Okay, so obviously if you know me, I am definitely a home-body-leave-me-alone-I'm-reading-doing homework-playing sims- ignoring you kind of girl. Well, tonight I went to the apartment of KK and AS to have a little Sim Party between AS and me. We were having a grand old time, she was playing her sim the entire time, while I built up an entire empire before me. It was grand. It came to be about eleven o'clock (23.00) and I decided I would leave, but before leaving the Uni St. I popped by to say hello to J and his roommate JN. Well, I sat on their couch for a while, discussing Buddhist prayers and how it sounds nice, but would be really difficult to fulfill everything this one in particular asks of you. J was headed upstairs to a "Spanish" party as he referred to it, and asked me if I would like to come along. . . Uhm, not really. But here I am, 21 years old and I went to 20 minutes of a birthday party last school year. I thought I would get in the experience before I got too old. So I got there and discovered a few people I know, which put me in a comfortable place in the corner, where I prefer to be so I can observe. Parties always sound like there should be something going on. I was confused and told my friend AJ so. Everyone was sitting around mouth to ear, yelling above music that nobody was even dancing to. It seems odd, but I'm sure this is how American parties go too. Eventually a girl from one of my classes got me up to dance to this Spanish music, and, as I was reminded on Thursday by Zumba, I am white, and I cannot dance. After a few more songs, I went back and forth between sitting next to J and sitting next to AJ, watching everyone as they talked and laughed. AJ thinks I'm such a depressing person, but really, I can be fun when the mood strikes. So eventually a song came on that I knew, and, really not the type of music that you can salsa too, so I got up and danced. I love dancing, I could dance every day if I had the chance, just in a big hogpog of people, dancin'. However, if you know me, I dance like nobody is watching, even when there are people watching. I don't mind so much when it's such a big group of people, I knew maybe four people, maybe five, and they all know I'm a little off. I left after AJ but before most of the other people I knew. I couldn't help but stop in this park I've been walking past so often to take a spin on the tire swing. So, lessons learned tonight:
1. You don't need alcohol to have fun, but people will think you are on alcohol, having fun, even when you're not.
2. If you dance like an American where everyone is dancing like a Spaniard, you will stand out. When in Rome, don't dance like an American
3. If you sit on someone's couch long enough, they'll ask you to do something
4. Recreating an entire ultimate Sim world is a lot of work!
5. Dancing like a whole room is watching is just as rewarding as dancing as if nobody is watching.
6. Being around people is nice in all sorts of forms, but I prefer to be sitting next to AS while we play Sims
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