Bryn Mawr aka Rite Aid

Well, now that you all have written something I feel as though I should update you on my MUCH less interesting/glamorous life.

Right now I'm in Canaday (big surprise) kind of procrastinating on some work I should be doing by writing this post (again, big surprise).

First week of classes are over and I'm taking some really interesting ones. They meet once a week all of them so incidentally I have a four day weekend every weekend which is nice. I'm taking a 300 level anthropology seminar on settler colonialism which I think will be really cool. We're reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad amongst other things. I highly recommend for all you readers out there 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbera Kingsolver which I read in Indonesia. Its so hauntingly beautiful and well written and its about the Congo as it transitions from colonial rule into independence. Its fascinating. I'm also taking a class on human rights, activism and development at Haverford and two soc classes, social theory (we get to read Marx, Durkheim, Focault- all dead white guys) but as a nerd I'm actually quite excited to get started.

I don't know if you all have heard but the other night at the Lloyd 'Around the world' party the police came and arrested a bunch of students for underage drinking and serving minors. So thats basically been the biggest thing that happened this weekend. LUCKILY I am lame and was watching a movie/drinking wine with a friend instead so I avoided that little calamity.

I've been catching up with some old friends who I didn't spend as much time with before. Margaret and I have been seeing a lot of eachother and I've been seeing (some) of Yuliya and Isa, my hellee also. Everyone is sweet and I'm not feeling TOO socially isolated but I can't tell you how much I miss you guys! I will acknowledge that I totally took your amazingness for granted, and now that you aren't here with me I realise how you completely define everything I love about Bryn Mawr. But its ok, I will be positive!

My room is completely amazing btw, you guys should really have a death match to get it after I leave in the spring because it is BEAUTIFUL. Lots of light, not too big, not too small. Its perfect. Good thing too, incase I end up spending a lot of time there ;)

As for my spring semester...Well I'm in the midst of trying to figure everything out. I had a telephone interview with the woman who runs the international branch of Ni Putes, Ni Soumises in France, which is actually this huge national feminist lobbying group for immigrant and socially marginalised women. Speaking on the phone in a foreign language is SO HARD!! I was sweating soo much you wouldn't believe it. She spoke so quickly and although I understood about 80% of what she said I had some difficulty understanding whether or not she asked me a question in the whole long flow of things she was saying. Never mind, even if I don't get that internship I'm just proud that I did the interview.

Alternatively, I'm going to apply for funding to go back to Indonesia. I absolutely LOVE the country and I'm so eager to become fluent in Indonesian considering its relatively easy to learn (I don't know if tibetan has tones but Indonesian is very similar gramatically to English and has nothing complicated like tenses). I want to do research on women activists in Indonesia and their relationships with the women they are working with- considering that activism/politics in Indonesia is such a male dominated sphere. While I'm at Bryn Mawr I'm going to get involved with the Indonesian community in South Philly, just because I don't want to forget my experience or let those language classes go to waste!

Anyway, don't forget me here, I love reading about what you guys are doing and I'm blown away by your general amazingness. When we meet together again, in senior year, I predict we will be ready to take on anything.

Love from the rite aid
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