cocoon: If you wanna go and take a ride with me

The last past days were very busy. It was ALWAYS something going on - in a good way. Since classes hadn't started yet, I was able to visit some more places around the bay area.
On thursday I was actually lazy and hanging around in my pyjamas, when my roommate told me to get ready for clubbing in the city. First we went to a houseparty to visit some friends and have some food (really good homemade food) and drinks, and later three of us drove down to the city. We had a blast :)
The next day I had the first meeting with my advisor. It was such a pretty day, I came in early, so fortunately I had also enough time to hang around at the campus, lay in the grass and enjoy the sun. Perfect for me. My professor is super nice and everything he told me sounds very exciting. Afterwards I had early dinner with a new friend of mine and afterwards some housemates and I went to San Francisco again (my fourth time there already :) ). If you go by car, it goes so fast. Only about 20 minutes. There we joined another houseparty (located in an apartment from whcih you had an incredible view over the skyline of San Fran). At around 11pm we all decided party on in a club. Since clubs aren't allowed to serve any alcohol after 2am, people go out much earlier than in Europe. We went to Mightys, it had a cool San Francsico crowd, location and music. Have a look at the website for some photos of the location: http://www.mighty119.com/gallery/index.html After clubbing we felt kinda hungry, so we actually decided to get something to eat at Mel's Diner :) an early breakfast at 3am I guess...
On Saturday it was Berkeley-Day. We went to the Berkeley Marina, had a picknik and played some frisbee. A typical californian thing I suppose. Later on we decided to cook some lasagne at our place, it was delicious. We chilled the whole evening at house, had some wine and good talks. It is great to finally really get to know the people I live with. I like the fact, that we are so many people living here. You're never alone, but the house is big enough so that you can be alone if you wish to.
On sunday I went to Santa Cruz!! A mini roadtrip. I have never been there, we drove along the coast on highway 1 and it was beautiful. We made stops every here and there, took some pictures until we finally reached Santa Cruz (it's about 1.5 h away from Berkeley). The weather was great so we hanged out at the beach before we decided to explore the city a little more.
All in all I had a really great time. I have met wonderful people & now I am just really excited for schools to start. Nevertheless I am missing the boyfriend, family & friends!!!!

A small selection of photos... I have so many now