[Lose Yourself-Eminem]
ok i know i havent posted in awhile but things have been sooooooo busy here at college. orientation week is so so soooooo fun. im having a blast. tonights the last night and im super sad. so im gonna write about everything that has happened since sunday night just to catch you up.
ok so sunday then 'rents helped me move all my stuff in. we arranged stuff and i claimed which bed and desk and drawers i wanted. i met my roomie for the first time. she seems really nice. so far we havent fought about anything and we have compromised about space and stuff really well. thank God i got a seemingly normal roomie. i mean, i know we will have our differences and stuff but it could be way way worse. we unpacked a little then we did a little meeting thing with our ra. then we had to go to this meeting thing with our assigned bgr groups. my 'rents decided to leave then, since i was going off somewhere. i cried. i was sad when they left. so i went down to get dinner with all these other people. went to Jimmy Johns. first time eating there. not bad. then went to the group meeting. we played some games. ok, first let me introduce the players. we played a name game. so ill tell them to you so when i talk about people in later paragraphs youll know. ok so we had to say our first name and a food that starts with that letter. so here are the people:
Apple Alison (Team Leader)
Christian Cookie(aka Cookie)
Jack Jam
Jorge Guacamole
Paul Pineapple(aka Hello Kitty)
Rohan Relish
Matt Meat
Metab Melon
Ashley Airheads
Travis Tapioca
plus we brought in other part time people like Matt Marshmallow and Hiroki. and we kinda merged with Brett's group so we got other people too, like Brett, Charlie, Ben, Wellington, and some other people. my group is super cool btw. i like them alot. they are from all over the place. wisconsin, virginia beach, kentucky, india, one of the koreas, new jersey. its tight. and they are all super nice. and fun to be around.
so anyways, sunday we did this welcoming thing. and listened to a comedian. and got spoken to by purdues president. and then i went back to my apartment feeling rather alarmed and overwhelmed for the night. i really like my apartment. its old. it doesnt have nearly enough outlets or lighting. the shower makes a funny noise and the water is completely jacked up. it alternates between hot and cold no matter how you adjust it. i got scalded the other morning when someone upstairs flushed the toilet. the sink doesnt drain well. yes it has problems, but i love it cuz it is mine. it makes me feel independent. i do what i please. i dont make my bed. i leave a dirty dish in the sink once and awhile. cuz i can.
anyways, monday i got up to go to breakfast at 7:30. i was the only one in my group besides brett and alison that showed up. and they were required to as team leaders anyways. so we went. and the food was good. it was nice. alison and brett are super super fun/nice. we had a group meeting at 9:15. then we had to go to this sports thing. im pumped for football to start. i love football games. itll be fun. we took a tour of campus. the campus is so big. ack, im never gonna learn it. but alison said this weekend she would take me around to my classes if i wanted. i think ill take her up on that. then our group went to elliot and did roll call, this chant we learn and do as a group. our theme is "hottywood" like hollywood. but hilltop, owen, and tark are all together so H.O.T. yeah anyways, we did roll call then we listened to a comedian whose main message was dont get so wrapped up in drinking and partying you forget all else. good message. i wont. i loved the meetings at elliot, really. as we (all of the approm 5500 students at BGr plus team leaders and supers) filed in, looud music played and people dances around, cheered, did the wave, tossed stuff around, and basically just had a grand old time. the atmosphere in there was so much fun and full of energy. everytime we went in, they showed us the rules, which played to a really catchy song and in the dark. we all waved cell phones during this. the rule slide show was funny. and then we watched a video "alcohol awareness with carl" which was a south park-esque cartoon about carl the alcoholic and his sucky life. they were funny. after the comedian, we had to watch the most boring presentation by the on campus police and fire department. i tried to go to sleep but the tiny seats in elliot really didnt allow it. then we were supposed to go to an interest session but our group walked back up to hilltop instead. i was bored so i texted rebecca, who was going to the bus session. so i decided to make my way to the math building to join her. i took a wrong turn. and got so lost. i missed like 90% of the session. then me and rebecca came back to my apartment cuz she wanted to see it. and chatted. then our group went to dinner. then we had free time and matt suggested whiffle ball. ok, so i am nearly the least athletic person ever. so i was very unsure. i was afraid they would laugh at me or reject me or whatev. but they were like "nah come on just go." and then i went and i wasnt sure i wanted to play. but jack picked me for his team. and i wasnt picked last btw, which made me happier than you can even imagine. and then when it was my turn to bat, i was freaking out cuz i didnt wanna make a fool of myself. matt was on third and needed me to get a hit to get him home. one strike, towo strikes, then....foul. so i had one more chance. travis threw the ball and...i hit it! i booked it to first and made it and matt made it home. i felt so good about myself. we kept playing and i hit everytime i was at bat. and everyone talked and joked with me and i was soooooo happy. i was having a good time. i felt included. ih funny story, maybe you had to be there but.... there are these weird fruit tree things near the golf course. they had these round dark green fruit things. matt really wanted to know whaat they were. he was looking at them and goes "its a kiwi!" and we were all like "dude. no. kiwi dont grow here" so he thinks a little more and goes "Its i guacamole!!!" and we were all like "...? a)guacamole doesnt grow on trees and b)this is indiana. so no." he still thinks they could be avacados. or indicados as brett said (indiana avacados=indicados). i thought