6 Weeks

So now I settle into the life of a student at an American University. My god, do the professors talk fast... is that really all we have to do for that assignment... how much reading?! On a serious note, it's generally very similar to uni life back in good ol' Sussex (or as I'm now referring to Britain, like "life back in Old Country" said in some sort of Eastern European accent like I'm Scarface or Niko Bellic in GTA IV). That said, there have been some minor differences. For a start, I've never had a professor at Sussex get up and start tap-dancing on the table, jump off arms outstretched and then announce to everybody "I've just come back from having a major operation. That was my way of telling you this year, anything can happen". The size of the papers I have to hand in is calculated in page limit, not word limit. So if I don't feel like writing much (and bear in mind, this is double spaced) I simply won't change the font size, or the margins. But if I feel like I'm going over, I will. It must be confusing for the tutor to receive all these different pieces of work with different margins, font sizes and all that!
As you can tell, it is getting a bit harder for me to post on my blog as I get further in. I hope you can understand this is because I'm trying to cram in as many great experiences as possible, alongside doing my work. So on top of midterms, finals, papers and projects, I'm also going to things like Lovefest (huge dance music festival kind of thing: $10 to get in, 25 different floats all playing different types of dance, trance, house and all that crap I don't usually like, but everyone's getting in the spirit so it's ok!) and Treasure Island music festival (MGMT and The Streets? Yes please!), both in San Francisco. Then there's the Green Day musical in Berkeley, and finally (possibly most importantly too!) there's John Cleese, right here in Davis. Brilliant! Combine that with the endless amount of Frat parties, which aren't as fun as you think because the booze runs out SO quickly, house parties and late night hot tub sessions! One particular house party was fantastic; not only did they have live music and DJs in their garage, not only did they get in 3 kegs, not only did I do a kegstand (look it up on wikipedia!) but we also saw real-life, no word of a lie lesbians. To my female audience, I'm sorry. To my male audience... well, can't say fairer than that, can I boys?

Thanks for reading!