guilty as charged.

i shopped and splurged. ok i feel guilty. sorry... :(

but i had to get that bag for my mom. i know she'll love it. didn't really think about getting myself anything but a cheap wallet which i would need when i am there. and keep thinking twice about my expenses... which is a good thing... for all you know i might turn out to be more thrifty than you know!

well as i have mentioned my host Kathryn mentioned all about the christians' fellowship and the whole family goes to church.. so i would probably follow them upthere on sunday... :) Thank God!

don't worry i won't be spending too much from now onwards... though i would say that the textbooks sound like they would be mighty expensive.. i would be saving up to spend on those in fact! :)

clothes are cheap here as well though i didn't buyany... erm, the dkny and liz claiborne is so inexpensive... costs what giordano might sell for...it's winter but the summer things are still around here and there especially when it's at the discount section... ya... oh well... elizabeth (my host's daughter) told me that ross was really cheap... could get jeans for like 10 bucks... might want to check that out some time in the near future.. but meanwhile i would like to check out the school... tomorrow we're going to do that... sounds interesting and i am quite excited! i saw the gym in school and it's huge! it's like some mega california fitness thing which is just built... i could get there after classes or maybe just pop by the gym in my own hall which would be rather run down i guess... given the looks of the hall from the outside (we've been driving around the uni quite often)

the people here are friendly! and very nice... the store keepers are nice and all and they don't look at people's clothing and treat them as and whatever they want... even in the boutique stores which i went to check out how the prices differed from that in singapore... haha we need to learn a thing or two from the americans about service huh?

i took pictures of costco- which is a huge warehouse retailer... the stuff they sell comes in great quantities and the carts we had to push are huge! the samples they give out every here and there are very generous as well! and you might even say you could eat a whole meal out of the samples alone... haha")

which i don't mind of course... hehe

my host is constantly on a diet program and that's keeping me in check on my diet as well... haha... i went for a 20 min run upon seeing that she works-out three times a day for 20 mins each time and she snacks heathily 6 times a day!

amazing woman she is...

and the house has an attic, a garage like american homes do and i am currently sleeping in the basement room which you can't see from the main floor until u open the book case like you see in the movies! fun huh?

we're eating mexican tonight... the family, me and another student who's come to stay ;)

i keep asking about house prices and about the social life here.. it's not so different from back home... houses are very expensive in seattle and there's a rising number of people who are living singularly... the education poses a problem much for the fact that the school bullies are always at work...which is haiz... bad of course... kids get beaten up and bullied for nothing...

oh the political environment is crazy here...everyone's talking politics... my hosts support bush. i do too! i guess it's because he's such a godly person and most church going people support them... esp the jews here... since bush openly defends them..

ya i have learnt so much! and did my rounds in looking around... i don't think i have so much time to do so when i get to school... going to have much to do in homework and gyming! if i get to it... the weather makes me just want to sleep in everytime...

meanwhile i have been at the telly a little to help me to sleep...

oh i have gotten much over my jet lag! thanks to their hospitality of getting me out of the house the wholeday... it gets dark like at about 4pm or earlier... quite short days that they have but it's nice weather still... :) the lakes here are gorgeous... lake washington is the larger one and that would be the one that my hall overlooks... i can't help but feel excited about waking up to the lake every morning!though classes start at 830 and i would have to be up very early to make sure i be early and have time to walk to my classes.. from one end of the campus to the other.. lots of exercise there haha...

okies i'll update you guys again soon! I promise i won't shop unnecessarily... :) though i have taken looks at the boots here and they're really cheap... on discount. heh.

okies will save for possible trips and outings with the christian fellowship group! and books of course...

Sophie out.