Entry 10: Dinner with the Ladies

I was in a deep sleep, the kind of sleep that only comes after pure exhaustion, when my alarm woke me up. It was 7:15. In the afternoon. I had experienced such exhaustion after the day that I was starting to act funny. I would start to do things like forget who was in my class, say random things while the teacher was giving his or her lecture, make awkward and inappropriate remarks at people, so on and so forth. Sleep deprivation had altered my state of mind. But back to the original point, I was awoken from my deep slumber because it was Cici's birthday!

Grace had told me to be in front of the girls dorm by 7:20, so that we could head out to go eat at a Korean Bar-b-que place and eat as much meat as possible. As Cici, Grace, Aileen and I started to walk towards the restaurant, it hit me quite suddenly that, I was the only dude there. Not that this had been something unusual, as most people know here at TaLK, I am usually with girls more frequently than I am with dudes (the reasons as to my tendency to gravitate towards girls is in correlation to the amount of alcohol, cigarettes, and "guy talk" that is around the guys here. It's true that some guys just think about sex all day, or at least, they think of hot girls all day, which is normal, but I can only take so much). Today, walking with them towards the restaurant, the lack of Y chromosomes came more to my attention because at the restaurant, Tiffany, Lisa, Gina, Jessica, and Charline were waiting for us. It was going to be 8 girls and 1 dude. Oh dear.

At the restaurant, it was quite apparent that I was the only boy in the group, but thankfully we just laughed about it, they told me that I was like their "little brother" and we moved on. As our stomachs were getting satisfied, we all somewhat went around and said how old we were. Interestingly enough, Cici said somewhat surprised "Grace you are the same age as Jeremy? I thought you were at least 2 years older than him." Grace let out one of her infamous laugh/giggles. I just wanted to go "-_______-----" but sadly, my face cannot make that expression.

Suddenly, someone starts to bang on the window. It was a few of our friends from our classes. "OHHHHHH JEREMY!!!! NIIIIIIICEEEEEE" one of the guys shouted at me.

I felt like I had been caught red handed. Like I had done something wrong. It was quite embarrassing, being found in a restaurant with 8 girls, most of them older than I was. I was the little brother for the night.

This will only last through training. Once we are sent off to our respective locations, I will be on my own, which can be seen as both a blessing and a curse. It could get mad lonely being in the middle of the forest, but at the same time, I might actually enjoy some time to myself.

Anyways, tonight, I was the little brother. I'm comfortable with that.