Spring and Studytime

I think spring has officially hit Valdivia. The days are sunny (no matter how hard it rains at night) and warm(ish). I kinda miss those days when days were a little rainy...and school was easy...I never thought I would say this here, but I'm stressed. As soon as we got back from break I feel like the teachers all plotted against us and decided to give us huge amounts of stuff to do all at once.

I'm trying to recover from being sick (starting on week #3 by the way), I feel better for the most part but my cough hasn't gone away and I think I may have a mild sinus infection. I've been taking pain meds that the doctor gave me (I only needed them for 2 days so I have extra) for my constant headaches and toothaches I've been getting (dear tooth fairy please let me be suffering from a sinus infection and not actual tooth problems..but really how likely is it that I have cavities in ALL my upper teeth all of a sudden?). I can't tell it they're working or not so I go back and forth between that and ibuprofen. I feel like everything would be a tiny bit better if I could just have a coffee. I'm so tired lately. I can sleep about every other night and that's it. I really want to just skip this whole next week. Although I'm sure nothing will be easier after.

This weekend the program is taking us to Pucon, which I should be excited about because it has hot springs, volcano, mapuche (indigenous chilean) village and it's beautiful, but I have so much to do I don't want to go at all. Worst timing ever.

Next week I have 2 major tests on Tuesday and Wednesday, as well as a ton of busy work that has nothing to do with what the tests are on but the teachers feel they still need to give us. I think it would be okay if my schedule is like it is in the States, go to school in the morning and to homework in the afternoon. Here I go to school in the morning, come back for lunch, then go back to school, get done sometime between 5:30 and 7, come home and eat, and then after that is the only time I have to do homework. Which was all good and fine when I only had homework every couple days, and not very much when I did, but now it's just not working out. My goal is to get through this next week and pretend that things will be less hectic on the other side but we'll see how things go. Right now all I want to do is take a nap but instead I get to go to a 3 hour class. Then tomorrow I GET to get up at 6:30. Which I just want to point out will be 3:30 everyone else's time-weird.

Sunday is daylight savings (for Chile). I'm not completely sure about this but I'm pretty sure daylight savings is going to put a 5 hour time difference between Valdivia and home. Since it's Spring here we lose an hour (so unfair I have to lose 2 hours in the same year) and at home you all gain an hour...so that puts us 2 more hours apart plus the 3 already...I'm hoping somehow this isn't true because that will make it so much harder to communicate with people back home but I guess we'll find out.

Wow that was a whole bunch of complaining. It's definitely been one of those weeks. I haven't been posting as much because I feel like if I do I'll just complain the whole time. Also I haven't really even had time. I haven't even had time to watch my shows online! Last night I fit in Glee and Castle- a gift to myself for finishing my second paper of the week, no matter how bad it was. Did I mention on this day in 9 weeks I'll be done with school? Pretty excited. Not going to lie. Now I must go to class and try to make it through without falling asleep (I might have to make a stop in the cafeteria -which by the way they call the casino here, it was all very confusing for the first few weeks when we kept wondering why people went to the 'casino' so much-for some cafe. That plus the energy drink I just drank might actually get be through alive.) I'm sending mental hugs in this post. I expect them all to be returned.