Finals Week

Remember when I just started school? Remember before I even started? Orientation?  Wow, have I truly grown.  Mmmm...maybe not grown, no.  Well, yes...I dunno, stop asking me questions!!

So I was in a movie.  I'll leave you a link to the Youtube video when our lovely actors' last names are off the video.  Its not a professional movie, obviously.  My friend made it for her class and I'm the main character in it.  Its a horror movie (never ask me to say that word, by the way, it won't sound quite right...).  This is just a warning, not a deterrent.  You will now know what I look like if you didn't already.  Please, don't find me and stalk me.  Unless you are Sam.  In that case, its not like I can stop you.

At least one person from UNE has found this blog.  This is because in the movie, I search "UNE avila 4th ghost" or something along those lines.  And result number two is this blog!  Number one is an article from the school newspaper explaining the legend.  Read that if you would like. It might explain some things that students at this school already knew so didn't need to be explained to them.  Ah, I talk a lot.  The girl (Halie) found my blog after watching the movie and me mentioning that it was my blog. But she's a friend of mine, so its okay.  But she keeps trying to get me to glow like a tomato like I said I would.  She'll  mention the blog a lot.  I won't give in.  But now that I'm mentioning her...OH the irony.  I'm writing this right now in Sam's room.  I should be studying, but its just stats tomorrow, so I couldn't care less, honestly.  More on that later.  Halie lives on this same floor and the door is open, so she just stopped by in the door to talk.  I don't think she knows I was here though.  But she will now, won't she? Mwahahaha.  Why am I laughing?

Do I always never make sense like this?  I am not truly thinking about what I'm writing, I'm just writing.  And I want to tell so many stories at once.  I go off on tangents, things happen around me. Its like Nic when he's telling me a story.  Or more of ten stories all somehow connected.

Humhumhum.  So it is finals week.  I have three exams and one essay.  I turned in the essay today.  I would say it turned out well.  I think I'm gonna go to bed soon.  This was a pointless entry...

a minor interuption in your daily night

Hi Halie =)

Heh...I feel awkward now.

So now that I've been here in college for a couple months, I've finally found my place around here. I have myself some best friends and some normal friends. Sam and Chandler and I are going to room together next year in our own suite and every night we can hang out. Or just do homework in our rooms. One or the other. Its nice to know that I have people to love me while I'm here xD. I will always have someone to hang out with here on campus.

So I would say I have a couple groups of friends. Of course some of them overlap because life is never not complicated. So I have Sam and Chandler, who sometimes have a lot of homework to do. Then I have Sam and Eric, though the three of us don't really hang out that much anymore. Then I have my floor people. See, they will accept me in their presence, we'll hang out, but I normally have to go to them. I've only been invited to head over to the room a couple times. And one of those was because Slenderman was messing with my roommate's computer and Marissa was kind enough to save me. (Okay, so maybe not, maybe it just was lighting up randomly when no one touched it. Oh, and speaking of roommate, I don't know if I've mentioned it yet, but I really lucked out. She's friendly and a generally awesome person). They invite me to dinner sometimes if I'm within eye sight and they're headed out. I know they like me thoughh. Because they will smile and wave and talk to me. They are all pretty awesome people and I'm not part of the inner group anyway. My inner group is Chandler and Sam, so its totally okay. Kay, I'll stop being insecure now. Whenever Nic is around and not home, I have him to hang out with =). When I don't have either of those people, I could go into the lounge. The great thing about everyone here is that they are very accepting and friendly. There have been nights that I've just stayed up late, hanging out with the people in the lounge.

Ahh, the lounge. The perfect place to people watch. And movie watch. And hang out with people. Sometimes, Sam and I bake. We made these delicious no bake frozen cookie dough balls. They were quite popular here in Avila lounge. Cookie dough is a much loved thing in college. No, you know what? Food in general is much loved. Decary, however, not so much. That's our cafeteria.

So I just went through registration. It was probably the most stressful experience I've ever had here. I found myself rocking back and forth. It was actually kind of scaring me. I had to eat candy so I didn't explode. Chandler and I were freaking out and Sam was just completely calm about it. Of course, she got into all her classes easy and was out of the library in ten minutes, maybe not even that much. But Chandler and I, oh we continued to freak out for a good half an hour there. They wouldn't let us into the Public Speaking course because it was “not part of our major”. Mr. Computer, that's an exploration course, the point is that it doesn't matter what your major is. Grr!! I'm instead taking an exploration course on friendship and relationships. It sounds kinda stupid, sure, but it might actually end up being interesting.

