Tuesday, January 12, 2010

All Signs Point to Block 49

I feel that this upcoming event is blog-worthy for sure. My last night of sleeping among the bugs is behind me, and I am now going to be moving to a different block that is bug-free and soon to be shared with Christina. Christina told me that she owes my uncle arthur her first born child for doing this for us. We are so excited to be roommates in 18 days (and counting). Until then, I will still probably be spending more time in her room than in mine.
Last night we met at Cant 2 with the original crew + Frank from Germany. However, due to my stomach ache the other night from the food there (green waffles?? hmm....) and the flies buzzing around it, the 2 of us went to Cant A on campus to get some better food. I got subway and she got some pasta and then we got a McDonalds vanilla cone, which was absolutely delicious. The 3 minutes it took us to eat them was the quietest we had ever been this whole trip. So if you want to shut us up, you know what to get us.
We have also become pros at catching the bus. Christina always spots the bus coming, yells "There it is!" and Im the one who takes off running followed by her. We somehow always make it at the last minute, out of breath, panting, and laughing like crazy.
But yesterday it started pouring like there was no tomorrow. Being from SD, a place that rains about once a year, I was truly dumbfounded at first. We of course had no umbrella, so we had to suck it up and walk in the rain.
Anyways, at Cant A we sat down and planned out our Thailand trip over spring break, Looks like we are going to be flying to Bangkok for the first part of the week, then Phuket for the last part. The boys will probably be going to the Festival on an island off of Thailand, but we aren't sure. Unfortunately Alexis and Melissa will be going off doing a two week tour of 12 cities throughout southeast asia. But it should definitely be quite the adventure.
Yesterday the exchange students had to do the student's pass process, which probably couldnt be more complicated if they tried. Of course, I forgot my passport in my room so I had to take the bus back to get it. Christina doesnt have a cell phone so I was constantly calling Tobias to talk to her and then Daniel and I came back to campus to get in line for the pass but of course then the office closed for lunch so we had to wait an hour then all the students came back and I met even more people from even more places!! I also had to go on campus to take some passport photos of myself in a booth which is always fun.
Goodbye block 52. The best memory here has probably been the other night in the common room (aka Daniel's room) with Roel and Christina and Daniel. It was yet another night consisting of a long talk. I became so delirious and tired around midnight, that as we were asking whether our country's had certain things, like sayings or jokes or gestures, I asked if Australians and Dutch people celebrated Thanksgiving. Im pretty sure I made Jessica Simpson look like a genius with that one.

Anyways, next post will be from a new bug free room. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. And Uncle Arthur too.

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