who i'll be living with for the next two years (not including the bat and rat)

so i don’t know how much i’ve actually written about yvonne (vonnie) contreras, but she’s a friggin baller. we’re not exactly sure how they found out about us, we’re almost certain they pulled some houdini magic slash interrogated our families and friends to find out exactly what we were like and decided that we would be the perfect match for each other! i’m pretty sure we’re the best housemate pair-up in the history of PC mozambique if not the world! so why do i say that?? because we are the exact opposite and exactly the same all at the same time and in perfect situations! haha cuz we like a lot of the same music (except that she likes country… she keeps saying she’s going to convert me, but i seriously seriously doubt that… and she just listens to it at night on her ipod before bed… thank goodness ^.^) we love watching tv and movies(we’ve watched FNL, weeds, how i met your mother, greys, glee, always sunny, and about 100 movies already), we love love love eating and love all sorts of candy(but even with candy if there’s a bag of an assorted mix, we usually like the opposite things and that also worst out perfectly!), and we are non-stop gamers! last i counted we had 22 different games that we play on a fairly consistent basis, and that’s not even including all the different card games we could be playing. so those are just a few of the ways that we’re similar, but the really awesome thing is how we’re complete opposites. the biggest one is that she likes to clean, and anyone who knows me knows how much i hate it. i hate hate hate doing dishes especially, and i don’t know that she actually likes it, cuz i don’t believe her when she says she does, but she doesn’t like to cook, or more that she doesn’t know really how, so i cook and am slowly teaching her how to, but she’s a master potato peeler and vegetable dicer btw, and she in turn cleans! it’s seriously one of the most glorious trade-off compromises to be made in life ever. so yeah von’s from california as well, central cali, and went to SD state, and she came to teach biology, but is only teaching one class of that… haha figures, but yeah she’s teaching 4 classes of physics and 2 more of english! the poor thing has to do three different subject lessons plans, and 10 actual lesson plans per week… YIKES! but she’s a trooper and she’s super “popular.” she pins it on having a big family, but we’re sticking to popularity. i think she gets more txt messages from the us than moz, and i think she’s gotten at least 8 packages just during the 3 months that we’ve been living together (not counting the 2months in training). and we’re not talking letters or little mailers, we’re talking big mamma jamma boxes every time packed with all sorts of goodies from food and candy to school supplies to more games! like i wrote last time, i’ve gotten 3, one of which i packed for myself… and i would be extraordinarily jealous except that i get to partake it all of its gloriousness cuz von’s super generous and she loves me = ]. oh also we’ve learned that she likes all things korean. i’ll cook random korean things and make really really korean things like cucumber kimchi and she LOVES it! haha it’s bizarre but hey i’m not complaining! she also mastered playing gong-gi in 2 days and i’m currently teaching her how to read and write korean and then hopefully teach her basic conversational korean and then we can totally talk about other ppl right in their faces in korean! haha jk, but not really cuz that would be super cool!!! ok that's about it, but as you can see, she's amazing and we're super excited to be living together! ok until next time~ byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

panda