I'm talking to Jenna right now and I'm really missing Sound School. Matthew came up to visit me over the weekend, and I was so happy. Alex sent me a letter from Nova Scotia and I was almost jumping up and down in joy. I love you guys all so much... I guess Eco Adventure went canoeing. I'm so upset they didn't do that with us. Last time I checked, Jamie and Alex and I and maybe even Jazmin are gonna go back to Eco Adventure someday. Jenna says the new freshman in the group aren't like us. Which is so sad. Its just Sam, Jenna, and Isabel to hold the old feeling of the group together.

You probably don't know what I'm talking about. So Eco Adventure was an afterschool program I was part of in high school. The program was supposed to be a place where we went out for geocaches (don't know what that is? Well, Rocket does, so you should so shhh. Look it up or remain a muggle) and learned about the environment and stuff. Well, we did a bit of that. Meanwhile, we formed quite a bond with each other and harassed the teachers who ran it (in a very loving way, I promise). We would go out in the woods and Jamie would run around holding a stick and Jenna and Jazmin and Sam would wander away. Paula and Kim would freak out....Alex would pet thing she was allergic too. It was just great.

But I digress hugely. So college. Right. Um, well, right now I'm tired. I'm sorry I never finished that story about Eric, its not that hugely important. I got introduced to Eric, we hang out for a really long time and long story short we become good friends. With Sam and Eric I found my first comfort zone here in college and to them I am eternally grateful. Alright, I wanna play some Sims before bed. I sure sound social, don't I? XD Night.

PS. This is probably the first time people from UNE will read this blog. First of all, if I mention you (especially at orientation) please know that I am not super creepy. I just was observing a lot. Making memories for myself. And if you are in my blog, it means you left an impression on me and an impact somehow on my college life. So be proud, okay? And never mention it to me ever. Because I will turn into a tomato. A very ripe tomato.

mmm...

Guesss what?  I have a social life.  Yes, its amazing.  Also, mildly hindering with work.  Mildly.  But I'm getting it done.  I have a nice lovely list of homeworks I need to do this weekend.  I already crossed some things off my to-do list, like clean the room and put away laundry.  Cleaning the room was a disgusting process.  I used a Swiffer and it ended up with all sorts of grime on the bottom of it.  It was also nice to clean the room of the hair it was collecting.  It seems that Lauren and I shed very often.

So right now I have a break in my life because I'm waiting for Eric to text me back.  That's why I figured I'd turn to you.  Cuz I haven't update this in a very long time.  So long, you don't even know who Eric is.  Let me back up two weeks.

There I was, watching the Avengers with Sam.  Then, she's like, "Oh, I'm gonna go give a friend over there some company."  I was like, "Derp."  Or I said okay.  Okay seems more likely, derp is more fun.  Anyways, I was sitting next to some other girl too (Pilar, she's from Hawaii), so its not like I was alone.  Then Pilar went back to the dorm because she was cold.  I look over at Sam and she motions for me to come sit with them.  So I do.

Fast forward to the end of the movie.  I get introduced to friend (who is Eric, if you haven't figured that out yet.)

Oh wait, he just texted me.  dinner time. berb...in like a week.

Funfun

Lauren and I might go to New Hampshire this weekend!  We'd be visiting Mattchu...urm, Matthew.  I didn't want to go alone and she had nothing to do as far as she knows, so it should be fun.

That is all.

Yay for Haunted Dorms!

I just watched a scary movie!  Excellent.  I feel great now.  Actually, no, I'm quite happy.  I enjoyed myself watching it.  I was with my buddies.  I'm kinda afraid that I'm a slight bother to them.  But its not like I make all that much noise.  I should just stop being paranoid.  I like them, I'm gonna hang out with them.  I'm only a partial member of their group because ya really miss a lot sitting down at the other end of the hall.  Plus, I have other people to hang out with and such.

So I'm a bit worried because an ambulance pulled up to my building and took someone from the first floor.  I texted Karen, but she hasn't answered me.  I really hope it wasn't her.  Its funny because of Papa John's car pulled up right next to the ambulance.  Someone was hungry!  And a bit insensitive...

