september sixteenth.

I'm using every bit of energy I have left to write something and take my contacts out, brush my teeth, and pass out. Today was... long. I woke up late, grabbed the third article of clothing I saw, ate a piece of cheese, and was out the door in ten minutes. Yesterday yolie and I found out that in order to be able to take the exams we need to take, we have to pay a school tax of 147 USD... cool. Not only that, but exams start tomorrow. We had to make five trips to different places to get papers signed, pay, get random stamps on said papers, and turn everything in... yeahhh. The tricky part is that these places are all pretty far from each other, and are all open from 12-3. I woke up at 12.18 so that was my fault, but everything was a race to get things done. Crappy things kept happening, and I was really discouraged. Random things like getting lost on winding streets and climbing in a cab that cost three times the normal fare just further demoralized us. We paid the tax, finally, but have yet to get one more stamp. Blah. 

Things that I ate/drank that made me really happy:

- spinach pie: AHHH : )

- lemon-peach smoothie

- sunflower seeds

all of those things were exponentially better than the cheese from this morning.

After hours of being stressed and sweaty we calmed down and walked to starbucks, stopping to sit in the grass and take a breather. It was perfect and I wanted to capture the moment. We got to starbucks, talked way too much like usual, but actually got some studying done. After we left and were walking to the subway, we saw a huge box of sunflower bouquets on the curb to be thrown away.... I KNOW. WHO the heck would throw away sunflowers??! You'd think we found gold. After yelling excitedly and successfully, accidentally scaring away any passerbys that would want to join our joyosity, we took as many bouquets as we could carry. This wasn't such a good idea since I had to get home riding the subway and the bouquets were pretty thick around. I gave a few to random people, it felt really good to see them happy. I ate some almonds and dried mangos, had a fight with my roommate, I'm just tired. Psychology exam tomorrrrow, wish me luck!

xox,

loveacrosstheocean. 

[photo caption: candid moment with my flowers + box of beautiful sunflower bouquets]