I welcome December with open arms... WAIT NO. It's cold here. Really, really cold. I know you're complaining, saying "Oh, well it's cold here too and it just snowed 3 inches!" Well sorry to burst your complaining bubble, but my complaining bubble is significantly larger and more important than yours, not to mention it's rather burly like a mountain man and hasn't shaved in months...
The point is, there is more than a foot of snow on the ground and it gets dark here by 3.30 pm. That's pretty effing early. I pray for the days that it snows because then its at least 25 degrees, which is hella warm here. Meanwhile, my sleep pattern is completely thrown off and I frequently can't sleep at night and opt to take random 4 hour naps when it suits me.
I'm sitting here studying right now for the test I have tomorrow in Dog and Cat Genetics, Health, and Reproduction. And I'll tell you, it isn't very fun. I didn't realize how much information there was to study and of course I had the weekend to study but we all know how weekends go... Awesome, but definitely devoid of studying. So here I am, cramming once again. I hope it won't be that bad of a test. The test isn't actually graded, but I have to pass the test to pass the class. Isn't that crazy? There is absolutely ZERO homework here, and all I have to turn in is a paper that isn't even very hard. And attendance isn't even required.
Speaking of which, last quarter I took 2 other classes and I found out I got the highest final grade in the class (60.5 out of 61) even though I probably skipped the most. I feel highly superior, I'll be honest. I'm not looking forward to coming home and having to deal with so much bullshit from all my classes including, but not limited to: extra tests, weekly homework, required attendance, unnecessarily complicated lectures, huge classrooms with a massive amount of students, less one-on-one time, infinitely more boring/monotonous teachers, harsh grading scales, and less dog/cat/animal classes in favor of annoying chemistry courses that I oh-so-hate. Haha, but no, let me tell you how I really feel.
Meanwhile, going off my tirade for a moment, I got interviewed on Friday by a journalist, so anyone that reads the West Lafayette paper, yea I'm basically a celebrity. Okay, but seriously I got interviewed by this guy from the paper who is in Sweden currently to cover the Nobel Prize week that is taking place in Stockholm. I guess he's here because one of the Purdue Professor's got the Nobel Prize for chemistry or physics, I can't remember which, but as he was here for an entire week, he needed to do other articles and I guess I'm one of them. He was doing a piece on my travel to Sweden and all that. I don't know when it'll be in the paper, but I'll let you know when I figure it out.
Also, met with a friend after that and attempted to go Christmas shopping but ended up failing miserably because I'm so bad at finding good presents for people. I bought my brother something months ago at a sweet sale at one of the nations, but besides that I'm completely at a loss of where to buy touristy things for my family. Plus, did I mention I'm out of money? I have seriously spent so much money here, and honestly most of it was on extra food somehow that I didn't have the heart to tell my father I was buying because he already spends so much money on me.
Not to mention the POUNDS AND POUNDS of chocolate I have managed to consume over the months I've been here. Seriously it's turning into a problem and I probably have like 5 cavities now that I don't know about...
Oh yea, went to a birthday party on Saturday night. Didn't actually know the birthday boy, but I knew a friend of a friend of a friend of his and somehow ended up going. It was pretty fun, lots of crazies though. No matter, being foreigner has its social perks and I'm always intriguing because they don't know about the U.S. and if all else fails I can just make stuff up, can't I?
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