What am I doing here? July 15, 2008

In San Diego and on this blog??

Well, it seems like we need to start most types of social interaction with a proper introduction. Apparently those stimuli help us relate to people in order to come up with the most interesting questions and avoid those dreaded moments of awkward silence. Of course, since I’m currently only interacting with my HP laptop, the only moments of silence I will encounter are the ones where I feel a total lack of creative flow… just like right now. So what am I even doing here? Well, time pressure brought me here tonight.

Ok, let me give this a little more of a consistent time frame. You might have noticed from my writing, I am not American. So, let me describe a typical encounter with some random person. They would approach me for whatever reason, like “Would you mind giving me a cigarette?” (Yes, I smoke, please don’t hate me) and I would go: “Sure”. In most cases that would be enough for them to ask the next question: “I hear a slight accent… Where are you from?”. “I’m from Switzerland.”. “Oh wow, Switzerland! Wait… aren’t you supposed to be all blond and tall and stuff?”. And that’s usually the point where I go: “Yay… uhm… I’m sorry, I gotta go.”. Just kidding. I mean, you just gotta love people that make you look good in comparison

So, we just covered the first part, I’m from Switzerland. I came to San Diego in January 2008 to attend a 9-month business program at UCSD (“What brought you here?” is usually the second question so we covered that as well). Why San Diego? Because I’ve been here 5 years ago for about 5 months and I absolutely loved it. I really had to come back and this program seemed like the perfect chance.

So, let’s skip a couple of steps and get to the crucial question: What am I doing on this blog?

I have never blogged before and to be honest had no intention of doing so. But it just happens that I am taking a social media class and now guess what our homework for next Wednesday is? Yep, that’s right. Creating a blog and post at least 3 times. Hence the time pressure reference above. That being said, I guess I’ll save some of my more ingenious comments for later on and quit this nonsense talk before my teacher thinks I’m on drugs.