Arvin's blog

Starting the day with a cup of coffee has been my morning routine for a long time. You know me now; I'm a coffee lover, especially drinking lattes. I don't usually go to Starbucks to have a coffee, but instead, I like going to different cafes to check their coffees out. I have no idea why I'm such a huge fan of coffee, but I think it's because of working in a coffee house when I was a teenager. The barista who worked there always allowed me to have coffee whenever I wanted, so that might be the answer. I learned a lot about coffee from that job, such as its types and flavors, even some coffee arts.  I had seen many people drinking the same coffee every morning, and I thought that was so weird, but look at me right now; I've already become one of those people. This morning, I went to a Kanela breakfast club in downtown Chicago with my friend. I ordered Lorraine Scramble with a cup of latte for my breakfast, and I loved everything. The customer service was terrific, a...

This week has been very smooth for me, and also, the weather has made me a little being a couch potato. I know winter is coming, and the weather gets colder and colder cause it's already the end of October. This makes sense, and the weather made me bundle up more; on the other hand, other students wore T-shirts and shorts and didn't look like they were cold. I just don't get how they could do that. Anyway,  after last Thursday's class, I went home and just went into my warm blanket and watched movies, basically just chilling out. To be honest, I haven't got any work done yet because of that, and another reason is probably I was too excited about Halloween.  I've never been to a Halloween party, and this year's Halloween will be different and pretty fun times that I will experience. I spent tons of time finding costumes and makeup tools that I needed. However, I'm not hundred percent sure that I look good in that outfit or makeup doing it by myself. After...

Visiting Promise You Art House was terrific! I don't remember when was the last time I went into an art gallery, but it has been a while.  I met an amazing woman there, who was the owner of that art house told me about her gallery, history, and its arts. There were paintings, wooden sculptures, and even hand-made jewelry pieces, which were all so incredible.  It was such a fun place to go, what's more, it's free! I would absolutely recommend others to visit her place.  It started because of the group project we have been doing for this class, and Kory was the first person to bring this idea. To be honest, I'm not very into arts and not a person who usually goes to art galleries or museums, but this place really took my interest when I heard it from Kory. I'm so happy that I actually went there and learned more about her art house. Our group will talk more about this art house in the class, so I don't want to spoil it right here. But genuinely it's definitely...

 This week has been so much fun because I got a new friend, and we spent some time doing fun stuff. It was awesome doing something different apart from schoolwork. You might wonder why I am so excited to share this with you because I don't know many people around here, so I usually go home and basically being alone all the time. But I'm glad that I met Mike, who is the super awesome and nicest guy ever. We are in the same chemistry lab and lecture, and we both live in the dorms, so that's kind of how we met.  On Wednesday, before the lecture, we had lunch together at the pizza place around campus while we were having an interesting conversation about ourselves. It felt like he was already one of my friends and like we had known each other for a while. After lunch, we came to campus and played ping-pong and pool in the game center in SULB. Gosh, I don't remember when was the last time I played it, but it was a long time ago, for sure.   He got like a whole bunch of stuff...