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[Aug. 3rd, 2005|10:34 pm] |
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I spent all of today and yesterday watching Gilmore Girls. I love that show. It's fascinating how much Paris looks and talks like Fiona Apple. I also watched Prozac Nation today, which.. eh. I feel it covered about 10% of the whole book. Watching movies when I've already read the book always sucks. The character development is just so poor. They made Elizabeth look like such an utter bitch to emphasize her depression, when really she's so funny and I absolutely love her. It's just like how watching The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants pissed me off. The book was SO much better.
Anyway. Six days until departure now. I could be going anywhere.. well I had a list or so of about forty countries to choose from. Well I didn't really get to choose it, but rather rank my top choices and then be assigned to it. I feel like Turkey is the perfect place for me though. When I first got my application and I was scanning the country choices it's the one that really stood out to me. I probably never really thought about Turkey in my whole life and it stood out as being really different and a tad controversial. It ended up being my third choice though, and later I realized I really wanted to go there more than my first two. I was going to see if I could call them and change it but I thought eh.. I don't want to be a hassle. So when they called me and told me I got Turkey it really surprized me. Turkey is somewhat like me in that respect though. And I don't want to come up with a bunch of shitty analogies, but in the ways that I described before and that it's in two continents because it's indecisive and how if you get to know it it's really cool.. etc. etc. etc. So that's why I'm not going to France or Japan or Argentina or South Africa or India or Germany or Finland or Australia, etc. etc. etc. I was kind of opposed to going to Western Europe, because the way I see it I can go there any time in my life, and I will. It's not every day you go to Turkey, though.
It's weird how in six days I'll no longer be allowed to brush my teeth without using bottled water or open my mouth in the shower or eat fruit that doesn't have peels and that I didn't peel myself without suffering from severe vomiting and diarrhea for four days. It's hilarious, actually. It's weird that when asked where I'm from, the response will be "the United States" or "America" instead of being "Michigan" or "Iron Mountain." Exchange isn't all I think about though.. it's just really easy for me to talk about.
Sometimes I get really talkative, and I email a bunch of people or leave a bunch of livejournal comments or post a lot or something just because I'm in that mood, but then later on when I get all the replies, it really freaks me out, because by that time I've gone back into my shell. If anyone I meet overseas believes that stereotype that Americans are all really loud and obnoxious, I think they'll change their mind when they meet me. But I realized the other day that I like that about me, how I'm really quiet. And that if I ever faked it enough to where anyone thought I wasn't all quiet I'd be somewhat offended.. I'm glad that I'm not all like "OH MY GOD! *TALK*, *TALK*, *TALK*." Even though it's sometimes inconvenient to be so shy..
Although I decided that I want to get to know some of the other exchange students. Like if I'm sitting next to a fellow Turkish exchanger on the plane I want to start talking to them and not stop, going back to that tactic of asking questions. I have this orientation from the 11th-13th and it's all exchange students. And I don't want it to be like it was here in the United States at the conferences when exchange students would be out talking together and I'd be in my room huddled in the corner reading or something. I want to fit in while still being somewhat quiet.. if that's possible. I was given the itinerary to this orientation and it says on it that we have to introduce ourselves and explain our expectations and I know what I want to say. About how I came with no expectations because I've heard not to carry expectations because it always turns out way different than you expect. That's what I'll say if it's a relaxed situation. I'll have an alternate plan of what to say if it's not so relaxed. I have yet to write that though. See this sucks, though.. It's not cool to plan what you're going to say days in advance..
Ah, well, back to Gilmore Girls. |
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