Weekly Update

1. Today I went with my family to a coffee shop in St. Charles, where I finished reading a book of source documents about the French Revolution for school and my dad and sis talked. After that, we walked around St. Charles. Inside a historic hotel I stepped into to view, I accidentally said "hello, isn't this place beautiful?" to a young woman that I thought was my sister. Oops. We saw some gorgeous condos by the Fox River that I wouldn't mind living in as a second or third home...After St. Charles we drove along the river, going through Geneva, Batavia, Aurora, Montgomery, Plano and Oswego. It was a neat little road trip.

2. Kiaran's in Singapore right now. Actually, given the time change, he's already in Bali. He's there for spring break with his family, visiting family friends in Singapore on the two weekends that they're there and Bali during the week. We're writing little emails to each other daily. It's hard to believe he's so far away.

3. I went to a hookah lounge with Liz on Friday night. We had a great and cultured conversation while smoking peach-flavored tabacco and listening to great Arabic music. That was lots of fun. I was really glad to catch up with Liz, as I miss seeing her more often.

4. Sometime this past week--the days have blurred--I visited Naperville North with Rachel and Tammy. We ran into Meghan and Chris there after turning a corner, which was great. We had the chance to catch up with so many teachers (even if it was only for a few minutes). We were there for almost half a school day, from 11:30 to 3:00-ish. I miss Naperville North--at least the community that I had there--although I'm glad to leave behind the pretentiousness and elitism of the institution (might I venture to say that I'm still an elitist, albeit one who is attempting to shed those attributes).

5. Classes start tomorrow. I have German Conversation and Composition and Intermediate Chinese, plus three hours of working at the library. I'm excited to have a German class after teaching it to myself since June of 2008.

Namaste,

Aditya

I'm back...

So I've decided that at least once a week I'm going to write at least five sentences about how I'm doing, serving as an update for friends who happen to come across this. It will also be reproduced in my live journal currently needing resucitation. So here goes:

1. I got to see Kboy today...I walked to NCC where he had a WYSE competition, had lunch with him, walked around with him and sneaked into the auditorium where they awarded the schools trophies for their results from the morning's competition. NCHS won first, NNHS won 2nd (by four points). Kiaran came 2nd in math and 3rd in physics in the whole competition. I was so proud of him.

2. Tonight was the ECCE dinner. The only people who showed up besides myself were the president and the faculty sponsor and his son. The lack of attendance was disappointing.

3. This is my list of things to do over spring break:

-- Tidy my room, hang up prints at last
-- Go to Frugal Muse
-- Watch "Pane e Tulipani" and Pedro Almodóvar movies
-- Dabble in drawing/painting
-- Take a day trip to Chicago
-- Pass on the traveling scarf to Tammy (a month and a half late)
-- Go to a Quaker meeting

4. I finished reading "Holy Cow" by Sarah McDonald and I adored it. This is why I love Mother India.

5. I'm starting to read "La Sombra del viento" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

That was a lot more than five sentences. I like the five-idea concept more anyways.

Ciao, namasté, hasta siempre,

Aditya