Home sweet home.

so.. I finally decided to make the big decision to come home.
I do not regret going to hungary and appreciate all the support from everyone but for me coming home was best.

I have been home for almost 24 hours and feel very good about my decision.

I miss everyone in Hungary but being home is an amazing feeling!

It was a great two months...but i can safely say i will not be going outside of michigan for more than 3 weeks for a very very long time:)

venice

I went on a trip to venice last weekend with about 20 rotary exchange students in Hungary. The trip started off wonderfully in Budapest because when i got to the meeting spot i spotted a starbucks from 1000 ft away and started to run. Starbucks felt like home. I ordered my venti soy chai in english and finally someone really understood. Starbucks looks the same on either side of the world.

The bus ride to venice was about 9 hours. none of us minded because it was really great to be back with the other exchange students. We arrived in venice about 9 am and started touring around. We started our day at a little cafe having a typical italian breakfast and then shopped shopped shopped...looked around. Had a wonderful expensive amazing italian pizza then shopped shoppped shopped some more..I could walk around in venice for weeks. Dinner my friend madison and I went to a little restaurant  and had amazing ravioli. walked around and went back to the bus.

It was an amazing trip with some amazing people

:)

Horses? Ok!

Ok so today I am putting my fears aside and going horseback riding:) and I'm strangely excited. I finished my frog sculpture at school today and it turned out pretty cool! Tomorrow i go on a rotary trip to Venice which I think will be amazing :):):) I will post Monday about horses and Venice!!!

i am alive

I guess my puncuality has started to fail after being in hungary a month in a half...blogging two days later than i usually do...it is a crime. sorry to everyone who waits for my blog on mondays=)

Well life has been pretty uneventful school is exactly the same every week so no news there...this past weekend i went to vilanne with my familz and other rotary exchange students. it was very similar to the wine festival in pecs the weekend before.

Homesickness i have confirmed is not the big issue. Language makes up some of my frustration. and with NOTHING being similar to home makes up another large part of my homesickness. I have no european traits so everything is different for me. Dont get me wrong i am enjoying myself here..but i miss home so much. my family here is great but again polar opposite of my family in America.

I continue to say awful things in hungarian trying to say simple words like "run" i accidently yell "penis" excuse my language...or instead of saying i am hot i said i am gay...simple mistakes create humorous situations.

Last night all 5 of us in pecs attended a rotary meeting and said a few sentences in hungarian...dont let this fool you a month into it and i can barely have an introductory convo.

I am talking to home less and less...but I am still very sad here. Ali i know i promised you a happy blog but with today being a not so good day i couldnt make it happen.

When zou are used to living the busiest life possible and then go to another country and have no freinds no job no volunteering...it is a little strange.

I hope to adjust but we will see=)=) 

I miss everzone at home so so much and i think about everyone every day.

I love getting emails and mail and love to send postcards so if you want address or want to give me yours send it to my email=)

margaretsmith713@gmail.com

Maggie

Blah blah

So it's been a pretty un eventful week with not that many up and down feelings just a lot of blah. School is pretty routine now. I know where I'm going and I have an established group of acquaintances.  Thursday I had sculpture class for the first time and it was very fun I sculpted a frog. And Friday I had ceramics class which is always a good time. Friday night my friend Marianna slept over and we went to a science fair at the university where my host dad works. Of course the presentation was in hungarian but we understood one word and both of our faces lit up. Saturday we went to my sisters basketball game which she won by 90 points we made Her a go zsofi sign which I was scared she would hate but I think she liked. Sunday was a wind festival in the city center of pécs and Marianna and my family met up there along with a Canadian boy and his family. It was lots of fun and a good end to the weekend. 

Today I was still in my blah state and just was living my life no happy thoughts and no sad. On Monday's I just have Hungarian less sons and a drawing lesson later in the day I was planning to not attend drawing lesson because I had to get my visa ( it was ready) and en on my way out the door to Hungarian lessons got a text saying they were canceled. So I stayed home today and watched animal planet with thecat:):) Katie smith would be proud

Love everyone 

Maggie

Take me homeeee

Hello:)

So I am alive and well living in Hungary. My feelings about going home are still very strong but it's a day to day thing. It doesn't really matter if i had nothing going on or if I'm busy with my family. Just once I have had enough of sucking it up and trying to be happy all the time I break down and cry for a while talk to friends from home. And the night ends with a smile on my face.

