Two Weeks of My Life in A Nutshell!!!!!!!

Watch out this one is really long!!!

I'll start with yesterday and start rewinding my life from there!

Thursday, October 4, 2007:
I had my midterm in Foods One class and I think I did okay on it. Classes went well for the day. All my friends went home for the weekend so now I'm the loner for sure! I went to Stop & Shop after classes, just to get out a little bit. I choose Stop & Shop because the bus is the easiest and I did not want to hassle anything (Yep laziness at its finest!). Stop & Shop has a redbox which is a vending machine that vends DVDs so I rented a movie then went shopping. Stop & Shop is the typical grocery store by the way just in case of you were wondering what it is. I was so excited, I bought myself a Swifter! Now I can clean my floor better!

Wednesday, October 3, 2007:
My friend Erika and I both have early morning classes, so we have been starting to meet at 6:45am and then we walk to one of our dining halls together then we eat breakfast then go to classes. To me, this is a great way to start my day because Erika is going to be a great friend and I appreciate starting my day with someone. Classes went fine, I had speech and literature. In my literature class, we are going over poetry now and we had to go over this really wacky poem about an Aztec goddess. After classes, I worked on some homework then ate dinner with my friends. After dinner, I had a Best Buddies officier meeting with my friend Lindsey. (What's Best Buddies?? Keep reading and you'll see!) After that, I helped my other friend, Courtney, who just moved to my floor, tighten her bed. Then I went up to Betsy's room and we studied for our Foods I midterm and did our Foods I homework. Betsy and I are getting along great and I think we are going to be great friends, especially since we are the only two that stay home and do our homework!

Monday/Tuesday, October 1/2, 2007:
So with the problems of my living situation, I went to the resident director to request a new room. He got back to me on Tuesday with a list of 4 rooms. I was so excited about this. I went to the rooms and was dismayed to meet the people that lived in them. I finally realized that I would be better off in my living situation then moving in with one of them. So, I changed my attitude about my living situation and went for it.

My Living Situation:
I have a roommate, she has her half, I have my half. She has her shelf in the fridge, I have my shelf in the fridge, she has her shelf in the bathroom, I have mine. She doesn't talk to me and I don't talk to her. Why? Might you ask?

It's because my roommate hates me for whatever reason and one of her friends told her that I was talking trash about her. I'm willing and open to start talking with her again and have her tell me the things that I am doing that cause her to feel this way.


So now, I'm flipping gears and starting with Monday of last week!

Monday, September 24, 2007:
I had a meeting with my freshman advisor who was going to help me map out my next courses for the next term. I had written down all the classes I had wanted to take on a notecard much to my advisor's pleasure. My advisor was puzzled however that I was a SHARP student. For those that do not remember what that is, its that special program that you apply to be in to be able to take up to 25 credits for no charge. Apparently, freshman are not technically allowed to be SHARP students until their spring term. Somehow I snuck in.

I attended/checked out another club called Club Manager's Association of America (CMAA). CMAA covers clubs from golf, country, yacht, art, etc. and gives us club members an opportunity to get networked with clubs and possibilities of working with these clubs. Sounds like a great club to be in, I'm thinking about keeping it.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007:
My speech partner from my English Communication class, Dave, and I met up at the library to finish our informative speech then we went to stop n shop to pick up some of the Mayor's Own Marinara Sauce ~ this sauce has a special meaning to it. There was this guy called Buddy Cianci who helped change Providence from a trash hole to a nice little city. He uncovered the rivers and hid the rail road tracks and developed the city to be up in the times along with helping to preserve historic buildings worth saving. Buddy created and bottles his own marinara sauce (he's Italian if you couldn't tell) and part of the profit of it go to help Providence school children. Dave and I gave the informative speech about Buddy and it went pretty smoothly I think. I however missed my Tuesday Night Truth (TNT) meeting because of other homework I had to finish. I have high hopes and rearrangement of plans to make sure I go next Tuesday.

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007:
I attended an hour long morning workshop for test taking strategies which was good since it showed me some key words to look out for when taking true/false type of tests and multiple choice.

