That's better now.

Am I in the wrong country? Not necessarily so. (I just waved to some guy brushing his teeth across the building from the window.) When one is settled and has a real life here, there is always absolutely the option to stay at home and socialize and/or celebrate whatever, or not to celebrate at all. But right now, that is often superseded by a feeling of need to get to know other students for the short time that they are here, and so it is not so easy to just hide if others are going, and instead to encounter some typical behaviour among the locals.

Here tonight I can pace, I can snack, I can talk with J. I can go to bed before 1AM. Free to not follow some stereotypes.