I love how my suite is now a cool place to hang out.  I don't have to go anywhere and I step out into the common room and find it full and bursting with amazingly awesome people.

So, the other day, this boy came to our window and threw snow at it to make us look outside.  And so we did.  He was standing there with a guitar and motioned us to open the window.  And so we did.  And then he played and sang us a song that he wrote for us.  Go ahead, girls of the world; mention casually to your guy friends that you've always wanted someone to serenade you outside your window.  You might just get lucky.

I am learning to play the flute and the guitar.  Not really.  But we have about 5 different instruments just hanging out in our room now and it's wonderful.  I am going to learn to play at least one of them.  Rachel, remember how much I wanted to play flute when I was little?  It's so cool. 

So, I'm upset.  I found out yesterday that I dance rumba all wrong.  And I have a month to completely fix it.  One month.  Count it.  One.  Yep, there it is.  **sigh**

I lovf youou. 

I'm really missing a few things this week. 

Number one is having a piano.  So many times in the past couple days I've wandered around just aching to play...but there's nothing to play unless I go to my friend Travis's room.  And quite frankly, I don't feel like walking all the way over there or being sociable or having anyone listen to me.  When I play at home, no one listens...it's just Alayna fooling around.  And I don't have to walk outside to get to the piano.  All these things I took for granted...

Number two is my family and home.  Yeah, I always miss them, but I just want to go home for a couple days right now.  There's something about being home that's so much more real & comfortable than being at school. 

Number three is my fiance.  (Yes, I'll be honest, I enjoy that word more than life itself.)  I always miss him, but I feel very cuddling-deprived recently.  And sure you can talk on a phone, but you can't be quiet on a phone. 

Besides those things I'm very content. 

While I'm not going to my home this weekend, I'm very excited to be going to a home.  Aparna's taking my back with her.  So, I'll get to see real live Long Island people...oooooh!  I'm going to eat real food (of the brownish sort) and go to a 12 year old's birthday party.  Let me tell you, these are things that do not happen on campus. 

Oh, so yesterday in German, my prof came in and started ripping the class to shreds about how pathetic the test was.  I was scurred, let me tell you.  But when I got my test back, I had an A...my pride soared, I'm afraid.  And after class my prof asked me if I'd be willing to be a tutor for the class!  I have a job, guys, tutoring German!  It's not a "real job" because he's just going to send out emails to the people who need tutoring and tell them to call me, but I'm going to get paid 10 buckeroos an hour to do it.  Oh guys, please do not forget that this is basically exactly the kind of job I want.  I'm so excited.  If no one actually asks for German help, I'm going to be sorely disappointed.

One last thing; I need you all to pray this week that Nathan gets accepted here.  I mean, of course he will because he's brilliant, but...it's sort of important to us.  And they're deciding on him this week.  So pray that the admissions people love him and can't bear for him not to grace their classrooms. 

Today I am 19.  I'm old.  Not really though.  Next year I will be though, because I won't be a teenager anymore.

So, on Wednesday in semantics I was not able to finish the quiz before time was up.  Neither was the rest of the class, but it still made me feel a little dumb.  That was the first time I didn't finish a test.

Yesterday in German class was over before I finished my German test.  Is anyone else seeing anything strange here?  Either my brain is shrivelling up and dying or my professors are turning very mean.  I'm not really sure which.  PS: I got a 100 on my last semantics quiz and a 101 on my last German quiz.  In other words, I think it's my profs.' fault, not mine.

Back to Wednesday again, Travis and I performed our jive for the involvement fair.  That's right.  Me on a stage dancing for people.  Craziness.  It was so cool and we didn't mess up at all.  Not even a little bit. 

So, yesterday was a dance social.  Aparna came..she's now a ballroom addict too.  Ha!  They just keep on a-getting dragged in.  Navneet and Hazel did not come because they had a chem. exam the next day.  Losers.  It made me sad.  So...hm...it was fun.  As in, hh-really fun.  And afterward we went to Applebee's because none of us had eaten dinner beforehand.  Man, do I love those kids!  Such fun times...  AND since it was like midnight (in which case it was technically today) they surprised me with a birthday cake and one of those really obnoxious birthday songs that they do at restaurants.  It was so cool. 

And today Aparna put a happy birthday sign on my door.  And Huy said happy birthday on IM.  And Izzet came by to give me a hug and say happy birthday.  It's amazing...you expect no one to know or care about this kind of stuff at college.  And then people do.  And it incredible. 

A'ight, I have to go to class now.  bye!!!

Ok, Rachel...I'll post something.  I'm so out of practice with this though...it's been so long, I don't know what to say. 

So, two days ago, my roommate Ana came into the room, made a phone call, and then announced that she was moving out.  Talk about a shocker!  She moved into her friend's room down the hall and I have a new roommate Kit.  Her real name is Alicia, but she seems to think that's a dreadful name, so Kit it is.  I'm not totally sure how to feel about all this quite yet.  It's all so very sudden.  But I am happy for the absense of noise.  Kit's basically never here.  And she flat out told me that at night she and her friends go to someone else's room on the third floor.  So, it seems to me that this situation cannot help but be better.  The only real downside is that I can no longer complain of racial discrimination in the suite because she's white too.  Speaking of which, after two roommate changes within the suite, we have a white room, a brown room, and an Asian room.  The university is actually desperate to segregate us. 

So, my phonology class is full of idiots.  We spent the whole class today talking about really obvious things.  The funny part was when we started talking about CPR rules versus Faithfulness rules...and the professor started explaining them in terms of adultery.  It was truly awful, but oh so funny. 

Ok, so...stuff, stuff...um...I don't know.  I'm going to go do something else now.  Bye.

You know those moments when you realize something that seems ridiculously obvious?  It's amazing because until that moment, you know something, but you really don't feel it or have any idea what it means.  I just had a bunch of those moments all in a row.

"Holy cow!  I don't even care what I got on that math final -- I never have to take another math test for the rest of my life!!"

"In about two days, I'm not going to see Cardozo A03A for five weeks!!"

"Christmas!!!  Oh man, it's a-comin'!  And my family!  And my friends!  And Nathan!  It's just all so close!  When did this happen?"

"I like people...and I like being happy.  And I like being happy with people.  Yay!  Those things all happen a lot!"

There was more too, but it's only shockingly exciting to me, so I won't continue.  All these revelations have me very giddy though.  I think I'm going to go jump around for a while.