the fun(ny) side of america

I've been pretty negative about my experience here, so this is a list of all the fun and funny things that happened, just to balance it off and so that I remember. They're in no particular order, just blogger sucks and won't display my circle bullets.

1. Seeing first hand about what american consumerism is all about - it's depressing and amusing at the same time... though sometimes disgusting.... >_>... (Yes, I know that Canadians are quite some consumerists as well, but I'm not friends with these people and don't come in close contact with them. Now, I'm living with an assistant manager of a high-end dress store slash bridal specialist. Go figure.)
2. Walking along a high way in the rain at night, with cars going past me at 65mph. That was fun. I was laughing all the way.
3. Taken on a drive into the beautiful suburbs of stamford, where rich people lives in mansions. I'm not a fan of having lots of space for the sake of having lots of space, but the plentitude of trees does give that perfect amount of privacy... and natural beauty.
4. Learning the hard way that Jewish mothers (like Chinese mothers and Indian mothers) loves to give you food... even though you're only the girlfriend of the son of her husband's friend from 50 years ago's who haven't kept in touch in the last 20 years. But dammit guacamole is AWESOME!
5. Having a 6d? account on KGS - I knew that having a ? rank (due to not having played enough games for the computer to estimate your rank) means it's going to jump a lot, but I didn't expect the comp to have me jump from 1d? to 6d? just because I won against a 1k ...
6. Hurrying past people masturbating to weird music in the Rittenhouse Park ...
7. A bunch of teens sitting outside of Qdoba (another mexican place that I go to since there's no Chipotle around here... *sniffles*) pretending that they're time travellers without any money

I'm sure I'll have more to add to this list... next week's Rochester trip will definitely be a highlight of the term. They've come to my tourney, now it's my turn to go to theirs.

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