The Global Issue of Scrubs

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Well let’s begin by wishing a happy birthday to Ashley! We got to ring in the big 2-1 at the local student bar, IPN. Since my day yesterday consisted mostly of sitting around with no class, we’ll start with the evening of January 23. At some point I got home and had another hilarious dinner with Matilde and Ahnd-rooh. Well it was basically us sitting with her while she ate that was a riot. She had this huge plate of noodles and was of course being ridiculously goofy whenever Andrew tried to fake steal any of her food. At one point we tricked her into getting out of her seat and Andrew took her place, causing this amazing video to occur. (See bottom of page)

After Matilde headed off to bed we began the real dinner, with Madame e Monsieur T and their son in law. Madame T did it again and served a knockout French meal of some delicious soup, a pork roast with a mushroom sauce and sautéed potatoes. I’m not even that huge on mushrooms, but omg I was piling them on my plate like there was no tomorrow. We ended with two new kinds of cheese and a fully stocked fruit bowl. Dinner ran late, so luckily I already had my outfit planned out for going out that night and I got ready in record time. On my way out I realized I had failed Madame y Monsieur T again by not bringing pictures of the family. Andrew was showing them his family and pets and since I have dad’s old computer, he deleted all the old stuff and left off my pictures so there would be room for all my new stuff. I’ll have Dana bring some pictures and such when she comes to visit…in less than a month!! Flew down the 6 flights of stairs and took the shortcut to the school and eventually to an apartment nearby to pound some wine and mingle with our fellow Wednesday night IPNers.

Met some new friends and jumped out the door to get our beer pong on because it was ‘American night!’ We all loved the advertisements for the night, ‘beer pong and the finest American hip-hop’. We should have realized that when people use the word ‘finest’ to describe hip-hop, they’re probably on a slightly different page. Since we were a little late for the beer pong we just cheered on our fellow IAUers, the die-hard team of Emma and Kathryn who were on a 5 game winning streak. Midnight struck and with it came two things; Ashley’s coming of age and HIP-HOP. Wished our girl a great one and headed to the oh so empty dance floor to get our groove on to “No Diggity”. Mhmm, that was the beginning of hip hop night and we were ALL about it, mainly because there was a pole on a mini platform in the back. I’ll take the liberty of calling myself a connoisseur of poles and let me tell you, this one was pretty good. Appropriate height, nice space around it and thin enough to rock out some sweet moves, but sturdy enough to feel comfortable. The girls and I tore it up for awhile, until Emma and I decided to walk around the bar for awhile until a good song came on. We had gone no further than 2 feet when “No Scrubs” by TLC came on and without a moment of hesitation we ran back to the dance floor. It’s good to know that TLC’s message about scrubs still rings loud and clear worldwide.