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so im too stoked for our EFT(educational field trip) and can't sleep, so i might as well do a entry.

life is going by too fast, as is always the case it seems. midterms are over and the EFT is here. i think about time often. why does it "go too fast"? what would make time slow down? doing less, journaling more, taking pictures,  less obligations? i feel like if there ever were a formula it would have been figured out by now. time is time. there is no fast forward or slowing down. we need to accept it for what it is and not complain how the "time flies" through and away from our mortal grasps. every second we waste talking about time, is one second of time that we could have been living.

we were put on this earth with a set amount of seconds to live. whether i have 10 seconds or 10 billion seconds to live, i dont know, but the only thing i can do is make the most of the second that im living in right....now. making the most of each second doesn't mean that every second needs to be filled with activity. some of the most cherish seconds in my life have been spent doing absolutely nothing but simply...being.  it feels like our world is running on a rat wheel, getting the most activity and productivity out of every second, only to feel less productive and active at the end of every passing day.

its time to slow down. its time to realize your clock is ticking down, and that thats ok. time doesn't change pace, it doesn't really operate on our schedule, we've just been able to but a numerical gauge on it  based on the position of planets, but that doesn't mean we have harnessed it. stop fighting the clock, it will always win, time will always win.

stop doing, stop becoming, and simply start being.

midterms

never have i valued sleep more than i do now. i thought the abroad life would be a lot more chill and that id get more sleep this year; not the case. things always seem to pile up and take up the precious late hours of the night. hopefully i can act on my realizations.

anyways, more catch up. saturday was soccer, and blowdart gun shopping. sunday was super lazy, reading, podcast, essays, bike ride, skype with elle, and house church. monday was spanish composition, exploration with kev and jake to skatepark to get some schweet footage, studying for religion midterm, working out, and then going out with the guys to for jeff's birthday, inauguration of the pipe, and giant jenga. tuesday was cancelled HUM class, religion midterm, much needed nap, and more essays and studying.

the last full week

its crazy to think that this school week was our last complete week. the rest of the weeks will have at least one weekday off. not sure if this is gunna make things easier or just intensify our class loads. anyways, this tuesday, after small groups us dudes went to a cafe to hangout and celebrate ryan swains birthday. this wednesday we went to azzurra for convo dinner, i sat next to rafa and it was quite an entertaining dinner. (prison story). on thursday alycia, kelsey, liz, jeff, peter and i went to get waffles and planned the spiritual retreat. on friday we went to a synagogue  and had a movie night where we watched extreme days.

yuh...

so on saturday we had our first soccer game of our pepperdine league that i set up. everyone had a blast, the soles of my shoes fell off in the first two minutes so i played barefoot- ouch. after that i was totally wiped, took a dip in the pool, and then went grocery shoppin with kevin to make some bomb guacamole. that night i took it easy, got some hw donw, got some reading in, wrote some letters, and got good sleep. on sunday i woke up and listened to a podcast, prepared for my talk at house church, did some work on a religion paper, had dinner with the fam, went to house church and brought david (i talked on calling people out),  then we went to cafe forest gump to mini-celebrate ryan swains birthday. today i woke up early, worked out, went to spanish class, ran some errands with ryan and jeff, and cranked on my religion paper. tonight we had speed dating at calcio and it went really well. a lot better than i thought it would. people definitely want to do it again.

Ocupado

so the longer i continue this, the more i realize this will become more of a list of things i do, rather than a blog. so since last time...tuesday was my crazy class day but i got to skype jack for the first time since ive been here so that was great (also got to see cameron, giff and shearer), gave my first spanish oral on wednesday- teacher said it was great, had convo dinner at calcio, followed by worship, followed by hanging out with jeffrey (ended up having to sleep over at his house because i left my keys in the casa), thursday we went to havanna for our hum295 class and had alfajores (chad and mark discussed original since and sinful nature), thursday night i went out to ice cream with liz, friday i had my first real testish thing in that of our in-class essay over the bhagavad gita, and friday night daniel and i went to siga la vaca (all you can eat parilla), went looking in the casino for the dudes, but eventually got around to simply climbing the dock cranes and getting home at 4am

Chill

More catch up work: sunday i took it super easy, slept in, played with my parents' grandkids, napped, listened to a podcast, hung at the casa, read, skyped my grandparents who were visiting my family, and then went out for ice cream with the gang, Monday i read some, went geocaching, read some more, had a big dinner/asado with the fam, and then went exploring/climbing statues/climbing trees with kevin and mark down in recoleta.

Week In Review

     This week i was really busy and blogging went to the wayside. So to catch up, im just gunna type out some of the highlights of the week: lunch with Rafa, Rafa and the faculty being concerned about bro-mance, austin and I playing soccer with some locals in a stekch part of town, going to the casino with the guys, Argentina-Chile game,  Liz and Wil's marathon, skyping with Elle for a couple hours, biking through recoletta, snooping around the Hyatt and messing around during our first Hum 295 class, the hot sauce guys coming for our asado and more I'll probably think of later...