The Giving of Thanks

Alright so legit right now I am going to start off saying that I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to be on this experience. It has changed my life in so many ways for the better, given me a whole new prospecitve on life, and all the people I have met and the people who I hope to be my friends for the rest of my life. Anyways, So the Sunday after Amsterdam I just went to the library and read for like a million years, not really, but literally all day. Then there was a stupid fire alarm in York House that night and I tried to hide out in my room. It would go off and on and off and on so finally I just got pissed off and left and went outside. The next day I did the same thing, did not go to class and just read all day in order to prepare to write my essay. I did work and skipped class because I wanted to be able to go out that night for Jena's birthday. She was turning 21 so there was no way I could miss that. We went to Varsity and it was hilarious. Got a little too tipsy, and somehow got in a legit fist fight with Elizabeth. The whole thing started over me not wanting to see Ginny's boobs, which apparently I said very rudely. So since this was like a legit fight we both had battle scars. The next morning Elizabeth and I were talking and asking why we had bruises everywhere, we both had no recollection of our fight. Then Thea text me saying all the pictures that she has are just me and Elizabeth wrestling and fighting. So that night we were supposed to go to a club, but then Thea disappears, I call her and she is somewhere way far away. Eventually I meet up with her. Then we see Mitch and Annalisa on the bus and cruise home. The next day I didn't do a thing, just wrote my essay like a loser. Wednesday was another crazy night. So we start pregaming pretty hard, and go to Oceana. I haven't been to Oceana in a while so it was nice to go back. I kept thinking I wasn't drunk enough which is always a bad sign. This by the way was the first time I rode the Lemon Bus. Krissy, Hollis, and I all rode this while everyone else took the regular bus like chumps. So at Oceana it was hilarious, these Russian girls heard me ordering a drink at the bar and recognized my American accent and were all about that shit. I told them I was from California and they nearly wet themselves. So seamlessly I make it home with Elizabeth and Hollis and on the way home I was passed out and woke up randomly and jumped off the bus because I had to pee really bad. No one knew whether I made it home alright, but as always I managed to. The next day was awesome THANKSGIVING. I had been waiting for this day for a long time. I have not been so pumped about Thanksgiving in such a long time. So all day Elizabeth, Lauren, eventually Krissy, and I were slaving away in Elizabeth's kitchen preparing for our feast. I made some killer mashed potatoes. We also decided to dress for the festivities. We all made headbands and put on some war paint so we could look like the Injuns that helped the Pilgrims make Thanksgiving. (Side note-we weren't ruthlessly slaughtered like the real native americans afterwards) So at dinner I think I ate more food than I have ever eaten on Thanksgiving ever! Like I was SOOOOOO full it was incredible. I started trying to pregame and almost had to throw in the towel, but I championed through it and managed to make my way out. Cool new thing we did too was have Elizabeth go upstairs and drop her bus pass down for me so I could use it as well it was awesome. We went to Casablanca because it is the shit and cheap and cool. So at Casablanca I saw a £600 Burberry jacket chillin on the ground. So I think, "wow, what kind of idiot would leave this laying on the ground in a crowded club, he doesn't deserve to have it." I grab it within maybe 5 seconds he comes up to me and freaks out. I claim I thought it was Elizabeth's jacket, he obviously doesn't believe me, but whatever no harm done. We go home after a pretty funny night. Friday I was pretty tired and didn't do much just chilled out because it has been raining non stop here it is so gay. Then went to bed at around 8:30 and woke up for a couple hours in between, but slept until about 11:30 the next day. Saturday was probably one of the chillest nights I have had here in a while. There was supposed to be some game night, which is mad lame, but Elizabeth, Krissy and I wanted to pregame it to make it fun. We ended up pregaming and was like "fuck this" and just ordered pizza or something and watched District 9. I fell asleep, but then Thea had just got home from Dublin and Mitch and Annalisa came back over and we all chilled into the late hours of the night. Then Sunday we woke up early (10:30) and went out to Sunday Roast with Elizabeth's parents. This has been so sweet, I have managed to have people like me so much that 3 separate sets of parents have taken me to eat. The roast was dank and then Elizabeth and Thea wanted to go out shopping afterward. I hate shopping and lasted about 20 minutes then went home on my own. Later that night after a nap and stuff Elizabeth, Thea, Ginny, Jake and I went out to dinner at this sick Lebonese restaurant with a Hookah Bar on top. Apparently you can't smoke ANYTHING indoors in this country so I we sat in this little overhang and I was freezing, but it was still awesome. We had to wait for like 30 minutes for the bus so we played this lame game that little kids play when they are hiking or in a car or something were you have to say something in alphabetical order of what you are bring to your grandma's house in your trunk. Ya we are all 20/21 and so fucking cool.

