I feel like the past 2 posts have been lowkey highkey downers but believe it or not I am actually HAVING FUN and making the most of my time here! Granted that I am traveling every weekend to meet old friends and not really meeting new ones here, but hey it's nice seeing familiar people. Just the effort of meeting new people and testing the waters to see if they're cool/tolerable/likable people is just to tiring. It's not like i have requirements for people to be my friend just don't be obnoxious and annoying or pretend you're better than me. Cause I have met a lot of people who are extremely obnoxious and only seem to care about getting shit faced and flaunt how much money they make. I mean I'm all about getting shit faced... just not every fucking weekend.
Anyway I'm straying away from the point of this post which is my main girl Tuva! We met back in middle school when she came to the US in 2010 because her dad had a job thing for 6 months in Berkeley. Well I visited her in Norway last weekend and I had a fucking blast. We ate good ass food, went hiking, drank some white beer oh and I tried snus.... DO NOT RECOMMEND IT . It's basically the tobacco shit that people put in their gums under their lip. But this one is Norwegian and 10x stronger. Tuva had a few of her friends over and we drank some and one of her friends was doing this shit and I asked how it felt and she offered one to me. I'm usually against tobacco products but I was in a "fuck it" kinda mood so I tried it. AND LEMME TELL YOU, I FELT THAT SHIT WITHIN 15 SECONDS. It was like a sudden head rush! Nothing has ever hit me that fast in my life. Like I was dizzy AF. If I would had stood up theres a high change I would've fallen down. Then after a minute MY WHOLE BODY was numb like soft pins and needles type of feeling. So i was just sitting there right, listening to everyone talk then all of a sudden I feel like throwing up. This girl was mid sentence and I just covered my mouf and sprinted to the sink to throw up. Went to the bathroom and proceeded to throw up all the sushi I had eaten for dinner. Then I was good as new and we went out to the clubs which is when Tuva got caught with a fake bc you have to be fucking 20 to get in the clubs in Norway.... and 18 in the rest of Europe. I know crazy! So we just went home and PTFO!
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I have now officially spent 2 whole days wasted watching movies I've already seen, and Vampire Diaries reruns, I mean don't get me wrong it's a great show but 1 whole season in a day is pathetic and frankly sad. I'm in fucking Denmark for 3 more months and I'm already being a bumfuck that hasn't even been outside in 48 hours. This also goes into my rant about how misleading social media can be.
If you're not a close friend of mine it would seem that I am having the time of my life, going on all these adventures and hitting all the clubs solely based on what I post on instagram and snapchat. I am definitely having a good time and making the most of my time here (sorta), and I am very grateful for this opportunity and acknowledge the privilege that not everyone can study in a foreign country for a whole semester. However, what you see on social media is not everything that I am experiencing. Obviously I'm not going to post a pic on instagram of be eating my fourth bowl of cereal in bed watching Netflix all day. I'm not going to post about not having that many friends here and about how I have to pregame by myself (lol) and hope that my one other friend wants to go out because if she doesn't want to then I'm not going to go out solo. I'm not going to post about the many walks and bike rides I've taken by myself because that would just seem sad and why would I post that when everyone else on this trip has found their squad and are already traveling to other countries for the weekend when I can't even visit another place because I would be going by myself. I feel like I'm being dramatic now, like I neeeed other people..... I'd like to think that I am a very independent person, being an only child you learn to be alone a lot and rely on yourself to do things on your own and figure it out. However, too much time spent alone is fucking lonely and you start to miss that human interaction. I usually talk to myself, but I've been doing it a lot more lately simply because I haven't spoken in hours sometimes (still not crazy I swear). So here goes back to my point about social media, what I post are only the highlights out of the many days spent alone, so please please don't be fooled. There are many days spent wondering what I'm going to do, if I'm even going to make it out of my room. I'm currently in a café in Copenhagen because I couldn't spend another minute in my room. I can't spend all my time talking to my friends back home and relying on that to fulfill my loneliness because then what was even the point of coming abroad if I'm not going to make an effort to meet new people and discover new places? I definitely realize that a lot of my loneliness is my own fault since I'm not putting in the effort to meet more people. However, it's hard when you already have amazing friends back home and it's hard to show the "real me" when first meeting people because I guess I'm weird hah. It's not like I haven't tried tho!! Like my public health class has a groupme chat and I invited people to go on a boat ride with me and no one replied sooo there. If I don't make more friends, it's not like it's the end of the world. I'll just travel by myself, it will be fine cause there's only 93 more days here but who's counting amiright!? Since I basically have all the free time in the world because no classes (none on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday) I thought It would be a great idea to get some friends together and go "GoBoating" basically this service where you can rent a boat and with no experience required, you can drive the boat and bring wine and snacks! Sounds like a great time right? And indeed it was. Went with some people I met and they brought friends and while we were introducing ourselves, this one guy says he goes to Elon, mind you i have never seen this guy in my life. I also don't know a lot of people at Elon... yikes. But we had a ball just driving around and getting turnt on cheap wine. Half way through someone says that there was an accident last year where 2 DIS students died in this boat because a crazy jet skier just rode right into them. I was shook, like why didnt you tell me this before we got on.... But we survived and had a great time. RIP to the two girls that passed.
This is gonna be short post just because I just wanna share how wild this coincidence is. So I follow this account on instagram called "South Pacific Asians" because they post a lot of pictures of people in the pacific islands and beautiful scenery and I wanna see my people and my land ya know? I noticed they gave a lot of credit to this other person who lives in Fiji and takes dope ass pictures. So I follow him because again I like seeing pictures of my homeland and he did take dope ass pics. A week before I came to Copenhagen I was in Fiji for a family reunion, and as one does in Fiji, you go to the clubs with your 30 cousins. While I was in Traps (very popular club) I see the guy I follow on instagram that takes great pictures. I call him over and say "hey we follow each other on the gram". Anyway we get to talking I find out he is originally from San Diego and went to Duke where he was an alpha. I ask him if he knows all the KO alphas I know and he does! Then we go our separate ways and 2 days later he sends me a pic of a sign that says "Bowers Reunion" asking if this was me, and AGAIN we were in the same place at the same time. He was staying at the hotel where my reunion took place. The next day I leave for the states not really expecting to see him ever again. And lo and behold I see him in line for a club in FUCKING COPENHAGEN last Friday. So I go up and ask if he was stalking me cause this was getting a little out of hand. Like am I the only one that thinks this is wild and a crazy coincidence?!?!
Here are all the connections: Me: Born and raised in Fiji and moved to California Him: Born and raised in California and moved to Fiji Both went to college in North Carolina less than 40 miles from each other and know mutual people. Both end up in a club in Copenhagen, Denmark, EUROPE!!! idk I just think this is crazy... thanks for listening |
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