My Updates

Soo, my first full-fledged weekend at college. I went to my first so-called party last Tuesday night and it was interesting but not really a party, yea...I met people though! And one of them is in my last class of the day so we walk back up together. His name's Kevin...haha, Courtney. He has a girlfriend already so it'll never be as funny as it could be. There is one guy...name's Nick and he lives upstairs, very cool and nice. In all my classes I know at least one person so I search them out, lol. I know most people in my building, and they all seem pretty chill. My roommate and I just got a fridge, woohoo!! And I have a microwave too!! Everyone here has like a TV, Microwave, Fridge, Xbox or Playstation...etc. So much shit cramped into these rooms. Nothing like LAS at all. Katie, I got your package. I love the moose, lol. Paul, when I get the book I'll call and scream in your ear about how excited I am. Plus that means roadtrip, lol. Chris, you're out, and you need to tell us of all your new adventures. Lauren, you'll never be replaced!! But my new roomie is pretty cool...just really busy and outgoing...haha, I miss complaining with you. Liz, dudette, drinking buddy!! I miss my drinking buddy! I know I'm forgetting people. I'll get back to you.

random

Ya so this is my short random ramblings... I went to Montreaux today. It was fun, brought back some memories though! I almost cried walking past Top Pub. I haven't been by since Grad. Ya. I have a killer headache now, from the sheesha... I got the yearbook. It rocks! Paul, Lynsey - awesome job. Seriously. Justin, you suck though. 'jeff+katie'??? I will now look at that and think, wow so this Justin guy wanted me to go out with this random Jeff guy? cus, that's just weird. I donno, like I said random. Anyway, my dad was just in Kazahkstan. We have a house. It has a sauna. Courtney... you know kinky things happen in saunas... hehe. I'm acutally excited to go there. And comign back, we come earlier than anyone else, so we want to talk our parents into letting us stay overnight in Geneva. Ah the simple things. So that's really most of what I can think of. I have to do my college apps. Coldplay's coming to Zurich in November. I wanna go! Just because, let's face it it'd be fun. Same weekend as my french IB trip to London. Ya i know, why is a French class going to London? To see Les Miserables... Ya i'm not complaining. I'll go chill with Julien and hang out in london. It would rock, lets face it. anwyay, gonna go to bed and kill headache.. hopefully.
Miss you guys so much... i donno, i guess weekends are hard. Leysin is suddenly boring...
Love you
Katie

Friday Night

Helped my first sick drunk tonight...just something I thought I should tell you all. Lol. I'll catch up on more later.

Awesome

Ahh! Work!

I have to say that this is completely ridiculous. The small amounts of work I have at school. And the fact that I STILL can't get around to doing it!!! What is a small amount of work you say? I have not had one thing graded since I've been here. Now remember that I've been at school since August 7. Well over one month of school, and still.... no work. Until now. A 5-page double-space essay topic is staring at me, and I can't motivate myself to do it! Ridiculous.

Oh and hi, yeah I finally got around to the blog, I had forgotten about it until like yesterday. For those of you I haven't talked to, college is starting off pretty well... but it's so overwhelming like the amount of people and the fact that you aren't stuck with them every minute of every day. I miss y'all tons, it's sooo hard to relate to ppl here when they're like "Yeah I left my state... once". But it's cool, like I said there's almost no work, so I've been lazing around and smoking (gotta help Bard live up to its pot reputation!). I once again attached myself to a pot-smoker of a boyfriend the first week, then decided to be adventurous and switched to a conservative. Hahaha a conservative at Bard. It's so cute.

Oh and TOK actually comes in handy, I had a class in which for an hour we debated whether there was absolute truth, and talked about Plato's ideal and emperical worlds. Haha, I was reminded of Mr. Sharp the entire time. Funny how I miss him as a teacher... once I'm gone from LAS.

Anyway enough babbling. Miss you guys tons,
Lauren

Ah family

Hey guys!
Ya so we just got back from family trips, well yesterday. Don't you guys miss them? ya... actually mine rocked. We went canyoning, which was awesome. I did a 9 meter jump/drop... it was terrifiying. So glad I did it... Anyway, also got very drunk, had my first hangover (I do get them it turns out). It was fun, lots of good family bonding. Did something that can never get out here at school. I'll just tell you on MSN if you're curious... Damn rumor mill... Anyway (BTW, not saying any of you, I just don't know who reads this, love you guys, seriously)

And today I'm very sick. Which sucks. A lot. I haven't been able to get up all day. Ya, mild food poisoning I think. Not fun. Hehe, my roommate is so sympathetic, she comes in I'm half passed out on the bed, rooms a mess and I'm not moving. I tell her I'm sick and she calls me a loser. Ah I love my roommate. (Sara Al-Tunisi BTW) So we'll see if I make it to dinner or not. Charlie's really sweet and just offered to bring me food. I think that might be my solution, we'll see.

Ya so we already lost our drinking permission for a week, the ENTIRE Gehriger family got caught. Norah's screwed. Actually she'll probably be fine. She's just pissing everyone off by denying that she drank, which is bullshit. What's really annoying is that she might get away with it because the teachers all say 'no norah doesn't drink' even though she's been caught before. Ya so, that's interesting. It's pretty funny actually, it's like, oh if you only knew what the 'good kids' do that you don't know about. Hehe...