I AMsterdam

So Wednesday I won poker and it was freaking awesome. I seriously made Mike my bitch in the game and punked him so hard. Then Thursday was finally the day of AMSTERDAM. I was more excited for this trip then any other trip I have had so far. We booked this ticket so far in advance and have been anticipating it for ages. So we wake up and all slowly meet on our way up to the train station. We do the usual thing and take our train up there. So on this trip was seriously a ridiculous amount of people, 9!!! Thea, Mitch, Annalisa, Jena, Hollis, Ginny, Mike, Lauren, and Me. This shit was tough to handle having everyone kind of not taking the reigns and being in charge. So we go get on our plane, the flight is about 45 min and we land. I think when we landed we then taxied in the airplane for about a half hour. I don't know where the heck we landed, but it was far. So we got there really unsure of what to do. Thea had been here before so she kind of knew what was going on. We ended up buying this pass for 50 euro which gave us free access to about 30 museums, a canal cruise, and free use of the trams in the city. This actually was such a good deal. We went to about 4 museums, used the tram A LOT, and took a canal cruise. Mike didn't buy one and I would give him so much shit every time we went to use our card and get stuff for free, while he had to pay. So we finally take the train into the city, getting lost on the way of course and having to switch trains, and we make it in. So the hostel I booked is called the Flying Pig. There is 2 of them, Uptown and Downtown. I swear on my life I thought I booked the downtown one so we went there. I guess since I was drunk when I booked it I must have misread so I was obviously wrong. We then take another 30 minutes to find our Uptown hostel. It was still pretty sweet. Basically like living in a bar for a couple days. They had a bar as their common room. We get in and check in. Lauren booked her trip after I already booked the hostel so we had to sneak her in and she and Ginny split the cost because they shared a bed. Mitch and Annalisa booked a hotel near us originally, but since I am an idiot and booked the wrong hostel, there hotel was no where near us. So once we get settled in we are starving and decide to go eat at a shitty overpriced "sports" bar. This place sucked, I really wish I just went to McDonald's. After this is when the fun begins. We go next door to a coffee shop called the Bull Dog. As soon as I get in there I am in awe. This country is so weird. That is the only way I can describe it, WEIRD. Side note, I don't know if this is fact, but I am pretty sure there is more bikes then people in Amsterdam. Everyone is riding a bike, and by everyone I mean EVERYONE. Old men, young men, grannies, young professionals, homeless people, EVERYONE. They love their freakin bikes there. You have to look out everywhere you go or you will get destroyed by a bike. So I get into the coffee shop and help everyone get settled in with their new products, and decide to have a chocolate muffin for a snack. Thea and I, the only people who had Annalisa's number both left our phones in the hostel so we had to go back so we could find them, but we ended up meeting them on the way to the hostel, so it was all good. We go back chill at the Bull Dog for a while, then decide to hit up another spot. Going on a vacation like this was so strange. Everyone just gets quite and especially when there is so many people it begins to feel mad awkward. Then everyone just starts laughing at how quite it is, then I'll make so stupid joke. It was weird. We went to a couple shops, where I had no idea what they were called. One was like Jamaican themed, but then when you were inside it looked like you were in a spaceship. Then this room we were sitting in was supposed to be some planet. It looked pretty sick. In this coffee shop they played like 4 songs in a row with the same music, but a different person singing along to this music. I don't know if that is common, but it was mad strange. Then they played this song called "Bird of Prey" which honestly lasted about a half hour. We would zone out for a couple minutes then we would be like "is this song seriously still playing?" Mike kept trying to play ice breakers because of the mad awkward silences going on, and it made it worse. Then after sitting in there and not buying anything being dicks, we went to another coffee shop. We just sat there and left because there was not enough seating and the guy yelled at us saying it is a coffee shop and not a party. So after that we called it a night because we were all really tired. I went to bed at about 1130 and slept till 1030. I was well rested for the next day. We were all laughing at about how lazy we were the first day. We woke up the next day and wanted to quickly make use of our