Weekly Update #1 - The Freshman 15

Dear newly added social media resource (aka bloggy),

I'm sorry I've been neglecting you, but you just don't understand how hard it is to update my life on four different platforms of media. I mean, Facebook is hard enough, let alone Instagram, twitter, and now this blog!

Sheesh that's a whole lot of writing to do! Plus I don't even know if anyone really reads this thing anyways, but I guess we shall see.

Weekly update númerouno, here we go:

Today I started a diet. Yes, you read that correctly. My host mom and dad convinced me that in one month I could lose 15 pounds if I followed this crazy regimen with them - and me, being a sucker for all things trendy, decided it might be a good idea. (I was just glad to see that even after having moved to a different country and eaten all sorts of weird foods, I stayed at exactly the same weight I was in the states. Hooray!! On another note though, I have gained weight the past year, so I'm not sure if that's actually something to be cheering about..)

It's been one day and I'm already craving anything and everything with the word "yummy" attached to it.

I don't know if this will actually work, but here's to hoping!

Everyone here has gotten some kind of sickness, and unfortunately I wasn't immune to it completely either. I have a little cold, for what seems like the first time in forever, so I probably had it coming. I'll never take for granted modern medicine again!

I told my host family I felt kind of down in the dumps and they boiled me up some weird lemony broth thing and told me to drink it every day and I would never be sick again. Well.. Alrighty, then.

Teaching has been going swimmingly. I mean that literally, as in I'm dog-paddling to keep my head above water.

I've never had so much respect for my elementary school teachers as I do in this moment. Don't worry, there will be plenty more about these little "angels" in time.

Today I've been sad. Mostly because I remembered it's fall now, and that means Halloween edition Oreo cookies. That I can't have. *que deep depression*

I hope everyone back home is doing well, and now that I downloaded the blog app on my phone I hope to keep updating more frequently!

I love you all!! Xoxo!! 

Katie Rose.