i have nine mosquito bites on my right arm alone. eeeeek. so last night we went to a club called wayne's and it has a live band and plays the BEST american covers. and everyone gets on top of the tables and dances...oh it was so much fun. but again, i left smelling like beer and smoke. i got a new roomate at my host home. she actually lives in the room across from me. she is a 46 year old government official from finland. SO NICE!! this morning, since my host mom was an ass and left us last night (with cabbage and vinegar for dinner) my "roommate" made me her special coffee from finland. oh wow...honestly, i have never tasted coffee that was as good as the stuff i drank this morning. she thought it was realyl cute that i kept on raving about her coffee. i think she was really flattered. Anddddd i was fishing through the kitchen to find something to eat other than cabbage and i found... NUTELLA!!! yum yum yum. so mi had toast with nutella and the best coffee in the universe.

so i DO have a roomate for yale. errmmm.. mixed feelings about that. it will be an adventure, hahah.

so the school finally got the internet room up and running. now i dont have to spend loads of money at the net cafe across the street. the employee there was really sketchy too. he was always looking at weird websites. oh once i saw his screen and it was about like how to make marshmellow syrup or something. what the heck...

so i met this kickass girl from london. she is 24 and linguistics major and she is so laid back and funny and stuff. so anyway, when we went to the louvre on sunday, she was talking about why she would never be a christian with this otehr girl from our school. so of course, i joined the conversation but i told myself that i wouldnt say anything and just listen. so she said stuff like how because she was a logical and scientific person, she could never believe in a superior being...the usual rants about creationism... the irrational nature of faith...how one time some zealot a^pproached her and told her she would got o hell if she didnt believe... and all this time i was getting more and more disappointed in her. my respect for her plummeted, whiwh, i know, isnt fair but i dont know. something about her self assuring tone and the way she seemed to look down on anyone who believed in ' such foolish nonsense...' urgh it really irked me. (she reminded me of this kid i knew in elementary school who looked down on me because i was asian, and she said in that same tone how she was smarter and better than i was because she was white and came from america. ) it disappointed me more that this was coming from such an awesome person... i thought to myself 'how could she be so SURE of herself?!' and then, of course, the obvious hit me. it is humbling to be reminded of how i once was.