Changes to my blog!

Hello, again!

So... I finally figured out that I can change the name and address of my blog. And as I am no longer a student at AU, I have renamed my blog Kaia's Life in the World, A Range of Activities: Kaia's Life in the World.

With this change, every time you go to my blog you will have to type "kaiaslifeintheworld.blogspot.com" ("kaias life in the world" but without the spaces). I may think of a better address but for now this works.

Happy Friday to all! Have a great weekend.

Love and hugs,


Kaia

New Apartment Bliss! (And post-March Madness)

Our New Apartment!!!

Hello Everyone!

Sorry to have been disconnected for so long. March was MADNESS and my job ate me up completely several times over. It was fun and exciting but SUPER stressful what with 110 new international students, 90 applications in my inbox for next semester, a group of 34 students from Purdue University who I chaperoned/led/hosted for several days of the week they were here, 110 students dropping and adding classes as if adding and dropping were as simple a process as blinking your eye, and over 100 emails in my inbox for the entire month of March. There were several last-minute planning nightmares (changes and almost-cancelations) but in the end everything worked out all right!

Thank goodness April is here! Now things are finally slowing down. I am organizinging this semester's International Fair (April 23-24), next Thursday I am hosting the first Chilean Movie Night at the university (the film "Machuca"), and I am planning the rest of the semester's events while sending acceptance letters and preparing for next semester's batch of students -- already!

These photos are long over-due but I hope you enjoy them! I love our new apartment! Oh, so much.

Lukas and Antonio are finally getting used to the apartment. I usually come home for lunch (it's a 10 minute fast-walk) as Antonio has been making me lunch! We take Lukas out about 4 times a day and he has managed to charm the entire building and neighborhood with his tricks, adorableness and perfect behavior. I can even take him without a leash! He listens to us SO well and sits patiently in the elevator (although I'm pretty sure he still thinks it is a closet we torture him with by making him wait for two minutes before letting him outside. :p

Antonio is 7 minutes walking from his university and is enjoying his second to last semester of classes. He will begin looking for a job soon as he is beginning to feel cabin-fever in the apartment all day! It's been kind of a hard adjustment for him from living in a house in a neighborhood he grew up with, but we went back to visit his Dad last Sunday and had a wonderful time with him. Antonio's Dad even gave him a big hug on greeting him and offered to give us his bedroom tv since we don't have one (we declined for now)! Distance makes the heart grow fonder, as they say!

I will write later but need to get to bed now. So tired! Zumba classes started again this week at the university after work and I am now going two times a week, instead of once a week!  I nearly died after the second class yesterday. Amazing how many muscles we have -- I feel several I didn't know about! :p

Love and hugs to you all!

Love, Kaia