I also went to a club meeting, however, I have the problem where there are 4 clubs that I want to be in, however they all meet on Wednesday night. For this particular Wednesday, I chose to attend the Best Buddies Club. Best Buddies is basically like Big Brother/Big Sister however working with mentally handicapped people that are most likely also going to be college aged. This is exciting for me because we get assigned a buddy and we get to hang out with our buddy at least twice a month. Three of my other friends joined this club and together we are going to have a lot of Best Buddy moments, I am sure of it!

Thursday, September 27th, 2007:
Thursday, what a relief, as we never have school on Fridays unless you beg for it. I was going to attend another event which was church related, however, my cousin Leena flew in from Los Angeles, I would choose her over any event hands down since I love her so! Leena, my friends, and I all hung out together and checked out Thayer Street and Brown University and went out to dinner together. We all had a great time!

When we got back, one of my friends that stayed back on campus had smashed her hand somehow so a bunch of us headed over to the Harborside campus after Leena had gone to go to the nurse. That friend went to the hospital, they did not have room for anyone else so she had to go alone.

When the rest of us friends (4 of us) got back to Down City campus (JWU has 2 campuses in Providence/Cranston, RI, one mainly for culinary and one for everything else), Betsy and I went to our own rooms to make some calls and the other two, my roommate and the girl next door, went out.

When they came back, my roommate said not one word to me and started packing all her stuff up to me. She refused to talk to me and I told her that I was sorry for whatever I did. She packed everything up by the end of that night and was clearly given me the silent treatment. She mentioned for a moment that I was talking trash about her behind her back and she found out about it. I was not talking trash about her behind her back, I was only saying that I was thinking about moving soon since I could not take all the problems my roommate has.

Friday, September 28th, 2007:
My roommate & I continued this silent treatment thing throughout the day on Friday. I took her to the Resident Assistant to get the ball rolling on one of us moving out. We'll see how this goes.

After that, I realized that my church friends had gone out for dinner so I went out to try to find them as I did not have any of their phone numbers. I found them and they invited me to go see a movie together. I was happy to be with them for a couple of hours as they are such great people to know and be friends with.

Saturday, September 29th, 2007:
On Saturday, I had an open house program to attend/help out with from the Collegiate Ambassador Team which comprised of ushering incoming/prospective students to their seats for a presentation then shadowing someone giving a tour of the campus. My tour guide was a newbie too so we did some parts of the tour together. I met this girl named Erika that lives right below me on the 1st floor.

Sunday, September 30th, 2007:
I had a nice mellow day for the most part. I went to church and this one guy from my dorms that is somewhat creepy wanted to go with so I let him. That turned out fine after all and nothing too exciting happened on Sunday.

My Dorm Pics!

Hey Everyone! Sorry I have not written much, there is a lot of turmoil going on in my life right now with my whole living situation and what not. So I am working hard to break through it and once I do, I will be sure to catch everyone up!

My Weekend, Church, & Friends

This weekend by far has probably been the most dramatic, interesting weekend of my life. I am not going to go into detail too much on it but there were some extreme moments going on.

I found a great new friend named Betsy, she means a lot to me and I've only known her for a week. She is going to bring a lot of excitement to my life with her great sense of humor. We've practically hung out everyday except for the one day I was gone at the Patriots game. She is from New Jersey and is studying Hotel Management as well. We help each other out in all sorts and ways and she lives on the 3rd floor which isn't too far away.

I also made some church friends. On Friday night, I went out with my church group, Tuesday Night Truth aka TNT, and we went out to dinner and just socialized together and got to know each other. Through that, I got to know some TNT people better and one of them showed me where church was on the way home from dinner.

Since my usual Sunday workings at the Patriots game was cancelled due to lack of drivers, I went to church. It was wonderful although very small and you could definetely feel a sense of unity in this church family. After church, a huge part of the church went to lunch at the mall. I got to eat lunch with the Pastor and his family and got to know them better. I think I can finally say that they will always be there for me and will be a great support system for me!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!