"the rice isle"

I've now officially had my first experience at a huge malaysian grocery store i guess you could call it.... it seemed more like costco and pretty much just as big and scary. it looked pretty normal at first.. ya know just everything in bulk, until i got to the food section. some food sections were pretty normal and stuff but i got to the rice isle and it was like something id never seen before in my entire life...

yes folks. this is "the rice isle"

asians

everybody here seems to be asian. I'm not kidding. the ratio of us very pale white californians to malaysians looks somewhat like this... 

its so weird!!!! i get random people just staring at me on the streets as i walk by and i want to stare at them back but i feel like its just awkward. just like how i never wave at people in other cars when I'm not on the freeway because you come to a stop light and who do you see but the people you just stupidly waved at.... but thats not the point... me and my mom were watching these 4 girls in a car the other day who just were staring at us so much they missed the green light and everybody was honking at them. i felt like we should have been doing some kinda of crazy dance or something. all we were doing was standing there...

short people

something I've noticed over my 7 days at school is that people are pretty short here.... like for example... I'm now average height and its weird. like really weird... most of the girls are 5'1 5'2 5'3 or 5'4 here and suddenly I'm not so short. its weird looking at somebody in the eye and not up at the sky. kinda nice i guess but i still have to get used to it.... who knows how long that will take :PPP

over friendly people

well I've successfully completed my first week in school. its been like hell sometimes and other times pretty relaxing. people here tend to be waaaay over friendly. the first day of school I'm pretty sure over 50 people came up to me and asked me all the standard questions (who are you!!!! where are you from!!!!! do you like it here!!!! have you made lots of friends!!!! ....etc...) a little too enthusiastic... a few times i almost pushed people out of my personal bubble but i felt like that would have been a bit rude... one girl i haven't even met yet and she sent me a message on Facebook saying "i can't wait to meet you!!!!!" who does that? evidently not me.... but i am kind of a loner so that may be the problem there....