Some people told me having a boyfriend while on exchange would be harder but for me it has only helped. Yes I miss him so much but he supports me being here. And when I am crying to come home somehow he convinces me staying is a better idea. It's been a positive thing for my exchange.

I'm making lots of good friends at school and loving every minute of the school day. It's a good thing I got my year supply off ADD medicine because drawing 4 hours a day I need it!!!! The people at my school are amazing and helpful in every way:)

I would love to say it's been a month and I have perfect Hungarian..... But that is not the case. It is improving for example to day I rode the bus to school with papa and he was asking me lots of questions and I really understood them. And I mix Hungarian and English and just use the vocabulary I know in the middle of an English sentence and slowly the English words will fade out.

So... In short. Life is good here...but that does not mean I wouldn't jump on a plane to go home if I got the chance.

I am determined to try and make this a wonderful experience.

Ps uncle Todd I got your card first and will send a picture of a carp caught in a lake by my town:):):)

Love and miss everyone soooooo much!

Maggie:)

Drawing drawing and more drawing....

Let me just start by saying my homesickness has not gotten any better. Everyday I still want to go home. Though I am having a wonderful time here and everything is perfect school..my family...the food...the atmosphere. It's perfect. But I miss home more than anything. So I will take it week by week and see what happens.

So.... School HA

I think I blogged on Monday after my Hungarian lesson. And before my 4 hour drawing lesson. We had to draw boxes for FOUR hours... But I surprisingly had a very good time. I really love school. The people are amazing. I can't say drawing for 4 hours is my idea of a perfect day but hey..I'm having a great time. I don't sit silently and draw..I don't really ever do anything silently but any teacher I had in America wouldn't be surprised:)(John Mauro) in my classes on Monday's I am with younger kids so They aren't to much better than me...Wednesday's and Thursdays are another story. The students have been drawing hours a day..for the last for years. I have taken many art classes but never was to into drawing but once I get better I think I will like it:)

Tuesday I had another 4 hour drawing class with more boxes and then my color theory class where we made color wheels and let me tell you I have never struggled so much with such a simple project. Luckily I could work with my friends who speak English and Hungarian so we got the instructions and attempted the color wheel. After that another class where I don't understand a word, but of course managed to have a good time:) I wanting home more than ever Tuesday I don't know what it was but that evening I desperately wanted to be on a plane home. I did Skype with my dad after school and that was very fun:) he's still just as goofy as when I left:):):) miss my daddio:(

Wednesday a class of drawing with the 5th year students who are very good and draw things way beyond my ability but I try...and the teacher accepts anything with a face and legs so I usually can do it:) HUnGARiAN lesson #2 with all the pecs exchange students which was very fun and we learned about the same stuff as on Monday but it's always fun to get together.

And then... It was time for art history. It's a boring class for the students but when I can't understand it is 100 times worse. If it wasn't 4 hours I think it would be alright. The break times are what make it fun... Chatting with all the students learning Hungarian swear words..learning random Hungarian words or just speaking English all make school worth it:)


Today we had to draw for 6 hours straight which was entirely exhausting but kind of fun. Today was the first day I really felt just like a normal student at school (except for the fact I can't speak:)) life is great here..but that doesn't seem to ever take the homesickness.

My family is so great and thy let me try to speak Hungarian with them and do their best to deal with my crazy homesickness.

It's weird what being Ina foriegn country has done to me. I used to be 100% independent and one I feel like I cant do anything. Maybe thats why I miss home so much.. I don't know I don't know. Hopefully we see a complete turn around in my brain in the next few weeks:):)

Well I still enjoy getting postcards and hearing frmeveryone even if I don't have all the time to reply. I truly enjoy hearing from everyone:):)

Maggie

290 days:)

Sorry to all who look Forward to reading my blog every day  it's been crazy

So I had a very busy week with my first almost full week of school. Things are good but I'm still very home sick. I would like to come home but mom says I stick it out for thirty more days.. Its a weird feeling because I love it here some of the time but also all I want is to be home:)

Tuesday I had drawing class for 4 hours..I have taken so many art classes but never any drawing so it was very very different. After drawing we went to a class where we learn about colors. You would think it would be easy to understand because it's just about mixing colors but it was no easier than any other class. BUT I made a few friends the first day of class. They showed me around to places where to get art supplies on Wednesday but on Tuesday they were very helpful and kind as well. We were suppose to have a folk art class but due to a meeting with the head master we didn't attend. 

