Solidly six weeks into second semester, we plan to take advantage of a much-needed February break. Although the break is informally known as Ski Week, we won’t be heading to the slopes.
No, no, we plan to go to the beach. Although it may be 50 degrees outside, what most people do not know is that this is the prime time for going to the beach because there will be nobody there. We will head to North Baker Beach, which is the clothing optional area of Baker Beach. We will have the entire beach to ourselves to walk around naked.
After going to the beach, we will don clothes and go to San Francisco. There we will go to the Museum of Modern Art, look at weird paintings and contemplate life. Not only that, taking a picture in front of a Frida Kahlo painting will count as Spanish cultural credit.
Sticking to our roots, we will then go to Chinatown and eat at Panda Express. Our likely picks: authentic chow mein and orange chicken.
To finish off our adventure, we will ride Bird scooters to Union Square where we can shop at stores that sell products we cannot afford.
Ski Week would not be complete without trying a bunch of new things.
First, we will follow a trend that is common on the Facebook page Subtle Asian Traits by blind taste testing boba from multiple stores. We plan to buy boba from Quickly, Tea Top, Teaspoon, Happy Lemon, QQQ, Gong Cha, Ume Tea, Ten Ren, Tea Era, Fantasia, Boba Guys, Sharetea, 85 degrees C Bakery, Pekoe, Cafe Lattea and T4. With 16 stores, we will have a bracket and determine the winner.
The next dumb challenge we will do is perm our hair. This isn’t really a challenge, but Kevin is growing out his hair and doesn’t really know what to do with it. Since all attractive Asian males have curly hair now, it’s time that we hop on that trend as well.
Finally, we will try knitting at the suggestion of Falcon Lifestyles section editor senior Sofia Jones. To be honest, we are very unexcited about this idea, and will not be surprised when we inevitably give up after about 30 seconds.
Although we do expect the majority of our February break to be fun, we are not so certain about trying the world’s most boring hobby. Why would someone ever spend four hours knitting an ugly pair of gloves? It seems like a colossal waste of time, but as second semester seniors, time is not something we lack.
We have planned an exciting break that will hopefully excite us bored students. However, we will probably procrastinate on all of these activities like we do in general anyway. Perhaps the best Ski Week advice is this: Avoid Baker Beach in San Francisco unless you want to see us naked.
