Mexico tomorrow...  To hang out with some kids at an orphanage, help out with a service project, sleep on the beach under the stars, and more.  I'm excited.

Relay for Life, 2007So here's the update I promised my supporters - thanks Mum and Uncle Gordon! Also, a big thanks to my lovely flatmate Veronique for putting so much time and effort into getting our team together.I'll start with some stats:980 of us turned up to the UCSD branch of this worldwide event, and raised over $63,000 for the US Cancer Society! Awesome, huh? Again, I wanna say a huge MUCHO GRACIAS to my mum and Uncle Gordon for contributing towa...

Back home again, and back into the studies.Had a bit of a rough day today, trying to sort out things so my classes wouldn't get cancelled when I didn't pay a bill for thousands of dollars worth of fees I shouldn't have to pay anyway as an exchange student. Then there was the scary Victorian poetry class where we get marks for input into the class discussion, and I feel like there's so much pressure.But, I'm gonna be thankful for the day anyway...

"You give and take away."That's from a song we sing at church. And at the moment, I definitely feel like things are being taken away. In the form of material posessions anyway.I'm still waiting for my pack to arrive back. It's arrived in San Diego Tues (after the airline I got re-routed to refused to take it Monday) but it's Thurs now and it still hasn't been delivered. And it's got my toiletries, my clothes, my blanket, sleeping...

Home, sweet home again. Ah. Minus my pack, and having arrived home a couple hours later than planned, but I'm home.And what an intense weekend that was. Highs and lows. But, looking back, the highs definitely exceed the lows. There were just tons of little blessings, mainly in the form of people. Here are a few examples:The guy who drove me across campus to Elise's when I just asked for directions... The Argentenian who walked me to the student union beca...