The Way I See It # 362

Study Abroad options:

Places I'm Considering:

Morocco
Egypt
India
France
Scotland
Italy


So many choices! I'm getting excited about it!

The Way I See It # 356

Damn I'm posting like nobody's business!

I'm wired. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I only just finished my homework, or maybe it's because I'm a habitual nocturnal blogger. I said once, in a blog, that I enjoyed being awake while everyone else was asleep. I guess I liked the privacy. It's not the same anymore, however, living on my own like I am. My other blinds fell down the other night, so now I am completely exposed in my bathroom except for the sheer white draperies that hang in the windows. I need a solution like AOII needs members. hahahaha, oh wait.

Besides the blinds falling down, there have been some odd noises outside my windows late at night. It's been the third night in a row that I've woken up in the middle of the night from frightening visions of people breaking into my apartment, stealing my things.... and other terrifying experiences. I need to snap out of it.

Maybe that's why I'm wired.

More likely it is the alluring stacks of Study Abroad pamphlets laying next to my feet at the end of the bed. I have yet to pour over these books and contemplate where I'm going to be Traveling. I put down my address for a brochure about Study Abroad in Africa at the Study Abroad Fair today. It looked really good. England is looking good right now, and I'm thinking about something that ties in Art history, Anthropology, and French. I guess France would be a good choice. I can't imagine spending a whole semester in France. It would be terrifying, but exciting. Senegal and Morocco are my choices for studying both anthropology and French in Africa, but my options are open, although my wallet definitely isn't.

Speaking of money, I'm REALLY GLAD that I didn't invest in the stock market when I was going to. Jesus Christ. Not that I would have invested in Insurance firms, but who knows what Dad would have told me was a good idea. I wonder if he has (had) any stocks in Lehman Brothers or AIG....?

time to read more study abroad manuals and put off sleeping so that I totally regret it tomorrow in my 3 hour lab!

The Way I See It # 334

I have a lot to recap, so I'll step back to Saturday. Sid and I visited his cousin Maria in Hanover County. She lives really close to us, so it was nice to get away from VCU for a day. Maria isn't actually Sid's cousin, she is his mother's cousin, so I guess that means she is a second cousin? Kinship terminology was never my thing, so I'll just continue. Maria has two daughters, Cassie, and Lauren, and her husband... Eric...? is off in Kuwait working at a military hospital. Sid originally went over to do some housework for her, but we ended up watching the Virginia Tech game (She's a hokie herself) and chatting about school and what's been going on in their lives. One of the best parts about visiting was seeing all of the family's pictures from their travels. They've moved around the world following Eric's duties, and they recently lived in Italy. They had pictures from vacations to Sicily, Rome, Greece, Egypt, etc. Sid and I were salivating. Their computer room/office area was covered in souvenirs from their trip to Egypt and I just about fell over. It only made me want to get up and go, just like Sid had been feeling a little while ago. Cassie gave me a scarab shaped blue bead which they keep a lot of to hand out to visitors to the house. I think I make it into a necklace.... the color is so pretty. Eventually I'll travel to such places, and I'm simultaneously looking up study abroad programs as I write this blog entry (it's been unsuccessful so far). We had dinner with Maria's parents, Uncle Harry and Aunt Shirly to Sid, and we had a spaghetti dinner. Sid is really fond of Uncle Harry and Aunt shirly, and they're really nice people. I found out that they both volunteer for the Archaeological Society of Virginia, which was cool. Mysteriously, they didn't have much to say about it.

When we got back to VCU I went to Michele's to hang out and play "Catch-phrase" (SUCH A GOOD GAME), and I had a redbull/rum, which I didn't mind then... but definitely minded later. Sara Wax and I went back to Sid's where he was having a party and had a pretty good time.

Yesterday Sid and I and a bunch of the guys from the 15th floor went to Belle Isle. It was nice, except the part when John tried to swim to a rock, and instead was swept away by the current. When everyone saw that he wasn't going to make it, a bunch of the guys jumped in after him. Everyone was fine, except for bumbs and bruises. Out of anyone, Sid's roommate Brendan got the worst of it, he was pulled by the current through a tunnel in the rock. T-Cal smashed his head on a rock and has a huge welt, John was fine, Chuck was mostly fine, but that river was intense! I am beyond relieved that no one was seriously hurt, and that Sidney didn't jump in! On the way back from Belle Isle I was almost attacked by a dog walking by. SO LAME. Yesterday wasn't the best day. That night we went over to Kate's apartment from a triple pasta dinner and after that we smoked hookah, which was actually a good ending to the night. I was pretty exhausted from Belle Isle though. We went down W. Grace (sketchy.... but not!) to intercept Michele so she wouldn't walk back from a party by herself. We were hanging out at Sid's for a while after that, and then Sid and I went back to my place. Not a bad day.


I think I'm going to make a list of things to do before I turn 20. I'm not going to be a teenager anymore, so why not create a list of things to do before the end of the year? I'm going to think about it and then write it up on here.

As for today, I'm reading Urban Planning chapters and practicing French vocabulaire.