Minnesota: August 7th
I'm sitting in my room in the dorm, my only light except the laptop a soy light with a slight fragrance of leaves. There's a violent thunder storm up in the clouds outside, giving some extra but untrustworthy enlightenment.

Four of us went to Cirque du Soleil today. It was crazy. Women turning their hips around their bodies like it was a flail, guys taking double backflips on stilts, a dude standing on one hand on top of ten stacked chairs, a couple dancing wildly in a circle while on a unicycle and one fellow standing on a chair on a pole on the shoulders of two guys on bicycles on a tight line thirty feet above the ground. We had a great time, ate popcorn, and I pondered how it'd be like having such a bendy girlfriend.

For the past couple of days, we're been up at Itasca and Wadena in northern MN. We switched from being hosted by an old married couple to living in nice cabins. I got to visit a farm, play with kids, regard to a local girl of swedish descent very cute, and I now have lots of new mosquito bites.

Also, I went to the Mall of America again and bought a giant PEZ dispenser with R2D2 on it.