I haven’t died. I’ve just been “livin’ it up!” College is crazy busy! I’ll update one day… maybe this weekend. :)
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009How I’m diggin’ dorm life.
Thursday, September 24th, 2009I really like dorm life. I’m a fan of just sitting in my room and talking to random people as they come in. The people on my floor are super cool. There’s a couple of people who are almost always around so I talk to them. Some others are wandering around. If I have a question about our english class, I’ll just walk into their room and be like “Dude, what quote did you use for da-da-da-da-da?” It’s great.
I’m not very homesick. I don’t know if that’s okay or not. I love my mom and my brother (and my dad too but he doesn’t live with us. I mention my mom and brother because I used to see them all the time) but I’m not feeling super empty. It would feel empty if -they- were the ones that left, because I’d be living in a place that was once filled with their presence. I’m in a new environment in which I’ve never really shared with them so I don’t really feel like anything is missing. I do miss them both.
I miss my friends too but I don’t feel empty. I think it’s because our communication started slowing down a month before I left because they’re all (except one) on the semester system. When our floor went to an amusement park the other night, I kept wanting to say “Oh, Trevor would have loved this!” or “Do you remember what Jessica said?!” but nobody from home was there to share those thoughts with. It was weird. I think it hit me then more than anything else that I’m with a -completely- new group of people. But I’ve adjusted well so I’m proud of myself for that.
I went to the music center to play the piano the other day. I passed by the bulletin board and saw sign up sheets for auditions for different groups on campus. A woman passed by and we started talking. She said the wind ensemble needs percussionists so I signed up for an audition for later that day. I was worried because I didn’t have my drumsticks with me and I had nothing prepared -and- I hadn’t played seriously in a year. I ran out to buy drumsticks. I survived the bus system by myself! It was actually pretty easy. I figured out that the 15 and 16 get me to downtown. So that’s all good.
I told the woman that I hadn’t played in a long time and I asked her if I would be allowed to use the percussion equipment for practice. She said I need to be a percussion student and told me I should sign up for lessons with Willie. I signed up for Wednesday of next week. She said he LOVES mallet players, which is what I am. I’m super excited to play Marimba or Xylophone again. I miss playing mallets.
Anyway, I went to go to my audition for the wind ensemble later that day and I was 5 minutes late. I left way early but the shuttle took forever getting to the bus stop. I ran through the recital hall and all through the music center trying to find the audition room. Someone pointed me in the direction of the conductor. He was super friendly and told me not to worry about being late. They don’t audition percussionists. What I’m supposed to do is show up at rehearsal on Monday night and if there are too many percussionists, they’ll audition us. I told him I’ve been playing piano since I was 8 and he got super excited. He said that for their repretoire for this year, they need a pianist for some parts that’s also a percussionist. I don’t want to get too excited or over-confident because I don’t know the skill levels of everyone else that’s interested but I am confident that I would be able to play the music very well.
I think I’m going to go to the lounge to play the piano. Thank God there’s a piano near my dorm and I don’t have to go to the music center all the time!
First day at university!
Sunday, September 20th, 2009Alright. So my day has been REALLY eventful. I’ll try not to ramble but it’s quite exciting.
I finished packing last night. Then I cleaned my room. It was weird cleaning my room because it felt like I was checking out of a hotel. But it doesn’t feel like I’m leaving home. I feel like I’ll come back (for breaks and stuff). My mom pointed out that after college, I’ll be going onto my graduate work and then ill get job and maybe get married so this really is kinda the end.
So we left the house at 7. I’ll spare you the little details like dropping my dog off, filling our tires and stopping at Wendys. We arrived at the campus and went up to my dorm. We got my ID and then was directed to my dorm building. We had 10 minutes to unload. My mom says I brought a lot more crap than everyone else and a lot more than needed but I beg to differ. I have everything I need and a lot of it was just my bedding and such. And I had organizational stuff. So I’m proud to say I am moved in and all my stuff is in it’s general area.
