26 december 2023
So, on the 18th we had our "secret santa" with Polimi social games. We first
went ice skating in Centrale, after that we went back to the uni and had pizza
and other stuff. That's when we had our exchange gift, when I said secret santa
it was in quotation marks because it was only secret up until you had to give
your gift. We didn't go with the more traditional version of secret santa. I
gifted a Raspberry pi, I put the board in the packaging of something else, a
lubrificant if I remember correctly, so that they wouldn't know right away that
it was a raspi. Then wrapped it in gift wrapping, I put all of that inside a
shoebox, so that it would seem like I gifted them shoes. Then I filled the box
with candies and 3 different bags of platano. Wrapped the shoebox and then spent
the entire afternoon gaslighting everyone into thinking that I was gifting
shoes. The moment my gift was being unwrapped was the most fun for me. I got to
see the ups from thinking they were getting shoes, the lows from realizing it
wasn't that and then the ups of them finally realizing it was a raspi. Was great
honestly.
On the 16th I attended a graduation party. It was fun and all, got to meet new people and stuff. The girl graduating is the ex-girlfriend of a friend of mine, after they broke up she wanted to keep up the good relationship with the friends in common so many of the friends she met through her boyfriend were there. Was a bit awkward at times because we didn't really want to mention him, but he was the only reason she got to know us. Regardless the party went well overall, great vibes throughout.
On the 23rd I and the girl that graduated and some other poeple were supposed to
go out for some hotpot. 3 out of 7 were a no show, ended up going to a noodle
place instead. I forgot how it's called and since it is fairly new it isn't on
google maps. While the food was ok (nothing mindblowing but it wasn't bad
neither) it wasn't that filling, when we left we were still hungry. So we went
for some fried chicken in chinatown, I wasn't feeling like getting chicken so I
ate a baozi instead. After that the 2 girls we were with left us and we picked
up a friend of ours and went to Cantine Isola dal 1896 (still in chinatown)
and had a glass of wine. Since they were about to close after finishing our wine
we went to Cantina Sarpi 1 and had a bottle of Pinot grigio. There we met
these 3 girls from Bocconi, a chinese girl, a mongolian (arguably still
chinese) girl and an italian girl from Milan. We were really vibing so we
exchanged digits and decided organize an outing to a karaoke either on the 26th
(which is today) or the 27th. We all wanted to go but the mongolian girl hurt
her ankle yesterday so we decided to postpone it.
Also had our Christmas party on the 25th, was great, played games at great food
and got gited a coat 🤩. The thing is that the coat is an M and apparently it's
too loose for me. So I'm going to the Zara store one of these days to exchange
it for an S.
Today we also had some other family members over for lunch and pretty much had a 2nd Christmas lunch. After that we sang all afternoon with our make-do karaoke (which is just karaoke videos from youtube and a microphone).
Starting tomorrow it's study time 🤡, we'll see how much I'll be able to study this year...