"Just a small town girl...."

Wow, so karaoke night was surprisingly entertaining, not gonna lie.  We got kind of lost trying to find the place, but once we found it, things turned out pretty well.  Though it did take us a good 30 minutes just to figure out how to play songs since the WHOLE menu was in Japanese....and they had no way to convert it into English, which made us wonder who their major client base is, since...they're in Australia....hrm.

Everybody was really into it, and Stathi and Tyler proceeded to show all of us up by actually being decent singers, as opposed to me....who just kind of...yelled things....We did have a touching duet of Snow Patrol though.  It brought tears to peoples' eyes.  We were THAT good.  And then I proceeded to have no part in the singing of SexyBack except for yelling YEAH at random times.  I'm a champ.

So I slept in as much as possible today, and realized that I still don't have a finalized class schedule, which is unfortunate seeing as how class starts tomorrow....hrm.  As excited as I am for class to start, I'm also kind of not ready to have to learn about intense things like microbiology and neuroscience.  Neuroscience gives me a bad flashback to my freshman year class where my final consisted of multiple choice questions, each one counting for 5% of my total grade....ouch.  I'm gonna run by the faculty of arts tomorrow morning before microbiology to try to finalize my schedule, and then try to actually pick up some school supplies, since I'm a terrible student and completely unprepared for the beginning of school right now...

I'm gonna try to dash to kickboxing between micro and neuroscience, which I should have time for, and then go to beginning BJJ after neuroscience gets out.  I had my first Parkour class today!  It was super-fun, though definitely a first-timers class.  The style of running in Parkour is really different than normal running, as they frown upon the heel-toe motion that most people do, since it increases the impacts on your knees, so instead they do the much more strenuous running with the balls of your feet impacting first, it's quite odd. 

We moved on to some animal-walking on all fours, just to get more warmed up, and then came the bad part.  They were trying to teach people how to roll.  My inner martial artist jumped for joy since it was something I knew how to do, and then I saw the people next to me....*sigh*.  There was this group of 3 testosterone charged guys, who were MAYBE 15.  I heard one of them say that he KNEW how to roll, and so I decided to watch, just to see what would happen.  I have never seen a human body do something like that....It was like a forward handspringfliptuckairfall....and sounded really painful.  Concerned that he was going to injure himself with his aerial maneuvering, I tried to show him the proper way to roll, to which he gave me a look of "you have no idea what you're talking about" and explained to me that he'd been doing it that way for "years".....*DOH*  His friends even said "dude that looks really dangerous and not...correct at all" but he apparently has it all figured out.

I did do my first roll on concrete ever today, which actually went pretty smoothly, though there is something funky happening with my rolls that is ended with my tucked leg coming down too hard, so that merits further investigation...hrm...

We moved on to learning how to land properly from jumps, and then ended up jogging over to the river to do some wall-climbs, which are SO tiring!  A large part of it is that I didn't have the mechanics down to avoid using all my upper-body strength to pull me up, but yeah, that was exhausting.  It was a great workout though, and I'll definitely be returning :D

Now I'm gonna grab dinner and try to figure my life out for the next few weeks....stupid classes and not knowing what's going on.....*grumble grumble grumble*