October 1, 2005

• Best night ever:

  
  

  
  
  • nice slow early start
    
  • lots of good flip cup
    
  • playing my first beer pong ever
    
  • whoopin ass at my first beer pong ever
    
  • losing my first beer pong ever cuz Barkley sucked
    
  • a little asshole, i ditched early though cuz i was FIENDIN and I know when to go.
    
  • (speaking of asshole...) mooning the amorous Asians with Mark and Adam
    
  • kegstands
    
  • my first whole enjoyable cigarette
    
  • passing around Srs. Jack and José
    
  • not puking, twice
    
  • overly rambunctious partygoers
    
  • male bonding
    
  • loud shatterings of broken windows and bleeding
    
  • FINALLY some great bumpin music and hott dance party instigating
    
  • That 70's Show
    
  • hangin out on the miraculous invisibility porch
    
  • feeling GREAT, even late
    
  • making it home to sleep very well in my own bed

  
  

  In other news, I'm probably going to live in Germany next year.  I want to study abroad in Oldenburg for both semesters.  I've been considering it for a long time but recently, upon really getting to know my new friend Alyssa who spent a year in France, I have become completely convinced.  It's really the only way I could become fluent.  Plus... it's cheap.  I really just can't wait.  Now to ask the parents.. haha.  Here's my essay:

  
  

  From a very young age, I have been hugely fascinated by different cultures, and since my first opportunities to see parts of the world as a small child, I have had an insatiable appetite for travel and exploration.  I have always loved to learn as much as I can about the world and the peoples that inhabit it.  Obviously, studying abroad seems like a natural choice for me to make, even if it were only to fulfill these of my desires.
  However, there are plenty of other reasons I am really looking forward to going to Oldenburg next year.  As a German major, I believe that the only way I should be able to carry a degree in German Language is of course to be fluent in it, but to have a deep understanding of the people that speak it as well.  Spending a year among those very people, immersed in their language and culture, is an obvious fast track to achieving these academic goals.  Also, as a double major of German and Geography I could use the year in Oldenburg to get my German requirements out of the way so I can return to UNC to focus on graduating in a more timely manner than would be possible without this exchange program.  Upon returning to UNC I hope to use the language skills I aquire abroad to help me in my pursuit of a degree in German immensely.  I also want to study in Germany if only for the fact that I love the country and I would love to spend more time there.
  I know that living in these circumstances will greatly broaden my horizons not only culturally but personally,  as I adapt to a completely new and frightening environment.
  The idea of this challenge is very, very exciting to me.  My deep passion for travel is yet another factor compelling me to go; the student travel ticket and opportunity to travel around the country at such an amazingly affordable rate seem too good to be true, and I simply cannot wait to be able to take advantage of it.

  
  

  P.S. this movie looks so good!

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