Twelve

I'm home. I love it.

So about two weeks ago I left Maui. I was crazyyy nervous and had no idea what it would feel like to be gone. So far I'm very happy with things. I miss my friends more than anything but they'll be close to me soon enough. I can't wait for college and all of the adventures that await in this new state.

I'm sitting in my new living room with my stepsister Nicka in my new home in Washougal, Washington. We just got back from our neighbor's grandma's beach house. In case you didn't know, Oregon beaches are really fucking cold, but totally amazing.

The house we stayed in was furnished in the 70's and had a total Napoleon Dynamite feel to it.

After I left Maui, but before I arrived at my new home, I went to Seattle and Victoria, Canada with my mom and her cousin Marcia. I've been wanting to blog for a while now but I was planning on it after my mom sent me my pictures from our trip. My camera died and I ended up bringing the wrong charger so I was cameraless most of the time. She hasn't sent the pics yet. Anyway, I'm extremely jealous of my friends for getting to live in the beautiful city of Seattle. I'm going to live there someday. I swear I will. My mom, Marcia, and I went to Pike's Market, the Space Needle, the Science Fiction museum, the Experience Music Project museum, and a few other places. It was really cool but we definately didn't have enough time to explore everything. I'm really looking forward to visiting Rox and Chels up there.

Our next stop was Victoria. We took a seaplane in which was uber cool. I had never been to Canada and I must say that it was the most pretty city I've ever been to. We basically just wandered the streets and shopped most of the time. Oh and people said "Eh?" and it made me super happy! Haha. Well on one of our last days there we took a bus up to the Butchart Gardens and DUDE. Wow. It was incredible. It made me suuuuper depressed that I didn't have my camera. Flowers and trees and cute little brick paths everywhere. Don't even get me started on how amazing it smelled.

Oh and I got my new little buddy at their gift store! His name is Quatchi (like Sasquatch because he's awesome). He's one of the mascots for the Vancouver 2010 olympics.

So after our adventure in Canada, we took a ferry to Port Angeles, Washington, got a rental car, and drove down to Mount St. Helens then to Portland. We got super lost in Portland but found our way out eventually. I thought it would have been nice to grab some coffee and walk around but I couldn't find the area that I usually go to so that was a bummer. Once we were out of there we drove to Washougal. I figured we could grab some coffee. So we went to Safeway since there's a Starbucks inside and guess who we see? My dad, my stepmom, and my halfsister! HAHAHA. Funniest and most awkward thing of my life. We all chatted for a bit and wowww... nothing weirder than seeing my mom and dad standing next to each other. I haven't seen them together since before I could remember. It was strange. We said bye to them for now, grabbed our coffee and walked down the beach. Along the beach were a bunch of unripe blackberries and my mom being the silly person she is searched high and low for ripe berries. She's like a pro berry hunter. After that we drove to my new home and she helped me carry my things to my new room, in my new hosue, with my new family. Damn I miss her. It was really nice last few hours with my mom before leaving me here.

I haven't said anything about my school so I guess I should say something about that. I took my writing assessment test last week to see which class I would fit best in. I don't know how I did yet but I find out soon. The day after I took the test I met with my academic advisor. He's soooo cool! His name is Bryan Blarlock or something like that. He was super helpful and nice. We started planning which classes I'm gonna take and things like that. I'm not so nervous about school now. I'm kinda worried about being a loner but oh well. I'll survive somehow. I have a registration and orientation ish thing on the 31st. Ahhhh. I'll tell them which classes I want and hopefully my schedule will be close to the one I set for myself. All of the time options for my classes are online so that was cool. I was able to make a few possible schedules for me. The sucky thing is that my dad and stepmom will have to drive me to and from my classes for the first two weeks or until I get my liscense. Rawr.