Thursday, March 27, 2008

St Pattys Day and Germany

So many updates!

I've been meaning to post a blog about my St. Patty's day weekend. But I've been slacking on the blogs. bleh. So here is the super quick summary. My cousins (Selina and Arbi) and my sister came to visit me for St. Patty's day weekend. We had a great time. I'm really bummed I didn't get to show them as much of Boston as I'd like - no North End, no tour of campus and Allston, no Christian Science Monitor and Pru... lots of stuff we skipped. But, I hope they will all be back for graduation and can do the tours then. In fact, you know when you go to a destination wedding and there is like an optional itinerary for you for your time there - I've already planned one out for my family while they're here. (To the fam: bring comfy shoes.) But as early as Friday night, all of boston seemed to be decked out in Green. We did some bar hopping on boylston. It was great. Saturday Jeff flew in from Buffalo AND... met the fam (or the "delegates/representatives" of the fam). He survived. In fact, they got along! Yay. Saturday night we had a great dinner and went to Hong Kong. Sunday, we WALKED (with) the Southie parade - like literally, walked from the back of the parade to almost the front (we wanted to see it all and we were late so we figured we'd outrun them). Sunday night I saw Ave Q with Lisa, Selina and Jeff. (I definitely recommend it!!!!! they're traveling right now so you can prob catch them wherever you are). Monday, we had bfast at jeff's (green eggs and .... well... bacon AND mimosas, bloody marys and guinness) and then went to bell and hand.

oh, here is the fun part - i left the bar at 5 pm b/c i had to make a presentation at school at 7 pm (and class started at 6). I somehow ended up in an ambulance around 5:50 pm - turns out i fell asleep on the wrong train. The details are much more amusing but I'm not in the mood to tell that story for the 100th time right now so feel free to ask me if you want to know. I ended up taking a cab home, changing into a suit and showing up at school just in time to make my presentation... and my classmates didn't even realize i'd been drinking :). RIght after the presentation, I ducked out - back to the bar (where I had left jeff with my family for several hours). Fortunately, Jeff was still alive. My sister and Arbi...well, i'll let them tell that story themselves. We hung out some more - drank a bunch more - and headed home pretty early. (Thats what happens when you start at 9 am)

anyway, really, the only reason i wrote all that was because i like my blogs to be semi chronological. the real news is that i got into the study abroad program at Bucerius (Hamburg, Germany) for Fall 08. LSKFJ:LSKFJ:LSKDJF:LSKFJD. I've never studied abroad. I'm so damn excited and so extremely freaked out at the same time. I've told a few people not to let me chicken out - because i will be tempted. My mom gave me the usual - "its your choice but...." and then pointed out several "concerns." But I'm not doing this again. I skipped out on Australia. I'm not skipping out on Germany. This is my last chance ever!

Oh and no, I don't speak a SINGLE word of German. NONE!

Who's coming to visit?