First Weekend in the Deep South

My first weekend in Mississippi was a success, yesterday we went out again with a good sized crew of AmeriCorpers. We were literally the only people in the first bar we went to, called The Pour House, so the owner was psyched and gave out some free t-shirts because our group of about 30 people drank all the beer they had there (they don't have their liquor license yet, so they can only sell beer I guess). One of my friends bought a bunch of us a round of miller lights, which I actually drank all of! Of course it took me 2 hours, but I did it! After we drank all of the beer there, we moved over to the Upper End again, in hopes of seeing the same drunken 50 year old woman so the other people we were with could experience her for themselves, but she wasn't there (probably because she broke her leg the night before from so much drunken dancing!) There was an empty dance floor there again last night, even though there were lots of people around the bar--I guess people here just don't like to dance? Four of us hardcore americorps members went out and danced for a couple hours though, it was really fun! But kinda awkward 'cause all the other people there were just watching us dance...oh well! We finally left the bar at 3am (they are open as late as people stay here!) and came back to hang out in the pool house, where I rapped Akon for everyone, we sang along to Barbie Girl, and ate hot dog buns and drank lots of water. We finally went to bed around 5am, which is why I slept until about noon today! When we were all up and around, we went downtown, to The Biscuit Company restaurant for a buffet lunch fully supplied with fried catfish (which I did not eat one bite of--gross!) After lunch we played banana grams, a really fun game that's kinda like scrabble (so we should definitely invest in it, mama!) Then my friend helped me figure out how to get internet on my laptop so I could finally upload some pictures! It looks super-ghetto cause I have to sit where there is no computer, but plug the blue chord from the wall into my laptop...oh well, at least it works! Then we had another team dinner and stretched afterwards to get ready for our crazy PT test tomorrow morning! AH we have to get up at 5am to run 1.5 miles, and do as many sit ups and push ups as we can in 1 minute....I mean, thats easy for me, I will do approx 1 pushup if I am lucky....blahhh Okay, it's time to drink some water and go to bed now...hopefully I survive the PT test tomorrow so I can update my blog for Y'ALL :-p

ps-check out the pics I uploaded at the bottom of my blog :)