I loved building the house. It was not always fun having to go around doing menial tasks like picking up the mess we made, but it was so damn satisfying getting a job done like roofing in only half a day. We only brought twelve people with us and there are only a few others that helped us there, but we still got it done in only three days! It took the same amount of time last year with thirty people. I had two friends that went too and made the trip one HELL of a lot more exciting. It was really fun and really rewarding and I will do this again next year. Another factor that was essential for this week to be so damn awesome: Hedieh. We would text each other whenever I had free time. It was funny because no one else could text back home because their plans would charge them internationally. I have pay as you go and parents that insist on buying copious amounts of minutes. We talked about a bunch of stuff. It mostly had to do with musical recommendations. We also plan on doing a lot more stuff together from now on. She asked if I wanted to just focus on her from now on (i hate using the words boyfriend and girlfriend, don't know why)and, as a response, I had her listen to Crackin' Up by Caesars. She liked that a lot. Strange how our relationship totally changed in five days we didn't even see each other. I bought a bunch of stuff for her: some talavera bowls, (which is this brightly colored mexican pottery) and this ceramic mexican couple that is just so fucking adorable! I kept in mind she'll probably never go to mexico. Hedieh says that the reason she had a crush on me in the first place was because I'm a hell of a lot more polite than any guy at my school and I have a different sense of humor and that I'm just generally a nice person. The texts we would send each other showed her a side that NOBODY ever sees which is the side that contains all the romantic musings I have time for (a lot). Just from what I've said to her in the past few days, she says she's really lucky. This is nice. This is all very nice. GODDAMN AP TESTS!!!

A lot of stuff has happened in the past month and I don't even remember all of it anymore. I'll just skip to the most recent happenings. I'm going to Mexico for spring break tomorrow. Not to Cancun or any vacation spot, but to Tijuana to build a house for a poor family. Don't think I need to tell anyone how bad border towns can get. I'm not exactly going because I'm a world conscious person with a heart made of gold. It's more because if I didn't go, I'd spend all of break in the pits of self-loathing because I'm not a world conscious person with a heart made of gold. I still kinda don't want to go, though. I asked Hedieh to prom. Goddamn it, Mario. You're taking your cues from your dreams now? Not really. I probably wouldn't have asked if it wasn't for good ol' Nathan not really wanting to go to prom with his girlfriend and not having any other friends there. I told him I would if... then he cut me off and told me I should ask Hedieh. Then he said that I NEEDED to ask her to prom. We talked for an hour about a bunch of other random crap. It was a productive night, actually. So I asked for her number because he had it. Then I had to go home and ask my parents if they'd even let me. My dad went on for literally an hour about how I should ask in person, even if I had no time to get the bids. My mom told me to go for it! I called, she answered, and I was denied. She told me that she would love to go, but she already knew what her parents would say, which is a BIG no. Her parents are ultra-religious Muslims (ULTRA!) and won't let her go to dances and parties and the such. She's snuck out before, though. Ah, well. Also went to the beach today. I feel good. But damn! I'll be gone all week. Let's hope everything is safe.