Busted Beer Pong and the Library Tour

Tuesday involved getting up in time to make it over to small arms survey in time for our 9:30 class-which is about a half hour to forty five minute commute (I know... hard knock life). Class was good, I really like the professor-although ask me again when my 40 page paper is due. We were supposed to meat Barry after class to go and get our UN security badges. So we all waited in our classroom, and we waited, and we waited, and we waited. After 45 minutes we decided to leave only to discover Barry, convinced our class had just happened to go over by 45 minutes was in the office (though we all question the accuracy of this). We headed over to the UN went through security, then we had to go to the library to get our paperwork stamped, then return to security where they processed our paperwork and issued our badges-a ridiculous methodology in my opinion. After the silliness I stopped by Barry's apartment to pick up our new coffee maker (thank GOD) and toaster oven. Then I spent most of the afternoon reading for class the next day. After dinner we decided to try and play beer pong again. Although, as we bonded and listened to music we were suddenly interrupted by a man with something very large stuck somewhere. He came up and started yelling at us in french and we kept apologizing and promising to put the doors back on the hinges over and over but he just continued to yell in french. Eventually we think he said he was going to file a noise complaint (he appeared to work here). As soon as he left we scrambled and cleaned everything up in record time. The man then returned and wrote all of our room numbers down-though we haven't heard anything about it.

Wednesday morning I woke up and had a leisurely breakfast in bed and then went for a run (whoop). I tried to run toward downtown but didn't really find anything special but I have high hopes for next time. Then ate lunch and went to class. Professor Kott seems okay she is a bit of, as described by one of my classmates, a rambler. I still like her but it's the class I'm most worried about as of yet. After class Grace and I went to the train station to try and get our tickets for the weekend trip to Bordeaux. Unfortunately due to the end of vacation week traveling through Paris was impossible, and not traveling through Paris meant a 12 hour journey so we nixed the idea and started from square one. After a LOT of discussion debate and suspense Grace, Matt and I decided to go to Milan Friday afternoon, Bologna Saturday, and Pisa Sunday morning before coming back to the cite Sunday afternoon. Between figuring out where we were going I tried to read for Barry's class.

Thursday I woke up early, but it was only to try and finish the reading. Then we went to the UN for our tour. We saw the conference rooms and learned some fun facts. It was pretty cool coming from MUN held in hotel conference rooms or various university class rooms to see where the UN, or at least part of it, actually debates. Our tour of the building was followed by a riveting tour of the library, we saw all kinds of stacks and even some computers-located in what they call the cyber space. Then we came back to the cite for our class. While it was the standard Barry playing devils advocate to everything I did manage to compare the UN to viagra-what I deem quite the victory. After class we booked our hotel for the weekend and surprised Zunaira for her birthday (since some of us will be gone on her actual birthday on Saturday).

Tomorrow we will be waking up quite early to catch a 5:45 am train to Milan-which means while writing this I should in fact be asleep.

Something I've Randomly Noticed: Women in Europe LOVE fur coats-they are actually everywhere

Something I still detest: Having reading all of a sudden...

Something I'm Happy about: There is a snow storm at Colgate and I'm not there