Labor Day weekend

So we just had labor day weekend, my last weekend in the USA. I went into SF on Thursday for a big old meal and booze up. We went over to a place in Japan town that did an all you can eat and drink special. So we hit that up and got a bit carried away. We had quite a lot of food and an excess of booze. Needless to say it was a good night, except for a bit of the usual couples getting into drunk arguments. But I managed to avoid it all and not get involved in trying to mediate any of it because I was blissfully unaware of it in my drunken state. Anyway, it made for a difficult Friday. I can't imagine how it was for the guys who had to go to work on Friday. As it was I just felt shitty sitting on the couch watching TV for the morning. In the afternoon I went out to Golden Gate park and hit up some frisbee golf again. I met up with Chupa and Jaime and ran the disc golf course. Its a good way to chill out and get outside, wander around a park and have a bit of fun. However the bus ride over there was pretty difficult. I was clenching my jaw the whole way and ready to run for the door if I was going to vomit, which could have been any time. Friday night was pretty relaxed, at least for me. We hit up the marina district in SF and although we were out till the bars closed I wasn't drinking much but still feeling pretty rough. I would have been quite happy to give up and go home around 10ish but it good seeing more people in town and hanging out.

Now Saturday was the big day. Cal vs. Tennessee in the football season opener. It was the biggest college game of the weekend and it was a home game for us. We headed over to Berkeley and hit up the house. Again it was good to run into a bunch of guys I hadn't seen in years and catch up over a few brews. There was the required foosball and beer pong, the shit talking from the deck and all the good old pre-game fun. I didn't bother with tickets but headed up to tightwad hill with Chupa and Kim. We hit up the game and saw a good victory for the Bears. All those Tennessee hillbillies could run back home to their trailers and go do their incest thing they do. It was great to be back at a Cal game and see a victory. The whole time I was at school there the football team sucked. Its only been the last few years that we've finally started winning again. After the game everyone was pretty knackered so we grabbed some food and headed back to the city and passed out.

The rest of the weekend involved a lot of chillin out, heading to Golden Gate park to play disc golf and then hitting a few bars and having a few brews. Jaime had a BBQ on Sunday night which was made especially good by Marco showing up. He was diagnosed with Leukemia at the start of the summer and has been battling it. He's been going through radiotherapy and chemotherapy and getting pretty beat up. The good news is that they have found a marrow donor for him so it all looks good. He ahs to go through a lot of proceedures to get the marrow, more chemo and radiotherapy and again he'll get pretty beat up from it but it certainly looks positive. So it was really good to see him out and have a chat and catch up, even if we pretty much only told stories and jokes about shitting the whole time. So that was my weekend. I'm heading out to see the boys one last time this evening before taking off early tomorrow morning. I did take a bunch of pictures with the new camera so once I get a card reader I'll post some of them.

It's kinda crazy to think this whole journey is coming to an end. It doesn't seem that long ago that I was just heading over to California after finishing my viva. Oh well, now its time to find a job. I'm sure I'll have plenty of time to think about this whole experience and I'll keep the blog as active as I can so till next time, when I blog from England.