Last night, I went to my first club: Double O. After spending the whole day with Susana and Fernanda, seeing how nice and big and clean and bug free both their dorms are, I came back to get ready. Fern accidentally burnt Susana's poor hair while trying to straighten it, giving her a permanent curl on the side of her head and making the burnt area completely die and fall out. It was a crisis indeed; luckily they came over and used my straightener and finished getting ready here. Christina met up with us and we took off to make a glorious entrance into Canteen 13 in our going out dresses and heels and makeup. Im not even going to try explaining the feeling of all of the stares we got. I ate some chinese pau's and pineapple and oranges and ice cream which were delicious, while Christina somehow found a chicken chili hot dog and some asian form of barbeque chips and a soda, while Fern and the adventurous Susana ate Japanese food for the first time (chicken teriyaki, that is). Of course, we told the boys we would meet at the hall 16 pre-party at 8 pm, but, like always, we showed up at 930. There we met about a million more exchange students, and took a zillion pictures. We then headed downtown in groups to go to Double O.
Some of the Crew:
My Girlies!
American Boys: Bennett and Alex
Don't worry Mom, that's Sprite in my cup :)
Chinese Pau! and Christina with her American food
Oh what a night!!! I say with all honesty that I had probably one of the funnest nights of my entire life. The club atmosphere was everything I thought it was. Im glad I didn't have to pay to get in (thanks to Singapore's "Ladies Night" every Wednesday night). They were giving free drinks to girls as well, but of course my two best mexicana friends and I don't drink so we just danced the night away....literally. It was sooo hot but so much fun just dancing like crazy, and sharing a dance with Pablo, perhaps the funniest Mexicano boy here, was hilarious, twirling and everything! After that whole club dancing thing, we went into the low-key bar area where a live band was playing so we could rest. 3 boys (David from Canada, Roel from Holland, Daniel from Australia) and 3 girls (Me, Susana and Fernanda) all sat on the couch, and we were about to go home when we decided to play a game of pool, boys vs girls. Fernanda accidentally hit their ball into the pocket, and the boys would just keep rolling our balls into the pockets to help us out, but I am still convinced that we won all on our own. Then, the band started playing literally EVERY single classic oldie song, from Uptown Girl to Grease to Staying Alive, the 3 of us girls could NOT stop dancing. We were doing silly crazy moves and singing and we could not stop, despite it being about 2 am. It is so crazy how people from such different places can come together and dance and sing to songs. I am convinced that music is the universal language.
We got a taxi cab home and named last night "THE Night" because it was so much fun. I absolutely love those girls, who definitely took care of me, as well as the boys, but especially the girls because they have gone to clubs before. It was pretty crazy going up on the top step on the stage and dancing together and we were all screaming and yelling "Singaaapppooooorreeee!!!!"
Playing pool, starting to dance...
Fernanda and I
Exchange girls
My favorite Mexicanas: Susana and Fernanda
Double O: My first club
Mikael, my Swedish friend. Doesn't he look like Clark Kent?
John!!
David!!
Frank!!
I went to bed last night at 3 am and got up at 7. I wanted to fall asleep in my classes. This is so unlike me, I know, but I just have this entire new mindset and outlook on everything while I'm here. I am truly trying my best to enjoy EVERY SINGLE moment that I have here and not worry about anything. My classes are actually pretty interesting though, I think the most interesting one is my clinical neuropsychology class. The professor is a really interesting chinese lady who speaks really good english. It almost reminded me of my dear sweet mother :) Anyways, I went and bought two books I would need for class today, because my name is Renee Payne and even though I'm staying out later and studying a little less, you can never take the nerd out of this girl.
I coordinated a lunch hangout with everyone today at Cant A. I am obsessed with McDonalds vanilla cones because it's the closest I can come to frozen yogurt, although I tried a soya ice cram the other day. Im still trying to decide whether or not I liked it. Then tonight Christina and I took the bus back there for dinner. It really is frustrating how the internal buses stop working her at 9pm every night. It's so inconvenient. I guess they figure all the people here will just run when they need to get food, since EVERY single night there are about a million runners running. Yes, that's how hot it is here that people run at 1 am. When we got back at 230 last night, there were runners running. And I thought I was an avid runner.
My present roommate is here, typing behind me. It is a bit awkward sharing a room with someone that I really don't know. We don't talk much that's for sure. Christina needs to get in here!!! But I better get some rest, I can feel the dark circles becoming permanent beneath my eyes...but I must leave with a few last pictures of my girlfriends and I rocking out at Double O...
