Latest impressions!

A picture is worth more than a thousand words!

The following pictures were taken on various spots during the last Week that Benny stayed at our place.

Enjoy:

Benny's last night @ HOOTERS! (I guess this was one of the best days of his life:-)

Del Mar

Yet another party

On Campus

That's all folks... for now. To be continued...

P.S. We went to Tijuana two days ago. In the end it turned out to be a bad decision. Tijuana sucks! At least the particular part of town where we had to get off the bus. People were trying to verbally drag us into their shops, brothels, restaurants or whatever establishment they were running.  Some of them even offered us Viagra or 'anything you want'.  It was a very strange and bizarre trip that only took 45 minutes  and is not to be repeated again! 

Patrick's birthday... or just an excuse to have another big barbecue

Yesterday we celebrated Pat's birthday and some people came over to our place. We'd bought some beef, corn on the cob, maybe a few beers:-) and a great variety of barbecue sauces and made his birthday a true "American" one.

 If we keep on eating as much as last night (by the way: Simon had 4 steaks, 9 sausages, a big baked potate, and about half a gallon of "Bull's Eye" steak sauce) we're probably gonna end up like this hottie we ran across a few days ago... 

By the way, from now on I'll keep posting more and bigger pics. Benny just introduced me to a tiny but powerful program that lets me resize my jepg's really easily. The time it took to upload them before was the main reason I've been quite lazy to post pics. 

Anyways, to show you how glad I am to finally have found such a program, here you go...

Benny on his air bed:

Sarah and Crystal preparing the corn on the cob:

San Diego Downtown and Gaslamp Quarter:

Pacific Beach ... and other stuff!

Goodbye OBI:

After 4 really funny but exhausting weeks living in the Ocean Beach International hostel, we finally made it to our own condo in Pacific Beach. When we fist got here everything looked like a mess but after a 2h session of "extreme room service" we were almost all set.

We had bought a few pieces of furniture from the previous tenants and as we're not demanding anything more than the "basics" our appartment was ready to move in shortly after.

Accessories for the bathroom and the kitchen were bought in a Thrift Shop (we even got a student discount on the BEAUTIFUL crap we purchased there:-) We were thrilled.

Some pics for ya:

Right now 6 people are living in our 2 bedroom app. and after picking up Benny at the airport tonight we'll be 7. Quite cozy, as you can imagine. Anyways, everybody is happy and our decision to move to this exact spot turned out to be a very good one. People who were visiting us confirmed our place to be a real beauty...

As far as you're interested (some more, some less:-) in the progress I'm making at University, I'm all set. I'm taking 3 IDS and Marketing classes and 2 sports classes in order to fill up my schedule to the 12 unit limit. Well, to those whom it may concern, I'm enrolled both in a rock climbing and a beginners surfing class. Yes, that's right. Surfing is considered a science here in California.

Speaking of surfing. Last week we were part (at least Patrick, who actively participated) of a huge paddling event called "Paddle for clean water". Hundreds of surfers paddled around the OB peer as a part of an annual protest campaign.

Well, we've had enough of words! Let the pictures talk! 

P.S. One day we drove up to Orang Couty to check the beaches and surfshops, just in case you're wondering where some of the pics were taken.

 

It's been a while...

Sorry! But a lot of things are happening right now. Sarah arrived on September 1st, University classes started right the next day and we're STILL living in the hostel, which is the main reason for not posting for such a long time. Things will get better as soon as we move in to our own place, which will be next Monday, FINALLY. 

As some of you may know, foreign students aren't allowed to register for their classes in advance which means, that we have to "crash" the classes. Crashing aperently is a pain in the ass, because what you have to do is run around campus the whole day begging the professors to sign your crash form, which they normally won't:-) To make a long story short, I've got the classes that I wanted, but still I have to enroll in two sports classes in order to comply with my Visa regulations. 

I'll post some pictures soon but I haven't uploaded them to my laptop yet. And for now, the part y in the hostel must go on.

Take it easy