Wednesday we had a drawing class in the morning and had a art history class in the afternoon. The art history class was no where near interesting mostly because I understood one word and the was paint brush. For lunch we went to a little restaurant with a classmate and it was very nice:) we went home for the day and honestly I don't remember what I did that night because I waited to long to blog. :)

Thursday I had to be to school by 730 to go to another school and draw ALL day. Drawing is not my thing..I can't draw. I like to paint I like to make ceramics but I dont like to draw but I guess i will learn to like it if I am doing it 4 days a week:)  in  two weeks I don't have to draw on Thursdays anymore thankfully!!

Friday we were leaving for the first rotary conference where all the rotary exchange students in Hungary would  meet for the first time. It took place in debrecen which is on the other side of Hungary from us. Soooo 6 hours on the train it is. The train ride was fun but long. We finally arrived and met all of the other exchange students including The ones we had met the previous weekend. Saturday we got a rules session and were informed about the different trips during the year. We were allowed about 4 hours to walk around the city so we walked around and had a coffee and went back for dinner the weekend was pretty un eventful and I think made me more homesick. We will see.  Sunday it felt nice to be home and finally relax and take a CLEAN shower. I Skyped with mom which was nice and then I Skyped with Michael for a little bit which always makes me happy:) Ali I got you letter and loved it.. Also mommy carol your post card was so cute:):):) 

Miss everyone so much but I will be home in 292 days!!!!

Maggie

Fish friends and hiking

Today....I have been here two weeks and they have been the worst and the best two weeks of my life. I have never misses home, my friends, my family, my boyfriend so much. The fact that I am not returning anytime soon is not an enjoyable feeling. Yes I have a wonderful mom who is going to come visit and a equally as wonderful boyfriend who is making the journey as well:) the experience here is wonderful and indescribable. The only thing missing Is all the people at home I care about and my captn crunch:):)

Saturday I woke up at 7am to ride with a wonderful couple from the rotary club here to a fish soup festival 3hours away. I was excited and annoyed I was attending this.  I HATE fish and waking up early but though I don't liken large crowds of people I do like festivals and I liked the idea this festival had a river running g through the middle of it. I MISS THE LAKE!!!  Every day I realize more and more how lucky was to live on the water. Anyways... All the exchange students from pecs were going I assumed it would be a good time. About 10am we arrived and it was a very usual festival though the air really stunk of fish:)  there were tons of people making fish soup  in which carp is the fish of choice. Some body correct me if I'm wrong but I though in the states we didn't eat carp??? But whatever. We could choose which pot of soup we wanted to eat from and so Of course the one I chose waS the fishiest tasting of them all  and the first bowl that we scooped had the HEAD of the fish in it!!! I took a bite and I think if I liked fish it would have been good. Unfortunately that is a food I have never liked. We met up with exchange students from a few other cities in Hungary. It was very nice to meet them and here their first week stories and share mine. We toured around the city and just chatted while we walked it was a wonderful day in Hungary .

Just while typing the word hungary I kind of got weirded out I still don't think it has hit me I am in HUNGARY? Weird weird weird. 

My family just keeps getting better and better. My sister is wonderful and mom and dad are just as great. The food here is going to make me plump very very quickly.  It's wonderful food and I seem to not be able to help myself:)

Sunday morning I woke up around 930 and went to the grocery store and while my host mom was buying some pork or something normal I glanced over and BRAIN caught my eye. Yes in hungary you can buy brain to eat.. Eww gross gross gross:) don't worry also within a few inches of the brains were kidneys livers and any other body part you may want of an animal. 

We went home had a nice lunch and just spent the day at home after we watched a movie called beware America I think which was verryyyy funny. Dad sis and I went on a hike to the top of a very large mountain/hill by our house.  It was about an hour up and an hour down...it got dark while we were up at the top and let me tell you the hungarian forest isn't any less scary than the ones in America:):):):):) we made it there...we made it home life was good and I had a wonderful time.

Right now most kids are in school here but unless there was an error in translation I don't have school on mondays so currently I am sitting at a cafe in the main square enjoying the nice weather and people walking by.

