Anna's

Or better known as stalkbook. 

www.facebook.com

Who knew one little website would create so much havoc and ecstacy, how one little website can be so time consuming and cause so much heartbreak.

For those not in the loop yet, it's essentially a networking website much like myspace, but every single person you meet at the school is guaranteed to be on it. Once logged on and registered, you can add friends, write messages, put up pictures, create events and groups. Groups range from political groups, to geeky maths groups to a group for all the women who wants to marry some hairy, ugly looking guy... and ofcourse, what 40,000 other people are doing are right at your fingertips as well. Hence, stalkbook.

The beauty of facebook is that you don't have to know the person very well to write on their wall, so if you see that certain person of interest from the bars the other night, it's easy and non-embarrassing to write a little message, meet up, and ruin your relationship. Yes, countless relationships have been ruined, many more are made.

It's also a popularity contest to see how many friends one has. The typical number ranges from 50 to 100, depending on how long you have been at the school. Now if you're a long time resident, or a sorority girl, or you just add any old person you've ever met, there's people with 500/600 friends... that's just ridiculous! How can one possibly remember everyone? 

Excuse me now I go to refresh my page again... for the a hundredth time today..

So it's the final stretch of the semester and BOY I CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO BE ALL OVER!! For three weeks anyway, but in that three weeks, there's going to be snow, bars and New York.

Finals week is kind of crazy. There are so many people in the library that silence is virtually impossible to find. Libraries have extended hours, and the undergraduate one is open 24hrs! People actually bring their pillows and sleep there... There's no weeks off before exams, and within one week all exams are over, soo... better get my butt down and do some work!

Bring on the coffee! Thank god for starbucks!

I'm staying another semester at Purdue! West Lafayette is just so riveting that I couldn't help it... so yes another semester of this painfully cold weather, too much homework and ridiculously cheap  booze. I know you'll be all disappointed, don't miss me too much! I'm going to miss the sun, the beach and getting third degree burns and blistering... oh wait that was only Steph. So people, kiss the beach for me, remember me when you get a mouthful of sand and telepathically send the scenery to me, for I will miss it, hell I'm missing it so much already! See you all in May/June.

www.engrish.com

Funny... and  yet so true, I see examples of it everywhere in China. Then again you westerners make a habit of putting bad Chinese on t-shirts, remember that phase?

Ok so the entire month of November there was no entry, I have meant to write, but always find some excuse such as too much school work to put it off. Now it's just a great procratination tool to stop me from doing work :D

I meant to share the excitement of an American Halloween with you all, the frivolities and the obscurities of it all, the over the topness and insane amount of money that people spend, and the plain weirdness that is Halloween.

Growing up in Australia I was aware that October 31st constituted as Halloween, the day where some dress up and go trick or treating, not that any of us ever did it for the fear of being kidnapped and found in a shallow grave two weeks later, body decomposing and maggot ridden... Halloween is the second most celebrated holiday in the US and boy do they celebrate it. Houses are decorated with pumpkins and jack-o-laterns, spiders and mood lighting (did you know there are colours for Halloween? Black and orange I think, like red and green for christmas!). Not to mention the endless amount of Halloween parties, it's just an excuse to drink really. At these parties people go WAY over the top, everyone's dressed up in some expensive costume bought from a costume store (these places must make a fortune around this time), ranging from french maids, to little red riding hoods, vampires, witches etc. Some are more creative, throwing together whatever they have, or just plain politically incorrect, like that Steve Irwin outfit with a stingray through the heart, and blood everywhere...

Another tradition is to walk through a haunted house and have the living crap scared out of you from people jumping out behind doors, and skeletons and vampires and witches floating around, stabbing you with foam knife or something... weird

The bars are packed, really just an excuse to drink... but there are giveaways for the best costumes, and special events and prizes, how can you resist a trip to the bars at Halloween?

It was fun, even though crazy and over the top. But it's America, I would have disappointed if it wasn't a little crazy!