Talented PKP-ers

Monday night was the last "Pub Night" here in Cambridge. Despite having a ton of work to do (which I still haven't made much progress on yet), I decided to go. We went to the Pickerell Inn and it was alot of fun. It was a small group of people, but it was really nice. Afterwards a few of us walked up to Castle Hill to see the stars but it was pretty cloudy. We did have a fun experience with a Russian student who told us that if any of us were from New York he would kiss our feet. He had never met any Americans before. At first I was a little creeped out by him, but he told us that he is a graffiti artist in Russia and has come to the UK to improve his English. He hopes to be a New York graffiti artist one day, but he has not yet been able to come up with the money to get all the required documentation and get to New York. It was really strange. He was seriously in love with New York and was really sincere about his dream. He explained how he is not really free to express himself in Russia and he is excited to get to NY because he won't be seen as a criminal (I tend to think of people who paint graffiti as criminals so he might be a bit confused...) and will be much more free to express his ideas. It was odd to find a foreigner who is really in love with America and Americans. Although, we were with another PKP student who is from Poland and she told us that most Europeans have absolutely no problem with Americans to which I responded that it must only be the French who hate us then. Her response- "The French hate everybody." It was great.


Last night was the PKP 2010 Talent Show. My fellow PKP-ers are incredibly talented. Most people played instruments and sang and everyone was really good. One kid did a fantastic beat boxing performance. And, of course, the PA's sang "American Boy" which was hilarious. Well, I'm off to finally do my two essays that are due tomorrow and friday.

Cheers!