So yeah! Today was the first day of classes.  I had four classes today.  It was slightly hectic.  I was only able to get back to my dorm after one of my classes and that was Chemistry.  I have a feeling I'm gonna like Chemistry.  Not only am I quite good at the subject, but the professor seems really fun.  He gives off the crazy old man vibe.  The most tricky commute is going to be traveling across campus in ten minutes.  Now that I know where the class is, I should be alright, but its still quite difficult.

I'm not feeling exceptionally creative tonight.  I don't feel like writing much.  Roommate is actually out.  I checked her bed, don't worry.  I'm not gonna have a rerun of the first night.  I don't know when she has classes tomorrow.  I could go look, but I don't feel like creepin' at her desk.  I have a three o'clock class, so guess who's sleeping in?! =D  That is the excitement of college.  Sleeping in.

Today, they had some reception for the people who got the Presidential Scholarship, aka me.  And other people, of course.  I really didn't want to go because I don't like going anywhere alone, especially if its across the street and through a tunnel or even anywhere I haven't been before.  But I was walking back from one of my classes and I heard some girls behind me talking about it.  I was so excited!  So I ended up going with them and Sam. Which is great.  I finally got Sam's number, so I can contact her when I need someone to chill with.  Or Karen.  Or JoLonna.  Look at me, racking up all these numbers?

The last required event of this Welcome Week was a motivational speaker type guy.  It was a presentation called 101 Things to Do Before You Graduate.  He suggested a lot of things, like go to class one day in a costume (that's not Halloween) or try something that you know you'll fail at.  I'm not entirely sure how these are supposed to make me feel good.  Anyway, the one that really stuck out to me is try to abstain from something that holds you back for thirty days.  He listed off a few things and one of them is shyness.  Now, I may not seem it from my blatant pouring out of feelings and thoughts on this blog, but I am really shy.  I've done pretty well talking to people, but sometimes I'll be with a group of people and I won't want to say something.  I got Jamie on Oovoo last night and I was afraid to speak because my roommate was in the room.  I'm not entirely sure if I think they'll charge at my throat for speaking or that I'm too afraid I'll bother them, but I just physically can't speak sometimes.  I have a fear of people not liking me, and unfortunately there are some people in this world who probably don't like me.  I personally can't face that fact.  To get to the point, maybe I'll try to stop being shy.  I need to reach out there and talk to people.  I found multiple people in a class of about 80 who loved me for who I am.  I was able to be my awkward, intelligent, blonde self and freak out about jellyfish and chat over a smelly fish tank filled with Long Island Sound fish about topics ranging from completely serious to absolutely ridiculous.  You would think in a school this size, 2500 people, I would find somebody.  I just have to wait.  And hope its who I already have.

Whoah...

I was about to go down the hall, but I decided to check this first.  84 views today? Wow, hi guys. Welcome to my life.  Its not that exciting.  But thanks.  I even got some comments about that website I mentioned in a previous post.  prego something.  Turns out, don't follow it.  Spam.  Today was my first day of classes, and I only have one class tomorrow, so maybe I'll check in later?  About to enjoy life and people.

Second!

I'm not gonna write in this everyday.  I have come to find that is horribly impossible.  I have a life.  I guess.  I have a life sometimes.  It just happens to be late at night.

So should I explain last night?  So I was happily typing away on this blog, like a good little Hannah.  Probably talking to myself, making some noise.  You know, the sort.  I thought my roommate was out.  Turns out, she was not.  She was sleeping that whole time.  I only noticed when I heard her shift in bed.  I was so embarrassed!  I immediately turned the computer off, because I felt horrible for keeping her up.  I had the light on and everything.  So I stumbled blindly in the dark up onto my desk (I have a top bunk like a boss) and knocked over the Pringles.  I was freaking out so much it was what I dreamed about.  Trying to explain myself to her and apologize.  I wake up in the morning, mention it to her, and she says she's a heavy sleeper.  Just like Gavin.  Makes me feel at home, ya know?  That really taught me not to worry.  I learn that lesson maybe a bit too much.

