Cool Cherry Cream

First off, I have a new layout to celebrate the fact that I’m at university. Secondly, I’m at university!

It’s not quite what I was expecting. I thought there would be a lot more people around everywhere. And I thought everyone would be all out of their rooms and “hi, how ya doin’?” and no one really is. No sooner than I started writing this did the six seven? guys on my floor come up to the landing where my room and the other two guys’ room is and say hello. I can’t quite remember whose name is whose, but I know a lot of them are doing Business and Political Science. It was a kind of weird meeting, me being the only girl and all, especially in my sheltered life where I don’t really hang out with guys. At first when I moved in and I saw that I was living next to two guys I was like whoa, because, like, whoa. But then after I met them and they’re like “yeah, sports” and I’m like… crap.

It was about 2;00 (my colon key isn’t working ;() and I realized I had nothing to do until four, so I decided to go for a walk. Walking by yourself is weird. I don’t walk anywhere much, alone or otherwise. But I walked nice and slow and got back before 3;00. I also went and picked up my free stuff from buying an “Access Gold” card, which wasn’t much. A bag, frisbee, shirt, and a pylon. I thought we were supposed to get a calender too, but maybe that’s somewhere else. Or maybe they were out. ;/

Anyway, I talked to my mom on MSN for a bit when I heard a knock at my door. It was another girl on my floor named Kayce and she just dropped by to say hi, because, as she put it, “it’s all lads on our floor” (she’s British, by the way). I think I asked if we were the only girls in our house/floor (besides the Don, who lives in the landing just down from me) and she said we could go look to see if the other girl, Natalie, was there (the doors all have our names on them, along with the house mascot).

We went to go see, but alas, she was not there. So we figured, what the heck, let’s keep looking! We ended up going into the next house, which is connected to ours (which normally we would not be able to do, because they have doors you need to swipe your student card on to get through, but at this time they were open). We met up with two girls sharing a room there, Cera and Megan I think, and talked with them a bit. The one girl had a cool mouse that changed colours — and I don’t just mean like it flashed red, it went from blue to purple to green… it was freaky. They were studying Nursing and Sociology (which Kayce is studying as well), I think it was.

Then we said, hey, let’s all explore together! So, off we went, looking for more girls. There were two more girls sharing a room in the next section, Olivia and Courtney I think?, and they seemed alright. We then knocked on the door to the guy’s room across from them, Edward, to say hi, but we didn’t stay for long after that.

Next we went back to check Natalie’s room, and she was there moving in with her family, so we said hi, but then the British girl’s mother came with her fridge, so we kind of all dispersed after that.

I think then I started organizing things in my room and taping bubble wrap to my walls until I hear people starting to gather in the common room for the house meeting. It was something every house was doing, just to go over rules and stuff and to meet your “Don” and the other people in your house. There was one other person there who said they were studying Computer Science, I think, but they aren’t on my floor.

Ha, which reminds me. One of the guys across the way asked earlier in the day if I could help get his internet working, because he had heard me saying I was a Computer Science major. Unfortunately, I’m not all that good with that kind of thing, so I felt rather silly at not being able to help him. Everybody seemed to be having trouble, but my dad set mine up for me, so I was fine.

So, we did the meeting and then I went back to my room. Again. Our Don said that our floor has eight guys and four girls, whereas others have six and six. The girls’ bathroom has two showers and the guys only have one, so she said we’d have to figure out what to do about that, like sharing the girls’ showers and hanging a sign on the door like “girl/boy in here, boys/girls don’t come in”. I figure why don’t we just trade bathrooms, but then I realize people like to be selfish and ’tis not a good thing to suggest. The girls on my floor all seem nice though, but still. The showers are kind of scary. Like, it’s just a shower curtain. No lock or anything. Eww. Otherwise, the bathrooms are good and have all that a bathroom should have.

Shortly after that was dinner and we all went down as a house to the cafeteria. They didn’t have much there tonight, just salad and rice and some weird stuff that I don’t recognize but that’s probably actually quite common. I had a handful of salad and a slice of cake that looked quite good, but upon closer inspection was carrot cake or something weird like that and I didn’t eat it. So myself, Kayce, and Natalie all got our food together.

We were looking for a table and noticed one girl sitting by herself, so we sat with her. At first I was like “ohh, what if she doesn’t really want us to sit here?” but she (Haley, Hallie?) was quite nice. We all felt mutually about the food, that it was pretty lame (though I found the salad surprisingly good, but only when doused in dressing — and that’s a lot coming from a meatatarian like myself), so we decided to go to McDonald’s. I didn’t get anything, but I think next time I might have to try the cherry pie.

Then we walked back to the residence and decided to meet up again at 6;55 for this tower kick-off event. Haley lives on the floor below us, I believe, and we ended up being a bit late to meet up with her, so we didn’t actually meet up with her. Hopefully she’s not mad. We’ve still got the tower party tonight, so we might meet up with her there.

So we went to the tower kick-off which was kind of lame and they did this cheer about “deep in the jungle where the badgers roam” which sounded way cooler when it was rams and I was still in high school. Badgers do not live in jungles. I don’t know about rams actually either, but come on, which is more realistic? So then we came back after stopping by Isaac’s (the campus pub) and asking a guy outside what it was and he’s like “oh, a toga party” and Kayce’s like “yeah, but what is it?” and he’s like “it’s 19+” and she’s like “no no, what’s this place called?”. It was lolz.

And then we tried getting into our floor, but the other two girls’ swipe cards weren’t working, so we went down to the service desk and they’re like “that shouldn’t be happening, you’ll have to wait awhile because they have to reprogram the doors and that’s like bottom priority on the list” and they’re like “we can’t get into our rooms. That’s bottom priority?”. But then we tried again and Kayce’s worked, but still not Natalie’s.

And that brings me to being here. I had a moment after my parents had left and I was alone in my room and I thought “what am I going to do for the rest of the day? Heck, the rest of the week! I wish classes were starting sooner…” and I just felt kind of sad and scared and I just did not really want to be there. Which is weird, because a couple days ago, I finally let myself think about university and I was like “oh man, this is gonna be so awesome!”, and I never felt nervous the whole time before I came. But soon as I started meeting the other people, I realized that yeah, it’s gonna be okay.

I’m gonna make it after all.