Halloween weekend was a blast. It started off Saturday with the Soul Crew photo shoot. Essex is an awsome photographer and made us look really good, the shot going on the back of our DVD is going to be sick. We ended the night with some halloween celebrations which were really fun.

Daniel hasn't decided whether or not he's coming home or staying in Budapest for another semseter but either way I'll get to see him over Christmas. I'm really starting to miss him but it's good to know hes having fun and enjoying his stay.

I finally got my app for Lewis and Clark in so now all I have to do is wait. Applying to schools is starting to become a lot of work, luckily I'm using the common application for the majority of my colleges.

Schools been in session for about of month and it's been going fairly well. I really like my classes this year. Some of them are challenging but those ones are the most interesting, for example AP language. I don't understand whats going on in that class a lot of the time and my papers aren't very good but everyone in a while I get something and when that happens it really clicks. It's something I haven't experienced a lot before.

Soul Crews movie Hello is finished! Its awesome and Will did a great job producing it. We have a few ideas for how to premier it which will be really fun but whats exciting is somebody out of Idaho offered to play it at the met during the Refresh premier. This is awesome and hopefully it works out.

I've picked up skating over the last month which turns out to be an amazing sport. I think it'll help me with skiing and it's a good challenge. I've made a little progression which I'm happy about. There's something about skating I've really come to like, I'm not exactly sure what it is, maybe it's the fact that there's so many tricks and so much innovation involved. You can skate one thing for hours and not get bored since there's so many trick variations and so much room for improvement.

This may or may not be my last post but either way I hope everyone reading has enjoyed my blog over the past 6 months or so.

I've been home for a long time now and its felt great. Right when I got back Chris, Daniel, and I were lucky enough to spend a week in the Valhalla mountains. There was no better way to relax and spend time with the boys than going on this trip. The climbing was incredible and ranged from bouldering next to the tent to doing multi pitch summits. Unfortunately right after the trip we had to say goodbye to Daniel as he left for his semester in Budapest, from what I've heard so far he's having a great time and is learning a lot.

The rest of my summer has been spent rafting, and relaxing in Spokane. At first it seemed like I was 100 percent happy to be home but unavoidably I miss Argentina. Thoughts of Edgard and all of my friends linger in the back of my head and makes me want to see them. For some reason everybody in Argentina understood me very well which surprised me since friends I've had in the US for years still don't.

School starts tomorrow which I'm excited about. I have a great schedule so I'll be taking some interesting classes and It'll be amazing to see all of the classmates again.

Two weeks left and I´m home. I honestly have mixed feelings about this, it´s true that I´m incredibly excited to be coming home and to see all of my friends and family again but at the same time the last couple weeks have been amazing. My relationship with Amelia and the rest of my family as become alot closer and I´ve finally been talking to Amelia about our past problems. I´ve also been doing recreational stuff with her which I thought would never happen. The other day we woke up early together to go jogging and later in the day rode our bikes to a pueblo close to murphy just the two of us. A month ago I couldn´t see us spending time together like this but we both enjoyed it and I wish we could have been this close since the begining, it would have made the experience more fun and easier. Amelia even pointed out that I´ve changed alot, she says that I´ve become alot more outgoing and more talkative than I was before, I think this is just because I´m able to communicate perfectly with everyone now but she persists to say it´s my personality thats changed. At least all of this means that the fam and I are ending on a good note. They want to come visit sometime which makes me happy and hopefully I´ll get to visit them as well.

Todays the 4th of July!! Of course theres no celebration here in Argentina so I decided to do something a little american for a personal celebration. I´ve missed peanut butter ALOT and so I finally decided I´d make it for the fourth of July so I could enjoy an american treat on independence day. I don´t know if peanut butter was invented in the US but americans eat alot of it so I claim it american. It takes a while to make because you need to shell all of the peanuts and clean the blender but its very easy and obviously delicious, especially when I make it.

Luckily the fam also found it yummy which is a score but I think Edgard lied a little because his face disagreed with his words.It was kind of like when I tried my friends veggie mite and squeaked out "how tasty" before gagging on the wretched stuff.

Anyways, heres a picture of my jar of homemade PB!

The photos below sum up my birthday fairly well. There was alot of good food and even more importantly alot of good people. A lot of my friends never made the trip out to Murphy for the dinner but all went well anyways!

A couple days after the asado and theres still left overs.

The cake!

The friends.

More friends!

Making my wish

Dalila and me

Santi and Leo!

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Cheers to my first night of legal drinking (thanks to the low drinking age in Argentina) and our class party!

Rodrigo, Leo, Gise and me.

The girls dancing

Topo!!!Rodrigo, Leo, and me.

Every body in the photos above are my classmates! Last saturday there was a competition in the club to decide which school has the best sweatshirt this year. It´s a pretty fun event, you do things such as elect a member of the class to dance against kids from other schools. We may not have officially won but our sweatshirts are most definitly the most handsome!

It´s very hard to believe that I only have one month left in Argentina and surprisingly I´m sad. Theres nothing I want more than to see the family again but when I leave I may never see my Argentine friends again. Hopefully someday I´ll be able to return for a visit and my friends will be able to come visit me. **uciel cough cough**

My family here is doing well especially since its almost winter break which means in a couple days nobody in the family will be working or going to school. My first week of winter break will be spent going to Cordoba with my friend Hernan. I don´t understand why families here don´t travel together, maybe it´s just my family but they never plan family trips or vacations it´s always one or maybe two people in the family going somewhere alone, this completly contradicts what the volunteers said in the orientation camp. In Bs.As. before I met my family AFS said that argentine familys are big on going to places as a family and travelling alone is rare.

EDIT: I talked to my friend Uciel about my last paragraph and he said that what AFS told me in Bs.As. is wrong, for example he said that he only goes on a vacation once a year and sometimes that one time is without his parents.