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If you haven’t tried this before, it’s fun and unsafe! Get up to cruising speed, stick your hand out the window and you can keep a penny balanced on it. Naturally, I was the only one in the car when I took this picture, so one hand is for the penny, one hand for the cameraphone, and one hand for the steering well. When the Hands Free rule went into effect, I thought they wanted us to drive Hands Free!

Been a few days since I updated, not much going on. Stopped home for the weekend to cook for the parents, watch a few movies, and catch up with some friends I hadn’t gotten quality time with in a few years. Talks with them, amusingly enough, always ended up being about girls, despite all their worldwide travels.

But worldwide travels is what I want to talk about!

As the avid readers now know, film school was a bust, so that opens up new windows for traveling. I can’t this year because of cec, but next summer and next year are wide open for gettin’ out. I just signed up for classes (four Spanish… possibly one small film one, pending a petition… how’d you guys do?), and it turns out I need 17 classes over the next 6 quarters of school.

That’s less than three a quarter, or if I take 20 units this quarter, I only need four of the next six quarters to finish major and minor… or only one quarter senior year

I’m not sure quite what this means yet. The options available include a semester abroad studying, or smaller increments… but I don’t have the need for those units, and for that money I could do a lot more. What tantalizes me now is the possibility of six countries in six months, finding a program that would allow me to do a month of service work in a place, then move onward to a new place and work some more? This could be a good way to explore several different countries in South America to go with this brand new Spanish major…

Despite having been to a number of other countries, I still find myself needing my own adventure. I was listening to a friend who’ll be going to Tokyo for 13 months while simultaneously thinking about the night before with the friend who had, in the past year, gone to London, Dublin and Sydney… all while playing with the top that Conor graciously got for me in Guatemala…

Lots of people going lots of places, some with unique stories, others going to run-of-the-mill study-abroad programs. What will I do?