So my roommate (I will call her K) and I were sitting in our room around 12:30ish and people came in and we all started talking. They sat down and we talked, then more people would pass by, introduce themselves, and I invited them to join us. We ended up partying on the floor of our room for 5 hours. Around 5:30 a group of guys and I went to go get dinner. As soon as we got there (we had to hike down a hill and go across a street), I realized I forgot my ID. So I hiked back up, (I’m going to have BEEFY calves) and found my roommate. I asked her if she wanted to eat dinner and so we went to the dining hall and ate dinner.
We went back to the dorms and waited around. We had a residence meeting at 7:30 where they did skits and they were really funny. It was their way of introducing general rules and explaining things. Then we had floor meetings. Our RA is kickass. He’s totally open to all sorts of lifestyles and he’s super comfortable with himself. I really like him.
My floormates and I have been having a lottt of fun. There is I and A at the end of the hall, they’re super cool. A was really hyper and I think he was cause he was tired haha. I is cool, I talked to him on Facebook before and was really excited to meet him. The guys across the hall are cool. They weren’t really in our group today. One of them is 6′ 8″. It’s amazing haha.
Thennnn there’s J who is flamboyantly gay and suuuuper funny. I love him so much. His roommate is KY and is a bit quiet but at the same time, not really. Then there’s a girl, D, who’s in a triple down the hall. She doesn’t really like her roommates so she was hanging out with us for a bit. She’s really cool too.
I don’t think I’ve laughed this much in a really long time. After the meetings, J, I, A, KY, K and I (Tara) were sitting in our floor lounge. We decided to write letters to floors 1, 3 and 4 asking for an alliance in case of a civil war in our community or any war. The letters were sooo silly and random, including a bunch of inside jokes we came up with during our 5 hour chat earlier in the day.
Ooh speaking of inside jokes. Our RA posted a large piece of white paper on the floor and the title is “Express Yourself” so people have been writing on it (not much has been written.) By the way, random fact, there are 14-15 people on our floor so it’s close knit to begin with. Anyway, I wrote 3 of our inside jokes on the wall already. Dude, you don’t even understand how much fun I’m having.
So after we wrote the letters, we all put on black jackets/sweatshirts, and went to deliver them to the floors. We just walked up to the first person we saw on the floor and handed it to them and walked away. I totally thought people would be like “The 2nd floor is hellllaaa weird!” but no they don’t and you’ll see why. We went back upstairs and goofed around some more (changed the sign on the bathroom from “The Bathroom” to “The Loo” (another joke from earlier)) and then we decided to go adventuring. By now, it’s 9:30/10pm. We walked outside and stood on the bridge (there’s a bride connecting the third floor to the center of te area. It’s confusing. I’ll explain later). Then these two girls were standing on the balcony of the 4th (I think) floor and were like “Did you guys write this?” and we talked and they said they wanted to join our alliance. We invited them to adventure with us
Then some kids from underneath the bridge were like “DO YOU WANT CAKE?!” and everyone of course was like “duuuude yeah!” so they ran up and we all talked and exchanged names. It was a girls birthday today so people were running around with cake. (Disclaimer for my dad: I know I shouldn’t take strange food from people but these are fellow residents who weren’t under the influence of anything so they seemed innocent (I know that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re not innocent but I decided they are (I’m probably going to get a large email from you about this, huh? :D)))
Then we walked and collected one more person so by now we were quite a large group. We stood around in the dark (by a lamp) talking and laughing hysterically and making random jokes when J decided he should sleep (11:15pm) cause he had to be somewhere tomorrow morning. I and Tara (me) were kinda tired so we all just eventually left.
I’m suuuuuper tired right now and I apologize if my blog wasn’t very detailed haha. And unprofessionally written. And all the typos: I’m using my keyboard protector and I’m not used to it.
Alright. I shall post pictures later.