just came back from speaking to someone at the fin. aid. department and turns out I owe nothing. So I'm coming back in January. :)