SO we're now on Week 3. Or 4 i really dont know. But i have some updates. My parents came, that was fun...see below. Other than that, just been doing a lot of school work and a lot of drinkin. I am normally at school from 8 45 to 5 or 6 every day...including fridays. That may explain the need to drink. Maybe not. We had our first assignment due last week. It was about analyzing the motivations of certain emerging space nations. My group got Iran which sparked a heated debate and big split in our group between the Nigerians and the rest of the world. To add to the Nigerian communication barrier and over all disagreeing on how to handle our country, we found out a few hours before our report was dude, that one of them just copy and pasted their section from another paper that we had previously cited. UGH. Anyway that's over. Our professors were kind enough to assign our second assignment directly after the last presentation. This time we are writing an "Update on Cosmology" in the past decade. We also have to make a technical poster on an upcoming observatory that will make large contributions to cosmology. Enough of the boring ish.
As far as party stories go, I went to Belgium for a weekend with a guy in our program who lives there, and two of our friends. He happens to live in the town of Stella Artois so we got to go to the brewery. Somehow Tiff planned to go there the same weekend so we met up. It was awesome. I pierced my eyebrow. Beers were 1.70 eruo for a pint of stella. i loved it. anyway...next weekend we're going to Munich Oktoberfest. that should be fun, ill come back with stories for that. I've been learning portuguese from some friends here and one of my closest friends is a 6'7" black guy who is a pro soccer player...also a rocket scientist. pretty awesome. ummmm i guess i'll write some stuff about the pics below. OH YEA a lot of them are from a club in Germany that is like 5 mins away. 1 euro vodka redbulls and rum and cokes till 2. we had a crazy night. I drank so many vodka redbulls that even though I went to bed at 6 i woke up at 9 REALLY wired. it was shitty. in addition, my roommate Yuval was chatting to this woman all night and paul (see below) was bragging about how well he was ddoing. I looked over and just said "Paul, that is not a woman" Paul was so SHOCKED that he went over to the woman and put his hand on her neck...where he said "there was mount everest" then he kept it there and said "Je sei je sei" I know, I know. jesus it was a mess. anyway. pics below:
my mom and roommates
our jew pride
the ISU building
the party with the parents
roommates pre canoeing
cool ropes course that would never be allowed in america...no guides or anything
k3 night in germany
Belgium/eyebrow