  WOW YOU BLOGGED!!!!!!!! :-O well...i think the summer is only going to get more and more dismal. or wait. correction: i think i have ceased to be amused by everything. jeez this summer is sucking big time.... well, i'll get around doing that observating i keep promising/should do anyway. Tales from camp...... Monday: my dad woke me up at 6.30 AM and i'm all like "SHIT! " because i had this preconceived notion that TPP/YB were punctual ppl and that i would be late. no worries though, i got to jane vora's house at 6.00 exactly and i was still like the third person there. we then waited like an hour because this one person forgot his permission slip and they had a hell of a time securing it before we could leave.
me, varun, naeem, hari, liang, and julie rode in ms. floreani's van because she came on the bus and asked for someone to come and keep her company. so, we all went on the spur of the moment. i, being an idiot, brought prolly a little too much carry on luggage.
i had my purse (filled with snacks) and this other bag, which held my computer, a bottle of water, various debate articles to read on the way, world history materials, and of course, cd's. we didn't really do anything on the way over except listen to music and talk about it. i'm so glad hari's converted to the rock world.........i was prolly a little too excited on the way over there. really, no caffeine pills, no coffee either and i was sooo excited and hyper and bouncy and stuff. on the way, i realized how far we were from home. and i kept calling people toto. oh right, on the way we realized that we left kyle and my pillow on the bus.
*dammit* oh well. so we saw fireworks stands, confederate flags, prisons galore, cows and horsies, and messed up trees on the way over there. and when we got there, i thought something might be up. "sam houston state university" is sort of an embellishment of the campus. wait,...ok "university" might be an embellishment. it really does look better once u get to a certain end of campus but WOW the dorms were...well not dilapidated, but they were getting there.
plus, the maps and signs are horrible so we had to go up those nonhoustonish hills like 3 times with all of our luggage. yes, accidents almost happened. so we finally got to our dorms, and they were pretty pathetic. small.....and maybe not cramped per se, but definitely very confining. the walls were white, and we were forbidden from opening the windows sot here wasn't much light, especially since we were underground on one side and only the second story iin the lee ont he other.
there was one bathroom which doubled as a hallway to the other dorm. i shared a room with asya rosenberg (from jazz band) and liang and yin (photog) were on the other side. geez it was scary...........but before we even had lunch, apparently a bunch of rules were broken. rule #10, which got a big deal made out of it on this trip, said that no co-ed visitng was allowed. EVER. we weren't even allowed on each others floors. hahah......the girls floor was 1, the guy's was like 4. i wonder why they thought all the separation was necessary. HAHA. well anyway, we kept visitng before the rules were explained to us and it was cool. nothing happened, it was a nice sense of community and we played cards while i played music that i loved and fought the others to play.
in other words, "neshika". hahaha. but apparently, a lot of ppl do LIKE it. haha, well ok, the jewish kids had heard it from BBYO before (david heaton and asya) so they were totally cool with it. SEEE LIANG........ had lunch at quizno's. wanted to kill myself in class in the afternoon and night because it was so boring and pointless. i considered quitting, but i figured it ahd to get better once the basics were over. that night....stayed up until 2.45 working on world history. haha, dont kid me, i didn't start until like 12.30 anyway because me and liang were.....well actually, i can't quite figure out what we were actually doing. tuesday: woke up at 5.30 because kumar and liang wanted to go jogging. haha i said i'd go along, but after liang spent like 15 minutes waking me up, i got up and walked to the coffee shop (kaldi's...vERY GOOD PLACE.
a lot better than starbucks.....). i got hot chocolate... naeem and liang's discovery of the caffeine pills the night before sort of made me feel guilty as crap. i tried to read the houston chronicle, but after getting really bored and not noting anything except the discovery of patrick denhey's killer and orlando sanchez's campagin fundrasiing, i left since it was 7, and i had to be back for breakfast. intersting breakfast....i am not ever going to complain about the food there. sure, it's a little bland, and a little oily but oh well.
i dont have to make it, i dont have to clean dishes, so i wont complain. we had several presentations ........the one last night was about the "personality of your publication" and it was really awesome. David Knight, this dude from south carolina came a really intesrting speech. he talks / acts like ahick, but is not afraid to admit it so it's cool as crap. the one we had that morning was with gary tuchmann, who is appaerntly a national correspondenct from CNN. it was really cool, he was acting all cool and debaterish before he started, and whne he got up there he was being al spontaenous and awesome and i SOO hope i can be like him someday. he also gave a really cool presentation. very journalistic like. he gave a few gerneralizations, and then he kept giving anecdotres about things he does. cool stuff...there were stories about iraq, afghanistan, 9/11......there were a couple of cool quotes he gave.
one was about how being a journalist is being aewsome, and he said that "journalism isn't hte most lucrative job you can get, especially at first. but people who this do it because they love it, because they get to see so much more than everyone else. it's not like with other jobs; their heads dont go stale. " and another one was about the responsibilitys "at 9/11, i easily could have lost it.
they did a horrible thing, one that i will never forgive or forget. when something is evil, it's a fact. but i didn't lose it on there, it was my duty as a journalist to help the nation grieve by giving them the facts, and by remaining composed. it's that sense of duty that keeps you going, and keeps you going objectively. " not much else that dad. kyle decided to be smasrt and switched from beginning newspaper to advanced writing. i stuck it out a little longer.
plus shit with hari started today. there was a dance tonight. hahahaha. there was actually pretty good music, i'm going to say that even though it was all rap/dance, but we went and got the free teeshirts. man....at this point i started living in my pajamas. ooh...funny thing. befre we went to the dance and after dinner and class, me and liang went to the guy's rooms bc even though our floor monitor said it was against the rules, theirs was ok with it.
but apparently, their floor monitor is the boyfriend of ours, and he called her to tell her that we wre up there and was just going to tell us to keep it down (cuz i was playing gymnopedie reaaaaaallly loud while i was working on world hsitory), but she came there and got really pissed off. she just told me and liang to leave, but she started yelling at the guys, and yelled at them again the next time she saw them when we wre all leaving for hte dance. so that was it. when we got back from the dance, we all got bored, and then us and a bunch of ppl sat in the TV room and played sppoons. i think it was me, liang, hari, varun, naeem, claire, catherine, robert, and some stratford people....but we kept getting loud there so we relocated to the lobby of our dorm, where we ended up playing mafia, this game that jane vora and some yearbook ppl showed us when they came. i didn't do that..me and hari and naeem sat out there and played because i thought the game was a little frivolous. and then....me and liang sat in the hallway and talked in chinese about various thinsg. oh it was funny, naeem came and heard us talking, and he's all "jane, i dont know chinese, but i think ur chinese sucks.
" -_- yah, so then me and liang left and i started working on world hstory again. well, we talked a bunch and stuff and i only did 2 sections that night. i still ent to sleep at 2.30 though, cuz i just oculdn't get into the work and i forced myself to finish those two sections. my dad is being annoying now....he's sitting ont he couch watching tv and wants me to get off. well, he's hinting at it but i think i'll just finisht his later........ ciao y'all. i'll finish my stories and talk some more later.... dammit why does josh ahve to be out of town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mazel tov to eleanor. ;-) jane 
