Blurb about the Boy

It is true, I do have an American boyfriend- "he'll be my American boy....la la la... :p" so here is the boyfriend 411.

His name is Girish Harinath, His family is full on Indian, but he was born and raised here in New Jersey. He is 25, and works as a cancer researcher at a hospital in New York City. He lives like 10 minutes away from me though, it’s really cool. We have been together for a few months now and it’s honestly been such a joy ride. He is so much fun!  His personality is 5 words would be kind, hardworking, caring, generous, kiddish. Ah man I so love this dude. Here are some of our fun times together (I’ll stop talking about it or some people might throw up it’s so cute :D).  

date to natural history museum :)

comedy club :)

Chipotle in the city, taking the biggest bites we can and smiling :D

driving around on christmas looking at all the lit up houses

christmas morning coffee date

skiing trip with my (gangster)cutsie pie ^^

new years eve (me=sick) waiting for the ball to drop

our infamous dork faces

rollerblading

our starting point- ruby tuesdays

 double dating :D

random city treks

yay okay so now you know a bit more about my man, hehe hope it was entertaining to read. xx

diary entry #?

Dear followers, well I hope I have followers. I would like to say thank you. Thanks for joining me on this most amazing journey ever, today marks the thirteenth  month of being in America, and as much as I miss my beauty, Cape Town, I am loving life in America. Every day I am still learning new things and growing, making new friends and being challenged. Ah I love it!

Anyways, the past two weeks were filled with my sister coming to America, Valentine’s Day party for Jill, and college college college! :)

Shelly came to America last Tuesday and it was cool, we went out for sushi with my boyfriend and best friend, and then out to a bar afterwards for dessert and drinks. It was a fun first night I think. Then during the course of her stay we went out for food a lot, went to a club in jersey which was cool, and went to Menlo Park mall. There they had a dine in movie theatre which we went to after shopping, it was pretty fun. Then we got semi locked out the mall and almost had to walk around the whole mall just to get to our car, but we found some opened door which was good. Anyways we also went to this restaurant at the mall which was like rainforest theme (I was convinced Africa themed). The chairs were like the bottom half of animals and the whole ceiling had like fruit clusters and coconuts and trees and stuff, it was so cool.

some SA and UK goodies...

drive down to the shore

a weird machine that dispenses ice cream:?

rainforest cafe

dine in movies :D

Last Friday I had (what has now become an annual tradition), Jillian’s little girls Valentine’s Day party. It was so cute, she had like 13 girls over and they all decorated cupcakes, made BFF bracelets and ate pizza. I love them so much; it was so nice to be able to do that for them.

Some exciting things coming up, are one of my best friends who went back to Germany, is coming to visit in 2 weeks, and she’s staying for a month! And I have almost the amount of money needed for my gran’s flight. Please pray I am able to sell my brand new still in packaging ipad mini and get the rest of the money :D

Chat soon, xx

Goals for the year

Hey hey :) 

so nothing interesting happened this week really. I've been trying to get into studying- so much reading oh my goodness!! I am however enjoying my class so much and really love what I'm learning.

I was looking through my old blog posts from when i first got here to see if i had any goals or like to do lists for my year in America, and all i found was this bucket list of places to go:

DC

Hollywood

California

Los Angeles

Broadway

Disney world

Liberty stairs

Chicago

Philadelphia

Ohio

Missouri

Virginia

So out of all of these I have been to 

DC

Hollywood

California

Los Angeles

Broadway

Philadelphia

Missouri

and I'll be booking a flight to Ohio real soon for a little vaca at the end of this month

I'd say that's pretty cool :)

Here is my goal list for this year, well the 6 months until i go home

-Save enough to get my granny here

-Save some more for studies

-go skiing again

-Disney world

-Chicago

-Virginia

-see another Broadway show

-become a better version of me by growing and maturing more and more through whatever circumstances come up

we'll see what this year brings, but i hope all of you can set goals and reach them :)