Isn’t one of the funnest parts of graduation looking at people’s dresses? You know, just to see what people decided to wear? Well, I think its pretty cool comparing dresses. What I don’t like is how it’s a competition of who has the best one. Finding a graduation dress is harder than it seems. I am a bit of a procrastinator, so of course, I bought my dresses just few days before graduation. Wow was it hard to find the prefect dresses! I think that finding the prefect graduation dress is very important. You want to be comfortable, but formal. And you want something pretty, but not overdoing it. Something that makes me laugh is when people spend so much money looking for the perfect dress. I think it is very hard to find the perfect dress, but I would never spend more than $100 on it. Another thing that I was thinking about was, “would I have found something better if I would have gone shopping earlier?” I mean, I love my dresses, but I was wondering if they would’ve been better if I got them a few weeks ago. Getting the perfect graduation dress is so worrying, that I am not kidding, I had a nightmare that I couldn’t find a dress! In the nightmare, it was the day of the graduation, and my mom and I were looking for dresses all over Multiplaza! In my nightmare, I missed the ceremony, and I don’t know if I ever found a dress for the party because I woke up. Haha, you may think that I am exaggerating… but I am not. The reason why I started freaking out a bit a few days ago is because people kept telling me that I wasn’t going to find a dress. A few days ago, when mom and I first went shopping, we saw one of out neighbors in the grocery store, and we told her we were going shopping for my dresses. The neighbor said “Oh, cool. You know, I went all over the mall a few days ago to find dresses for my daughters, but I didn’t find anything.” That made me so nervous! Anyways, I am glad that I finally got the perfect dresses, and I hope it’ll be a fun graduation!

I know this is really off-topic but this is something I want to talk about: SHOPPING. A lot of people don’t understand why girls like to shop so much; I don’t think I really know either, but I do know that it is something I really enjoy. I love shopping, but something I don’t understand is: why are some things so expensive? I mean, you go to some stores in L.A. and it’s $200 just to go inside! I mean, come on! It’s just clothes! Why do some people pay $500 for a pair of sunglasses? Some people call it “high fashion.” I call it “rip off.” People get designer outfits for like, $2000! Why? You could go to a reputable department store and find the same thing on sale for a lot less. I understand that quality is very important in clothes, but don’t waste your money on something you can get for a lower price and the quality is still good. Another question a lot of people also don’t understand is: why do girls have so many clothes? Well, I don’t know what other girls are thinking, but in my opinion, we have a lot of clothes because we either a) Need to buy something in a store we absolutely love, or b) We don’t like to repeat outfits too much, so we like to be able to put different outfits together. Something I don’t like about Costa Rica is that, the stores here are not very good. I don’t mean prices or quality, but all of the clothes look the same. Why is it so hard to find the right pair of jeans? In my opinion, most of the clothes here are meant for the same shape. What I like about shopping in the U.S. is that there are many different fashions that come in all different colors for all sizes and shapes.