Ok so I'm back. That really was THE BEST three weeks of my life. I miss it so much already, I just want to be back on tour with everyone. I miss the bad and the good parts of it. As someone put on facebook: we miss the 6:30 wake up calls every morning after a late night every night, being counted constantly, eating crappy breakfasts and cheap fast food all the time, spending hours upon hours on the bus, sleeping with anywhere from 4-12 people in one room, always getting yelled at to stay in groups of at least three, and hearing "Vamos! Rapido! Schneller!". But most of all we miss just being together and living as a group like one big family. Even the rotex miss being on tour. I've seen just about everything I've ever wanted to see in life and experienced what I could. Panda and I both agreed we can die happy now :D haha. I absolutely loved euro tour and have so many stories and memories from it that will last my entire lifetime. I have a feeling that for the rest of my life I will be craving being on tour with those same people again. We're all gonna be in our 90's and we're gonna get on facebook and try to set up a meeting so we can all hang out for an extended time again ;) :P. And now.... I have only two months left of my exchange. A few members of my family are coming to visit me in a week and a half :D including my grandma kaykay, two great aunts being beebee and aunt wanda, and my great uncle james. Today I have a german lesson and tomorrow I have a rotary meeting and a german lesson. It seems that things are starting to wind down this year... with only two months left I need to start preparing my end of the year speech to rotary and start going through my clothes and throwing away the old bad ones and replacing them with the new ones. Since I've worn jeans pretty much all year around this year so far they have gotten really worn out. So I'm going to have to throw away a few pairs of those and replace them before leaving. I'll also have to start going through all my papers from school and such and throwing away what I don't need to or want to keep. It's sad having to think about this again... but its time to start winding down my year. But I wont concentrate on leaving until I have to :D.

Today is the day!!!! I'm soooooooooooo excited. only three and a half hours now until I leave. I'm gonna watch movies and make peanut butter cookies to make the time pass by quicker!! So I'm off! I'll write if I can... if not... don't take it personally ;)

Euro tour is tomorrow!!! Horrayyyyyy!!!! Best three weeks of my life here I come!! Got my hair cut and a few highlights in today. Red ones. I needed to lighten it up a bit for spring. I was looking into blonde but the stylist said red would look alot better so I took her word for it. She was right. I'm sooo excited for tour. I'll try to get in one more entry tomorrow before I go. The tour is three weeks long and I'm not sure when I'll have wifi so if I can then I'll get in an entry or two. Don't get mad if you go three weeks with out an entry though! ;)

2 days until euro tour!! Tonight I'm gonna really get the ball rollin on packing. Finally made a list of everything I'm gonna need and now I'm gonna start goin down the checklist. I've had some clothes thrown in there for awhile now, but now I'm gonna start packing toilettries and such. Or what I can pack that I wont need for tomorrow and thursday morning. I was hoping to pack light... but it doesn't look like I'm actually capable of such a feat. I really thought I would pack bare minumum... but then the list of things I absolutely needed just kept getting bigger. Like I can't just pack one pair of jeans. What if its a bit colder in a few of the countries and I need to wear jeans? Then I can't just have dark jeans. I need to have a pair of light ones too. And not just skinny jeans, I have to have a pair of boot legged. Then I need to have a skirt. But I can't just have a flowery cloth one! I have to have a jean skirt too just in case for weather or if the outfit isnt right or if the other is dirty when i need it. And thats kinda how the thought process goes... just like I can't bring only one perfume... gotta have a different one for all the different occasions that might happen lol. You understand my packing issues? I think Joana is coming over today. Unless she forgot... which is likely. hahah well I'm just gonna pack until she gets here.

Maria was very pleased with her birthday gift today. The family came over after school and we ate cake and played games. Then after they left we went to a restaurant for dinner and I ate a huge burger and wedge fries and I am completely stuffed. I have a total food baby. Then my host parents gave me a big ole glass of some fruity champagne. So now I am completely exhausted and off to bed!

Had an absolutely amazing shopping experience yesterday! Got everything I needed and more and still had money left over from what I budgeted. I think I'll go get one of those flowery skirts that are so popular here and maybe some tan panty hose or a tank top. That is springy and also really in right now. I should probably be packing for the best three weeks of my life right now... but i don't really have the energy. I made and bought marias birthday gift last night. Stayed up super late. I think I'm just gonna do nothing today. Like stare at my computer screen and not even process the movie playing on it doing nothing. That sounds great to me.

Less than a week to go! Tiffany is over today and we're just hanging. We went to the store and bought everything we needed and made tacos! it felt so good to just eat homemade tacos haha normal food. I havent had tacos is seven months. David also came over and helped us make the guacamole. totally delicious. Then we walked him to his bus. Tomorrow is shopping for euro tour!!