The BIG Update!

Here comes the big update!!!!!!!

What do you guys want to know? Everything?! Yeah! Thought so!

I'll start with when my parents came. Their flights got delayed so they did not arrive to my school until 1:30am on Friday morning, they were supposed to arrive around 10pm on Thursday night. This was amusing for me because from 1:00am to 2:00am in Gaebe Commons (the nice, large greenspace that is rectangular shaped and has Snowden Dormitory & Dining Hall on 1 side, McNulty Dormitory on another side, and the library/admissions building on the other side), from 1am to 2am in Gaebe Commons, is "sober hour" where everyone arrives back from the bars and clubbing and is drunk running around. There is a 7-11 Conveience Store across the street from Gaebe Commons and it so happened that right as my parent pulled up, a verbal fight was breaking out. My parents were so distracted by it that they almost didn't see me coming to them.

We were happy to see each other and piled back into the car and we drove to the cottage we rented which was an hour away. I had a lot of fun hanging out with my parents, even though we did not do a whole lot at times, it was enjoyable just sitting and talking to them and showing them all the parts of my life out here.

I thought I'd tell you guys what a normal day is like for me, maybe now you could put your "college" shoes back on ;)

Mondays/Wednesdays:
I awake between 5:45am and 6:10am. Once I awake, I call my friend Nicolette or she calls me, that way we can make sure that we are both up and kicking so we can get to class on time. I get ready to go then at 6:45am I go downstairs and wait for my friend Erika to come out, she's pretty punctual so usually I don't have to wait at all. This in turn helps me be on time so I strive to never be late.

Erika and I walk down the hall and we usually wait until we get outside before we say anything. I think this is because it gives us another minute to wake up and we also want to be quiet for the other people sleeping on the first floor.

Once we get outside, we see the trash from late night partiers and also these gigantic seagulls running through the grass searching for breakfast before all the pigeons come.

We walk together to the Marketplace Dining Hall, we each grab breakfast, which for me is usually eggs, ham or sausage or bacon, and some form of potato along with some sliced peaches.

At 7:05am or so, I head upstairs as the Marketplace Dining Hall is in the basement of one of the buildings that holds 1/2 of my classes for this term. On these days, I have English Communication Skills for my 1st period class.

I get to class, sit down usually in the same spot everyday which happens to be practically the exact middle of the classroom, I did not plan that, thats just how it worked out. The teacher passes out a attendence book that we have to sign then she tells us what we are going to be doing for the day. We usually take notes for about 15min to an hour or so depending on what we are doing then spend the rest of the class time working on our projects. Since this is a communication class, we do speeches and the class is made of 3 huge speeches.

When I do my speeches, we are allowed to have a partner so I have one and I've had the same one from the start. It's a guy named Dave who is a junior and is 25 years old. We work pretty well together most of the time and get things done. Right now, we just got done making a proposal on something to change at the school. We did a proposal on how we need a building for students to hang out in like a student union building.

After this class, I usually walk back towards my dorm and if I run into any of my friends, I'll walk with them to their classes. After all this is said and done, I head back to my room. I work on my homework or I clean up my room or I take a nap.

Then I grab lunch at some point before my next class and lunch usually consists of pizza, salad, some fruit, some hot bar entree or a hamburger. I've been eating lunch more often with my friend Nicolette and also my friend John who is a little person. We usually have so much fun eating lunch together that it usually lasts an hour if the three of us are together.

I leave my dorm around 1:25pm to 1:30pm to walk to my next class. On these two days (we're still on Monday/Wednesday haha), I have Intro to Literary Genres in room 321. Yes I usually take a hike up all those stairs because who wants to ride in a tiny old school jam packed elevator?

In this class, I sit towards one side with my friend Megan in the very front and over one row and another friend, Josh, who sits one row over from Megan in the front as well then I have my other two friends, Katie who sits behind me and Stephanie who sits in the next row by Katie. The teacher, Dr. Davis, a woman, usually lectures/talks for a majority of the period and if she isn't we are usually doing a group project. I generally work with Josh and Megan and group projects usually involve answering questions and drawing a visual that will be presented and discussed with the class.

After class, I head back to my dorm to do homework or laundry or anything else that needs to be done. I usually eat dinner at 6pm but I think we are moving it to 5:30pm with a group of girls, its generally the same girls every night and can range from 4 to 8 of us. It's usually a mix of these people: Betsy, Courtney, Taco (Sarah), Me, Amanda, Jackie, Rachel, & Lindsey.

After dinner, I usually work on more homework either at the library with a group of us or in my room. If I'm not doing homework or "chores" then there are several of us girls running the dorm checking on other friends and just hanging out together.

There! That's 2 normal days of a week for me! I'm also including in this really long blog a recap of the highlights from this past weekend ;)

On Friday night, a group of us from the 2nd floor decided to have fun and "camp out" in the hallway. We all grabbed our pillows and blankets and sat in the hallway. We blocked a small part of the hallway and we had a lot of fun just hanging out. It's a great way to meet new people and to get to know other people better. We did that from like 2am to 5:20am and then we all went to bed and crashed.

Sunday night, right after the Red Sox won the world series, 4 of my friends got this brilliant idea to go to Boston at 1am in the morning! 1 of them had a car so off they went. I stayed back since I had a huge test today that I did not want to screw up. I just thought it was really funny. What's even more funny, they never found Fenway park, because none of them got the bright idea to get directions.

I'll be sure to post another blog later this week!