Hey people
It’s been some time since I’ve update this place. I kind of feel bad about it now that I think about it. Oh well blame the lameness of this semester here in the US. Winter is almost over and Spring is taking over but the bitter cold of the nights are still encouraging people to sit back and cuddle with their loved ones instead of coming out to apartments/houses to mingle around with the other people. Everyone except the Russians and the Germans of course. They never sleep !
While writing this, I am about to deliberately skip my next class on the base that my knee is killing me when I walk and it is a good 20-30 min walk from where I am sitting now to my class. Owh right in case you guys have not heard, I sprain my knee over the Pelham Weekend thanks to a golf cabbie/cart and some stupid terrain. It is about twice the size of my left knee and the doctors left me on crutches. Not that I am using it because I think that it take 2 times the effort to walk on 2 sticks than it is to walk on my injured leg.
Anyway, I got back from a weekend of fun and knowledge. Pelham, a little town south of Atlanta close to the Florida border welcomed us with a big heart on Thursday afternoon after a good 4 hour ride from Atlanta to Macon and from there to Pelham.
And while Tony was busy studying for his Calculus 3 on a stack of post-it notes, Chelsea and I took the liberty to cam-whore to pass time that seemed to be elongated with the straight roads and plain terrain of the state.
My very first time sitting in a Yellow school bus. Well technically I have done that before but it was a long long time ago.
Well this weekend was definitely by far one of the best in my list. The reason to that was because their schedule were not filled with events that took the whole day off us. Instead, all they scheduled for us during the weekend was a visit to the state prison and the alligator farm. Hence the picture above.
To be honest, this my friend looks nothing like a prison at all. It just looks like an apartment unit in a very dangerous neighbourhood in Malaysia. I would rank this prison in comparison to ours as Business Elite class for prisoners. They had everything available on the outside world within the 4 fence walls. The prisoners were very well behaved and were extremely polite to us when we walked pass them. The reason I said this was because in the whole group of 30 odd students, only 7 were guys and the rest were the most beautiful lads gathered around the world. The rotarians sure know how to pick well. I was surprise that there were no wolf whistle or name calling or something to attract the lads attentions. On the way there a rotarian quote “Males are males there are no difference from being in a college/universities or a prison”. LOL.
After that, we took a visit to the biggest alligator farm in the town, harbouring about 170, 000 alligator reared for their ever lovely hides on their back. The ones above are about a year old and they are kept in the best environment possible to an alligator because each of them are worth USD 200-300 when they are about 3 years old. And yes, I think you all have a good idea where these alligator would end up in 2 years time. On your arms under the brand, Gucci, Prada, LV and others. Amazing how humans manage to tame the hunters and convert them into the “in” things in fashion.
This one shouts Prada all over him. Boy they groom these kids so soon these days !
Well that’s pretty much it for my Spring Break. It was not the most exciting holiday I have had but at least I spent very little besides my purchases from Oakley and some other place. I wont elaborate else my dad will be breathing down my neck.
Ignorance is bliss.
I guess that’s pretty much it for now. There will be another update definitely less than 2 weeks from now but if the plans for the coming weekend is successful, I’ll update earlier. Till then just be envious that I’m hanging out with Latino and European girls !
Cheers !
Marcus
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