Well my last days here have been real nice. Yesterday Jian and I watched the whole directors cut of the Lord of the Rings (about four hours long). After that we went for a walk on these trails that lead all over Anchorage and the APU campus. We saw the dog park, University Lake, and the electronic bell tower. Quite amusing I thought; and all this with me in jeans and and Jian's hiking shoes which are four sizes too big for me. By the end my jeans were caked in snow and my feet were wet, but that's Alaska livin' right!?
After the walk we went into the one and only building with class rooms...or maybe there's one other but still, that's nothing compared to Drexel!! It looked like high school. But to eaches own right? We met Jian's friend Porter in the school store after and we went back to his house to watch Live Free or Die Hard. (See a lot of movie watching goes on around here!)
Finally we got hungry and went back to Jian's apartment and Jian made dinner for us. She's a good cook and I'm proud of her for cooking food all the time and having good eating habits unlike most of her roommates. But that's college life I guess. After dinner Jian and I played Cranium against Kayti and her friend Dylan. Naturally the sister sister combo could not be beat!! We played Madden after Cranium. Although I usually don't like to play video games I had fun playing Madden even though I didnt exactly know how to do everything like I was saying...all you have to know is that the EAGLES RULE! It was a lot of fun even though people here didn't agree with me being on the West Coast and all. :(
I was trying to learn some Thai using the CD and phrase book that I got and it totally boggles my mind! It sound similar to Chinese, because it is also a tonial language. It seemed to be impossible to learn the characters and the proper tones but I was talking to the people in Thailand and they said that people who commit to learning it have become fluent within three months so I'm still hopeful!! To be honest, I'm a little nervous about the traveling to Thailand. I don't like going somewhere and looking like a tourist or not knowing exactly where I'm going or what I'm doing. But I try not to concentrate on that and just get everything I can together so I can be as prepared as possible!
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