Isn’t October 5th a
national holiday in Portugal? Yes, it
is. Am I not Portuguese? Yes, I am.
Had I not been studying like crazy in the past few weeks? Yes, I had.
I guess it’s not a big deal that I took the day off on Friday, then.
Yesterday was Luisa’s
birthday and that sounded like a good excuse to relax for a while. Luisa is a really nice Brazilian friend of
mine. I met her as soon as I got to Cal. She came talk to me in one of the first days
because, like most people here, she thought I looked Brazilian, not
Portuguese. Since then, we’ve been
hanging out a lot. Along with Yasmina,
she’s one of the girls I like the most here in Berkeley. I promise to write a post describing some of
my new friends soon. Now I wanna talk about the wonderful relaxing
day I had yesterday.
As every morning here
in Berkeley, I woke up early, had a nice breakfast in the dining hall with my
friends from i-House and went to classes.
Classes meaning one class. That’s
all the academic responsibilities I have on Fridays. After that, I did some shopping with the
excuse of buying a birthday present to Lu and then the celebrations
started. We had lunch in a nice American
bar on campus, called Free House, we went to the supermarket driving a
convertible Mustang to get stuff for her party and we explored one of the
nicest streets in Berkeley: College Av.
There, we tried the most famous icecream on Campus, from Icy! Putting it to words, we went to Berkeley’s
Santini. That was so, so, so good… Mmmmmmmm. After that, we had a girly gym
session (yeah, I’ve been going to the gym every single day) and then dressed up
to party, party, party!
Luisa’s birthday was
on the fourth floor (the party floor) hallway here in Berkeley. There were two or three rooms opened to
everyone, there was music, food and drinks.
That’s how people party here in the dorms. There was another birthday person, Carlos,
and I decided to go to his party too. Do
you wanna know what it consisted of? Are
you ready to read about a very American birthday celebration? We rented a hammer limousine and went to a
nightclub in San Francisco in it. It’s
basically a two-way taxi that can take 20 people instead of 5 and where one can
drink, dance and listen to very load music.
Yeah, I know it’s a very corny thing to do but it was actually lots of
fun. And the nightclub was really good
too. If the nightclub didn’t open before
10 pm and close at 2 am, it could perfectly be an European one.
Of course that today I
spent the whole day studying. That’s
ok. Yesterday’s day off made me recharge
my batteries anyway.
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