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1. We still do not know what internships we're getting.

2. I've been offered a special project but nothing's confirmed yet.

3. No one's applied to be technical interns. Poor Gaby.

4. We had a vocal teacher, Anna, come in to teach us the songs. Quite interesting. I had to go and volunteer to sing this super-strange alto-soprano harmony for one of the songs...urgh.

5. Quiche made by my host family is yummy. Quiche made by the Adams 12 facilty is not so yum. This is a shame, as usually their food is VERY yummy.

6. There was a burning smell in the room yesterday. No one could tell what it was.

7. We may have a new song, if Danni and the rest of us can figure out the lyrics.

8. If your name is Emily, Asha, Victor, Marzuki, or Patricia, and you know me well, check your postboxes.

9. Rob's out of the hospital...and then he went back in again. Tonsil trouble. Oh dear.

10. I made my profile page, and it looked crazy. However, it was the most decorated one of the lot so far, and it got a fair bit of attention.

11. The ballet/hip-hop dance is HARD AS HELL.

12. We had a photoshoot yesterday, with some of us in national costumes. It really looked like some sort of a Miss/MR Universe deal.

13. I went through about 3 or 4 costume changes yesterday.

14. Microphones can be really heavy if they're in a suitcase.

15. Neshat, Huning, and I were the Red Roses of the photoshoot because all our outfits had red roses on them.

16. Speaking of red - yesterday night most of us went to the Red Rocks Auditorium, a natural auditorium of sorts since it's made up of these huge red rock formations. We saw Savage Henry (quite good) and The Goonies (fun).

17. There were people at Red Rocks who obviously watched The Goonies and were cheering at certain points of the movie.

18. Tom and Melissa are together. Awww! They're not that obvious about it though, so when Tom told me about it I was quite surprised.

19. People like chanachur.

20. The gay couple, Andy and Rick, are holding their (what seems to be biannual) Pizza Party next Friday. Of course I will be bringing the chanachur.

21. We went up to the Hayman Fire Site today to set the equestarian trail. This involved placing rocks and planks, clearing grass, and collecting rocks. Ow.

22. I have claimed a mound of soil near the trail as Mount Tiara. There's even a giant Rosetta Stone-ish rock in it which is now mine.

23. The river is so PRETTY. I was brought there by the CUSP crew (semi-secretly, since everyone else was working) and it was quite a sight.

24. Udi's makes good lunches.

25. Someone had stuck a tiny US flag to one of the rocks formations near the river. This amused Ginger, my guide, greatly.

26. I was not used to manual labour, especially in high altitudes, and I had a hard time at first - at one point I accidentally dropped a plank Nina and I were holding because I was just too shaky.

27. Collecting rocks at the Rock Mountain (not the Rocky Mountains) was a bit better though.

28. We kept finding rocks for Stone Soup.

29. We're all rocked out.

30. Nina's found her calling - she lifts rocks (and people) from the ground. Whee!

31. Reuben is trying too hard to get an American accent. He's been going "absolutely" all day long.

32. ODV's a good band.

33. We saw a rainbow!

34. Tom went missing for a while and everyone in the staff was looking for him. I went in to search for him and found him running down the stairs. He didn't believe me at first when I told him everyone was looking for him.

35. While looking for Tom, a random person asked me if there was a UN Conference going on.

36. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURENCE!

37. Salisbury Steak and mashed cauliflowers - yum.

38. CONGRATS ZELKJA!

39. EDIT: Grr. Flickr will only show the last 200 uploaded photos, which means a lot of the earlier stuff will go missing very soon. The only way I can get them back is if a get a Pro Account - and I am NOT paying $24.99 for something online. Anyone know a good free photo hosting & display service that does not hold my photos hostage?

And yet again, this isn't everything, so feel free to ask questions.
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Tortillas spread with butter and cream cheese taste really good, actually.

I went to The Grove with Picasso today. I was expecting a huge shopping mall with tons of tiny shops inside - a.k.a. every other Malaysian mall - but what I got was a neighbourhood of standalone shops. Not bad; at least there's walking to be done.

We went there to catch movies (he, Stealth; me, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory). And OH MY GOD the theatre was something else. In Malaysia, the movie theatres are just small(ish) places, part of a mall, a bunch of rooms with big screens but not much. This one? SPRAWLING LARGE ORNATE BUILDING. Just like Istana Budaya; fancy and posh. It looked like a place for opera - or Saturday Night Live, which was what I went to the Istana Budaya for the last time I was there.

Speaking of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory - I've read the book and watched the first movie, and I never realized how sadistic the story really was until this one. But seriously? Fantastic movie. The parts they added in that wasn't in the book was really Dahl-esque; funny, somewhat creepy in places, and subtle. I even teared up near the ending...aww poor Will. (That last scene reminds me of Asha, a bit. Looks just like how she is with my family. Heh.)

Willy Wonka is someone I either want to marry or run the hell away from. And it has nothing to do with Johnny Depp, as he does nothing for me. Perhaps it's the scriptwriter I'm really after.

And the Oompa Loompa songs - ha! I am definitely getting my hands on the soundtrack, somehow. (I actually saw it at Barnes and Noble, but I hadn't seen the movie yet and I wasn't about to spend $18 on something I could get for half the price back home...)

[I'm breaking out of the normal style of this log to say three things:

1. The line about cannibalism should SO be an icon
2. Veruca/Violet and Charlie/Willy - OTPs For Life
3. Willy Wonka is obviously a wizard, not a Muggle, and there should be a crossover fic of him in the Potterverse. Heck, perhaps he's Bernie Botts in disguise...

Back to your regular not-so-Netty log.]


I did buy something at The Grove - a cord for my pendants, since their original necklaces broke. I put the angel pendant in wrong, but it looks fine now. I think I also made my first tip: I was in their restroom, and I noticed a tray with sweets and hand cream and a metal glass with a $1 bill in it. I wasn't sure what the bill was for, but then I saw someone else add a dollar to it and I decided to do the same. I wasn't sure if I was doing the smartest thing exactly, but I didn't want to be locked in the washroom again...

Tomorrow I'm flying off to Denver. One of the participants is already there; she got there four days early and is now with a host family. Another one should be arriving tonight. I and someone else would be the first few people tomorrow, since our flight is in the morning and most of the others are coming in the afternoon or later. There are about two people coming on Monday, and another one is coming after orientation because she's representing her school for a public speaking contest back in Taiwan.

I'm on the brink of a great adventure, and I can't wait.

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