passes. We went to the Rijksmuseum, which from what I saw is pretty much a Dutch history museum. You weren't supposed to take pictures inside there, but I managed to sneak one of cupid. It was pretty cool, but after we went to the Van Gough Museum, which was awesome. Cruised around there for a little bit, then took the pictures of the I AMsterdam sign. Mike made a funny joke asking why America did not think of that first. Valid point. At various points during the day we were eating snacks and had some good pastries. The weather was also strange too, it kept raining off and on all day, which was pretty lame. Finally we were able to meet up with Mitch and Annnalisa right when we were getting on the canal cruise. This canal cruise was so lame I managed to take a nap on it. After the fun began. We went to Cafe 420 and and hung out with some hot chocolate. Then we hit up McDonald's for one of our about 5-6 McDonald's pit stops. I ate another hot dog and we went back to chill at the hostel. I had a couple drinks at the bar and chilled, but then we decided to out to the Red Light District which was ridiculous. There was legit red lights in the window were the whores were standing trying to solicite men walking by. There was also venues everywhere with live sex shows going on for only 25 euro. Thea jokingly said she would pay 15 to some promoter and he told her she could pay 15 if she gave him a bj. Then called her an American bitch (thanks George Bush), so she was thoroughly offended and we proceeded to walk. After our adventure to the Red Light District, we went back to the hostel again. Everyone went to bed, but me and Thea still chilled in the bar area downstairs for a while. Dude do you meet the weirdest people in hostels. Freaks gravitate to those places. Some of the shit you hear from people talking is unfathomable. Then you always get the one prick who thinks he is so cultured and knows everything about the city and the world because he has spent his whole summer living by himself traveling Europe on some money they won from a law suit for getting hit by a Budweiser truck when they were delivering telegrams (true story, swear to god, met a bitch in Ireland and that was her story). So after listening to some weirdos t (this fag from Northeastern) we went back upstairs and fell asleep. Had to wake up early Saturday to check out and ate some breakfast for free. Then came the longest day ever. We took the train into downtown and began looking for a smart shop and looking for the Rembrandt house. We found a smart shop and got what we needed, then went to the Rembrandt house. It was pretty sweet, but then afterward we all felt a little funny. Walked around aimlessly forever and then found the Nemo science center. It looked like boat that was sinking and we went inside and freaked out. This place was strange. You could sit in this booth and here teenagers "thoughts". Honestly this is one of the most liberal open countries in the world. They had sex exhibits where little kids were running around and they had a "kama sutra" sort of thing. Shit was intense. But I think this makes complete sense to teach little kids stuff like this because that way when they are teenagers they will no what to do, instead of be like Sarah Palin's daughter and think "Oh you cant get pregnant the first time you have sex" or whatever bull the evangelical's teach their children. Literally after that we walked around for EVER when we were done. We had no idea what to do. The worst part about having 9 people is one person would decide what we were doing and then we would walk for 10 minutes and someone would say "wait what are we doing?" then we would have to regroup and reestablish what we were doing. O ya during the day we somehow split up with Annalisa and Mitch because we got off the train and they didn't get off in time. That was before we went to any museum. We find them again and go get our stuff from the hostel. We then hung out in this park called Vondell Park for like a half hour and then Mitch, Mike, Annalisa, and I go to this coffee shop to get some snacks. Everyone else had just gone to McDonald's. We eventually leave to go to the airport and make our way back home. I was starving so I went to McDonald's at the airport. So throughout this whole day Mike was tripping hardcore. Like seriously on a good one. Thea made the best reference that referred to his state of mind. He was like Dory from "Finding Nemo". Short term memory. Throughout the whole day he had no idea what was going on and was in desperate need of water. It was actually one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life. I felt like I was a little kid and I could pick on him, and he was like mental or something. It was strange, anyway he made it out fine and managed to have a good time. We all get home pass out after an excellent trip.