Well I am now in the 200s for days until I come home 
:)

Maggie

well...

since i last blogged a lot has happened.

part one... I hung out with my exchange friends in the city center before going to......SCHOOL my school had their opening ceremonies on wednesday which pretty much is like the principal talks to students in a large group setting. This wasnt all that exciting just because of the fact I could understand nothing. It was nice in all but when  something funny was said, I didnt laugh because welll i dont understand more than a few words of hungarian.

pat two... School started on Thursday which i was excited/ nervous for. I was going to a school in which language was not the focus therefor not many people to talk to at the beginning. The school was trying something new this year by having the students do clean up around the school for the first two days. So on thursday i scraped rust off of a hand rail HA. It was fun I met a few students who spoke a little english and for a few hours we scraped rust together. The  school day was over and well it was not the typical first day of school I am used to...just one more thing that is different here=] ps is you see a z instead of a y it is because on the hungarian kezboard the z is in the place i am used to having the y haha


part three.... Day 2 of school.. well similar to the first day but i found more english speaking students and I think i made a few friends=] we painted today instead of scraping rust mazbe that was what made today better!!!

after school i met up with a few of rekas friends at a little cafe. they were all very wonderful nice people just as i expected and I think i will spend some time every once in a while with them!!!


Today I did laundry for the first time since being here and like i possibly expected i am allergic to the detergent so when i put on my sleeping shorts..i quickly broke out in hives. YAYYY so tomorrow the task is to find some detergent I am not allergic too=]=]

well my brain is very tired from trying but failing misribly at understanding todaz so i hope every keeps reading these and time is alreadz flying

ALSO I GOT MY FIRST MAIL TODAy... thank zou jordan chusid<3

love love
Maggie

friends?

MONDAY

Well on monday all of the rotary exchange students, host parents, and councelors got together at one of the families house so we could all meet and just talk about rules and our next host families and so on...it was great and made me feel so happy to finally meet friends my own age who are doing the same thing I am. All of the kids are very nice and i am feeling much more comfortable saying this will be a good year.

TUESDAY

At 1130 i had a meeting at my new school ( instead of the reformatus i will be attending an art school) me and Saulo a boy from brasil will both be going to the art school as 5th year students so we have all art classes. sounds good to me!!!!!
I had a meeting at the imigration office to turn in mz visa application  and from what i know it went very well!

At night I attended my first hungarian rotary meeting and it was much different than mine in grand haven but it went well.

maggie

The wedding

This weekend my family took me to a wedding on lake balaton. We left saturday morning and arrived to Balaton about noon. We walked around saw a beautiful church and had a wonderful lunch at a restaurant overlooking the lake:) after lunch we went a little further around the lake to the place we were staying it was about a block up from the water so after we said hello to everyone we went down and took a dip in the lake, I must say fir the first time I was glowing of happiness to be back by the water again I almost forgot I was in this foreign place. Since I have had a somewhat hard first week feeling like I was at home was the only thing I wanted. We only had time for a quick swim because we all had to shower before the wedding. I accidently didn't take any pictures but in my head remember everything quite vividly. The wedding was below a event hall in a cellar and was very similar to an American wedding. But the feel in the cellar was wonderful:) after the wedding we went outside and up the stair to the place of the reception and that as well was much like an American wedding. There was lots and lots of wonderful food and my place was next to a niece of my host parents who spent last year in long island new York. Her and I chatted almost the entire reception about her experience and what I should expect here. Talking to her made me feel much more at ease and she reassured me things would get much better. She is the same age as me and I think will be a great friend to have this year. The wedding was wonderful and at about 1:30 we headed back to the hotel and I just crashed and for the first time since I have been here indidnt cry myself to sleep. I'm not sure if it was the encouraging conversation I was having all night, the fact that I was so tired, or the fact That I was I. My comfort zone of speaking english for 5 hours straight. I don't really care what it was i just know it was a good night. Don't get me wrong there isn't annhour that goes by that I don't think about wanting to be home but I am seeing that everyday for the most part it is getting easier and easier:)

Yesterday we spent the day at the other side of the lake but it wa a bit chilly but we had a nice day and again I felt very at home hearing the waves and being in the water.