So, urm, where was I?  Once again, it is 12:30.  I'm not going to bed because I feel like I should fill you in and the neighbors are being noisy.  That was expected, though.  I never took them for a quiet bunch.  Its been two days.  So far I am a good judge of character.  I'm going to be much less detailed than yesterday, because I would like to sleep eventually.  Unlike at home when I go to bed at 12:30 and wake up at 11, I have to wake up before 8:30 if I hope to shower and get some breakfast.  Though I think tomorrow I'll have cereal and sleep in a little bit.  I don't really know who to go to breakfast with yet.  I shall keep my phone by my bed in case Karen wants to text me.  I dunno if she will.

I ended, like, in the morning yesterday, on my recounting of the day.  Not important.  I moved in, went to the opening night thingy.  I bounced from group to group these past two days.  Karen and her roommate Melissa.  We went to Walmart this morning.  I got some gummy bear fruit snacks.  They make me happy.  Went to the bookstore with JoLonna, was almost late for a floor meeting...  Oh, so at the bookstore, I bought these liquorice Altoids.  They smell delicious with a very sharp taste.  I'm forcing Alex to have one tomorrow.  She's stopping by hopefully!  Maybe I'll wake up for that.  Perhaps.

Hung out with Sam (fellow Marine Biologist) at dinner today.  There was a barbeque for the freshman.  I met her roommate and some other of her friends.  Don't expect me to remember their names.  I'll remember Chelsea.  What's funny is that I remembered her name and she didn't remember mine.  I think I may have just remembered her name because of this blog xD.  I talked for a while with my roommate in the room.  Saw Erik and Nate from Orientation.  And I hung out with my new friends!  Woot!!  Look at me, making new friends.  Making these were the crowning achievement of these two days so it will be described in some detail.

So I was sitting in my dorm room last night.  I had the door open (brought special doorstops for that) but my roommate was out and all the doors were closed near me.  I hung out at my computer for a bit, listening to the noise down the hall, when I decided maybe I should go hang out with the noisy people.  And I did it!  I left my room, walked down the hall, and went in.  I met them all and watched them talk for a little bit, then got into a card game and talked more openly with them.  They wave when we pass each other now and I went back to their room tonight to just to hang out.  I'm rather proud of myself, actually.

I'm kinda tired, did a lot of walking today and the neighbors shut up.  So night night.

First Day

So what is pregolom.com?  Because according to Blogger, it and Facebook are the main traffic link thingies.  Well, thank you, good people of pregolom.com for reading my blog.  If someone wants to follow that link for me, I would greatly appreciate and admire your bravery.

How weird is it to have a blog?  I mean, I'm not a "blogger" or at least I wouldn't say I was.  But I dunno, aren't I supposed to be a cool college kid?  Aren't I supposed to be out actually living life, and not pouring my thoughts into a computer for people elsewhere to read.  Right now, at the beginning of the school year, you must not become the weird blogger girl.  First impressions are everything.  Unless blogging isn't a bad thing.  I dunno, I always feel weird.  I'm gonna keep this up though, because some people at home might be wondering my progress through life.  Or complete strangers who actually enjoy my writing.  Either or.

Also, any UNE people who may be reading this, first, welcome.  I hope not to offend, I'll be writing about people I find interesting or who I befriend.  If you do happen to come across this, if you could not mention it, that would be great.  I embarrass easily and glow red.  I promise I'll never be mean about people, I rarely have mean thoughts.  That is a lie. 

Perhaps I own too much red stuff?  Even my food is red.  Well, food boxes.

Anyways, the reason you have all come here was not to hear me ramble.  Well, actually, it was.  But not about the above things.  You want to hear about my college experience and today was the first day!!  So we drove up yesterday, which is good because one can't expect me to drive four hours, move in my stuff, say goodbye to my parents(1), attend some ceremonies, and then have a social life.  All the way to 12:30, might I add?  Which is my normal bed time at home, but not tonight!  I'm staying up until my roommate gets back, because I don't like going to bed when my roommate is out.  I get (very slightly) worried about her and also I'd rather not be interrupted in my sleeping.  Its not like I get grumpy, I just... I dunno.  Depends how late she stays out.  We haven't really discussed staying out late and such yet, because I haven't actually seen her much.  She has her people, I have my people.  But its all okay, because in the end, we both have people, don't we?

