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Hello again!

So let's see.. some things have changed since the last time I updated while others have not.  I think by coming here and doing this internship I hoped I'd grow as a person and mature, but I don't know if I've grown or matured much in these last few months.  I won't lie, but I feel like a kid compared to some of you reading this.  Some of you just seem so much more in control and focused in your lives where I'm still laughing at that's what she said jokes.  That might be a weak example, because let's face it- we all laugh at that's what she said jokes, but seriously- sometimes I just wish I could be 100% serious and focused.

Onto other things tho- so a crazy story.  Couple of weeks ago a few friends and I go out to dinner.  Dinner was good- conversation was great and around 11 30 we end up finishing dinner and just loitering outside the restaurant trying to figure out what we wanted to do next.  We see a burned up car- take some pictures of that, some people have a quick smoke, overall we're just chilling.  We finally decide on a place and between 8 of us take 3 rickshaws.  I'm in the middle rickshaw which has three of us and the other two rickshaws have two people each.  Then not even two minutes in- I see a car speed up and suddenly brake in front of the first rickshaw where a guy climbs out of the passenger side and pulls on the camera bag of my friend; he pulls so hard that she falls of the rickshaw, hits her head on the road- rolls and lies there motionless.  Car speeds away- we all get out and run to her where we see her slowly rolling in pain, blood everywhere, crying.  I have to say I was shocked, surprised, scared, I mean you name it- I prolly felt it.  But, yea luckily for us the hospital was 2 minutes away (it was opposite of the place where we had dinner) and we got her in the ER really quickly where it turned out no bones were broken and she just needed three stitches under her chin.  But, that incident has woken all of us up and reminded us how this country isn't exactly the safest and we need to be aware of our surroundings at all times.

Also, as some of you know-I've been sick for the past week.  I think it's a culmination of all the polluted air I've breathed in for the last two months and it's finally affected my lungs to the point where I feel as if my asthma has come back.  I've been feeling better lately now that I've taken some antibiotics and medicine specially for asthma patients.  I think I'll fully recover once I get back home and take in that fresh southern-californian air.  God, sometimes I obsess about going home.  I mean I am enjoying my time, but those times when I can't get a coffee, a good burger, a place to walk on the sidewalks, I just imagine how amazing it'll be when I'm home.

I come home on December 6, 2010 btw..leaving here on the 5th and landing at 8 in the morning the next day in LAX.  I feel so conflicted about it all.  I know I can't stay here forever, but I wish I could.  But, of course at the same time- DC is my home now and I can't wait to be back in 434 Buchanan St. 

For some of you- you'll realize what a significant sentence that last one was for me.  Oh, I've also been kicked out of school! Details on that some other time.  Hope everyone is doing well and I'll see some of you in less than 30 days!

-Mahbub