Boredom.

So I've decided to revive my blog in preparation for semester abroad in Montevideo, Uruguay.  I'm not really sure why studying abroad necessitates starting a blog, but I'm going to conform on this one.  Personally, I don't feel like many people are interested enough in my daily thoughts to read all about them, and I doubt that my thoughts will get more interesting while I'm abroad.  But hopefully I'll do some interesting things that will compensate and keep you all entertained.

This is what I know about my study abroad experience so far:
-I'm going to Montevideo, Uruguay, a city of about 1.5 million people
-I'll be studying at la Universidad Católica del Uruguay
-I've secured a room in a house in a zone of the city called Pocitos which is supposed to be a more modern, safer part of the city where a lot of young people live.  I'll have four roommates, two French and two British, guy and girl of each.  They all attend another university in the city.  The other two girls who are going from Ole Miss will be living with a host family about two blocks away.

...aaaand that's pretty much it. I leave on the March 4th and get there the next day, a full 24 hours later.  I'll make my way from the airport to my new home and then go from there.  Classes start the 12th, but we have an orientation the 7th, 8th, and 9th.  What will happen the next five months remains a mystery.

I've been at home for three months, so, as you might imagine, I have moments of extreme boredom.  Besides traveling around the state to say my goodbyes and fighting a wicked sinus infection, I've pretty much spent the majority of my time reading and playing Words with Friends on my Kindle Fire and watching unhealthy amounts of NCIS, White Collar, and (my new favorite) Downton Abbey.  This week I decided I couldn't take it anymore, so I jumped on the bandwagon with melted crayon art.  For those of you who may not know, melted crayon art is the internet's most popular craft.  People are selling their creations on sites like Etsy for $50 and $60.  So I went to Wally World and spent twenty-five bucks on my supplies.  I wanted to create a canvas that had my intial, like this

but I had difficulty getting the stencil to stay secure enough so that the wax didn't drip down behind anyway.  This has resulted in me making two ordinary pieces that I don't particularly want. If you do, let me know!  Here's a pic (not a very good one).

Besides spending an obscene amount of time perusing food blogs, that's pretty much my life right now.  It's about to change big time, though, so stick around!