This morning I woke up at 9:00AM. I went back to sleep and set the alarm for 9:30AM. When the 9:30 alarm went off I set it for 9:40, but soon after canceled my alarm, got out of bed and took a shower. Now that I was conscious I was able to quickly get dressed and head for my American Indian studies class, the one required American diversity class for my major. In class I met Jamilee, who was like always ready and alert. I was also ready, and had read the more than 100 page reading out of The American Holocaust, a dark book about the terrible injustices done to the Native Americans since the time of Columbus. I could fill paragraphs of what I read in the book, but I suggest you to read it yourself.
Later in the day, I went to my Industrial Engineering course on 'Economics for Engineers', basically a course covering the feasibility of projects based on ARR's, interest rates, maintenance, return, etc. I was one of the fifty percent of the class to get a 100% on the clicker quiz. After the class I did some reading on OFDM.
After reading I went to the MU and happened upon a LAS major fair, where representatives of majors ranging from Geology to Technical Communications were talking about their area. At the geology section, I was given a free geode! We talked a bit about different types of metal, and how the US is virtually devoid of tungsten. We also talked about China's new policy of hording rare-earth metals much to the chagrin of other countries. Afterwords I looked at a weather simulation at the Meteorology section and then ate a marshmallow that was in liquid nitrogen, which was very cool. I then talked to a guy with the first name Lee who gave me some tips on websites that help with SEO.
After leaving the major fair I went to play piano in the West Lounge. After playing a guy who was hidden laying on the sofa next to me got up, it turned out to be Henry Bai who I know from classes. I was impressed with his knowledge of the piano, and afterwords he and I took a walk to a the English building to help some foreign students and residents of Ames learn English. That lasted an hour, I met three girls Tanya from Ukraine, Yuan and Shan from China, and Arian from here in Iowa. During the time there, Justin Ge was pestering me of whether or not I wanted to play Majhong later on.
This is Andrew about to miss the ball.
After getting back, we decided to play ping pong. Aaron, Justin and I headed downstairs to play first. After Aaron lost five or six to one he threw the paddle (which happened to by my 300 yuan paddle from China) on the ground and left. I then proceeded to play Justin, losing two games before beating him. After that Cody came down and shortly later Andrew came too, we had some fun but mostly it was learning how to play and fooling around after that.
Later in the night, Aaron and I went skating on my skateboard and scooter. We went by some rowdy drunkards, which was to be expected. Since when we went past a group of drunk girls and frat guys when I was riding the scooter, they sort of made fun of me. They said things like "I rode a scooter in 5th grade" and "Why is this dude riding a scooter?" I was unphased and enjoyed the cool night air, while avoiding the physical and mental harms of alcohol.
