Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la vida de los años. -Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

Once again it's been two weeks since I've posted... sorry!! But this time is was an accident, I forgot I wouldn't have internet access after Tuesday...

Last week was interesting... if that's the word you want to use.....

I only had two days of school, Monday and Wednesday (everyone else had school Friday too, but I skipped:) ), and tuesday I went with my friends to see Breaking Dawn, or Amanecer as it's called in Spanish.

My first time in a Spanish movie theater ;)

After the movie we went to a friends house and took pictures 

[Tuesday we had no school for Constitution Day and Thursday.. I have no idea, we I asked someone in my class.. they just shrugged and say it wasn't important and too difficult to explain] 

Then Wednesday right after school my and my family left for Santander. Then came Friday , which probably ended up being the scariest day of my life. no joke.

We cleaning the house, because a) no one has been in there for a couple of weeks and b) because my host dad's cousin and her family (the same ones that we visited in Madrid earlier this year) were coming to stay with us for the weekend too. Silvia, my host mom, was in the attic mopping to floor (this attic has the pull down stairs so when the stairs are pulled down there's just a hole in the middle of the floor).... Patricia, my host dad, and I were standing at the  bottom of the stair discussing the sleeping arrangement with her.... she took one step too far backwards and fell.

She managed to catch herself with her elbows in a corner of the hole and we helped her down the rest of the stairs and sat her on the couch, where she passed out (and this my friend is when Lotte realized that she was 100% not cut out of anything in medical field considering it almost caused her to pass out as well). We called ambulance, it took forever to arrive, when it finally did Silvia and Javi left for the hospital and me and Patricia stayed at home, and waited for our cousins to show up.

Silvia ended up with 2 broken(fractured??) ribs and a pulled muscle in her neck... she's not allowed to anything for a month and she's hurting :/ (if anyone wants, I sure she'd love a 'Get Well' card... e-mail or facebook for the address :) )

Once Silvia came back from the hospital, it was obvious that we weren't got to be able to go into the city Santander (the house is in a small town outside of Santander) and so we spent to weekend do nothing, playing games, watching TV, and reading. I'm going to lie.. I love doing nothing :P

This was on Wednesday BEFORE Silvia fell, we went for a walk around the town...
besides the gorgeous waterfall and river, the town also has horses, cows, sheep... etc.  

And because my host mom can't do anything, my grandma is living with us to a) make sure Silvia is alright and b) to help out around the house while me and Patricia are at school and Javi is at work.

This week has uneventful compared to last week, I found out I got a 8.7 in my Sciences of the Contemporary World final and a TENN on my Religion exam :) (my teacher wrote at the bottom of the exam 'Good job, you understood what we discuss in this class perfectly' .... guess who made up all the answers? :D)


And finally today was picture day for my grade, in involved missing a hour for everyone running around frantically fixing each other's hair and putting on even more make-up. The grade above mine, (the 'seniors') were all dressed up SUPER formal, girls nice dresses and heels, guys suite and tie... it was a fun day :).

12 days until Christmas!!

24 days until los Tres Reyes Magos :)

From a Saturday before we went out :)

Choa - Lotte


(ps. december 3rd (4th?) was the THREE MONTH point. A third of my year is already gone... I can't believe it's been 3 months already, where has the time gone?!?!?!