January 23rd, 2009

Today after my two classes.  I filled out my sign up sheet for service visits in Capetown, India, and Mauritius.  I really hope I get all three because they sound great and then I would have plenty of time to get my assignments done for my International Service Learning class.  After I filled out those forms I took a nap in my pitch black room.  Then Emily and I bought our drink vouchers which at first I thought were dumb I was like 3.50 for a beer I should save my money but I decided to do it anyways.  Later on I had dinner with Emily and her two friends from school, and these other girls from their hall.  It has been really nice meeting new people every day and night.  After dinner I finally wrote some emails to my friends.  I hope to hear back from them with updates soon.  I have realized I am becoming as addicted to email as I may have been to facebook checking it as often as possible to get a new message.  After spending time doing some homework and reading, I went to my room to get ready for pub night nothing fancy just a pair of jeans and shirt; it was kind of nice to get ready for something. I went with my roommate Beau and her friend from home Lexi,  we went up to the 7^th deck grabbed our beers and sat by the pool.. We sat and talked, and I looked around noticing something funny.  During the day people are nice and talk, but not like how it is on pub night.  On pub night the interaction between everyone seemed to give everyone more confidence and a comforting feeling almost as if they were at a party.  I am not sure if the one beer everyone had in their hand helped or what it was but I did meet some fun people.  I also met a girl Kelly who is doing my FDP in Seville with me and was also planning to meet up with Jeff so it is perfect we can try and find the hostel together.  I also met Craig Caruso  he is going on my trip in Vietnam.  I decided to go to bed around 11:30 came down to my room but found Brittany and Elyssa talking in the hallway with two boys Josh and Miguel so of course I stopped and chatted for a bit.  I finally made it into my room to shower and watch my favorite movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” while I went to sleep.