So, I'm Not a Clubber

this is mostly ranting, so just skip down to the third paragraph if you don't want to read my complaining.

As you may have guessed from the title, i have discovered that the club scene is not for me. Basically all last week Annie and Bernice were set on going to find some clubs in Oxford for us all to go to, so on Friday after our excursion, we got all dressed up for the club and hit the town...not before most of the people did some pre-partying at the house (whose house? ours, of course!). So we head to a club called the Purple Turtle, that we get into for free because we're members of the Oxford Union, and in about 20 minutes, i realized that clubs were not my scene. the music wasn't great and was really loud, there were too many people in a small dance room, and random British guys were being creepy on my friends. So i use the excuse that i need to call my parents to get out of there and go home. i start to get a good sleep going on and then what do i hear? my housemates and...wait for it...3 random British guys from the club. IN MY HOUSE! WTF?!?! It's about 1:30 at this point and i think they'll be gone soon enough and i can get back to sleep. BUT NO! they stay around drinking more, being loud, etc. for the next 2 hours! they don't leave till 3:45! SIGH! no sleep that night.

So yesterday, I think that I'll go to bed early and get a good night's sleep. but everyone comes over to the house and start talking about going to a bar, instead of a club, so we can meet fun people. so we head out and the first place we go to was kind of not our scene and we had a big group of people and a few of us decided to go to a bar while the rest of the people went back to the Purple Turtle. i knew i didn't want to go back to that or any club, especially tonight. so we head to a bar and it was ok i guess, but not exactly what i call a good time. we left and ended up going...of course, to the Purple Turtle. there were more creepy guys hitting on my friends and we had to protect them for a bit then i just sat for a while, cause i was not too happy. i think it would have been a little more bearable if the music was better. when the DJ at a dance club breaks out with Hungry Eyes by Eric Carmen (look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about and then picture it in a dance club setting. ugh!), i KNOW it is time for me to go home! so we leave, and apparently a lot more drama happens after i leave, but we'll not mention that on public internet space.

so, bottom line, i apparently don't dig the club scene. Anyway, to happier subjects, England is AMAZING!!! Oxford is even better!!!! the last 2 weeks have seemed like 2 months, but in a good, super good, way! My housemates are awesome and most of the rest of the people in the program are cool too. We've been learning a lot about Elizabethan and Victorian England and we went to some cool places too (Pictures on facebook)! even the Globe theatre for a Shakespeare play! it has been such an amazing experience so far. we have a paper due in 2 weeks and I'm pretty confident about it. i know, weird coming from me, right? but i think it's gonna be a great start to a great year!

it is really weird being away from everybody, but i think i can manage for a while! :P I'm excited the Cambridge people are coming in next week and I'll get to see Joe and Jenna and everyone soon! so it'll be a little better (and i need some time with other people than the 20 i am surrounded by constantly. don't get me wrong, they're awesome, but they are the only people i see every day and i just need a little time with some other people...soon)

i think that's it for now!

Jojo