It's been two whole weeks since I've arrived in St Louis and I don't really feel like I've accomplished an awful lot. I suppose if I sit down and think about everything I've been doing so far, there is quite a bit, but for two whole weeks it's not particularly much. I can try and justify this by blaming it on the cold weather, but if that's the case, then it doesn't really sound like I'll ever be doing much here, seeing as it's the middle of winter and all, and it's only going to get colder. Nonetheless, I'm enjoying myself and I've made some really good friends here. Train and I have been getting along fabulously, he feels like family to me, which is good I guess, because being away from my real family on Christmas day is certainly something different from what I'm used to.
New Years Eve is coming up and we don't have any definite plans for that yet, either. Dart has invited us to a NYE party that one of his friends is having in some cabin somewhere, which sounds like quite a bit of fun. I'll have to see what B is up to, because before we'd heard about Dart's party thing, we, or at least I, brought up that she should hang out with us that night.
There's also supposed to be a Christmas party happening at some point; B's organising a bad sweater party. She and her friend Booker are planning on coming over tomorrow night I think- apparently we're all going to get along fabulously, so that'll be good. Her friends are nice.
Train and I are going to go out for ice cream at some point, too. Need to figure out things for our boston/new york trip, too. I think Dart will be coming over in the next day or two, so we'll organise that when he's here.
As for what happened today; Train and I watched a few movies last night- Breakfast on Pluto- which is one of my new favourites, and Midnight in the garden of good and evil, which was really good too. We only got halfway through the second one, as it was getting late and we needed to sleep. I gave Train his presents before we went to bed, and he made me pancakes at 11am when we got up. Opened more presents and things after that and finished watching the movie before taking another nap.
My parents called at about 4:30pm here I think it was, so I got to talk to them for awhile, which was nice. I called Kale's family after that and had a quick chat to them too. I'm not really missing NZ that much yet, I'm missing the warm weather, for sure, but I quite like it here in America. Everything is so big though, and they really are a lot more uptight about things here. Everyone I've encountered so far has been really nice to me though, and when I thank people like bus drivers and things, they actually say "you're welcome" which is really nice :) I'm not used to that.
We're supposed to be baking cookies for Train's mum. I think we're going to make a lot of cookie dough and just keep it in the freezer until we have enough time to do everything at once.
I had a fake-chicken burger for dinner tonight. It was really tasty. It's a lot easier to be a vegetarian over here, they have such a wide range of vegetarian food at the supermarkets and things, lots of frozen fake meat things by a brand called Morningstar Farms.
I'm not sure what tomorrow is going to hold, probably more puzzle-doing and movie watching and candy eating.
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