I was lucky, because when we went to check in, I saw people I knew almost right away.  We were filling out paperwork.  Or more of I was filling out paperwork (how adult of me).  I saw JoLanna come to sign in.  I looked at her and smiled, then returned to my paperwork.  She came to sit with me.  We didn't really talk, but it was cool.  I even saw Meghan, my orientation roommate.  She sat at the same table.

Turns out my roommate is here.  She was sleeping.  I did not notice...signing off.

(1) - Oh my god, a footnote.  How advanced am I?  Sorry for the hard of seeing.  Well, actually anyone.  This must be hard to read.  Anywho, I used to get upset staying overnight for only one night when I went to my cousins' houses, and they live right down the street.  So this is much more intense.  But I am older now, so hey, I'm alright.  So far.

Did I mention that I'm in the haunted dorm?  No, I don't think I did.  But I'm on the second floor and not the fourth floor, so hopefully I'll be alright.  Karen actually had a room on the fourth floor at first, but she had it changed.  Not because she's like a chicken like I would be, but because she might have a problem with the stairs and her knees.

So anyways, four days now.   Tonight, I'm going horseback riding for the first time in my life, after waiting for a good million years.  My aunt has a sister who has horses.  Tomorrow I have a presentation for the internship I did this school year.  It's going to be...interesting.  Alex and I are going to cling to each other and hope they'll forget we're supposed to be presenting.  At least that's my plan, but I'm quite sure she won't be against it.  Perhaps after it, Alex and I will go to Cassy's party.  That shall have to be discussed.  I have started the conversation right now!

Then Friday, I am going to New York with Alex.  She has to go pick up her Visa, cus she's silly and going to Canada and stuff.  We're taking the train.  It should be rather fun xD.  Then after I come home from that, I must text Lauren and we are going to eat pizza at her house.  I am already looking forward to that pizza.  I'm kinda hungry right now.  I think I'll have a hot dog after I finish this and other internety things I am currently doing.  Then maybe I should consider continuing packing.

I really like vacuum bags.

Ohmigod!

I'm going to college in six days.  Wow.  I've got my roommate (Her name is Lauren.  She comes from Pennsylvania.) and a room.  Karen is in the same dorm, so I get to hang out with her all the time.  ...we are going to have fun.  I think after I get all moved in, take a couple pictures (for Devin's sake, she wants dorm pictures), get to know Lauren a bit more, I will then high tail it down to Karen.  I don't want to leave Lauren all alone though so I'll see how it happens.  I can't really plan things out because when I try to plan things, I plan them too closely.  And obviously, we all know that humans will not act perfectly by my plan.  Because for some reason, people can't read my mind.  But maybe its better that way.

So prepping for college has been going somewhat slowly.  A week or so ago, I decided the best way to get ready for college was to run away to Cape Cod with Alex.  We spent five days with her grandparents, eating cherries and cheese.  The beach and biking and a road race.  I had a British guy dunk two cups of water on my head.  Fantastic, dude.  Thanks.  We were helping at a water station, if that explains absolutely anything.  Alex and I camped outside a few nights in her little two person tent.  It was tiny.  My sleeping bag would have been able to fill the whole tent up.  Of course, my sleeping bag is a monster and king-sized and hers is a little mummy sleeping bag half the size of mine.  My face was right next to zipper to get out of the tent, so I used a hair tie to lock the zippers together just in case an ax murderer decided to get us.  I think it worked, because we didn't wake up dead. Or not wake up at all.  We spent a good amount of time laughing, so it was time well spent.  Silly Alex is going all the way up to Canada.  Nova Scotia.  Grr...

Besides all those shenanigans.  I shopped at Target for college stuff.  That is my dream college shopping store.  I don't really know why.  Someone tried to suggest Ikea. Shush, person.  Shush.  I have a theme for my dorm room stuff.  Red and black.  And polka dots! Boo yah!  I'm not entirely sure why I'm so excited right now.  I don't have everything yet, so I'm gonna drag my mom to Target again tomorrow, I think.  If I have time.

I had a family going away party yesterday, and a "Last Hurrah" at a Shakespeare play with my friends, and a manhunt game with cousins/their friends/my friends, so I've had a lot of fun.  Right now I need to pack clothes.  So buh bye!

