"But how will you learn math?!"

My name's Leigh Brownell, and I'm a Rotary exchange student in Spain for the 2010-2011 year!
Day One: A recent foto and 15 hechos interestantes uno: the picture is from my cousin’s concert. he plays in a reggae band, and i stalk them dos: i’m going to spain for a year, hence the reason for this blog tres: i can’t stop speaking spanish. i translate everything subconciously now, especially music cuatro: i like really random music. it’s like, indie for pop culture, but popular for those who are actually into indie music. ex-modest mouse cinco: i have spent the past 8 months preparing for august 31st, 2010. it’s consumed pretty much my whole mind seis: i used to raise seeing eye dogs, which is why i hate poorly trained dogs (like my dog eve). i also hate dogs that bark… which is pretty much all dogs siete: i love listening to people. i think it’s actually fascinating to hear how people put their words together 0ch0: i love giving advice. it works well, seeing as i’m a good listener nueve: i have the worst memory, and if i don’t write things down i will never remember them. thats why my facebook is actually filled out, and why i keep a journal diez: when i’m upset i need to do something creative. usually drawing, painting, reading, and now writing poetry. 0nce: i love movies. any time anyone wants to watch a movie, no matter what we’re doing, i always will doce: i’m really pale. like much paler than i look, and it’s weird when people realize this. and it always ends in a comparison of everyone in the room, seeing the scale of tan-ness trece: i want to be able to do something important. my biggest hope is to help people to a point where i’m remembered long after i’m gone. somewhat selfish, but i’d rather have that than money so i don’t really mind it catorce: i love foreign people. all of them. i converse with just about any spanish person that’s willing to listen to me babble for a minute. i want to learn as many languages as possible quince: i’m constantly thinking. every single minute i’m processing something, so i’m never completely focused on the task at hand, mostly because the things i’m processing will make a break through, and that will need my “focus” for as long as it takes for me to realize i’m not working.

Day One: A recent foto and 15 hechos interestantes

uno: the picture is from my cousin’s concert. he plays in a reggae band, and i stalk them

dos: i’m going to spain for a year, hence the reason for this blog

tres: i can’t stop speaking spanish. i translate everything subconciously now, especially music

cuatro: i like really random music. it’s like, indie for pop culture, but popular for those who are actually into indie music. ex-modest mouse

cinco: i have spent the past 8 months preparing for august 31st, 2010. it’s consumed pretty much my whole mind

seis: i used to raise seeing eye dogs, which is why i hate poorly trained dogs (like my dog eve). i also hate dogs that bark… which is pretty much all dogs

siete: i love listening to people. i think it’s actually fascinating to hear how people put their words together

0ch0: i love giving advice. it works well, seeing as i’m a good listener

nueve: i have the worst memory, and if i don’t write things down i will never remember them. thats why my facebook is actually filled out, and why i keep a journal

diez: when i’m upset i need to do something creative. usually drawing, painting, reading, and now writing poetry.

0nce: i love movies. any time anyone wants to watch a movie, no matter what we’re doing, i always will

doce: i’m really pale. like much paler than i look, and it’s weird when people realize this. and it always ends in a comparison of everyone in the room, seeing the scale of tan-ness

trece: i want to be able to do something important. my biggest hope is to help people to a point where i’m remembered long after i’m gone. somewhat selfish, but i’d rather have that than money so i don’t really mind it

catorce: i love foreign people. all of them. i converse with just about any spanish person that’s willing to listen to me babble for a minute. i want to learn as many languages as possible

quince: i’m constantly thinking. every single minute i’m processing something, so i’m never completely focused on the task at hand, mostly because the things i’m processing will make a break through, and that will need my “focus” for as long as it takes for me to realize i’m not working.