The Saga that was Paris (Part 3)

After the museum we decide to go get something to eat. We go to this little cafe across the street and I got a ham and cheese crepe that was so good. There was Dijon Mustard with it, which was so good. So after this we decide to go back to the Eiffel Tower to look at it at night. Seriously I can not convey how much I love the Eiffel Tower at night. One of the most amazing things to see in the world. I have seen some shit too now that I am a world traveler. Elizabeth, Mike, Thea and I all just laid in the grass and just stared at the beauty that was the Eiffel Tower. We got to see the light show too which was really sick. Before we got to the Eiffel Tower Mike bought a barret and looked like a total French dude. We used eyeliner to put a mustache on him and he wore Thea's scarf. He looked hilarious. We even got a picture of us doing the Eiffel Tower on Elizabeth which was awesome. So after that we go on a huge adventure for a dessert crepe, but we couldn't find one because everything was closed. We got on the train went to the coach station, got McDonald's again which was awesome. Seriously best McChicken sandwiches ever in Paris. It's cool too, Elizabeth got a beer with her combo meal at McDonald's. So this is where the bus ride from hell begins. As we get on the bus we all had our own row and took up 2 seats each. Right as the coach was about to leave 2 girls get on and try and sit next to Thea, so I was just like come back and sit with me. So everyone in our group except us had 2 seats to themselves. We drive forever and get to Calais. We didn't go through the Chunnel again, but this time we got on a fairy. We got off the bus and had to go through customs and get our visa checked. Then we got back on the bus and I was expecting that we would just drive on the ferry and we would sleep in the bus. So I just took a sleeping pill and thought cool I will pass out for the rest of the time. No I had to get off and go sit in the lounge of the ferry. I was a walking zombie. I passed out in the fetal position on this couch. I woke up and got off the ferry and immediately passed out on the bus again. We had to wake up in London at 4:30 am and wait 2 and half freakin hours for our bus from London to Brighton which sucked. I slept on the cold hard floor for about a half hour at one point. I was so angry and tired and I lost my ticket and had to go to this stupid office and wait forever to get a new one. The bus was extremely cold and uncomfortable. I thought I was going to die. We get back to Brighton and I was just so angry and tired. I get home and pass out at once. I wake up with Mitch knocking on my door asking me about the trip. I tell him all the shit that went down and tried to show him pictures of Mike, but I can't find my camera anywhere. I thought I had left it on the ferry because it fell out of my pocket. Little did I know I had just given it to Thea and since she didn't wake up until 6 pm, I went the whole day thinking that it was lost. I had the worst day ever thinking about how I lost my camera. I didn't go to one class and was just pissed all day. So after that night we went up to the hill behind East Slope because there was supposed to be a meteor shower. We didn't see shit though. So since I was exhausted I went back and passed out for about 12 hours. Woke up next day hung out most of the day then we went to Karaoke at King and Queen. King and Queen was dope as usual, but at the end of the night we all split into like 3 different groups. Thea and I went home and went to bed. Today I woke up and chilled doing everything possible to procrastinate and now tonight is poker night where I am hoping to take some bitch's moneys.

The Saga that was Paris (Part deux)

After Thea calls me, I call Elizabeth and am like "lets go party." So I meet her at the train station and we take these crazy directions to this place where we are going to meet Thea and her friends. We get off the train I have no idea where to go so we just wait. Elizabeth and I get some drinks at this restaurant which was basically just soda. We ordered the weakest Long Island Iced Tea ever made. Finally Thea and this girl Jessie meet us. Jessie is a bitch and me and her are polar opposites. I tell a funny joke, which she thinks is not funny because it was pretty offensive, but hey quit being such a prude bitch. The joke was about the Venus Di Milo. Mike said a funny little quip about how she would be easy to rape cause she has no arms. Pretty offensive, but hilarious. I told Thea, Elizabeth and Jessie this and while I was dying laughing, all of them were just sitting there in silence. Needless to say they were all thoroughly offended about rape jokes so I was doomed with this girl the whole night. This girl hated me the whole night, we were going back and forth and just being drunk dumb asses. After the restaurant where we polished off a couple bottles of wine, we went to this bar. It was pretty cool. Some funny music playing and the drinks were extremely overpriced. I bought a Jack and Coke for basically $20. It was insane. After the Jack and Coke the night goes blank. Apparently I run off and am no where to be found for about 2 hours. They are searching the city aimlessly for me. At one point my phone dies and this is where I black back in. I was so confused at how I got where I was and why they were so pissed at me. Luckily I got into this restaurant and am able to put my sim card in this guys phone and he lets me use it to call them. They come find me, beat the shit out of me and we make our way back home to the hotel. I see a McDonald's and am convinced we are close to our hotel because logically this is the same exact McDonald's...not. I keep telling them that we are right around the corner which we are totally not. Eventually we get into a cab and drive 1o minutes and get back to the hotel. At the hotel apparently they don't have 24 hour reception. Elizabeth kicked the door down and we had to break into the hotel, it was crazy. I was so scared the next morning thinking we were going to get in trouble and go to jail for breaking and entering. When we got to the room, I passed out right on the floor fully dressed with shoes on. I wake up the next day and take one of the longest showers of my life and felt like shit the whole day. We got on the train to Versailles and I slept most of the way. We got off the train made our way over to the Palace and as we were taking pictures out front, I randomly bumped into Liz. We were both going crazy because it was so random. It was crazy too because I was thinking how sick it would be to bump into someone randomly in Europe and there is happened. We made our way into the palace which was pretty cool, but the best part was the Gardens. By the way I love being a student because I got into everything for free. It is the shit. The Gardens were amazing like one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I was not feeling to hot so I decided to chill on a bench and just soak in the beauty of the gardens. It was so relaxing and after that I felt a lot better. Mike and I really wanted to go to McDonald's because I wanted to order "freedom" fries, and Mike wanted a Royal with cheese like they talked about in Pulp Fiction. This was the sickest McDonald's I have ever seen it was so nice inside. After that we were going to go back into the city center and see what we wanted to do. At that point we split because Jena, Krissy, and Lauren wanted to do shopping and we just wanted to chill and have a relaxing day. So after we split we kind of messed around in the metro station. At one point we were walking backwards on the moving sidewalk for a while. We then decided that we wanted to go to Musee D'orsay. It was a really nice museum that we got into free for (love being a student). We went through, saw tons of art. Funny anecdote about the museum was we were walking through looking at all the paintings of nature and portraits of people. I walk into one room that was really cool and had some really good paintings and the room immediately behind it the main center piece of the freaking exhibition was a painting of a spread legged woman with a full on bush. This was disgusting and if I would have been expecting this then there would have been no reaction, but since it came out of no where I yell and jump and leave the room at once. I made an ass out of myself and looked like I was 5 years old, but hey it was shocking. Mike claims it was one of the top 10 best moments of his life. We then look at many more paintings leave the museum.

