Foals were amazing though. I was pretty close to the stage, I started off on the right hand side, one person back from the barricade. However, when Foals got started, I ended up more off the side- the crowd went nuts for them.
Afterwards, I met up with a few friends to go to the afterparty. The keyboardist of the band was going to do a DJ set at Jake's Bar in Leeds. The bar was actually quite small, not what I had been anticipating. At first, it was a lot of people packed in- especially by the bar. After the keyboardist got into his DJ set though, things seemed to calm down a bit more. I ended up being able to meet the lead singer and the guitarist- both really nice guys. I talked to them for a while- mostly about Coachella and San Francisco. Hopefully if things work out, I'll be seeing them at a house party in the next couple of months.
Then on Saturday, I just met up with a few friends of mine and had Indian food for dinner. We went to this place called Balti King on campus. It was really good. I had chicken curry with white rice and a Strongbow- a type of cider. Cider is more prominent out here than in the States. It's like an apple cider but with alcohol in it. It's pretty good. They sell them in two liter bottles at Tesco. My friends got naan with their meals. I had tried naan a couple weeks before but these ones were massive. They're essentially like pita bread and you can get different flavors: plain, garlic, cheese, etc. The Indian food out here has been really good. I want to go back to Balti King soon. I've also heard of a place in the city centre- Akbar's, that apparently has really good food.
I haven't seen as much Asian food. However, there's an oriental buffet not too far from my place so I'm planning on trying it soon. I've also seen Lebanese cuisine and Pakistani cuisine nearby, so those will be places to try soon.
That was about it for Saturday though. Most of my friends have been sick lately and so we just went to a bar on campus for a little while after dinner.
On Sunday I ended up waking up with a cough. I didn't think it was a big deal but it's progressed into a full on cold now. So that hasn't been too fun as I have a lot of school work and assignments coming up. Hopefully it goes away by this weekend since I have to give a presentation on anti-Semitism in imperial Germany early on next week.
Today though, I met up with the professor that I'm going to be a research assistant for. It's all really exciting. She showed me around the lab and the equipment that I'll be working with. It's a pretty large lab although I'll be working in a small section of it. They have a special room for subjects and the EEG machine. It's exciting to finally be on the other side of research now- I'm so used to being a subject! I'm going to actually start next week or so, once I get a copy of the key to the lab. It sounds like I'll start off doing some data collection- putting data into a program and recording the data it gives back to me.
I'm really looking forward to this as classes still aren't challenging me enough. I was in my 3rd year course today and the professor was explaining a concept that I knew about but none of the other students knew...and he couldn't properly explain it himself. He finally realized it about 5 minutes later and got it right. It was frustrating to sit there and listen to it though. I had been expecting my 3rd year course to at least be like a 4th year course if not more on a graduate level. Maybe UCI is just different in that respect.
Overall though, things have been really good. I'm looking forward to doing some traveling in the hopefully near future.
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