The length of time it took me write this doesn't necessarily make it worth reading

So, I know I basically suck at this whole blogging thing and you all are sitting on the edge of a cliff wondering what's happened to me. But, truthfully I've really just been living it up and so haven't really had the focus to write one of these in a long time so here I am back at the keys trying to remember what I've done in the past two weeks and how to write about it in an interesting manner so that this is actually enjoyable to read.


I don't have class until 4:30 today so let's see if I can do this


I've officially survived my first grade back on a presentation, my first quiz, and my first midterm. I am not failing. WOOOO :) :) But I have realized that while I am "on a holiday" as I like to call it, it does actually help when I put forth a little effort and study. My classes are still a lot of fun, and I must admit it is really really nice to not be taking gen eds. We actually got to make a water repellent finish in lab last week which in my opinion was super cool ! And my last presentation for retail buying went really awesome, so I think I'm on the right track :) Except maybe the Global Fashion marketing projects... they're just too dang vague and hard to get motivated about. I'll try to be proactive, but if I have to read one more article about Zara I will just die. For everyone in the United State who does not understand this phenomenon, just wait, this store is about to take over your life. 


Caitlyn and I have found the most wonderful sandwich place which we regularly attend on Thursday before our day of adventures. Unfortunately, the park that it is right next to where we like to ear said sandwiches is full of birds that scare the shit out of me. I literally have to have Caitlyn hold my hand when I get up to throw away my garbage. Words can not describe how much they terrify me. We also have a stalker. He is from Canada and is quite the "entrepreneur." He hosts a weekly pub crawl for international people and is always campaigning it on Wednesday nights for every one to join him on Thursday. No matter where we go on Wednesday, he is always there with his HK Pub Crawl T-shirt (that has pink silk screening and I secretly really want because I think it's the tackiest thing ever). Seriously, we were at our favorite dear Mr. Wong's hole in the wall restaurant finishing up our broccoli and spring rolls and who shows up, but HK pub crawl guy.   We think he thinks we're joking when we call him a stalker, but we're really not. It's creepy as hell. and he has seriously bad 5:00 shadow.


This week was the inter-hall festival, so therefore it was a big week for Lishung (the hall of champions as I like to call it). It started off Monday with the inter-hall video and cooking competition. I made my Hollywood debut in the Lishung video, which I did hear one first place :) but, I unfortunately missed the cooking competition due to the fact that I was preparing for other things such as my global fashion marketing midterm.  On Tuesday, the week only got better with International Culture Night! Unfortunately, due to my obsessive strive to be the center of attention, I volunteered to MC this event. Little did I know I would not see any of the performances before the show itself and was expected to somehow introduce something I knew nothing about. But I threw myself into it, and it  was actually a lot of fun and I got to crack bad jokes, pronounce every foreign language horridly because I am an American, and take photos with a bunch of awesome HongKong-ians. The show turned out to be a ton of fun too complete with French singing, Swedish flowers and dancing, and Korean abdominal muscles. Before the show each of the countries had their own booths to showcase their culture as well which I found simply amazing because I was able to supplement my lack of dinner with French wine and cheese, Canadian bagels, Swedish meatballs, and this Finnish alcohol which tasted like black licorice to me. Oh, and our very own American Mac and Cheese made by Caitlyn :) I've also discovered that I secretly totally wanna be Swedish. They wear flowers in their hair and dance in circles in the summer... this just sounds like the life to me.


The festival came to a close last night with the aforementioned tug of war competition. Thankfully, Caitlyn and I managed to remove ourselves from the pulling team and relocated to the cheering team. I never thought I would say this, but it was fun as hell. Everyone was yelling and cheering in Cantonese all of over Tug of War. In the spirit of competition, it was totally fantastic. Obviously, Lisheng won both the men's and women's division. Since we have apparently won both for now four years straight it would have been quite embarrassing if we lost. Anyway, Caitlyn and I got ourselves all jazzed out with blue ribbon head bands and arm bands and cheered them to victory :) Thank god our hall jackets are coming in soon!!


Now that it's warm I'm officially the happiest girl in the world :) I can walk to class in my flip flops, not double layer my jackets and spend a day just chilling at the beach. It might not be tanning weather yet, but I can at least roll up my jeans and stick my feet in the ocean which makes me ungodly overjoyed. I think I was actually supposed to be a beach kid.... a Swedish beach kid that is. I must admit, Caitlyn and I tried to go to a park last weekend and ended up at H&M where I proceeded to shop out my feelings and got some truly fabulous amazing clothes. And because inventory turnover here is so quick due to the billions of people who live here plus tourists, they get new stuff all the time. I'm like a freaking kid in a candy store... and I adore it so much.  I am such a shopaholic. I have by no means gone broke, but omg there is so much cute stuff here. And 
now that it's warm I am so inclined to buy more clothes and flippy floppys. Oh and just walk along water whenever the hell I feel like

Life as we know it is pretty incredible. Don't miss a second of it.