The Saga that was Paris (Part 1)

So Friday night comes around and I am getting ready to get on my 13 hour trip that will land me in Paris. So as usual Elizabeth, Thea, Mike and Me are running extremely late to the point where we think that we are going to miss our bus. Jena, Lauren, and Krissy were already in town and waiting at the bus stop. When we got there the bus was late so we thought well hell let's get a kebab. We went into Kebab No. 5 and as soon as we ordered our food, the bus pulls up and is trying to hurry because it was already late. So the douche bag worker at the Kebab place was taking his sweet time, and not giving us our change. He thought Elizabeth was trying to steal £2 and was just being super sketchy. The kebab wasn't even good so I am pretty sure that is the last time I will ever eat one. I even bet Mike £20 that I will never eat one while I am here. So we got on the bus and were all pretty excited for our trip to Paris because besides Elizabeth none of us had ever been there. We were chatting, eating some candy, and finally we got to London and had to wait for our direct bus to Paris. We hung out got some food from KFC, and played cards in the coach station. Finally we got on our bus. The bus was really crowded so we all had to sit next to someone and it sucked. I literally did not sleep at all that night. Throughout the whole night I am pretty sure I slept for maybe an hour and the longest stretch was probably 30 minutes of me sleeping, and the rest was broken up. So right as I was attempting to fall asleep one of the times, we came up to the Channel Tunnel, also known as the "Chunnel". I hate the Chunnel, it was one of the weirdest things I have ever experienced. Our coach drove up into some train car and they shut us in the train car. Then the train took us to Calais in France. It was so weird because it felt like an oven inside this train car and it was the weirdest thing too feeling like you are moving but the bus isn't moving. So after roasting for about 30 minutes we finally got out of the Chunnel. I literally just sat there sweating and not sleeping until we got to Paris. I was tired when I first got off the bus, but we had to get going. We got into the city center and immediately went to a cafe trying to find some food. I didn't get anything, but we chilled there trying to figure out what we were going to do for the next couple days. First we made our way over to Notre Dame Cathedral. It was amazing going inside there. I didn't get the audio tour so I know nothing about it really, but it was so cool seeing all the stain glass windows, and the huge seating area. I lit a couple prayer candles and even took a big candle that you were supposed to donate money for and kept it. After we went out of the Cathedral we went over and got a crepe. It was amazing, I had Banana with Nutella. After that we went on an adventure trying to find our hotel. So Andrea told me she stayed in this hotel that was a pretty sweet location and kinda cheap. We had to sneak people into the hotel because we only booked for 4 people and had 7. The weird thing too was that you had to give the key back when you left the building so there was no way we could get 2 keys and the stairs and elevator were right by the reception. So we tried to divise a plan to sneak people up, but just ended up walking Mike up there. After we checked in we split up. Thea went off with her roommate from school, and Elizabeth went off with her friend who was in Paris at the same time. So Krissy, Lauren, Jena, Mike and I all went off to the Louve. It was so sick seeing all the stuff on the way over there too. We got to ride the metro, which is really cool because I don't know any French and at no point did I get lost on the train. We also got these 2 day passes that got us on as much as we wanted and we got our money's worth for sure. In the Louve we saw all the main sights, the Mona Lisa, Venus di Milo, and a bunch of the renaissance art from the late 15th century to early 16th century. After the Louve we headed over to the Eiffel Tower because we wanted to see it in the day time and be able to go up the tower and see the city, but we also wanted to see it at night so we went like an hour before the sun went down so we could get the best of both worlds. We were only able to go up to 2nd level because the wind was crazy and we would have probably fallen off if we had gone to the top. Being on the tower was so crazy and amazing. You could see for so far and the sky was nice and clear. It eventually got really cold and dark. Being on the tower at night is crazy we even were on when the light show was going on. Since I was so cold, I thought that some hard liquor might warm me up and it did. I had preemptively brought a bottle of lemonade and vodka so I could liven things up a little, and I did to say the least. We went down to take pictures of the tower all lit up, and there are all these crazy African vendors who are trying to sell souvinears. I was going up to mess with them, but I just ended up buying a light up Eiffel Tower. Everyone thought I was so stupid because it was 5 euro, but I was drunk and didn't care. We then go out to dinner and Mike and I were intent on eating a French dinner. Although we failed miserably it was still awesome. We both got Chicken Ceasar Salads and some drinks. The meal wasnt that bad only 12 euro and the drink was just as much as the meal almost. Side note, Parisians are nuts. The beer there cost just as much if not cheaper then the soda. A bottle of Coke was 5 euro!! That is like almost $8. Needless to say I did not buy coke. After dinner we made our way back to the hotel and were thinking about laying low. Then I got a call from Thea with her asking what we were doing, she told me she wanted me and Elizabeth to come meet up with her where she was getting dinner so we could meet her friend. Little did I know chaos would insue.

