10:01:00 PM
I wonder why... This semester, while Arlene (my former roomie, if you haven't already known) has graduated, moved and no longer lives with me, my house has become far more lively than when she was still here. At least three days a week, people come to my house - either to stay over or just hang around. That was the case yesterday. Five people came - they studied, did homeworks, watched TV, ate, etc. Then they slept over... good thing I have one room empty since Arlene left. So there is always plenty of space for people to stay over ^^ What amuses me is: this semester is my busiest semester ever, and my last regular semester at Penn State, with all the Indonesians. Summer session won't be as merry, since some of them won't take summer session ~ either going home or working or taking vacation elsewhere. I'm happy to be able to spend all the rest of the semester with them... but on the other hand, I don't have enough privacy anymore. When they're around, I will have to act as a host - at least not abandoning them all the time and do what I please to do. That's because I haven't really felt comfortable with them yet. The only person that I'm very comfortable with is Kara, since we've been around each other since the first day of being Penn State students ^^ I can do whatever I please to do without the feeling of abandoning her in my own house. And the same goes with her. We just feel at home wherever we are.

In the final conclusion *cough cough*, socialization does have its advantages and disadvantages. But I believe it has more of the positive outcome than the negative. Most importantly, everything needs sacrifices, and so does socialization. My privacy needs to be sacrificed, although a little bit.