Happy New Year!

We're all moved into our apartment now. I'm sharing a room with Alba from Barcelona. I like it a lot there so far, but we still need to buy some decorations and furniture, it's very bare. We're having a pre-party at our place tonight for the exchange students so that should be a lot of fun, I'm excited. Then we're all heading to Sentosa island for a huge New Year's party. It's on the beach, there's live music and a foam party, it goes from 8pm-6am, and they're expecting about 10,000 people! Should be a good time.
The immigration center here is my least favorite place on earth. We were there for a couple hours on thursday to apply for our student passes, then we were there another 2 hours today just to pick them up. It was hell.
We're starting to talk about the trips we'll be taking this semester. It seems like everyone only signed up to have class on tuesday and wednesday and i have class monday-wednesday so i might try to change that so it'll be easy to travel with everyone else. Our agenda includes trips to Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Australia. yikes. i think i should take out some more loans. We have a study week at the end of february (which we will basically treat like a spring break since our classes are pass/fail and we therefore don't need that week to study) and then i have an extra 10 days after finals in april to travel so we'll plan 2 big trips for those weeks and go to the other countries over our 4-5 day weekends.
A few of the roommates have started calling me the "baby dictionary". I'm the baby because most of the exchange students are from Europe or South America and are 22-24 years old. It seems more common for them to study abroad during their last year of college, whereas I am only a sophomore. They think it's crazy that i'm only 19 so i am therefore the "baby". The dictionary thing is because i'm the only native English speaker in my apartment so im constantly being asked how to describe things. I think their english is very good; i don't have much trouble at all communicating with them. i could never speak another language as well as they speak english but they think they have lots of work to do.
Last night we were hanging out in an apartment where 8 exchange students live. We somehow got the idea to make lists of curse words/phrases in every language we knew and post the lists on their wall. There was an english, dutch, spanish, french, and norwegian list so i learned some very interesting new phrases =).
We're going to go to little india now where everything is cheaper and buy some sheets, towels, clothes hangers, etc. for our apartment. The other day i bought a crappy cell phone there for about $35USD!
We don't have internet in our apartment until friday (right now im back at the hostel to take advantage of the free breakfast and internet) but this weekend ill find time to start posting some pictures!
Happy New Year everyone!!!!!