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Dusty Klass

Dusty

The basics: My name is Dusty (and yes it’s short for Dustin, and no I am not a guy…and yes, my parents are a little weird.) I’m 20 years old, this will be my second ALC, and I like French toast. A lot. I also like falafel, Thai iced tea, deviled eggs, and this one salad my mom makes with gorgonzola and pears and walnuts. I’m THE average American woman in height and weight and hair color and eye color and blah blah blah…I try to make up for my ‘normalness’ by being…odd. I’m not sure if I ever succeed. But I digress.

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, I moved to Santa Barbara in the fall of 2004 to begin my first year at UCSB. Sometime during that first quarter, I attended my first and last Red Cross Club meeting, during which someone came to talk about AIDS/Lifecycle. I’d broken up with my boyfriend the summer before due to different college destinations, and I was still reeling a little bit. Call me crazy (and so many did =), but I kind of felt like this would be the perfect way to get over him. It also seemed like a wonderful challenge. Who in their right mind rides a bike 585 miles?? Lastly, AIDS is one of those things that just won’t go away. And it needs to. There are people who will never BE 20 because of AIDS. And that just sucks.

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Orientation Day, here I come!

10:08 am in sunny San Francisco and I'm heading off to Day zero in a couple of minutes! The last two days have been rather whirl-windy - took  my Hebrew final and put some last minute touches on my final report for the research I've been working on this past year, held a last-minute fundraising  BBQ/say goodbye to friends thing, went to Miss Angie's for our  'yay good luck have fun' party, packed yesterday morning,  met with the professor I've been working with on this paper, did more packing, finally left Santa Barbara around two p.m. and after all stops arrived in one piece to the Commodore Hotel at 8:00-ish. Dinner and hang-out time with the boyfriend and  and now it's time to brave the traffic out to the Cow Palace, leave my baby (bike) in the care of the fabulous ALC people, get  checked in, and get a good night's sleep before waking up REALLY REALLY EARLY tomorrow morning for day 1.


So excited.

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You are AWESOME. I like french toast too. Maybe we can sit and have some one day on the ride. My boyfriend won't be jealous, don't worry. You're not really my type, but I just can't wait to meet another French Toast enthusiast. YAY! See ya on the ride!!!

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