Last night I had a little panic attack and was missing home very much. While talking to my mom she asked my host mom to try and take me to a doctor so when I do get a panic attack during this stressful time I will have a medication to ease the situation. Dori the family member who was in new York had homesickness while she was away and took a natural medication that worked for her. So last night they offered for us to come get it so I can take it. I took it last night and we will see how it works:) this homesickness thing us very new to me I have been away for long periods of time.. Not a year ever but I have never felt anything like this before so it's an adjusting time for me and hopefully with school starting on Thursday and tonight I will meet all of the other exchange students I will start to not feel as homesick:)

Overall I am enjoying myself here... Even though I am struggling to be away from home:)

Maggie:)

Things get better

Yesterday we went to the shopping mall and I was more interested in people watching and didn't really care to look at any clothes. I was trying to see how people my age dress and it seems to be very much like the US where kids wear such a wide range of clothing. So I guess I will have to wait for school to start to see what most kids in my school wear:)

Since I have been here I have eaten 3 square meals everyday made by mom or grandma. I do not remember the last time that for a week straight my family has had every meal together so that is something i enjoy saying. I still haven't met any kids my age:) life is good here and most days my host sister and I spend a good amount of time practicing Hungarian.

This morning I woke up to Skype -Michael and that was a great start to my day. Directly following my Skype session zora(mom) sister and I practiced taking the bus to my school. I have to be good at it because if I were to get lost I don't know how to speak to ask for help:) my school is beautiful and I heard I will get a student to bring me around the first day who speaks English well!

Did I mention it is 100+ degrees here?!?!?

Today was a 100% increase in my happiness here in Hungary. I understand simple questions (some of the time) and my family just seems to get better and better. My host mothers parents live in the house and speak about 4 words of English. It is usually silent between them and I just because we can't speak to one another and my host mom and dad are constantly translating their questions for me and TODAY grandpa (papa) asked me how old I was in Hungarian and I knew how to reply which doesn't seem to exciting but it was the first step in the right direction.

Well my ADD has kicked in and I'm done for the day:)

Maggie

Day 2 and 3

Home is defiantly where the heart is...I miss it very much. I could not be having a better time here with my family but I love my home and these last few days have been struggle.

Though I have about the vocabulary of a dog my Hungarian is improving. Just today I bought a book that is called something like Hungarian to get by... I qam struggling with the language as well. Me who is usually very chatty finds myself very quiet because well I dontunderstand most of what is being said.

I am usually a tag a long eith mom and go around the town and so far I have been to two different schools I have seen a Hungarian library hospital and many groceries and todaywewent to a water park!!! The food here is wonderful I will be gaining very much weight:)

Well I should go to bed I wil blog again soon!!!

Maggie

First day....

My first steps off the plane iwas greeted by my happy family and we all had grins ear to ear. We toured around Budapest all day and I saw a lot. We had a great little breakfast at a cafe on the street which Was for me perfect. After breakfast we did things all tourists do (see facebook for photos) after our full day of sightseeing we came home I unpacked everything put out some pictures that brought a few tears just because it was the reality I will not see my best friends, family member fora whole year. We went out for a very nice dinner where I tried the first food iwas a little scared to try. Goose liver fat it ended up tasting good but the word goose liver was a little scary:) my first day was wonderful. My family is amazing and I'm surei will have an amazing year!! Yesterday was amazing until about 10pm when I just broke down crying. I left a lot behind at home and I will not lie and say it is easy to leave everything. I had a rough hour but talked to my mom, michaeland hailey and finally was at peace and fell asleep. I woke up this morning and it's a beautiful sunny day and I can't wait to get out and enjoy it so..that's all for now

Maggie:)

Wow

The journey 

Well as I am just arriving in Budapest I have had a very long  few days starting thursday with a goodbye party which was wonderful (thanks to everyone who came) I have a wonderful life in grand haven and I already can't wait to come home:) this year will be hard for me because I love my grand haven life but I don't imagine the little town disappearing  in the next Ten and a half months. Friday I had some close friends over and spent my last hours with them and then Saturday I woke up and went to the airport and said goodbye to all of the people who had to be the last group of people to see me!!  My flight from Chicago to Frankfurt was nice I watched a movie..slept...and chatted with the boy sitting next to me who's family just moved to the USA. Flight from Frankfurt ti Budapest was a short one and I had a row of seats to myself so I wrote this blog and napped:) I forgot to mention in the Frankfurt airport went into a bathroom which I thought had a woman's sign on the outside but apparently they do the boys/girls bathroom all in one but the man standing in the stall when I walked in was the first of many weird situations I will encounter. I have been randomly crying on and off since Friday night. It isn't that I am unhappy it's just a huge life adjustment and I eventually get into the swing of things and everyone's life will be good:):):)

Well I will blog tomorrow about how the first 30some hours went

Maggie:)

6 days...

