"You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." --2 Corinthians 3:3
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Words Aren't Sufficient
A lady who was like a second mother to me passed away last night after a long battle with cancer. I'll never forget her.
Oh, and I just found out that one of my best friend's mom passed away last night, too. What is going on?!
College. Seriously.
We start classes tomorrow. My first class is Spanish 201 and my prof is awesome. I met him during welcome week because he teaches another one of my classes and he's hilarious. The only issue I have with this Spanish is that I don't have a book for it yet... The bookstore was supposed to get it today so I went in there and they were like "No it should be in by noon tomorrow..." Well that's too late because my class is at 11!! But I have a friend in there who offered to share her book so hopefully it will be ok. My other classes tomorrow are Oral Comm and ballet. My schedule this semester looks pretty easy the hardest work loads will probably be Spanish and my Writing/Rhetoric class.
My roommate is really nice just quiet and shy, but today is finally the first day that she's really had a conversation with me. So that's good. I think we're both finally getting settled into our room and into the swing of things.
Umm, summer, where did you go?
I leave for college this Friday. So that gives me four days here in my hometown. I don't think it's necessarily sunk in yet that I'm moving... I'm kind of deatched from it...like I'm watching someone else pack up all of her clothes and belongings. It's all rather strange.
What kills me is that my life can be condensed to seven boxes, one plastic tub, one hamper and several free-standing items because there's no way in hell my area rug was going to fit in a box with my clothes. I packed up all of my anime DVDs and posters, picked out a few of my favourite books and then the essential items like my clothes [which all haven't been packed yet, because I don't want to go naked for the rest of the week] and my toiletries. All I really need to go shopping for now is food. I have a few last minute items like GermX and bobby pins and stuff but really I just need some ramen and popcorn, maybe some soda and water for my fridge and then I'm done. I'll have pretty much everything packed by Wednesday and Thursday is going to be spent with my family and then Friday we leave bright and early because the earliest we can move in is 9 o'clock and I want to be there as early as possible so we have a long time to figure out this whole move-in thing.
Still haven't really talked to my roommate. She seems nice from what I know, though. I'm just worried she won't like me. She's so shy and I'm so not shy. She's an environmental studies major and I'm an English major and the only thing those two have in common is they both begin with 'e'. She likes horses. And I don't. So hopefully we can get over these differences or else we're in for a long year. I'm not so worried about the roommate-thing as I was in the beginning. At first it really stressed me about but then I realized that I don't really have to spend much time with her if we don't hit it off and just so long as we keep up good communication and can compromise and work together we'll be good. I hope.
Well...this may be the last time I write from my hometown, next time will probably be from college. Wow. That's crazy.
"Time passes, people move; like a river's flow it never ends."
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So I have approximately 15 days until I move to campus. How crazy is that? I have two weeks left before I begin college. Wow. I'm nervous and yet excited about it. I'm not so nervous anymore because of the week I spent at the leadership thing, so I'm used to living on campus and I have met some really good friends...more or less I'm still a little worried about my classes, but I know that if I work hard and do my best then that's everything.
I'm...not necessarily worried...but more or less wary of my roommmate. We're still having communication issues. I thought perhaps we were past her being shy with me...but apparently not. We haven't really talked to each other about each other since one getting-to-know-you Facebook message. The only other time's I've talked to her are random text messages about rugs or fridges or curtains. Because I was on campus last week, I was able to see my DORM ROOM!! So I called her and asked her if she wanted me to text her a picture...well she got back to me but it took forever so I texted her a picture and I then proceeded to ask if she wanted to discuss how to arrange the room. This is the second time I've asked her about furniture arrangement and it's an instant conversation killer. I'm moving to campus early because I'm in the honors society and I would really like my room to be set up at least slightly how we'll have it for the year before she gets to campus, therefore she's going to have to trust me to set the room up and not make it fubarred. The only thing I know for sure--and I don't give a damn if she doesn't agree with me--is that we are unbunking the beds. I hate bunk beds with a burning passion. So I don't care if it's an uneconomical usage of our space, we're seperating the beds.
Anyway, here's my room for anyone that cares:
[I'll be posting an after shot of it once I move in probably on the 28.]
College, Beach and Summer Ending
So it's definately been a while since I've updated and a lot has happened. Let's see here... Well, I'm currently typing this from my brand spankin' new laptop while at the BEACH. Yes I am at the beach. Be jealous. I can hear the Atlantic's magestic waves crashing against the sand right now!! We thought we weren't going to be able to go to the beach this year because of college expenses and my dad's hospital bills but my dad actually got back to work sooner than we thought so my mom just randomly told my sister and I last week that she'd booked us a beach house! I'm rather excited.
Anyway, I spent the last week at my college!! There was a summer leadership program that my sister and I were invited to attend. Hence why I haven't posted in a while: the wireless Internet wasn't working. Anyway, about the leadership thing: it was awesome. The first couple of days sucked because my sister and I weren't making friends...but that all changed during one fateful trip to 711 to buy food. We ended up walking with this guy that my sister had played volleyball with earlier that day. Found out we had a lot in common with him and he invited us back to his room to hang with him and his roommate. His roommate was a caustic Englishman. I kid you not. He is hilarious. So anyway, we all decided that we were going to watch a movie so we texted this girl who brought a whole bunch of DVDs with her. She had Spirited Away. This sparked the Studio Ghibli fangril squeeing from the three of us and the ensuing forcing of the boys to watch what is quite possibly the greatest Studio Ghibli film.
So we all bonded over Spirited Away. Ended up spending the rest of the week together and creating so many inside jokes. Seriously. My ENTIRE Facebook wall is dominated by our group of friends from the leadership institute. I'm so excited to get back to campus and see everyone. I'm just so glad that I got a chance to meet other freshman before school starts. We all admited that we were afraid that none of us would make friends and we came out with an entire group of people we got close to. It's so awesome.
I move in in 20 days and I can't wait!!
