This’ll be a really short post, and the next couple of posts will be as well, because my computer cord has broken and won’t charge my machine. Every time I want to use the computer now I have to ship myself and my gear to the library. This is not good team! I am in the middle of mid-terms!

Briefly updating:

1) I felt a bit sick over the weekend, and figure it’s just that America has different nasty buggies than NZ. I’ll bring some home for you to all try later.

2) My cellphone stopped working (ref previous post) because I got it very wet. It randomly buzzed, spent three days looking pathetic, and then started to work again. I thought it wouldn’t receive or phone other people and was quite disappointed, but it turns out that the phone bill hadn’t been paid and they’d simply disconnected it. Easily fixed!

3) I got my first couple of assignments back from Berkeley. I was terrified I’d be out of my league here, and I kinda am, but at I’m getting OK grades. Not fantastic, but OK.

4) Robert Jordan, the man who wrote books about a million pages long and who was half-way through the final book of the longest series in history, died. Now I will never know what happens to the two thousand characters I have read about for the last eight years. I feel sad and pathetic.

5) I acted as private security for a football game on Saturday. It was very boring – they told us ‘come with a white shirt and black pants.’ Then they gave us a clip-on tie, dressed us up in this suit jacket that was about nine sizes to big, and told me to guard the press-box. I looked like Charlie Chaplin, and I was about as scary as him as well, because I got randomly abused by people who weren’t allowed into the press box, but had tried to come in anyway. It made money for the ROTC program, so I figured I’d do them a favor and show up.

6) I am getting itchy feet and want to go somewhere else. Not that Berkeley and San Francisco aren’t the best places on planet earth, because they kind of are, but I want to go and see other places now. Utah – Salt Lake City is apparently worth visiting. New Mexico – my friend’s dad works at Los Alamos. South Dakota – Mt Rushmore. Washington - Seattle.

7) I’m going to get to Seattle if it kills me.

8) Tonight I have a soccer practice. Last one before the big game!

9) I also have Military Lab tonight. Land navigation – blurg. The most boring thing ever created. Our protractors are a riot though – they’re made really badly. If you put two of them together, the degree bars are out of sync with each other by as much as five degrees. I’ll tell you how finding our way around with them goes.

10) I got a job working as the student assistant at the EAP fair all day on Friday. I’m going to either buy new jandels (I have exciting holes right through the soles of mine) or buy snacks for a week. I’m leaning more towards the jandels, but something might come up so that I can use it better.

And that’s all’s I can think of. I did a map quiz today, and I didn’t study, but found all the places on the map no problem. Normally I hate people like me.

Cheers team, and keep warm over there (I'm thinking of you in the glorious warm sunshine.)

Margie

written by  Crosswood on September 25, 2007 from Berkeley, United States
from the travel blog: New Zealand Student, American University.
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Margie, it is topping at 10 degrees today so we are all freezing. Where is global warming when you need it?

I hope you have been paying attention to Ruapehu. It blew its top lat night. One person badly injured and 2 lahars...very dramatic but now all over. You can get the drift by looking at http://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/volcams.html

written by  Annabel Young on September 25, 2007

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A the wonderful volcanoes. In news for me i was just given newsletter duty again... two days before its due

written by  Rebecca Harris on September 26, 2007

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Hey Margie! Glad ur keepin busy. Things r good over here. I just emailed my ball pix 2 u so chek them out. Im of 2 aussie 2mrw so Il say hi 2 Kirsty 4 u :) Hav a good week xx

written by  Annabel Harris on September 27, 2007

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Thanks guys for replying to my messages. Annie - have a great time in Aussie! Rebecca - your thoughts just keep flowing. Annabel (the Young) - thanks for the photos. The pictures of R. erupting are always impressive.

I'll think of you all freezing in the white cold, while I wonder if I should go for a stroll maybe along the waterfront, maybe go to the beach and have a sweet sleep.
Heheheheh.

written by  Crosswood on September 30, 2007

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