Orientation: Day 3

So right now it's one in the morning bu my roommate is down the hall. Now, I'd go to sleep, but I can't for a couple reasons. One, I have to write this for all the lovely people who care so much to read this. For those keeping up with me, I'm writing my last one tomorrow then I'll probably be distracted by my ever so busy life...heh, right. But tomorrow is the last day of orientation and I actually get to go home. I'm kinda excited, kinda sad, you know? So this morning was pretty flustered. A couple times yesterday my roommate left the room a couple times to get ready for bed and stuff. She'd just leave her key in the room and keep the door slightly opened so she could get back in. So I figured I'd try it this morning, right? I was just gonna brush my teeth. I come back from brushing my teeth and the door is completely closed. I pull on the handle a bit, thinking maybe that would somehow help. I knocked on the door a few times and stood around awkwardly outside my door holding my toothbrush and toothpaste. One of the twins noticed my odd behavior and told me they had seen her go down to breakfast. So they let me leave my toothbrush in their room. I went down to the dining hall. A couple orientation leaders (OL) said hi to me which was cool and then one of them is like, "Hannah, do you have your name tag? You need that to get into breakfast." the name tag is attached to my key, or more of vice versa, so I explained situation quick and they're like, oh okayy. So I get down to the cafeteria (a miracle, I was horribly lost for a couple minutes) and get my roommates key. But she only gives me the key, so when I get to the dorm, I realize I can't swipe myself in. I didn't have my phone and I didn't have anyone's number anyways so I was stuck. I hung out like a creeper until someone came out. I was lucky because I knew the person who came out. Copeland Taft. He's related to President Taft so hes automatically cool. Taft is my favorite president because he was fat and funny. On a very political person, clearly. He swiped me in and I got into my room! So happy! Went down to breakfast and sat with Karen and a bunch of other people at breakfast. They all stayed my buddies for the day. Like Meredith and Eric. We had a few lectures, a tour, small group random games. During the tour, they were discussing why we can't swim with the seals. Kay, those things might look cute from 20 feet up, but they are aggressive, people! We also split up into majors for the first time. This school is mostly girls, and there was a total of one guy in the marine group this orientation session. His name is Peter, but I keep wanting to call him Ben. He looks like a Ben. I told him so, because I was feeling oddly bold. The OLs put on a couple sketches about college issues (they have a thing here called Friday Night Live. This wasn't it, but still cool). They were really funny. Then we had a party thing!! I met up with JoLonna (I got her number, I'm getting Karen's tomorrow) and Karen. We played/watched people play Nuke 'Em, which is like volleyball, but instead you throw the ball over the net. If the person catches it on the other side, they just throw it back. If it touches them or lands near them, they are out. It's pretty fun, we should play it back home. It's best with lots of people. Copeland is a beast at it. I'm not...you need to have the dedication to dive. Then, a girl sat next to me on the sidelines and we started talking. We both realized we were marine bio majors. So we hung out for the rest of the night. There was a dance going on and earlier in the night, Karen and JoLonna and JoLonna's roommate Kylie (she spells it different, but I can not remember how) all ran in to "wobble" which is, like, the UNE orientation dance. Everyone knows how to do it. I don usually dance though unless I'm with people I'm completely comfortable with so I just stood awkwardly on the side of the room. Then this OL comes over to me and introduces himself. Zack. People call him by his last name Loki. I already knew that. He tried to get me to dance!! He's like, it's fun and I'm sure you can do it. And I'm like, yeah, I'm sure I can. But I don't want to. So he said something like, "We're gonna dance later and walked away. At that pint, I left the room. I wasn't interested into being forced to dance. So back to Marine Bio girl. Sam. She actually got me dancing. I tried the wobble and I was pretty awful. It that's okay. Loki saw me and he yelled something to me and I stopped dancing. Stupid Loki made me feel awkward. Anyways, I wasn't going to sleep because they were telling us ghost stories about the dorms. Avila, 4th floor, specifically room 406 is haunted. This girl was raped and murdered by her boyfriend in the bathroom. That gives me the creeps. There was also other scary stuff. I'm gonna have fun sleeping. So I apologize for atrocious spelling and grammar and storytelling. It's impossible to type on this thing for the blog. There are stars on our ceiling. How long have they been there? Kay, she's back. It's sleep time!