Week before Paris

So the Sunday after I went to London I had to do work all day because I had my presentation for my Margaret Thatcher class. I had to study social security reforms and stuff, it was mad lame and took me nearly 12 hours with the nap and constant procrastination. So that day I literally just sat at my desk and did work the whole time. Crazy thing happened too when I was studying. I almost had a breakdown thinking about when I get back from here I am only going to have 1.5 years of college left, which is really scary. Like what am I going to do when college is over, I have no clue what I want to do at all, but whatever neither does anyone else and the economy sucks for everyone not just me so I am fine. Then Monday I went to all my classes except Psychology because I felt like watching the Office and eating lunch rather than listening about some stupid useless bull. I played basketball too today and literally schooled everyone and made them look like 5 years old. People here in England SUCK at basketball like no joke. That night I was trying to go to Varsity because they have £1 drinks so I rounded up a couple of people and we all just went and chilled. It was a good night with Mitch, Annalisa, Jack, Elizabeth and me. We saw Edie there and she hooked it up on some Double Jacks for the price of a single. Then after that Mitch and Annalisa went home, but the rest of us went to the Fish Bowl, which is literally next door to this place. We chilled got a kebab after and cruised home. The next day I didn't do anything towards the direction of productive, just hung out with Mitch and James all day. But then the night time I was ready for some Karaoke. We got the same crew going as the night before, but then Breck, Mellisa, and this guy Nick came too. It was mad fun, I sang/ruined Leona Lewis, but it was all in good fun. Then after that I needed another kebab. So for the past couple times I have been going into the kebab I have been tipping like nothing, but I am pretty sure the guy thinks I am giving him a couple pounds or some significant portion of money, idk he is an idiot, but he gave me a free kebab and fries. So after all these hot girls going in there regularly I am the first one to get a free kebab. I know he isn't gay either because every time we go in there he is always talking about how sexy all the girls look and is really forward with them. So ya suck on that hot chicks, all you gotta do is throw him bills. The funniest part of it is I only gave him 12p! I went home that night feeling like a king with my free kebab and went to bed. On the bus on the way home we met this crazy crack head homeless guy who had his dog with him. He was seriously crazy. I ended up taking pictures of him and his dog Prince. He was funny as hell. Wednesday was our guys poker game. It was Tane, James, Joao, Mitch, Mike, Simon, Jake, and Me. This was seriously so much fun. I didn't do to well and was the 3rd out, but still it was a blast. Ginny, Hollis, Thea, and Elizabeth came over and we chilled for a while, but then I went back to the guys and watched Mike run train. Thursday was a great day as well. So I went out to dinner with Thea to the this place call Archepalagos, which is Greek food and it was the shit. Seriously so good, I am getting hungry talking about it right now. It was really fun and nice. After we decided to go on our own personal pub crawl to see a couple pubs we have never really been. The first one we just walked in and left cause we felt a little out of place and it was loud because there was a band there. Then we went to this sick pub called the King of Norfolk which was pretty chill. Some random dude was playing cover songs and we chilled with our JD and Coke. After our drink we cruised over to this bar by Churchill Square called the Easy Bar and did the same thing. After that we were looking for some cheap booze so we went to Oxygen for the £1.50 shots. I was too embarased to order the shots because they were called the "Cocksucking Cowboy". We had too of those because they were soooo good. It was Butterscotch Schnapps and Baily's. At Oxygen we saw Joao, Kelly, Silvana, and a handful of other people. One of the kids Henrique who came with all them kept telling me he heard I was a legend and has been wanting to meet me, and how it was such a pleasure to finally have met me. So yeah my ego can not be any bigger right now. Then after that we went to Casablanca, which is my new favorite place to go. We went to the door with my pregame booze in Thea's purse. They check her bag and I thought they were going to take away the booze, but they let us check it and gave us a return number it was so awesome. At the bar we just chilled, got our cheap drinks on, watched a fight, saw some random dude with bucked teeth who Elizabeth made out with and finally cruised home. Overall this night was pretty damn awesome. Now today I am getting on a 13 hour bus ride to Paris (fml) so we will see how it goes from here.

