Right when I came back from Santa Barbara I was drafted for the army. Thank God the
mandatory drafts were just about to be dropped that year, so I was in luck. I didn't have
to join the army for the mandatory year. Instead I attended a study of corporate communications at some college. Since I just found out that the commercial and corporate world was not for me at the end of the course, it kinda ended in disapointment.
I've been working dead-end jobs since then. My newest is as a gripboy at some broadcast facality company. It does allow me to become more skilled in electrical and nerdy stuff and I may even be able to get a truck driving license.
Here I am with one of my best friend who is now married and thinking of having kids. God, I feel old!
My time in Santa Barbara has had a great influence on my subsequent life and views. Not so
much the classes taught me important things (except for the grammar classes, of course),
but rather the things I got myself into when not going to classes taught me a lot.
I am planning to start studying psychology part-time at either either Amsterdam or Utrecht University
next year (after visiting Santa Barbara for the reunion, of course).
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