college parties...i will stay away!!! i would expand but i am doing my all to stay away from them for as long as humanly possible! actuali all i really hav 2 say is "to be or not to be" do i become that american college student, partying the weekends away, but hard at work during the week...may not do as well academicaly but still average out... or do i avoid them altogether. that is rock up for an hour or so or more, no drinking tho...that has b...

Well I'm nearly through my first week of college so I decided as a way to take a break from the stress of not knowing how much I should be studying I would start a blog! My first day was good. Very quick. My first lesson was Nature, Culture and Society which is basically anthropology. And I love it! I had my second class yesterday, still the same, absolutly enthralling! My second lesson was Macro. It was pretty boring, infact very, but I must to do it as a requi...

Today is the 23rd Aug, two days until i receive my laptop! Very excited. I just finished playing in an Alzheimers Fundraiser tournament down at Cedar Rapids which is just over and hour away. We were playing at a country club, apparantly Sachin reckons you have to pay $10000 to join, if you ask me, thats bulls***, but it was still a very nice place. We had to play mixed doubles. I was put with a lovely man named..cant actually remember what he was called now. But ...

Well it is 3:37pm over here on August 20th...Which means I, Phoebe Walker, have made it through a week of being in America :) I am bored s***less at the moment. I'm waiting for 630 tonight when Talia, Jesse n i are having our first homemade dinner!!! HOORAY!!! This has been the most exciting thing for me, waiting for real food...Don't worry i have set myself up for a let down. I have a slight inkling that the food, pasta i believe, will b covered in oil and butte...

Well I finally have a chance to go on the internet and tell you guys what I've been doing...and let me tell you I haven't really done much. I moved in to my room as soon as I got here, not too bad at all. My roomate Talia is very cool, very laidback, probably the best roomate I could have hoped for. We've had a tour of the Uni and its beautiful. So green and everybody is so nice, actually too nice, you'd think they were out to kill you because they're that nice :...