August 4

I tried to sleep in as late as possible, but it just wasn’t working. I had to get up for class. Ugh. So, I dragged myself out of bed and got dressed, not happy about my long day... I turned in a bunch of linbrary books went to class and the professor basically talked the whole time about my meeting with him and MY topic – Dark Tourism, to give examples for the class. Embarrassing. Everyone seems to have some pretty good topics, I’m impressed. Especially ‘cuz mine took a lot of research to develop, but they just came up with awesome topics on their own.

After class was the TSA Welcome Lunch, so I walked down there with my classmates and joined TSA... I ate some cookies right away and mingled with friends. Haha Didn’t really do anything important. Then I ate some free pizza and Christian tried to get a volleyball game started, so I went with him to try to recruit more people. Pretty soon we had about 6 people on either side, so I went back to sit down and text my boyfriend. We packed up a little early and I quickly volunteered to take the volleyballs back to the gym, which meant I didn’t have to do much else! Haha. While I was at the gym, I saw that the entire pool was being dug up so I decided to try and get a refund for my pool credits! They submitted the request – yes! I’ll get that money back.

Then I took the bus down to the South Bank and waited 30 minutes for Jillian and Lina to meet me at the Gallery of Modern Art because Jillian really wanted to see the Surrealism exhibit. I wasn’t in a very good mood because I had sand in my pants from volleyball, the exhibit was $16 and I still don’t have any student loan money from the school.. UGH. Plus it’s Lina’s birthday which means that I would have to shell out money for drinks and dinner, etc. for her. Jillian bought her museum ticket, which left me hanging a little bit... But after the exhibit we decided to go to Max Brenner’s Chocolate Bar for a sweet snack... So, I paid for Lina’s food there. I decided that we were adults and could eat dessert before dinner, but that turned out not to be such a good idea because then we all ended up feeling sick and didn’t want to go out salsa dancing (which is just as well because I was tired anyway). Plus, my boyfriend was already making a big stink about it and my increased involvement in TSA. Ugh.

Roommates: Denmark and I are holding down the fort, but then two separate German girls came in and one was jetlagged, so she decided to go to sleep at 8pm! UGH. So I went to go watch a dumb movie in the hostel’s theatre and then went to bed early. They both have a lot of stuff, so our room feels REALLY full and messy! =(