Don't Trust a Ho

So after the Sunday I had when I was chilling at home because I was so miserable because of walking home from Brighton and being so tired that I was just a miserable prick all day, I woke up the next day trying to be really optimistic and went to class because the only reason I really ever even go to class is because I am so bored and don't ever have anything else to do. So I went to Politics and tried to add something substantial to the discussion, but it probably wasn't because I don't know anything about Margaret Thatcher. So I went to Psychology and had to listen to some guy dribble on about the environment. Just to let you know I HATE the environment, like for real. If I never had to hear about the environment again in my life I would be so much better off. Well anyway I came back after all my classes and did nothing for the rest of the night as usual. Tuesday I was once again a loser and did nothing. When I was in Psych I thought I was mad cool because I was arguing how the environment sucks and there is nothing humans can do to preserve the earth because we have already done enough damage. Anyways that night I sent out a message to everyone saying how I wanted to go to PavTav because they had some sick drink specials, and I as admin of SIS abused my powers and asked everyone to go It ended up being Krissy, Ginny, Elizabeth, Mitch, Annalisa, and me all going in. At the bar we got pitchers of margaritas and Sex on the Beach. Funniest thing ever happened though Krissy and I were talking about how we loved being in England and direct quote swear to god, "If this experience has taught me anything (long pause) I am so drunk" I nearly died when she told me that and put it in my phone so I would never forget. So that night Krissy lost her ring her grandmother gave her and she got really sad so we went and sat on the beach with her and ate some kebabs so she would feel better. Good thing though is that she found her ring the next day because the bartender called her . So Wednesday was an epic day. I finally was able to watch the last episode of Sopranos, which seriously almost made me cry. I LOVE that show so much, I wish it would never end. But it ended and I was totally fine with that, but it felt like a chapter of my life was ending. Jamie Lynn Sigler is by far the most beautiful person I have ever seen in my life, I wish she would marry me...for real. So that night was finally 3Oh!3. This was such a sick concert. I went to the concert at Komedia pretty buzzed. I was buying drinks at the bar, but it was mad expensive. Thea came up with the brilliant idea to use our stamps that we got to go out and buy more beer and bring it back in. This worked perfectly. We went to the off license and bought mad brews and were able to bring them back into the concert and not spend £5 on a Vodka Red Bull. The concert ended up being completely awesome. Towards the end I went into the "pit" and fucked everyone up. After the concert we all went to Varsity of my request and it was pretty sick. Yes that is why I am an admin. on the SIS 09 Facebook group. So I went home and slept for like 2 hours and for some reason I woke up and could not fall back asleep until 9 am, which sucked a lot. So the next day for some reason I felt so happy. I have no idea why, the whole time I wanted to talk to my mom. But then that night it was the 5th of November, which is basically almost the same thing as the 4th of July in the US. They love to burn shit and let off fireworks here for this holiday. So there was and SIS reunion that night, and Malcom and Kai took us all to Lewes to show us how to get down on the 5th of Novemeber. For anyone who doesn't know about the 5th of November, check out the movie V for Vendetta. So we all took the train to Lewes and it was literally insane. According to Kai there was 120,000 people there while we there. That is legit insane. So the whole night we were walking around looking at all the different parades going around and people holding all the torches. That night I seriously was the jumpiest person to ever exist. Everytime one of the bagers were going off I would flinch like a crack head. I was seriously becoming a joke to some people. Eventually Thea and I made it over to find everyone because we got lost like seriously 3 times from everyone. So when we finally made it back to find everyone we ended up going to the free bon fire, which was by far the biggest one I have ever seen in my life. The pallets were stacked atleast 25 ft hight. It was ridiculous. We all ended up seeing the whole pile burn to shreds. It was totally insane. Then after the pallets burned they started letting off fireworks that rivaled the best 4th of July celebrations that I have ever seen. The British for some reason think its awesome to celebrate and attempted terrorist attack. I don't know why, but hey whose to judge. So I made my way home chilled with Mitch and the homies for a little while, then went to bed for like 12 hours. The previous week I seriously probably slept for 12 hours in 7 days. I felt like a crack head. So after sleeping all day I literally did nothing that day as well. Jaskaran who was visiting this weekend wanted to chill with everyone so we all chilled in York house TV room and played this game called "Hello Govna" which was really sick and got everyone pretty good for the night. Now tomorrow I am going to go to London to see Mitch's mom and do touristy things. Side note..Elizabeth is a tard because she got her camera jacked and I told her that she could use my camera and I charged it and everything for her so she could use it in Switzerland. The retard left it so what and idiot.

