As ironic as this title is as I am still sitting at Starbucks as I have been for the last 5 hours, I definitely finally got some valuable academic productivity time in today. This is very very good seeing as my schedule is the following:
-2 days of all 3 classes followed by no more culture lectures
-Tuesday 6/15 test that can make or break whether I have to take a cumulative oral and terrifying final, class Thursday 6/17
-2 Tests on 6/22 and then pretty much DONE with school and academics (pending a decent grade on the test on 6/15)
Today I went to Starbucks (and am still there) with Lindsey and Christine and hammered out two missed biweekly report for my internship and my last assignment for any class besides tests. All I have left to do now is readings and study for the three pending tests in the next 2.5 weeks and 1 more internship report at the end (no more than 1 page so no biggy). I will likely need to hermit myself or cave up in a Starbuck a few more times to power through these tests, but the end is in sight.
On a completely different note, tonight Lindsey and Christine (straight from here) are heading to a little Asado (bbq) with our soccer team since we had left over money from our fees to participate in the league. It is at the house of one of the women on our team and should be fun and delicious.
On a similar soccer note, I had been feeling somewhat frustrated with the whole soccer thing as our captain tends to nag and complain to me a lot about how the team or me specifically has been performing. However, she was not at this past weeks game as she is currently injured and it ended up being an absolute blast of a game! For some reason, unknown to me, we had a coach this week who noticed I was apparently fast and paired me up back on defense with a fast forward on the other team telling me to stick to her and not let her get away with anything. I took that to the fullest extent and feel like I finally really remember how I used to play soccer and had an absolute blast! Not only was no one telling me every single little detail I did wrong, but the new coach actually kept telling me I was playing "súper bien" and it felt GREAT to be back in the game like I used to be! I would love to find a way to continue to play soccer somehow when I return to Los Angeles and think I will look into opportunities when I get home.
Today I received an awesome envelope full of several letters from various people from my church! This made me so happy and smile and I can't wait to return to church and see everyone in a month!
So, life is very good. It's a four day weekend, academic productivity is being achieved, I'm off to a soccer team fiesta, I'll be home and with everyone I love so much in 4 weeks, and Karen will be popping up in Santiago sometime Sunday or Monday. Life is good.
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