8th Continent Soymilk Taste of Life Tour- UCSD and SDSU

Ahh San Diego. You are beautiful…

I got to jog along your pirate ships while listening to golden age hip hop. You have claimed parts of my shoulders with San Diego freckles. Your food was fantastic, and your community was happy. Is it the sun? Is it the scenery? Is it the two absolutely fantastic campuses located within your city that any student would be honored to attend? I’m gonna say the last option definitely has something to do with it!

UCSD was bustling! I mean, I dodged bikes, handed out a ton of coupons and ended up having several conversations. Everyone is ready to act, ready to learn, and ready to interact! First thing I did was go to The Price Center to buy some headache medicine… (yeah, sometimes they happen) and was amazed at seeing the tornado of people function. Outside there were chairs everywhere where students ate their food from one of the many eateries located around them in a circle. There was the convenient store, with a line that circled the entire store, but only took about 3 minutes to check out. (Now that’s an efficient program!)

And then you entered the eye of the tornado- the study rooms. There were entire buildings with laptops that looked like Apple stores. Clean, chic, modern… I wanted a bedroom like this! You could just see the concentration in the students’ eyes!

Next stop, was SDSU. Talk about an amazing campus! It was truly amazing though to see the attitude change in the students form one campus to another in the same exact city. I tried to pass out coupons, but the majority of people were either too shy to take it, or had blaring headphones that made them not even turn their heads. However, it is first week of classes… I believe a vast majority of them are still working out some Freshman jitters.

Anyway, the campus looked like a spa retreat. The main corridor was lined with luscious tropical plants and fountains. When you went down a set of stairs, you saw the entire wall covered in an amazing mural.

It made me wonder- why weren’t more people smiling? Or skipping? Or laughing? I give it a week or so for them to look around, see what they have, and all of a sudden it will hit them:

“Holy Crap!  I should be smiling like I am trying to show off my canine teeth! I am very fortunate.”

Tis a matter of time! hehe… if you aren’t keeping me company already on my tour- well, then what the hell is wrong with you?!?

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Safe travels!!!!