my package(s) arrived in the mail!

My package was awesome, I loved the cards, and I went on a My Name is Earl binge for a good 3 days. It really really made me miss america. (that sentences could be taken 2 ways, the 2nd way is funnier, but makes less sense) I totally heart the Earl team.

It also helped that I had no phone or internet for a whole weekend right after I got my presents. That pecan pie came in handy on Sunday when nothing was open and I was hungry.

Seriously, with no phone, no bus…I was like, is this poverty? Like, damn…people need the buses! I am one of those people! NO wonder people occasionally set fire to cars here – I too felt like I might want to set fire to some cars after 2 days of nothing but me, my blankets, a creepy piece of historical fiction, and not a lotta food (not to mention the perpetually beige-colored hot water here in the Duch).

But I loved my package! Points also to Auntie Lolo for the American Candies of History present … I was able to give that to my Italian hosts (the glorious Fedeles!) and they loved it! Those cinnamon toothpicks were awesome.

I'm still waiting on one from Miss becca S - here's hoping Mr. Postman pulls through!

Internet fun

Ok, I think that blogs that devolve into lists of links are sortof on the lamer side,but I want those who want to know to...um, know what I know. As far as websites are concerned.
So, in lieu of actually posting about some of the shenanigans I've been up to (not too much, but I have been to see some cool french mountains/people) ...here are some fun websites i've been lookin' at of late.

http://stlschools.org
this is neat. Forces of good are good!
http://www.threadless.com/product/383/The_Communist_Party
also neat, fun shirts galore on this site, and I think they're a force for good somehow, though I havn't figured out HOW specifically. Props, though!
http://wikilou.com/wiki/index.php/Highway_44
I'm pretty proud of this.
http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/19284384/c/88882.html
Dream Boots
http://www.myspace.com/jasonmraz
I love Jason Mraz's cover of Winter Wonderland
http://www.like.com
helped me to find my beat up target boots only higher quality, though I think the price is too high -- I would show you pictures but the computer says, No. I tried uploading fun screen captures to flickr, but until my computer and I take a field trip to one of 2 nice internet cafes (wah wah, europe is not like America...duh, its just annoying sometimes), no dice, homeslice. Poet! Anyway, go on like.com, its pretty fun actually.

I would like to link them all here : http://ma.gnolia.com/ but that could prove hard, and I don't know if my computer (I.E. the only computer in all of this high school with the ability to process a USB port, I.E. the only computer I know of with MicrosoftXP - i kid you not) can take it, really.

Ok, 'tis all for now! More soon.