Tuesday, November 22, 2011

still alive and kickin'



I'm baaack. 

Gawd!! I kinda feel like Natalie Tran from Community channel (shout out). 
In case anyone doesn't know her, she makes funny videos on youtube. Recently she's not making videos very often. She makes a video after a long break and then she takes another long break. But I still wait for her updates because she is hilarious.

I just thought this was kinda relating to my blog. I used to write weekly blogs that went on for a couple of months then I stopped in mid November ‘010, then after a month I wrote another post named "Back" stating that I'm back and here to stay. Now after almost a whole year, here we are.

Well updates...

Yeah a crap ton of things have happened since my last post. I don't think mentioning everything would be a good idea for anyone reading so I'll just mention some of them. Maybe more will appear the next time I write.

Going back to KTM was a pretty freaking amazing. It was kinda hectic because of the sort stay and my gigantic amount of relatives we needed to visit. None the less I got to go to Chitwan, which is an amazing region of Nepal. It was my first time there and definitely will not be the last time. Next time with the family!!! I can’t wait to go back again.

I don't recall a whole bunch of stuff from the spring after I got back, so whatever.

The summer was pretty exciting. Started things off with going to Achala's graduation in NC. Had a great time there, enjoyed the graduation ceremony too. Now I kinda want a outdoor graduation. Anyways got to see a lot of achala's friends and got to meet Nikhil dai. Achala's significant other :)
Then came back and spent the summer in Cedar Falls
And BTW now I live in the Asian house, have been since the summer started.

Had a great time during the summer. Became a Coordinator at UNI Catering, had nothing else to do than work(a lot) and enjoy myself the rest of the time. I had great time hanging out with the catering friends outside of work. All those nights hanging out at the Library (which is a bar not the place with the books and such).
We also had a grill out at our place which was supper fun. It included me and Mandy Paris being not so sober and going around putting the word "city" after everything. Annoying every living thing we could find.

I also went to Nashville, Tennessee for a CASE ASAP conference representing ISP(international student promoters) and UNI along with SAA(student ambassadors association), ESP(ethnic student promoters) and CATS(connecting alumni to students).

I noticed there were a lot of abbreviations in that sentence. By the way why is the word abbreviation so long when it means a shorter version of a word?

Anyways, Nashville was pretty awesome. The people I was with, the Country hall of fame, the Titans stadium, the conference and just the city itself was something. I would definitely want to go back someday.

After coming back from Nashville, I was a peer adviser for international student orientation. That was fun too. Met a lot of new people, ripped my pants while playing soccer with them on the first day, had loads of fun. Kinda reminded me of my orientation. Oh how time flies by, it’s been more than 2 years since then. 

Then fall started and so far so good. Celebrated shared birthday with Ramya, finally became 21(woohoo!!), celebrated Dasain with all the Nepali students here at UNI, learned how to play marriage and falas(card games), face painted again for Halloween but this time accompanied by an afro wig and clown theme, followed by some bar hopping and people scaring(there seem to be a lot of people scared of clowns). so fall’s been pretty good.

Also Fred, our ISP is not here anymore, we have a new adviser Wilson from Chile and I'm president now :) ISP got new polos that I had been nagging for since long ago.

You know what I think this is long and boring enough for one post. so I'll continue with my shenanigans next time.

Till then Shockyab out \m/