Annie Jones on: Happiness

Woah. Honestly, who would have thought that I'd be this happy at this stage in the game? At this point, it's supposed to be my low, low time, but honestly, how can I be low when all these good things are going on around me?? Life is beautiful!

There's a new exchange student in town. She's pretty cool, from Africa. We went shopping the other day with a few girls from my school. They kept asking her questions and she doesn't speak spanish, nor do they speak english. So I tried my best to translate. No, I didn't even try. It just came to me. I could translate everything and understand everything down to the single word.

I'm not fluent, but I'm getting there and the way my classmates looked at me, I'll never forget it. I remember Pia's face best. It was a good smile, a smile that was that of a proud person. I could read it in her face. She was saying 'I told you that you'd be able to do it one day.'

My birthday isn't too far off. I'll be 17 and that seems so crazy. It doesn't seem possible that in only one more year I'll be legal. I get to have a party, and I'm excited to get all my friends together and say that these are the people I love, and I get to be with all of them at the same time. A cake, the Argentine night sky, and cuarteto. How wonderful.

I recieved Katie in the mail and I've been sleeping like a baby ever since. It's so amazing the power that little stuffed bear has over me. I cried so many times because I lost the bloody thing. When I openned the package at the post office, it was everything I could do not to cry in front of everybody. I was in the best mood I'd been in for a long time.

And I get to spend Christmas in Argentina....

And last: Annie has a boy half now. Okay, not a boy half. I don't really like him that way, but he really likes me. He messages me on my phone all the time. It's sweet, but I'm almost 17, and he's 15 1/2. He doesn't see what the problem is. 1. I like someone else....even though it's hopeless and he'll never like me, I know I've got a GREAT friend. 2. That's majorly robbing the craddle.

It's odd. A good odd. Everything is. Except Bush. He's just...odd.