Well this past weekend (my last weekend in the United States) My mom, Dave, Michael and  I took a trip down to chicago. We went to Ikea and went back to the hotel and the next morning continued our journey about an hour and a half more..and arrived at the home where reka who is the daughter of my first host family in Hungary. She was very nice and calmed my nerves a little more. Her english was perfect and she had nothing negative to say about Hungary or the United States. She just arrived here this past thursday so everything here is very new to her. Anyways it is my last week and life is great:)

yikes

With a week or so left in good ol' Grand Haven, MI I am busier than ever..which I thought I couldn't get any busier.
 Starting about a week ago we have been eating at my favorite restaurants, having my favorite dinners every night. So far it has been The Station, Fricanos, mom made tacos at home and tonight is Mongolian bbq:)

I could not be any worse at saying goodbye. I have said goodbye to my sister (in July) that actually went well it was kind of weird because I felt like we acted like we would see each other in about two hours. Last Monday was my last day working at the Grand and for the first time I cried when saying goodbye to oddly enough people I have only known for about a year. The Brinks are a very nice couple who I see every week and get a little worried when they don't walk in the door at 5 pm. We chat every week about what has happened in my life and and about me leaving but I never thought our relationship was one where I would literally start balling. Moral of the story is...I sense that  I will be crying a lot in this next week!

I am very excited yet very nervous...I will tell you it is the weirdest feeling because I want to go but I would be perfectly ok with skipping all the goodbyes and the plane ride :) Did i mention I don't actually have a departure date yet. That is what makes me most nervous because I cant really plan anything because who knows I might already be gone. I am a day/ hour countdown person and well with this I have not been able to.

Well...life isn't to exciting yet but when it is I will be sure to let everyone know.

I am going to visit my host families daughter south of chicago this weekend (she arrives today from Hungary and she will be spending the year in the U.S. I am very excited for that just because its my first glimpse of what the next year of my life is going to be like. My family seems to be amazing and excited to have me so I really am looking forward to leaving.

BYE!:)

Journey of a lifetime

This will be my blog for my year abroad in Hungary. 

As most of you know about 13 months ago I decided to fill out an application that would change my life forever. After 25 or so pages of application, to many doctor visits to count on one hand, and 6 million pages of paper. I was registered for the first Rotary conference where students would be interviewed and paperwork would be reviewed to decide who is accepted and who is not. I didn't really share my plans of going on exchange with many people until after the November conference when I found out I was accepted. On the application there is a page with 40 or so countries listed that each student ranked. My top 5 countries were 1. Australia 2. Argentina 3. Norway 4. Hungary 5. Croatia. They were all over the world because honestly I had no preference where I ended up, from the get go I knew that where ever I ended up I would have the experience of a life-time. Minutes before I turned in my final country choices I was chatting with a friend who spent his exchange year in Hungary and lets just say there was a 1 removed from 14. Hungary and little did I know erasing that tiny little line to put Hungary as #4 would determine that is where I would spend my year. Don't get my wrong there is no part of me that is not excited to go there..but sometimes I wonder if we didn't have a conversation 5 minutes before I turned the sheet in where i would be getting on a plane to in two months:)

So I didn't actually find out where I was going until the February conference in Wawa, Canada. If you want to know the whole truth about that weekend. When they said I was going to Hungary the first thing that popped into my head was  "where exactly is Hungary?" I knew very little about the country but still was very excited and the excitement has been building ever since.

It is now June and I have been attempting to learn Hungarian, Found out I will be living in

Pécs, Hungary, and I have been in contact with my first host family. They seem extremely nice and have made me that much more comfortable with the idea that in about 2 months i will be getting on a plane to arrive in an unfamiliar place where I will be spending a year of my life.

With the full support of my family and friends I have a feeling it is going to be a great year. I am leaving a lot behind but in some way it will all be here when I return. I am going to try and keep up on this blog while I'm gone but my forgetfulness and attention span of a puppy may make it a not all that consistent thing...but I will try:)

Thats all for now!

Maggie