But is it America's Favourite Neighbour?
Oh, well. Life so far has been pretty good. I've been up here for a little bit now, and I'm getting used to living in the area and it's nice. I've been able to snag a job. This was a lot less hard than I thought it was going to be. All my peoples in Canton will note how goddamn hard it is to even get a part time job there, but here it seems that there are WAYYYY more jobs than they need people for.
I went to Applebees when they opened at 11:00, handed in the application, and was interviewed at 4:00pm. I was interviewed again the next day and hired. I was expecting I would automatically get a serving position, but the interviewer asked me if I was interested in hosting, waiting, or bartending. I thought he was just trying to see what I'd say (because in Illinois you need to be 21 to bartend, and I didn't think it would be different here), so I said "Well, I've always wanted to bartend, but I don't think I'm old enough yet." Apparently you only need to be 19 to bartend here, so I was offered the job. I was ecstatic. I've worked in food service all this time, hoping that one day I would get to do bartending because the hours and pay are great, and it's a good job for a college student, and now I can!! ^_^ yay!!
I'm now a student at the University of Wisconsin. It's a pretty sweet school. I spent an hour and a half taking a French placement test, and placed into the 300 level classes - only to find out that they are, in fact, not offering French for either fall or spring. *smacks forehead*. They've been awesome with Student aid up here. For once, I haven't been screwed out of my money. I got a work-study in which I work at the IT help desk, which is cool because it's a great job for doing homework and I get to fix computers which is cool.
My schedule is rediculous, but I think it'll be good because there won't be down time. I can't stand down time.
I do miss all of you wonderful folk. I think about you all a lot. I haven't been online recently because of problems with the wireless router that Verizon DSL (which is perhaps the worst ISP ever) gave us. It's now up and running, although they are cheap bastards and they've extended their DSL area to tons of people and not bought new DNS servers to handle the load. Ergo, the network congestion can be infuriating at times. Slowing download speeds from 500 - 700k/s to a slothy 80 - 150k/s. Although, it sure beats the 33.3k/s dialup gets.
I had to enroll in a language, I enrolled in first semester Spanish. *sigh* Spanish. I hate Spanish. Oh well.
Other than that, I'm spending this month with work and school and getting ready for September which is going to be very important. Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the holiest day in the Jewish calender) are next month.
I WANT TO SEE "HERO" SO BAD!!!!!!!!!! AND THE BEST PART IS THAT IT'S NOT DUBBED - IT'S SUBTITLED IN THE ORIGINAL CHINESE!!!!! *head explodes* Jet Li is so, so, so, so cool. Anyways, that's about all for now. I'll be trying to play catch up for the next bit. lol. Anyways. Shalom to all.