And here we go again....

So! It's been awhile. Almost three months since my last post. And what a three months it was. First off, two months at the beach....? heavenWhat?? Get up late, eat, go to the beach, play ping pong, eat, sleep some more, go out... every. single. day. More than two months I was living the life of a king. Especially the week when my family went back to the city. I, quite unwillingly, stayed at the beach apartment alllll byyy myyyseeelllff. What a pity... stuck at the beach with and apartment to myself, with cable television, Playstation 2, and a maid to do all my cooking and cleaning. Man, lemme tell ya, it was rough... almost didn't make it through the week.
But now back to reality. Class started last week at the University. I am currently attending the Universidad La Catolica de Santa Maria. It's a nice little university about 15 minutes in bus from my house. One of my favorite parts about it is that I am attending the University as a free student, meaning I can take whichever class I want from any major I want from any year that I want. That works out well because I have a few classes with friends from last semester and I have started a few classes from the first year. I wanted to start a few classes from the beginning because I would actually like to learn something this time around. Last semester I started about two months before the end of the year and really wasn't able to absorb much. Hopefully this semester will be more productive. I have some friends from the beach that are in the same university. I see them sometimes but most of the time I'm with friends from last semester.
Anywho. Things in general have improved a lot since I first arrived here in Peru. Now I've got a bunch of friends, my Spanish is pretty good, and I'm busy enough not to have so much downtime being bored. And about friends, I haven't only found that I now have a decent number of friends, but I've found that I am beginning to see which ones are really friends, the type that I would come back in a few years to see. It doesn't take much to become a friend, but it takes a lot to become a true friend. I'm interested to see with whom I keep in contact after I leave this place. It's surprising who you keep in contact with. I see it now that it has been some time after graduating high school. Some people that you think you'd be friends for life with... contact is sorta lost after a while, and some people that you you think you'll never talk to again end up being the people that you talk to everyday. I'm anxious to see who I'll stay friends with from here.
What else? Oh, holidays. I found that the hardest holiday for me was St. Patrick's Day. The other holidays were tough too but not as tough as St. Patty's Day. I think it's because I was in contact much more with everyone from home during all of the other holidays. The whole summer I barely talked with anyone... so towards the end of the summer I started to get more and more homesick. St. Patty's Day I called and talked to everyone and it made me so happy and excited to talk to them again. It was like a little reminder that yes, I will go back and get to see those people again! And there isn't much time left now. Much more than half of my exchange is over. The summer has passed, my birthday, birthdays of friends and family, holidays, all sorts of stuff has already passed by. And I'm sure that Time isn't going to take a break and slow down. It seems like I just got back from the beach, but in reality it's been almost three weeks. It's been almost three weeks since I got back from the beach, three weeks is almost a month, and just three and a half of those are left. Since my first day here in the city time has slowly but surely sped up from a crawl, to a walk, a run, exponentially increasing, quickening, exploding with each passing day.

Bueno, it's time for me to get to bed. Tomorrow and Friday I don't have class because of Holy Week... not sure what I'll be doing. We'll see.
Love,
Jack