Floor Activity

I had spent this past afternoon studying and was desperately needing a break from annuity tables and yield curves. Hannah had plans to go to the school play and I really wanted to go with her. The only problem was that my roommate is the RA and had planned a floor activity for the evening. I decided that I would be supportive, that I would do what Jesus what do. At six, Tanya came up to my desk and told that it was time to go to "Oriental Night!" I scoffed, "What are we going to do, belly dance?" I had totally been joking...

Internship

Last week I started my internship at E!Motion, a website design company. Wandering into the quaint office where five guys diligently work made me feel a little like Snow White. This wasn't helped by the flower stickers plastered on my computer, nor the big silver heart on my power cord. My job is basically to catalog different websites in order to establish basic data on Lithuanian e-commerce. I'll be getting my nerd on as I answer questions such as "Does the website use Google analytics?" and "Are the URLs SEO friendly?" I'm looking rather forward to the challenge.

In some ways, my college experience here in Lithuania has been more normal (for lack of a better word) that my experience at Taylor. I love Taylor and I miss it dearly, but there I things I really enjoy about being here. It's nice to go to boisterous basketball games, to go dress shopping at the mall with friends, to go out on a Friday night and have no one mention classes or chapel or Linux. (And yes, I am aware of the blatant contradiction in this post.)

Eagle Eye

Last night we decided to have a cinematic experience. After we sat in our assigned seats and happily started munching our contraband candy, the previews began. Then all of a sudden, a guy in the front row stands up, starts singing "I like to move it, move it," and dancing crazily. After he dances out of the theater, a picture of different kinds of Ipods comes on the screen. We all just looked at each other in astonishment. The movie we saw was Eagle Eye or "Sakalo Akis," which I highly recommend. The only downside to seeing the movie here was that most of the humor was lost on the rest of audience, so we had to keep our guffawing to a minimum.

In general, things are becoming more...not comfortable, just easier. I no longer into collapse into bed every night like a wounded jelly fish and I'm beginning to feel more competent at navigating, well, everything. I've also been surprised by how much I 'm beginning to like living in an actual city. It's kind of refreshing.