Saturday, July 18, 2009

Stolen Cars and Mexico Prisons

Nothing new to report on. I'm just hanging out at the Girls house with a rare spare moment to write... and wondering how the hell I managed to be so busy lately? There's always something going on, always somewhere to be! I bought two big canvases a few weeks ago to try my hand at a new style of painting, and just haven't had time to get started! So here's the deal: next weekend, I'm taking one day to myself to paint! I'm turning the phone off, hiding in an undisclosed location, and taking a stolen car to get there so I cannot be tracked. Bah!
Haha! I'm not too upset about being so busy lately-- I'm doing fantastic things with fantastic people, and am always up to no good for the most part.
I think I'm really going to miss you guys when I'm in Central America! Wish I could drive a giant orange van and take you all with me.... but to be honest, I didn't budget any extra time for a Mexican Prison tour.

Love, April

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Dos niñas en la playa

Hah! Look! ñ !!! I remembered the shortcut to make the N with the squiggly!
Okay, now that I have that out of my system:

Right now I am having a solo dinner date out at Paradise Bakery, which will be followed by a bubble bath, a book, and a newly created playlist of slow songs. This night is mine! The reason for the computer? Well, I'm just finalizing a few minor details before booking. A cool thing happened this weekend-- I think my sister is coming with me to Monterrico! I've gone from hearing people tell me I'm totally nuts, to having a small following of people wanting to come with me. Humm... maybe I should consider Cult Leader as a possible career path. I'll admit... I'm a little leery of her general girlyness when it comes to insects and overall lack of modern amenities (Haha, sorry girl-- I'll kill bugs-- so long as they're smaller than my fist... and I'm sure I can out-run them if I miss). Not to say that I'm not girly-- I'm probably one of the worst! But I think if I didn't like boys, dresses and things that smell good so damn much, I'd be a total tomboy! Haha!

Anyway, I'd be glad to have the company. I'll admit... I've been pretty nervous about being a small white blonde girl travelling alone in a foreign country. Having familiar company (even if only for the first 4 weeks) will be a little bit more of a comforting feeling. It's looking like the plan will be to do 3-4 weeks Spanish school, then 1 week travelling down the coast to El Salvador, maybe even Nicaragua and Costa Rica depending on funds/time constraints. Then Girl will fly back to the States, while I make my way back to Monterrico and finish out my remaining 4 weeks of school. If Girl comes, it pretty much just guarantees that a ridiculous number of pictures of me riding on a chicken truck will be posted on my MySpace page. Yeehaw.

We're headed to the bookstore to do a little more research on what exactly we want to see/do this weekend... so stick around. Now it's time for me to take my cookie home and strip my chonies off! ;)




Yeah, this doesn't look like trouble at all.