Blogs from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, North America - page 3

Today was the day to check out the UNC campus!!! The thing I have always been waiting for!! We started by checking out the fields, my favorite place on campus. We did all this before our regular tour happened with a real guide. Her name was Dominique and she was a junior on campus. She brought us to a classroom, a library, and also a fitness center. We also walked in to the cafeteria which had a large variety of food. There are over 20,000 students there and they usually only let in 14% of out of state students. The average SAT test score is 1400. My mom says that's high. It is in the perfect location for a college since it has restaurants within walking distance so you don't have to waste gas driving everywhere. ... read more

For the last few days of the trip, we were settling Vanessa in at school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. When we first arrived at her apartment building, we were horrified because the building was poorly designed and there was absolutely no security at the entrance to the building. There were little places where people could just hide behind and just mug you because you didn’t see them there. But we found her a nice apartment in another building, and it was a lot safer. Now she is living there with her two close friends. While we were there, we also hung out with my Aunt Amy, Uncle Joaquin, and constantly growing cousin Iago, who is so cute! Once we ate cupcakes at a cupcakery called Bliss. They sell about six different kinds of cupcakes including ... read more

Today we headed out from Nashville to Chapel Hill to visit Lisa, Jason and Jack. The drive ended up taking much longer than the navigation system, i-phone, and various websites had predicted, but it was definitely a pretty one. Along the way we saw a beautiful sunset over the smokey mountains and felt fortunate to not have seen a single deer! The moon has been quite a sight the past few days, but unfortunately doesn't photograph. We lost an hour during today's trip and feel much closer to our final destination now that we are officially in the east coast time zone! The car is beginning to feel pretty cramped and we a little lazy due to the lack of movement throughout our days. We are looking forward to getting out of the car and actually ... read more

The last few weeks have been rather hectic, what with me traveling around for vacations, moving out of my apartment, and finishing off the last things I need to take care of before heading out to Japan. Tomorrow I fly out to begin my adventures abroad. I have to admit that I'm getting a little nervous. I know that I'll be okay, but I always get nervous about flying, and not because I'm afraid of flying persay, but because I'm dislike airports. They always manage to mess things up. They create stress. The flight itself is relaxing, compared to the airport. I'm just about finished packing up my apartment to move out, but I'll wait until I'm back from Japan to do the final touches, such as cleaning and vacuuming. For now I'm just going ... read more

I have been on the phone for an hour and 10 minutes now telling people over and over again my subscriber number and my "problem". The doctor said I had to call Blue Cross Blue Shield (my insurance), Blue Cross said I had to call Medco and Medco said I had to call Blue Cross. So I talked to Blue Cross and then called Medco and then called Blue Cross back again and they connected me to Medco! This is freaking RIDICULOUS!!!! I swear to the lordy if I am on this phone at 3pm I am going to scream. Oh, and what am I trying to do? I'm trying to get Prior Authorization so I can get a year's worth of birth control pills (because I live in China and it's not logical for me ... read more