'Sleepless in Seattle' & English Muffins!

Hi everyone! 

I just have to say that I think my favorite day of the week is now Monday. Weird, I know. The only reason I say this is because Monday is the day I get all of your emails, and it's definitely the highlight of my week. Thinking back on this week, it's been kind of a bland week. I struggled coming up with a title, and usually I've already come up with a title days ago. 

Anywho, school started back up again on Tuesday. I was very happy to have Monday off because it was Shawn and Brinai's last day here and we got to spend even more time together. We didn't do much besides pack and go to the market to get a suitcase. It was nice to just be together, play games, and laugh though. We went out to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant called "Magnolias". The food was divine... but then again it was Vietnamese cuisine, so it was bound to be amazing! I realized the next day though, that I had gotten 46+ mosquito bites just from that one sitting. Yes, there were 5 other pairs of legs under the same table, and yet I was the ONLY one who got attacked (I think, unless Shawn and Brinai have some and I don't know)! It's been an itchy couple of days. :)

I didn't have dance again this week which was good and bad. It's nice to be home in the evenings and not have to dance after dinner, but then I don't want to get even more out of shape. I'm starting to feel a little bit of the pressure and anxiety of college auditions,etc., and I don't feel like my evening dance is doing enough. So, in order to prepare more for college in strengthening my technique, etc. I've decided to start doing my own little class at school. Our school has a dance studio, which is so perfect for me (it even has AC!), so I go in there during my free classes (I have 3-4/week) and kind of do a class by myself. I've only done it once so far, but I really enjoyed it and I think it will help. It's nice to get my body up and moving during school instead of just sitting all day. 

Dad went to Battambong on Friday and comes back tomorrow. Since it was just mom and I, we decided to watch Sleepless in Seattle and eat popcorn on Friday night. Rachel and Chantelle: thank you so much for including that movie!!! I know I will be watching it several times! :)  

I had invited my friends to come over on Saturday and watch a movie or something, and for a while there it sounded like it was going to happen. But then at the last minute everyone said they couldn't (I'm discovering that quite a few parents are very strict about not letting their kids do anything). I'm sure glad that mom and dad and I have such a strong trust in our relationship that they don't need to worry about me getting in any trouble with friends. Since they couldn't come over I decided to make homemade English muffins! It was a very spontaneous decision, but a nice break from studying. I made them gluten and dairy free, however, I added just a little bit of wheat flour because I'm trying to slowly incorporate that back into my eating and hope my stomach doesn't hurt! I didn't really think they would turn out because it seems like that kind of thing never works, but I tell you, IT WORKED!!! I was so elated the rest of the night! They are so good! Anyway, sorry, I tell you - I'm crazy about baking! Mom and I walked down to the Olympic Stadium that night. There's not much to see there other than lots of people exercising, but it's such a good representation of Asian culture. There's tons of groups lined up on the top of the stadium and they are all doing the same type of "Jane Fonda" exercises ( step-touches, arm waving). It was really fun to see! We were pretty impressed when we learned they do it for 2 hours! 

Sorry this is kind of long. Last thing - today at church they made a youth sunday school class and next week they said they would start Young Women's. There's now 2 of us YW and one YM. That's super exciting!!