Fouloween

First off, one of the worst weekends for going out in Brighton. After tonight I really never wanna go out on a Friday or Saturday night ever again (I probably will, but I am just really angry). So Friday I had slept pretty much all day, did a whole lot of nothing and then watched Sopranos. That night I really didn't know quite what was going on with everyone, but Simon's friend Neal was here who had been here the weekend I got from Dublin and he was a really chill kid so I just said screw it and decided to hang out with them tonight and see where the night takes us. So my main goal was to recreate my great experience that I had at Life like 10 days before this. So as I said before that night at life was amazing, but Friday night was miserable. James, who I know its not his fault, said we should go to Digital. Me never having been to Digital thought what the heck lets go. So on the way into town we just so happened to get on the very same bus as Ginny, Hollis, Lauren, Thea and Elizabeth. We hung out with them on the bus for a while, got off and parted from each other. They said they were going to go to Pav Tav and not go clubbing, which in retrospect was a million times better of an idea. So we go down to Digital, and on the way James seriously needs a leash. He is trying to talk to every person he sees. Finally we make our way into Digital and we look around at the line and notice that it is quite a sausage fest. We debated heavily whether to go in and finally we were like whatever lets go. Big mistake. We get into the club and they are playing the LAMEST music with like dance beats on them. I am talking 70s 80s music. At one point they were playing some Smash Mouth song and I wanted to put a bullet in my head. Then I begin to notice some peculiar activity going on. I was thinking wow these guys are mad lame they are all just dancing with each other. Then I look over and see a guy lifting up another guys shirt and slipping a fiver in his waist line on his pants. Then I looked at all the guys and was like dude this is a gay bar. It took us about 30 seconds and we peaced out quick. So now this is the second time I have gone to a gay bar in Brighton. After that we tried to find all of the girls that we saw on the bus and I called them, but no one answered so we just walked over to Pav Tav to see if they were there. At this point my whole night was ruined and when we saw that they were not there I just wanted to go home. I got a call on the bus from Ginny and she wanted to leave town and come chill with back in my room. We all got home and just chilled in Simon's room waiting for Ginny and them to come just listening to Dubstep like a bunch of losers. Finally Ginny and Hollis got to York House and James and I chilled with them for a bit and then they left, but as they were leaving Lauren, Thea and Elizabeth come running in almost give me a heart attack and we ended up all chilling for a little while more. Everyone left and I stayed up until 8 am because I think I might be almost an insomniac. Saturday I woke up with high expectations at 2 pm. I had had a horrible nights sleep and have been in kind of a grumpy mood. I sat in my room and watched too much Sopranos for my own good again then started getitng ready for Halloween. I was going to go chill with Mike at his pad, but then on the way to Swanborough I saw Amanda and decided hanging out with girls might be more fun then hanging out with just Mike. I chilled in Alex's room for a little bit and saw everyone's costumes. Then we all made our way over to the party at Swanborough. I was not dressed up as anything for Halloween, but slowly accumulated a sweet costume. I put on someones Scallycap and wore a fake mustache and went around telling everyone I was Amanda's grandpa. She said her grandpa didn't like that so I decided to be Krissy's grandpa "Grumpy Vince". I walked around all night looking like a fool. So when we went into town I still had hung over contempt for Brighton because of the miserable failure of the previous night. We walked around aimlessly for a little while and everyone wanted to go to Coalition or Honey Club, no one went because we were right it cost £10 and I would never pay that much god damn cover for those places. We ended up just getting fish and chips and trying to go home. After fish and chips people wanted a Kebab and I got one of those too. I was disgustingly full. We went to the bus stop and waited for like an hour watching 4 buses that were full drive by us. Finally we all were really pissed off and just wanted to walk home. On the way home Matt and I bought a road beer to drink on the way back. Turns out Brighton is farther then I thought from Sussex. It took me 1 hour and 45 minutes to walk home with everyone. Some people just ended up waiting for another bus, but we still got home the same time as them by just walking. I got back and my feet were literally on fire and I went to bed. So moral of the story, this year Halloween sucked and I hate Digital on Friday. Another thing, all morning I have been thinking why my tongue hurts and feels weird, I burnt the shit out of it on fish and chips, so just another reason for me to be not happy about this weekend.