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I don’t know if some other places people celebrate this, but in Chile we have a calendar of saint days (translation for “santoral”, according to Wordreference.com) and we celebrate our “saint’s day” (translation for “santo”, according to the same source) once a year.Here’s some info regarding this topic:

- Wikipedia: Calendar of Saints
- Northwest Indiana Catholic Online: Saints Prayers an info regarding Calendar of Saint Days
- CatholicForum.com: Calendar of Saints

Anyway… The thing is, today is my saint’s day! In Spanish is “San Andrés y Santa Andrea”’s day and I’ve checked and it seems in English is only “Saint Andrew”’s day. So… Even though this is not like, a huge celebration or anything, I always expect people to remember my saint’s day. I try to remember my friends’, even it’s kinda hard. Some people don’t even have a saint’s day (like my mom) because their names come from other languages and are not included in the Spanish calendar of saint days. But usually not many people do. Usually, only my mom and, maybe, my sister will be the only ones to remember it.

This year, since things have been a little tough lately, I thought nothing would happen today. And yet, my mom gave me a gorgeous present: 3 wonderful books!!!! But not just any book. It’s a trilogy written by C.S. Lewis, called the SPACE TRILOGY. In Spanish, it’s called the “Trilogía Cósmica” and… It’s crazy, really. I don’t remember if I told you that, some weeks ago, we went to the mall to, supposedly, buy some clothes because we needed t-shirts and stuff. That day nothing went too well and I ended up in the books section of the department store we were buying in, reading a book. The book I was reading was the 1st one of this trilogy by C.S. Lewis: OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET. I was only able to read up to chapter 6 but I loved the book and the way it was written. That day we couldn’t buy it because the three books were expensive and my mom hadn’t that much money to spend it in all 3 books. So she bought me a Kawabata Yasunari one instead. But now, for my saint’s day, she remembered and bought me the three books!!! So now I’ll have looooots of stuff to read!!!! ❤_❤

So I’m pretty happy. Also, my sis called me and wished me a happy saint’s day (even though she won’t come back home until around 1 am… -_-) and that was very touching. I thought she wouldn’t remember it, considering the circumstances!!!! :_)

And… Well. Apart from that, it’s been a relatively good day. I got a good mark in the Japanese/Spanish Interpretation final I had today and it was waaaay better than what I expected (considering I didn’t even study for it…) so I’m satisfied. And I have all day ahead of me to play Maple, watch STARGATE SG-1 or whatever I feel like doing. Maybe I’ll spend the day reading! Right now, I’m starting to read THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, by Tom Clancy, after finishing the FERDINAND AND ISABELLA TRILOGY by Jean Plaidy. Which reminds me that I really need to keep track of what I’m reading… I may check out the “lists” you can created with the template editor of Blogger, to see if I can create an easy-to-update list of whatever I’m reading. That’s an important part of my life (books, I mean) and I should include it here somewhere, don’t you think? o.o

So… I’m gonna go and see what can I do about it and see if I can play a little before STARGATE SG-1 starts. The episodes FOX is broadcasting every afternoon are… OMFG, so incredibly touching and exciting and GREAT!!!! I’m just in love with that series… ❤~ I also wanna do a post devoted to a friend, because I wanna cheer her up, so… I’ll see ya all later.

Bye~