Also the wifi here is terrible, and I am sore and broken from getting destroyed this weekend at Yosemite and then wrecking my knee while tripping up an escalator at the airport. #clumsywinnie
I'm 20 now, I guess that's cool. I couldn't take the red couch cake pic this year tho since I'm not home. My parents were around a few days before so we had a nice dinner, and then my friends here did a little surprise birthday dinner that was really nice and I was super slow to realize haha, even after we were seated at the table (Jessica told me we were having dinner for 3 and then the waitress led us to a table with ~10 people and I thought we were just sharing a table until I realized they were people I knew hahaha). Alex also visited the week before and got me a little TV lens to play with which I have been having a lot of fun with.
Photo of birthday cake taken with birthday present hehe
It's weird to think that it's been almost a year since I flew here to the US with no idea what to expect and no idea what was in store for me out here. I think I've definitely matured a lot since then, and learned a lot about the world and life and myself and it's kind of incredible. I'm glad I decided to come out. I'm not entirely sure what day is my official anniversary for leaving NZ, but it's probably near the end of my internship. It's kind of nice that Chen is around to remind me of how life used to be.
I also went to Chicago for a tech thing but ended up just meeting some cool people and having fun lol. I went to my first music festival! :D I saw Imagine Dragons try to compensate for a broken sound system, got crushed at Lana del Ray (I'm sad I missed the Killers after that rib crushing experience), had fun jumping around at the nicely sized crowd at St Lucia, had exclusive pit access to Reignwolf for a song, and saw Ellie Goulding from a kind of acceptable distance. It was all in all a fun experience, but I wish I could have stayed for Sunday too to see Vampire Weekend and Phoenix.
I've also seen a bunch of movies this summer; since college got out, I've watched:
The Great Gatsby
Fast and Furious 6
The Hangover 3
Star Trek 2
Monsters University
Despicable Me 2
The Internship
Pacific Rim
Now You See Me
The Wolverine
... that's 10. Not bad for a summer. Doesn't feel like all that many though. I think my standards are still biased from watching too many movies in high school though.
Oh yeah, and I "tried" Google Glass. Note I say "tried" because although I am visibly wearing them in the photo below I couldn't actually see anything because my eyesight is bad and the screen on Glass is the equivalent of standing about 8 feet away, so I couldn't actually see anything on the screen clearly. Also it's more transparent and less intrusive than I imagined, which was already pretty transparent and pretty non-intrusive, which is pretty impressive.
