Okay I'd like to start off by saying that I've added a video section on the sidebar, so be sure to check it out. It may take a while to load depending on your connection speed so please be patient. I only have one video so far and you'll notice that it's only like a minute long...that's because my digital camera only takes clips a minute at a time. The current clip titled "Thumbmaster" took place on Saturday night...I went to an International party at Kevin's house (Kevin is one of the guys here from Mac) where the Mac students taught the other international students how to play Thumbmaster, or Kings as some people call it...except once the internationals caught on it got pretty crazy! There was a lot more yelling and chanting than I'm used to...and the French were teaming up on the Germans and vice versa...it was really funny. I remember looking at Emma one time (she's from Mac too) thinking, what have we done?!! It was so fun though. Here's a picture of (left to right) Esperanza (Spain), Weng (some Asian country..lol...not really sure which one), Nacho (either Mexico or Brazil...can't remember), Mauricio (Mexico) and Marina (Brazil).
During the game I had to make a rule...so I said that everytime someone took a drink they had to go "HWAAAAAH!!!" like the moose noise in Princess Diaries 2. It was soooo funny!
After the party I went home with Elle and Tom (both from Mac) cuz they live in Lupton too. We stopped by the Subway on the way home and it was so good...I start to crave North American food every now and then. OOhh the worst example, besides my random cravings for Starbucks Mocha Mint Chip Frappacinos, was when I was downtown on...yesterday actually...and I saw a picture of this new McFlurry they had which had chunks of Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate (MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm) in it. Now, I've been craving the DQ lately...but they don't have DQ here. They have Mr. Whippy, which is a very wussy looking version of soft serve ice cream served from a van. So, when I saw this McFlurry, I REALLY wanted it. The thing is, compared to Blizzards, McFlurries are roadkill....that was until I gave in and had one of the McFlurries here...it was even crappier than the ones at home!! The ice cream was like, half melted, and they barely mixed in the stuff so it was like...chocolate clumps galore for a while, but then just vanilla after they were all gone. Boo. Hoo.

The reason I was downtown yesterday was cuz I was dropping off my application to volunteer at the Leeds Film Festival. It runs from Nov. 3-13, so I hope I get some shifts cuz I think it'd be a cool experience...plus, we get free admission to the films!! And MAYBE I'll see someone famous!!!

Oh man speaking of famous people...my flatmate Katherine was telling me that a friend of her friend was visiting New York and she was walking home alone from a club one night and a car pulled up beside her and the guy in the car told her that she shouldn't be walking home alone and asked her if she wanted a ride. Of course, she was pretty hesitant about it since this guy could be crazy or something...but it was a nice car and it looked like he had a couple of protective type (aka bodyguard)guys in the back with him, so she agreed. The guy drove her home. She had this feeling that she recognized the guy from somewhere...and when she picked up a magazine the next day she found out that the guy that had driven her home was a BACKSTREET BOY!! Katherine never said which one it was, but I'm sure you can all hear me saying "SHE RODE HOME WITH A BACKSTREET BOY AND DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT??!!!" It hurt me. It hurt me real bad.

On Sunday I went to play football (aka soccer) with some of the international students and it was really fun. I haven't played outdoor soccer in like, 2 years, so I was afraid I would totally suck...but I didn't do as bad as I thought I would. I think my worst problem was that I am incredibly out of shape, so after playing for half and hour I was dead. But it made me so happy when I got the ball away from this German guy and he told his teammate "don't give me the ball when she's there...she's too good". I know I'm not that great, but that comment made my day! And Emma (she played on the Mac soccer team) scored 3 goals!!! She was on fire!
But as a result of the exercise my out-of-condition body totally ACHED on Monday morning. I was sooo stiff. And one of my classes in the afternoon I had to walk up 5 flights of stairs...

Last night me, Rich and Sophie went to The Fruit Cupboard for their 80s night....and it was soooo much fun! I'll be the first to admit that 80s music is bad music, but I still love it! There was a point when they just kept playing medlies of movie songs...so there was stuff from Grease, Dirty Dancing, Blues Brothers, Rocky Horror Picture Show...it was great! And then some of the stuff they played was popular 90s music too so they had Fresh Prince and Hanson (and even though I used to hate MMBop I was so happy when it came on!) and Whitney Houston "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" - Love that song! Yeah, it was a great night, so hopefully we'll go again next week! Oh yeah! and it was only 80p entry (about $1.70...which is cheap even in Canada...but it's usually about 4 or 5 pounds - $8-$10 to get in to places here)
Tonight we might be going to a launch for the new club on campus. Katherine said her friend might be able to get us on the guestlist so we'll see how it goes...

And now for school...school's going fine. It's tough you know...partying last night, woke up at 10:15...class at 12 for an hour and then I'm done for the rest of the day...it's really putting a lot of stress on me. My population genetics class today went totally over my head...and everyone else's. Although to be fair, our prof did say that this would be the most confusing class of the semester...so I guess it can't get any worse than this. I'll just have to read some stuff over in the book I guess...

Oh, and one last thing...I made banana muffins for my flatmates last night...hey West Park are you missin my muffins? They taste really good! No chocolate chips though...they only have really dinky bags of chocolate chips here and I would've had to buy like 5 of them to make it work and they were 70p a bag...so I'm not spending over 3 pounds on chocolate chips!

Anyway that's it...I'm goin to make some food.