hello

hi = )

grace, that's a real surprise!!! so you're going to manchester at last! anyway.... both of your uni's are good, so ... i think it will be fun either way.

so... grace and tani, are you guys going to meet up somewhere (london, maybe?)

we went to see a movie on saturday, 'The Manchurian Candidate', which is really cool. then we all went to the beach, Venice Beach, near a place called santa monica. we spent time in the beach for around 8 hours, and a whole bunch of people got heavily sunburned. i rented a bike for the whole day (ugh... pretty expensive, but it was fun. i'm planning to buy a bike for my own).

we were having our first 'class' at mudd today. it's math. and it's really cool (although i was a bit tormented in the beginning -- but that's just my fear.) the professors started up with complex numbers. and it ended up with fractals. i was reading a book on chaos/fractals/dynamical systems, mandelbrot set , julia set, etc. but i didn't really understand what the heck was going on in the book. after the lecture, wow! it's really cool! i finally get a more real picture of what they're actually about. the profs are cool. they just came into the classroom wearing shorts (probably because formally, it's still a vacation time).

we're going to have math tomorrow as well, and bio for 2 days afterwards.

we watched the movie 'pi' just now. it's a really cool movie. you guys have to see it too.

margie: next to the TV place where we were watching the movie, there is a gymnastics room, and I saw people already in there, with some backpacks and sleeping bags. i guess they're some of the hiking mentors. i remember that you guys will spend one night in the gym, right? maybe it's there. i can't wait till you come! 2 more days!!!

adhira: are you in bucknell already?? tell us some news about it!