Leavin' on a train, Don't know when I'll be back again

So . . .It's saturday and I'm leaving Maastricht tomorrow and leaving the NL on monday. Oh My God. I can't believe this has gone by gone by so fast. This past week and the week before have been semi-interesting. Ok reallly interesting. So last friday was the ESN final dinner and after that we went to the highlander. I at that point already had about 4.5 pages of my essay for Intro to Psych. My topic? The Efficacy of Select Dopaminergic and SSRI treatments for cocaine dependence. OY. P.S. I picked it out myself. I had an exam on Monday and one on Tuesday. On Tuesday right after my exam, I came home and made fried rice for the week then finished my essay and emailed it off so I was done with everything tuesday. I had wanted to go out but I was too tired. Elsa fdyed my hair and we had a beer while watching my favorite episode of American Dad. On wednesday, after spending the day christmas shopping with Elsa, I went out and partied it up with Holly, Ruth, Fiona and Brian. I wasn't that drunk. . .actually I was kinda sober by the time we got to the Meta so i danced on the bar (I can't dance on the bar drunk! It requires coordination). Thursday I went shopping with Ally again and we bought helllla belgian chocolate (YUM!) after which we had a dinner in the third corridor so I made latkes because its apparently the only thing I can make. I was sooo full but it was hella good. I also sold my bike to Sophie so I had more money for booze. LOL. So Thursday I drank a few beers at the dinner then went to katies for a little bit to have some vodka and chill, then I brought the vodka back to the GH and proceeded to chase it with sangria. Hence I was wasted. We then went to the highlander and then the Meta but I got back really soon after because one of my friends got a little too drunky drunk drunk. Goodness gracious, I apparently have such a strong will, I sobered up at will even though I had had a ridiculous amount of booze. Last night I also got wasted, after spending much of the day packing/ at Pascal's goodbye brunch. I brought vodka and figured out how to make lemon drops (YUM! lemon vodka+lemon wedges covered in sugar). Then since I had bought more vodka just in case, I had more booze hence I had to drink it. We played a different kind of kings cup and went to the highlander when we got kicked out of the kitchen (fucking annoying security guards). At the highlander I had 2 or 3 more beers and tried to play Jenga with Davina and her boyfriend who had come to visit her and drive her home today (awww). I was kinda wasted. Tried to pole dance again. that was amusing. Went to the meta again and danced my ass off again. Got home at around 5 or 5:30 (went to sleep at 6am). Then since I though that we were having brunch at 11am, I woke up at 9am and showered and went to the kitchen. It was a mess so I cleaned it and then we had brunch croissants and turkish sausage, jam, nutella, hard boiled eggs, mashed potatoes, bacon YUMMM. The rest of today was spent basically freaking out and obsessively weighing my luggage to make sure it was ok on the weight. My carryon is heavier than my checked luggage i think. lol. Mainly because it has textbooks in it. Now I'm going to go out with the girls for a last cocktail in maastricht. In the morning, I'm checking out at 10:30 and Simon is driving me and Elsa to the train station and then when I get to the hotel, I'll update the blog. <3

An Eventful Week ends in Procrastination

Last weekend, November 28th and 29th, I went to Belgium and had a bit of fun with ESN, the Erasmus Student Network. Which I found is chock-full of gorgeous men. This made me happy. On saturday, we left the guesthouse at 9am and went off to Brussels. At brussels all we did was pretty much walk around and see some cool buildings. Also, Ally danced with some kid. It was chill but I wasn't that impressed. We also stopped by a cafe where I got some calamari (yum!) and hot chocolate and on the way back to the bus we stopped by a supermarket where I proceeded to purchase 2 1.5L bottles of Belgian Beer, you know for pregaming . . .We then went to antwerp where we stopped by the Rubenshuis (a museum), then the the hostel, dropped off our stuff and went off for dinner and the bar. I drank (with a little help from Ally) one of the bottles of beer before we left the hostel to go to dinner. I got rather drunk at the bar but not as drunk as I expected from how much I drank: close to 3 liters of beer, tequila and some blue shots. I was really tired and falling asleep at the bar so i left earlier (around 2am) with Ally and passed out. The next day we went to Ghent and Brugge. In Ghent, we took a boat tour which was kinda interesting because we fit so many people into such a small boat and brugge was gorgeous: and we found a store with cheap delicious belgian chocolate. MWAHAHA. we then went back to maastricht, overall it was rather fun

December 30th I had class and I finished making my presentation for tuesday. On tuesday, I did my presentation on happiness data and a happiness study and was very relieved. I then proceeded to do something I can't remember at this time but I think it involved food. That night we also had thanksgiving dinner with the corridor and it was the night of cantus, a giant drinking game (basically) and I had wanted to go but tickets were sold out but luckily for me (and sad for matthew), he had a presentation on wednesday so he sold me his ticket. I got lost on the way there but eventually found it. I lost count of how much I drank there after the 8th or 10th beer, then I walked fiona and somebody else back to the guesthouse and decided to have some tequila while I was there and then proceed to the twee heeren. There I had another 3 beers.. . oy. It was a very good night. You can tell this by the fact that I left at 9ish pm on tuesday and didn't get home until 12pm wednesday.

Wednesday, we had a party committee meeting at Julia and Emma's house and I got lost going there, too because I'm amazing with directions. We had burritos!! Yummmmy. and we were semi-productive. Then I went home and did homework. Thursday night I stayed in and Friday night, I went to a hip hop party at the Make! student bar which was kinda fun but they pretty much only played old hip hop. However, they did play asher roth's "i love college" so I approve. Ally and I got into a norcal vs socal argument. (norcal won, btw because we have hyphy music) We were a little enthusiastic and I accidentally bumped into this hot German guy who proceeded to take a bunch of pictures with/of us. He was very hot and apparently Ally noticed him checking me out. LOL. After the bar closed, we were going to go somewhere with him and the other hot German guys but they left while I was getting my bike. Whatever, basically I accidentally got tipsy and when we thought we lost Greg, it turned out he was just in the smoking room the entire night. I then went home and fell asleep.

Today, i've done absolutely nothing productive even though I woke up at 12ish and left my room at 2 to go to the kitchen. I dunno, is doing laundry considered productive? Well Tomorrow night, I'm going to the christmas market in Aachen, Germany with the UCM excursion committee and I think its gonna be FUNNN. Anyways, now I'm gonna sort and put away my clean laundry and do some homework. . I guess