Well I left Brookville. We headed out to Cleveland on Saturday afternoon, chilled for a bit, then checked out the city skyline at night. I had a gut feeling that the city would be ghetto and sure the people walking round were kind of ghetto, but there was also a lot of wealth and class around, I wouldn't be opposed to giving it another shot.

We watched two of the NFL wild card playoff games and had a few drinks then turned in, I couldn't sleep and decided to stay up the entire night due to the 4am wakeup call. Suffice to say it's been an exhausting day. But anyway, I'm now back where it all started: Sunnyvale, CA. It's Sunday evening at 9pm PST, That gives me less than 5 days left in the old US. I'm going to really miss it. But in saying that I can't see this week being too exciting. Manik will be at work, Owen is in San Fran, but no idea how or if I'll get out there. Really, it would most likely be the easier conclusion if I flew home a week earlier. But really, what can you do?

Well where do I start. It seems I got away with my Texas trip unscathed, my group for IST was good about it and the professor didn't notice I was not in our video so I think that went well. I'll wait fro the grade to be sure on that.

I had a turf grass final without realising I was turning up to that, so I doubt that went to ot as I rocked up ready for more review. Bastard. Oh well, not that it matters.

After waiting for legitimate snow, getting ice, not powder it finally came on Friday night. Today we had an epic snowball fight on the lawn of old main. We then proceeded to build the international snowman as a class gift of 2007. Class gifts are everywhere on campus, from archways to series of benches, it's really quite cool to see the attachment they get to the uni. When building this massive beast we weren't too sure it would work, but spurred by my motivation of MYA and suggesting it's the international college students version of the space station, the job got done. I had some kiwi ingenuity thrown in when the second ball was too heavy to lift. I got a stick and sawed it in half and we lifted it in two goes then patched it together. It was a really fun day.

We lost our first international. Melina from Greece left today so we had a brunch at West commons to say goodbye. I expect a lot more over the course of the week.

Oh, forgot to mention. I got an offer to stay at a friends place over Christmas. So panic level lowered now.

Other than that, I have an exam tomorrow (today actually) and another on Wednesday, then it's goodbye State College for Chris.

I'll do photos on Tuesday. I promise.