some new shit

today is my friend and apartment-mate's (?) birthday! he is turning 22. his name is nick leo. we are having a sweet ass party for him tonight and i am excited. carly and i are going to paint our faces and i am going to wear my bulls shirt. to me, life cannot get much better. we went to the store today and got a lot of stuff (booze, 2 kilos of oranges and peanuts) and we were all very excited. i also got a pack of uno for the party and uno=fun. carly and i decided to sacrifice our lingua class and clean instead.
the weather the past twoish weeks has been amazing and its so great. its been in the high 60s/low 70s and super super sunny almost everyday. we have gone to the river a lot and hung out down there and we went to the beach again last sunday. it is still very cold at night in our apartment and i still have to wear long underwear (2 on the top one on teh bottom), sweatpants and a wool sweater but its okay beacuse the days are so nice.
tomorrow carly caleb and i are going down to lisbon to meet my PARENTS! i am very excited. my brother is coming from italy on saturday night. there should be some good eating. i am a little nervous because everyone else in my family has been to lisboa except me and i feel as tho i should be the one showing htem around, not the other way. on sunday we are coming back here to coimbra and htey will stay until tuesday. here are places that i am going to take them and have little or no meaning to most of you: campus, the baixa, the river, either the jardim botanico or another garden off of the praca de republica annnddd drum role....PEDRO NUNES my old dorm! i am going to take them there so they can realize how ridiculous it is.
right now i am sitting outside in a square in front of the cathedral a block away from my house and while i may have some issues with the portuguese people-it is really really awesome here.