back in durham

Hey guys!

sorry its taken me so long to post, i miss all of you!

Lets see, to wrap up Australia,

I didn’t really get to travel very much, i just went to the beach again and then I left. Overall, it was definitely a positive experice, but I didn’t really form any really close relationships while I was there. If anything, it really made me appreciate America and duke and family. Its just hard to appreciate things when youre in the middle of everything.

The flight over was pretty smooth, except when I got to Chicago, I tried to take the subway to northwestern and that took me around 2 hours to do, but eventually I made it over there, and it was slightly snowing! But after that it didn’t snow for the rest of the time I was over there, but that’s ok. It was a good time to catch up with esther and just meet people in iv at northwestern, but I could tell that towards the end of the week, it was time to leave, mostly because of a roommate not being too thrilled I was there for so long, which was definitely understandable. We saw wicked and it was really good. It was one of those work weeks for esther so mostly I just hung around while she did homework, which was really cool because it wasn’t like the trip was focused on me, and it was more just regular college life, which I enjoyed.

I hope all your exams are going well! Or leading up to them at least.

Lets see, being back at duke has been really fun so far. Such a warm reception from most people! Its nice to feel wanted I have to admit haha. The freshman and random people all know about me apparently, its kind of weird. I introduce myself and theyre like oh youre eric! I imagined you would be handsomer. Just kidding. Peter thinks im hot and that’s all that matters. Dan likes me for my inner beauty. Im set.

Anyways, yea meeting up with people has been really cool. Ive met up with most people already and its just so cool to just hang out with them. Its kind of weird that they have to do work though, so it kind of feels like im distracting them, and you know what happens with duke students freaking out about exams and distractions. Well I bet in a week they will freak out at me for bothering them, but for now its fun.

So the day before thanksgiving, I just told Michael chen to invite people still on campus to come to my house to cook dinner and eat, so we had about 13 people come over, 5 freshman and rest juniors, and well geoff and kengo my blockmate from last year. That went pretty well, we made spaghetti and homemade sauce and garlic bread and had cheesecake so it was a good time to meet some freshman and catch up with people.

Hm I should go to sleep.

Ps. The sophomore class things that the junior class is weird because everyone is friends with everyone in the junior class. I think that’s funny.