1st time for everything
before anything else, i just gotta share this. this made my day:

hey there,
you don't know me but i've been reading your blog regularly for some time now. hope it doesn't freak you out that a complete stranger is almost stalking you (electronically, that is), but i found your blog when i was doing a google search for some song lyrics, and got hooked because it was so hilarious. just thought i'd take this opportunity to tell you what an encouragement your posts have been. thanks for all the testimonies that you've shared and for showing that being a christian is really something to be proud of. :)

first email i checked today, so i guess i'm sorta compelled to update this thing. let's see..anything new?

alright let me tell you about my 2 "first-time-in-my-life" happenings yesterday.

so after orientation, the whole group headed over to a local sports pub called "the tron" to watch the european cup championship game between portugal and greece.

(just a side note for all you sports fans: greece won! freakin' amazing. before this year, greece had never won a european cup. actually, they had never even won a GAME in the european cup. and now they won it all! oh, and portugal had home-court advantage for the entire tournament, so that doubly sucks for them)

ok so back to the story. so the legal drinking age in the UK is 18 o_O

before you get ahead of yourself, don't worry. nothing bad happened; i didn't do anything stupid. i don't owe anyone a lot of money, and i didn't make any enemies on my 2nd night in scotland.

although this DOES remind me of a conversation i remember having with johanna about getting drunk. i mean, sure it sucks the next morning, but i was arguing that i'd still like to know what it FEELS like to get drunk. does anyone else agree with me? hm, maybe it's a good poll question.

anyhow, i didn't get drunk, so boo. j/k.

my first yager shot?


my first double-shot jack daniels + coke?


two of my newfound pals were nice or drunk enough to buy me these drinks. saved me at least $10, so i'm not complaining. so after all this, it's still a mystery to me why people enjoy drinking so much.

i mean, seriously. what is so good about drinking? is it all about image? showing people that you can down 10 shots without passing out? is that supposed to impress people?

well, whatever it is, it certainly isn't a TASTE thing, cuz those drinks tasted NASTY and SEMI-NASTY, respectively.

my conclusion: alcohol still sucks.

ok i'm out. i am STARVING.