Calapalooza

Orientation at Berkeley is done over 2 weeks. Instead of an O-day, there's O'days. Calapalooza is the event where all the student clubs and stuff come out to play. Then there's Greek Festival which is for all the Frats and Sorrorities to put out. There's also Caltopia, which is for all the sponsors and companies around Berkeley to promote themselves.

At all of these you can get heaps of freebies, food, drinks etc, just like O-day...but way better. Pretty much every stall has a mini Wheel of Fortune thing that you can spin for free shit. Or you can play some stupid Wii game and if you top score you get free shit too. But the best stuff is where you have to do some kind of physical challenge to earn a prize. Like do 10 pushups or something.

I got heaps of 'phat lewtz' - like Vitamin water, an Ipod case for gymming, shirts, shotglasses etc. Except Underarmour cheated me. The challenge was for 50 bodyweight rows on their fancy gym rings (Marcus knows what I'm talking about) and you get to win a pair of their skins. When I got there I had just eaten so I wasn't feeling up for it but the assholes said they'd close at 4pm. I went back at 3:45 and did it but they were already packing up and wouldn't give me anything.

Besides that there are a SHITLOAD of asian-ethnicity clubs at Berkeley. OK Berkeley is literally 45% asian. It's like being at Rossy all over again. It's not like MSU, or SSS or ASIA back home. Here it's gotten to the point where its ridiculously specific. Like KL student society or Indo's who live in Singapore but did not go to NS society (IWLS-NONS). Alright it's not that bad but you get the point.

Berkeley also has a cool marching band. I can't wait for the first college football game this Saturday. Apparently crowdsurfing after touchdowns is the way to go!