is was funny. anyways, some old crankster ran us off the golf course and put an end to our whiffle ball game. then there was late night at the RSC(recreational sports center aka gym). and the guys started up a game of wall ball. in case your not familiar with this game, as i was not either, you take the ball and hurl it at the wall. it bounces back and you catch it. if you are touched by it but dont catch it, you run down to the wall before someone else hits the ball to the wall. if you fail to do this, its a strike. after three strikes, you stand against the wall while someone throws the ball at you as hard as possible in an attempt to hit you. if they miss, they take your place on the wall and it goes on til someone gets hit. then the games resumes. so i didnt know what i was doing and it looked rather violent so i decided to sit on the sidelines, which was still dangerous lol. finally i wanted to join in and matt offered to let me throw the ball at someone. i missed. i walked to the wall like i was going to my death. i didnt want to get pelted. but matt took pity on me. he threw it softly and possibly missed me on purpose and he took my place instead. and someone got hit and the game resumed. it was so much fun. wellington was a beast at that game lol. it was fun. we went on the target run next. the line was big so we tried to talk our way onto the bus but the guy refused. so we circled up in line and played "terydactyl" really loudly. that game is when you circle up and turn to the person next to you and say "terydactyl" as funny as you can. if they laugh, they are out. the catch is you can show your teeth at all when saying it so the word comes out funny. we finally got on the bus and went over. we got a bag of free stuff. i bought some lifesavers and gum. we grouped up and stood in this huge line to go back to campus. a little van pulled up instead of a bus and half our group got on it so the rest of us followed. we packed 20+ people on this little van that had seats for 12. unfortunately i had to stand and it was really not comfy. but we sang and laughed and joked and it was comepletely fun. then i went up the hill to my apartment, took a shower, and passed out.
side note, my apartment is on the top of a big hill. who knew hilltop would literally be on top of a hill?
tuesday i woke up for breakfast again after only like 5 hours of sleep. there were two from the group, me and travis. plus alison and brett and some other TLs too. they told hilarious stories and gossipped about other TLs and it was so funny to listen to. then a team meeting. then another trip to elliott. dancing, music, rules, carl video, roll call, then a stupid presentation. this creeper with a mullet told us about the dangers of facebook blah blah. the only good part was he used actual embarrassing profile pics of students there lol. then we listened to a speech about drinking that went "1. dont drink. 2. If you drink, drink responsibly." which seemed like a mixed message to me. then lunch, then back to elliott for Free Zone, a presentation about diversity. bleh. i dont care bout diversity. whatev. after that, we had to have a stupid group meeting with our supers to discuss our feelings after the presentation. to quote dani, "since when did college become therapy?" then we went to the Activities and Business Fair where we got free food and free stuff. haha then we sat in the basement of a building and watched youtube videos until interest sessions started. i wanted to go to "surviving first-year engineering" so alison took me. it was stupid. it didnt tell me much really. i had an hour of free time then dinner. then we regrouped and went to Unionfest. i saw jchen there. we ate at the union. i ate a sammich from flatbreads. it was so gross. then we walked around. our group played with beer goggles. i couldnt walk a straight line lol. there was a hypnotist show later and we wanted to get in line but they wouldnt let us so we chilled in the lounge til they let us get in line. when they opened us the line, it was a crazy frenzy. our group got all separated. but i did meet 2 new people in line. abbey and amanda. we exchanged number cuz they were really cool and hopefully we hang out sometime. the hypnotist show was the greatest thing EVER. it was so funny. travis from our group went to get hypnotized. omg it was so great. the things these people said were priceless. and he said he doesnt remember anything so we got to tell him while laughing at him. oh it was funny. and the guy next to me in the audience got hypnotized too and he accused me of stealing his purse lol. after that was a meijers run. our group went. meijers was much better cuz they had more free food. and they had buckets of free stuff at the front door. this one bucket had like these little wrapped packs of stuff. and everybody was grabbing them. and brett, being the free stuff loving college guy he is, started grabbing them up. and the worker at the bucket strted laughing. they were bags with tampons and pads in them lol. he ended up with like 5 bags of them. hahahaha. i bought milk and butter for mac n cheese. i felt really grown up, doing my own shopping and all. then i went home, took a shower, and went to sleep.
wednesday, i woke up again for breakfast. and again there was only two of us and team leaders. me and wellington. again the TLs told some pretty funny stories and gossip. we had some free time after breakfast. then we went to a picnic on the memorial lawn. we had papa johns pizza. my fav. we went to elliott again. music, dancing, rules, carl video, roll call. some stupid presentation about the libraries. some presentation by a prof about tips for class. then a motivational speaker. he wasnt bad. then like 3 hours of free time. i took a nap lol. and i rolled out of bed to meet my group for dinner. then we went to elliott for the last time for send off ceremonies. music, dancing, rules, carl video, roll call. then a comedian, buzz sutherland. he was very very funny. after he was done, our supers danced for us. then they announced the winner of the interhall showdown. we came in second. i was ok with that. the rest of the week will be independent. today is the last day in groups. im very very sad about that. i like my group.
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