I had school first thing in the morning, and it was alright, our breaks from class were the best parts of the day. Today I found out that Kate the American girl in my class has been to over 20 countries, and the German girl has been to over 40. Also, I discovered that for Kate to fly from her town in Ohio to Costa Rica, it only cost her $40 USD... how insane is that, and how jealous does that make you feel. She then added that a flight to London only costs like $23 USD and that each year her family receive cheap fares to give to their friends too. While they aren't as cheap, they are still only a few hundred dollars instead of thousands. She then told me that one year for her birthday, her and a friend flew to Orlando, Florida for the weekend, just casually, to go to Disneyland... All because her Dad is a test pilot...
While being here makes me appreciate New Zealand more, sometimes I wish we were just a bit closer to some other countries. Isabel the German told me that one week her and her family drove from Germany to Romania. I mean how cool is that? To be able to just drive to other countries.
I got picked up after school and came home for lunch. For the past week I have been telling Jose that we needed to go for a run at some point. Today was the day.
At 2:30pm about 1hr and 30min after lunch we strapped on our shoes and set off for a 5km run. I forgot to time it, but it ended up being quite slow. Jose got the stitch badly, and we both agreed that next time we needed to wait a bit longer after having lunch. Running here is quite difficult, with the narrow footpaths that sometimes aren't even there at all and the crazy drivers too.
For the past two weeks my knees have been insanely sore, and I can hardly keep them bent
for more than 15 minutes and I have to support myself to crouch down and stand up... I have no idea why. I have been hoping that it was just from not doing any exercise, but as of yet, they still aren't better from having been for a run.
After having a shower, I decided I needed to go to Wal-Mart to grab some wrapping paper to start wrapping some Christmas presents. While I was offer some companionship from Guisella and Jorge, I thought I might as well go by myself. It was actually nice to just go for a walk by myself, and really it is only just around the corner.
I got back from buying some wrapping paper, plus a few other things, and wrapped some gifts, before having dinner, chilling watching Pirates of the Caribbean in Spanish and then going to bed.
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| Sunset from my street happening before 5pm |
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