Um, not much else is really going on here. I've got a shitload due tomorrow that I can't do because I can barely get out of bed. Tomorrow will be bad. Especially if I get my Chemistry test bad, I think I'm already failing. I hate the SL kids, all of them are like, oh it was so easy... damn them. Not failing anything else yet. Yet. Uh.

Ya that's about all that my tiny brain can come up with. I'm gonna try and get up now...
I miss you guys!
Love you all
Katie

Just a memory

I was sent this picture from grad. Just thought I'd share it.

BTW

Dents du Midi was awesome... totally made the summit, I have never hurt as much as I did the next day...

Ramblings of a procrastinator...

Hey,
Ya so I have two essays due tomorrow... It's fun! Acutally I'm not doing to badly, I've finished the first one. I can't start on the other one cus I keep thinking of shit. You know that? Like when one or two things just start running through you're head and you can't get past it... Ya so that's me right now. Begining of first half I talked to my mom and that totally helped. I finished essay number one and now I'm stuck on number two. It's english and I'm definetly not in the mood to bullshit my way through anything right now.
We had our group four meeting tonight .We're doing the very exciting topic of... *drumroll please*... water! Yes... I know, weird huh. My group wanted to do the cafeteria. Ya. Hey it could have been fun! We'd finally know how much bacteria is in there... ya. Anyway, so as I was walking back with Julie, Priscilla, and George, the brit makes this snide comment to me that really hurt actually. I mean we just broke up a week ago and he like won't acknowledge me. I figured whatever, it's just akward. Well he's just really pissed off at me. But the stupid thing is, he already has another girlfriend. He's obviously not pining away for me. So I don't understand why the hell he's still bitchy to me. It is really bothering me. I really don't want anyone pissed off at me. Enough people are already. for stupid things like, hanging out with so and so. I'm just so bloody sick of trying to keep everyone happy. And trying to act happy myself. It's just not working. I donno... I haven't figured out how to fix it. I mean I have friends, but they are all so used to me being around occasionally that no one thinks about me being around all the time.
Whatever, I knew this would be hard but I never imagined it would be this bad. anyway, I'm gonna stop complaining, no good comes of it!
Anyway, ya... I'm getting along really well with Sara. I never really imagined it, but like we get nothing done, we just mess around and laugh. Last night we wrote a love letter to Stader (i need him to tutor me) it was fun. Ya.. And my bro's doing really well. hehe, everyone keeps coming up to me and going like, you're brother's such a pimp, he's always with girls! It's so funny. I think he's even running for freshman rep. That would be awesome, but he wants me to do like, all the paperwork. He's like, can you get this signed for me? anyway it's been awesome, i'm so glad he's here...
Anyway, now that I've written shit down, maybe my essay will come to me! let's hope so, davidov assigned a shitload of math too... ya..
anywya,
Miss you guys!
Love
Katie
ps. Lynsey I think it's awesome that you're looking at yourself, it's something everyone should do...
pps. Hmm, Justin in shape *drool* hehe, just kidding, by 'inshape' do you mean.... you're even skinnier? cus, i think that means you're now anorexic....

Icky...

It's probably not the best way to spend my days but I've been watching the news a lot, and all I see is New Orleans and Biloxi and all the other towns. It really depresses me and frustrates me, especially since it took so long to keep people there. Plus, I'm sure Justin understands this, but the nerve to try and nominate Roberts for CHIEF justice...I don't think so! It's ridiculous.

I just feel icky over all. I think I'm PMSing...that makes sense. I've been doing a lot of thinking, I know I already do that too often. I've just been, you know, figuring out me...and what I don't like I guess. I can tell you guys because I trust you guys. I guess there's just some things I need to figure out...how to deal with the stuff I don't like. But how do you do that? I'll never get used to criticism or people being mad at me. I always feel guilty. I hate talking about me like this, lol...I'm a hypocrite can't you tell?

11 days till I move in. Maybe then I'll go back to normal. That'd be a good thing right?

Hey fools!
So check it, I'm getting back in shape. I'm doing this insane ARMY ROTC club called Ranger challenge. If you've ever seen the movie Blackhawk Down, it was created by Josh Harnett (sp?)'s character, and its essentially who can be more of a killing machine than the other. I am really bruised up right now, but I can feel the burn...oh yeah! So if any of you of the opposite sex really want a macho sexy man, give me 12 weeks and I will rock your world. By the way that was NOT an invitation, even though I sincerely doubt any of you would take me up on the offer.
Otherwise everything is going pretty well, I really want to go back to Switzerland right now. I won't but if any of you want to go, there is a special fare sale on Iberia that will only go on for another week/week and a half for tickets from the east coast to Geneva via Madrid for around 430 dollars all taxes included for travel after February up until late June.
My cell number is... again... 323.919.9161 for those who wish to call, I actually get quite a few calls so make me smile and call. Best regards and have a great time with life, wherever that may be.
Justin