Saturday, February 5, 2011:
Today, I spoke with Mike LaBelle one of my mentors who was a business honors and graduated in 2008. He actually was one of the ones who interviewed me to get in. He told me that he'd contact some people at the firm and try to lobby for me because he knew I am a hard worker. Seriously, he's one of the nicest guys I've met. When I say he's willing to help, he'll go the extra mile for you just because he wants to.
Next, I basically did e-mails for a lot of the day which really dried out my mind. I can only think about what if I didn't have internet in this house? If I got 30-50 e-mails a day that I could only really check every other day or less, I'd go blind from reading and sorting everything! After this, I decided to take a break and talk with my beautiful girlfriend Nicole. She cheered me up. I'm sure it didn't work both ways though, since I was such a slug after all that time in front of the computer.
Eventually, I HAD to get out of the house. It probably doesn't happen as much now to all you Illinois people because you'd rather stay inside than freeze in the "snow-pocolypse" that's happening there at about this time, but when it's sunny and warm outside, you get "inside sickness" pretty fast. So, I picked myself up, threw on some respectable cloths and walked near the university, where I was a loser and ate a hamburger by myself. I didn't care, I was outside!
Tonight, we met up with Laura who was hanging out with her ex-boyfriend's cousin (her ex-boyfriend was Ecuadorian). They were in a bar called "Strawberry Fields Forever" and yes, it was a Beatles bar. You know what's awesome about a Beatles bar?! You're bound to run into people with AWESOME accents! And we did! We met a group of Australians, and most noticeably in the group a guy named Elliot Small. The girls were all in love: dark skin, hansom, funny, and sweet accent. So he kept them talking for a while and off of my hands. I felt like I was back on my Europe trip meeting people from all around the world just traveling to live life! He had been gone for 5 months. That's insane. I was so exhausted after 3 weeks of constant travel and he has been gone for 5 months... props.
We then ventured over to a club named Oceana and the Aussies got lost on the way over there, but no worries I already had the info to connect on Facebook. At Oceana, it was a mix of techno and latin music. We all danced around and had a great time! Gringo-land can be pretty descent sometimes I learned tonight...
Ciao,
Michael
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