I've been trying to make the most of these last 2 weeks (2 weeks from today!) by visiting lots of people and experiencing new things. Yesterday Cindy and I decided to go down to Oakland to visit some people and had dinner with Andie. She told us some big news yesterday that left us pretty shocked and a bit sad. (Not being too detailed here because I'm not sure I'm allowed to say any more about it) Afterwards, she left with a friend and Cindy and I walked to Suzanna's apartment to hang out with her. It was definitely a lot of fun. I'm not very close to Suzanna since I've only met her maybe a month and a half ago but somehow we just clicked. Now it seems like we can talk about anything and it's really nice having a friend like her. We left at 10:30 because she had to go chalking with ACF for the meeting on Friday and we decided not to go along because it was getting late and I didn't want to be walking back to Pitt after midnight. Thus began our journey through Oakland in the darkness to my cousin's apartment. She's currently studying abroad right now and won't be home until this Sunday so we were able to stay in her apartment while she and her roommate were gone. It was definitely interesting since I don't quite remember how to get back to the apartment and there were very few people on the streets. Not to mention, Cindy was a little shaken up because she was scared. We eventually got back safely. The next challenge was opening the door. The door was fairly old and although the key fit and turned, the door wouldn't budge. It was actually pretty terrifying because the one thing I didn't want to do was call my parents since they called hours ago and I had told them we were already in the apartment (my parents are control freaks and would not approve of us going from Pitt to cmu past 9). I was actually contemplating spending the night in the hallway of the apartment at this point because we had been going at it for the past 20 minutes. At last it opened (apparently you have to turn it 3 times while twisting the handle to get in). We were pretty tired after all that and quickly fell asleep.

This morning we woke up and decided to try the crepe place we saw on our way back to the apartment last night. It was really good! (definitely harvard crepe quality) Afterwards we headed to the library because Cindy had never been in it before and I gave her a tour. I finally have the layout down! After that we went to go visit Rona who was down in Oakland waiting to volunteer at the UPMC there at 1. The adventures were pretty memorable so no need to discuss :p

One thing I've discovered lately is that I've been reconnecting with a lot of people from my past. The surprising thing is that although it should be awkward, it's not at all. Some of these people I haven't talked to in a year and even a year ago, we didn't talk that much. Perhaps several fluffy conversations. For example, tonight I talked to a guy I met at NHSI last year (camp I went to for 10 days). In the past, our conversations consisted of what we were going to do at camp and later, what tournaments we've gone to. Nothing too deep. However today in the time span of 2 hours, we discussed life, what he's been up to, and perhaps most strange, his current relationship problems. WHAT? All of this with a guy I've never had a deep conversation with before today and perhaps had 5 conversations with in the past.

I've probably had more intense and deep conversations with strangers or acquaintances lately than I've had with good friends. (with the exception of Rona whom I can always have deep conversations with) It's strange but somehow refreshing. I don't want to stop [:

0 comments

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

My name is Connie
I'm currently a Senior
This is a piece of my life. [:

Facebook

February 2009
March 2009
April 2009
May 2009
June 2009
July 2009
August 2009
September 2009
October 2009
November 2009
December 2009
January 2010
April 2010
May 2010
June 2010
July 2010
August 2010
September 2010

designer   DancingSheep
resources   + + + + +