It happens

So, it's been what? A couple years or thereabouts? In all honesty I kind of forgot this thing existed but I have rediscovered it and decided it might be a useful conduit for posting all of my (mis)adventures. I have seen and done quite a lot since my last post. Places include (but aren't limited to): Seattle, Colorado, all the states between Arkansas and Vermont including a significant stay in NYC, Montreal to visit my good friend Cookie (who was a very gracious host by the way), Lafayette in Louisiana, I popped into Massachusetts for a bit (fencing tournament), and I think that covers most of it.  I did my real senior year which was pretty awesome, I picked up German and some Russian, some friends, a great girlfriend, acceptance to some great colleges, I even had an apartment to myself for a while. There were downsides too of course, I lost a really good friend because of estupidez, I strained my relationship with some of my "parents" on accident and I also lost a girlfriend (not the aforementioned one), and had some terrible homesickness for Brazil. That chapter has passed and now I am in college. Middlebury College in Vermont to be exact. It has its own merits and I have bettered some of my previous languages (Spanish and Portuguese) and I have started in on Arabic. It has been pretty tough, no real friends (partly by choice, don't need distractions), I have a couple of jobs which in and of itself isn't necessarily a bad thing, and then there is the never ending snow! Overall I do like it here though and it is one of the best colleges in the country for foreign languages. I intend to pick up Russian next year and maybe this summer I can get a job utilizing these languages I have put so much effort into. My roommate and I don't really get along but for the most part we kind of try to avoid each other, the things that cause my somewhat passionate anger toward him is a rant for another time. His name is Berend and he lives in Russia (unrelated to my disdain). My favorite job that I have at the moment is working for my college theatre, I help set up and build scenes and do general work in the theatre, it is a pretty good deal. I still have that awesome girlfriend I mentioned earlier (shout out to that awesome female, Sam) she puts up with my special brand of craziness like a trooper.

Here we are. Awesome huh? You should be jealous haha. There is a lot of stuff I haven't said, mostly cuz saying it all here would take foooreeevvverrrrr. Tyler is in a trade school thing training to be an aviation mechanic and Tolby is in highschool which is just crazy... He is still kind of a rough draft but mom and I are working on shaping him up. Oh, and Mike too. I haven't mentioned anything about Mike! He's an awesome dude that mom is kind of dating, idk, I don't ask because I don't want to know. I just know he is a really great guy and they are great together and should be together. He bought me a car, her a car, has funded multiple vacations and done many things for our family, but I don't like him for his money.  He is really nice and charismatic and generous and just an all around great guy. 

There is my family, we are in Silverton, Colorado here. A trip Mike funded and I planned and it was pretty great. There are posts worth of stuff to be written about that trip alone. Kind of rambling and running out of stuff to say but I'm sure I will think of more. Talk to y'all after while (hopefully not so long next time).