Random Update (12.2.12)

Campus was pretty dead two Saturdays ago when J.M. and I got back from Thanksgiving in Maryland. So not that much happened Saturday night, and Sunday was a lazy day full of FIFA 13 and then some pesky Paradise Lost reading (it just takes so long... silly 17th century English epic blank verse). The truly exciting part of last week was meeting with my study abroad advisor on Tuesday afternoon. We went over studying abroad in Spain. I want to go for the entire year. The tricky part is deciding if being abroad for a full year is worth it, for example I'd miss a bunch of people at BC and family and club soccer, but also everyone I talk to who has been abroad says to go for a year if it's feasible. Which it is. I was leaning towards Barcelona for a lot of reasons. They have a great school for economics (Pompeu Fabra) they have beaches, they have unlimited soccer, and they have a ton of other stuff that I'm excited to go find. My biggest concerns are the size of the city I decide to go to, the quality of education there, and safety. I like smaller towns for the last reason, plus a smaller city is much easier to get to know quickly. However, not going to a school like Pompeu Fabra is hard to do as well. So, deciding what place for how long is the big issue. But the best thing is that I have options, it's all possible, and I'm flexible. Next year is going to be a blast. 

However back to this year, we celebrated Veb's 20th birthday this weekend, Friday night to be exact. That was a lot of fun; our 8-man suite was full of friends and everyone had a great time. Jim and I had a great photo, which you'll see displayed  below. Saturday evening, stopped by Sam and Matt's Christmas party they had in Ignacio, which they really did well. Unfortunately I couldn't stay for too long because I had to catch the last show that a school comedy group was putting on at 10:30. The group is called "Shovelhead" and a couple friends from Newton are in it. It was hilarious; I watched with Nick (roommate this summer) and some other folks. After that, I pretty much went to bed, after grabbing some food in Lower with Alex and Pat and people.

Today was a day for thinking. I read Paradise Lost for a few hours in the library. Then Christine invited me to a casual bible discussion with a few people she knew. So, I went to Cleveland Circle (a short bus ride away, CC has a bunch of little places for food and other little things like haircuts and CVS products). I got a haircut and then the four of us went to Chipotle for dinner. We talked for about 1.5 hours about Christianity, God, faith, heaven, Jesus, sin, love... you get the idea; we talked about a lot of questions to which no one has a satisfying answer. Then since Christine is losing her mind because her dreams are slowly becoming reality, she and some roommates watched the trippy movie Waking Life (2001). Oh! Also, my friend Lev had a little t-shirt project this summer, and it came through using kickstarter.com, here are the fruits of his labor. Also, it snowed. A little.

Synonymous T-shirts

Jim and I (Gemini). Frightening, I know.