and the quarter has kicked into its 1st gear, slowly but surely getting busier.

I celebrated my roommate's birthday today with his family and girlfriend. Put simply, his family is extremely wealthy. Yet they're so down-to-earth. His dad has a goof-ball sense of humor and his mother has...a motherly sense of a humor (I don't know how to describe....but one that would be appropriate for a mother to have) which translating into my roommate and his sister having this goof-ball humor.


We went to a fancy Italian restaurant, and I ordered a soup ($8) with Salmon Pasta ($15), only because everyone else was getting soup and salad, and I didn't want to be the odd one without a "Primi." They sipped glasses of wine and casually bantered, throwing stories hear and there (my roommate is quite the storyteller).

It's just an entirely different vibe from my family (and I daresay) and Asian households.

Better...or worse? I'm not positive, but I would say better. Asian households always seem to be in a rush, extremely goal-oriented people. You make a list, and you finish it. When you finish it, you better start making another list.

SATs? Okay good, College? Great, Job? Excellent, wife? Nice, kids? Awesome, college for the kids?

Them? ...I don't know.

The dinner was delicious though, and the waiters looked like Mario and Luigi.
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On a side note, I went on a 1 day 1 night ski trip this weekend. Slopes were tiny, so I decided to work on rails. After many times of chickening out, I started going on them. Hard, yes. But not as painful as I thought....sometimes. Grinded my first rail =P

Also I should've known that overnight ski trip with college kids = alcohol at night. Luckily we played a dare or drink game, so I just did all the dares. And again, luckily, I didn't get any sexual dares, just nasty ones, which I'm fine with.

Drunk people are funny until....

One of my good friends (when I say good, many like....top 5 people I got to know at NU) had ONE shot. But she's a severe lightweight (think 5'7" and under 100 lbs), and she was just out of it after 30 minutes after she took it (she was also running on an hour of sleep after a day of snowboarding).

The other guys got drunk, and one of them was clearly trying to flirt/take advantage of her inebriation.

Not fucking cool.

I don't disapprove of alcohol. But I disapprove of a lot of activities it is related too, and I fear for girls who don't realize the danger, especially someone like her who can get pretty tipsy after a single shot.

To give you an idea, I talked to her on the bus this morning, and told her about how one of the guys tried to get her to keep drinking (after she was clearly wayyy too drunk). She was going to accept until me and the other part-sober girl in the room quickly decided to intervene. When we stopped the interaction, she told me in the morning, her mind slowly was like "Yeahh...maybe it's not a good idea I don't..."

Maybe.