I come back from France and immediately start summer school. I’m taking two history classes to fulfill my remaining general education requirements. I move into a run-down white clapboard house with Scott. The plaster on the walls of my bedroom is flaking off. The landlord won’t fix it because there are rumors the University will buy the land and bulldoze the property anyway. Why fix something you can sell for a profit as-is?
And then Scott and I break up.
For real. Forever.
I make it through the summer and move down the street to the comically small apartment my friend Jen found while I was abroad. Poor girl had to do all the apartment hunting by herself and did a great job – all college apartments are kind of whack.
I’m involved with a group called International Illini. It’s comprised largely of returned study abroad kids who help the foreign kids studying at U of I adapt. I seek out the small enclave of British guys and do what I can to fill my time with their presence.
For the first time, I start to make friends with the students in my major. We order matching t-shirts and have Accounting bar crawls. On one of these bar crawls, we meet the San Diego Chargers. Wildfires have kept them from practicing on their home field so the Bears – their opponents in an upcoming game – had recommended our field in Champaign.
I blow Doug Flutie’s mind when I tell him I’ve never heard of him or his famed 1984 Hail Mary Pass. He moves on to buy shots for girls with longer memories.
I give up on the Brits and start crushing on Accounting guys.
Allison, Katie, and I go to Nashville for Spring Break. We go to bars that host country line dancing lessons so we have a fighting chance when the locals come.
Right after graduation, my friends Allison, Esther, and I go to Eastern Europe.
We start out with the idea of seeing Prague and slowly expand the trip to include Budapest, Vienna, Ljubljana, and Salzburg. We visit Kutna Hora and it’s famous bone church. Our hostel in Salzburg plays The Sound of Music on never-ending loop. It rains like mad in Vienna.
When I return to Chicago, it’s time to start my internship with an accounting firm. I sublet an apartment downtown and spend the summer feeling like a boss.
At about the time that the glory of dressing up for work begins to fade, it’s time to go back to Champaign for Graduate School.
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