Welcome Stanford 08

@Stanford at last! I spent the first week training with the team. I finally got to move into my dorm a few days. Its pretty nice. I got a Dave Rom like roomate. Take that as you will. I'm still training a lot and its kinda sad cuz I'm missing a lot of the orientation stuff. We train in the mornings 8:30-10:30 and then later at 2:15-5:45. Each dorm has a theme. My dorm is called Serra and our theme is "Serraday Night Fever". Our cheer is Serra-Ah-Ah-Ah- Staying Alive!" Other themes include Super Mari-Otero and CedRo-deo.

The team guys are really cool, but sometimes scary. As freshman we have a bunch of tasks like helping upperclassmen move mats, get cups of water, and basically whatever the fuck they want. Oh yeah, and we have to answer the gym phone. No not just answer it, we gotta fight to be the first one to answer it, cuz the guy who is always last is gonna get shit.

Last night was the Band Run where the Marching band comes out and everyone runs around chasing the band and The TREE, our mascot. The marching band is half drunk and everyone is in ridiculous costumes including some guys in man thongs. We ran around the whole campus and it took like 2 hrs. Later that night me and the other 4 freshman were intiated. I freaking got like 2 hrs of sleep last night. But thats a story for another day.

Oh, it turns out all the traffic violations you can get driving a car you can get riding a bike. BUI baby, BUI.

Back With a Vengance

So I'm back from China, on Monday night. I guess I had a good time. Its fun to be driving again, especially with my 3.7L Mercury when all the Chinese cars were like 1.8. Weaksauce. And then I have repack everything while simultaneously sending out all these overdue forms becaue I got them weeks late. Cool. At least I got a lot of cheap stuff to bring to school. Here is the final list, not including any CDs or DVDs because that would take waaay too long.

Adidas Watch
2 Rolexes (blue, black)
2 Peachtree braceletes
Buddha Necklace
Feel 100 "Digital Access" tshirt
Lithium tshirt
Baleno belt
Baleno Red button up
Beige Button Up
Playboy Orange button up
Longsleeve maroon button
White Long Sleeve
Adidas hat
Addidas bag
Adidas wristband
Super fake adidas shorts - 5 yuan!!
Oakleys
Jeans West Long Sleeve
Hugo Boss Pants
Long Pao
Flashlight
knife
Lighters
Laser pointer
Mao Book
A Ton of CDs and DVDs
Dolce + Gamble Sneakers
Tiger Painting