Orientation: Day 2

Oh my god, I made friends!! I am so happy. I have people to actually hang out with, which is great because there's a party tomorrow night. Well, party thing. Dance. Jolonna is gonna try to make me dance. Maybe I will. It will be good to relax. They do a lot of dancing here. Synchronized dancing. I could never memorize all of those steps. I'm sure I'll learn after a few years... It's so weird to think this will be my new home. So this morning I accidentally woke up my roommate. I wanted to shower before everyone else got to them. I felt bad, but she's nice and said she was kind of up anyways. I'll take her word for it. We went on a little boat ride to an island. With us, for some reason, we brought friend target #2. Katie. I talked to her a bit and walked around with her. We say hi when we see each other or smile, but I just lost her to other people. But I digress. At the island, there were evil sea gulls. They dive bombed you as you walked by! People had to wave sticks in the air to ward them off. There, I swept out a lighthouse tower. I was terrified the whole time because at the top, there's a sign that said, "Danger: intense noise may sound without warning". I thought I was going to die in that tower. The fog horn would go off and it would startle me so much I would fall down to my very tragic death. We got to climb to the very top of the lighthouse and look out. It was really cool but I wasn't as mystified as everyone else. I've been up in a lighthouse before, a few times. Which reminds me of a funny story. I'll tell it later if I feel like it. The scariest part was when I had to carry wood to this little hut thing alone in a very territorial seagull area. I feel like I had one almost fly into my face. Everyone called me very brave for facing that. And climbing the tower by myself up sweep. I took some time to hang out with Katie. She's a very quiet and mousey kind of girl, that's how she became a target. But anyways, yeah. When we got back to campus, normal orientation people were showing up. Since then, the Internet has slowed down significantly.. We met our orientation leader for our floor. Her name is Linda. I like her, she's crazy and sassy. Then we went to see a motivational speaker. I completely forget his name, but he was great. He said stuff like be your own best friend and be present. He was also really funny. I'll post his name when I remember it. Then we played random games and then were released for free time. I hung out with my new friends Karen and Jolonna. And met someone from new jersey. He doesn't like new jersey, he told me. I said my parents get confused sometimes when they go for gas there. See, in new jersey, when you go to the gas station, an attendant needs to pump your gas for you. New Jersite commented on how he was confused when on the way to orientation the driver of his car had to get out to pump. I'm feeling pretty good right now. My roommate is "sleep surfing" so I feel right at home because mom does that. I have friends, hopefully I can find them tomorrow morning. They both live on my floor, and I know Jolonna gets up early, so I'll try to do that to find her. Two more days, I think I'll make it :)

Orientation: Day 1

There comes a time in every young Hannah's life that she realizes she has to grow up. And that includes going to a college orientation. So if any of you were interested, I decided to go to University of New England in Maine. It's near Portland, look it up. Ive also come to realize that there are other Hannah's in the world who are studying marine sciences at UNE. Okay, there's only one and she spells her name wrong and she's older, but it's still very confusing. People talk to her. They don't talk to me. But that's my fault. I'll give you a little narrative of my first day because you all care so deeply. So it started early. Like, before five. Got all ready and finally packed up, and headed out to Maine by six. It's a four hour drive and I slept through most of it. And got a painful crick in my neck. Anyways, I got here feeling very nervous. I'm not good with making friends. It took me years to get someone I could very comfortably talk to at Sound. I tried to make my parents turn back for Seymour. They weren't going for it. We stopped at Tim Hortons (Miss Alex would be so excited). I had a doughnut and hot chocolate, which in my personal opinion was not as good as Dunkin Donuts. Okay, so we get to the college. I sign in and am given a room. My roommate's name is Meghan. I like her because of her name and it reminds me of Meghan Murphy, who is back in little old Seymour. Besides her name I know very little about her. I don't know what to say to her, and my dad had to introduce me to her for me because I forgot. There was one girl my mom and I picked out to be my friend. She ended up bring in a different group and I barely saw her, and she ended up making actual friends. I guess that's not how friend making works with me. We were doing a community service thing today because its a pre orientation thing. We went to an old mill, where they were setting up a opening showing of a hundred year old 800 foot painting. It is so big that it didn't fit in the Saco Museum in town. We got to explore the mills a bit when moving chairs and tables. We rode scary freight elevators and went down hallways that were definitely not up to code for a factory. At one point in the elevator, one of the orientation leaders claimed she saw a face looking through the window. Jo one was saw it and there had been no one in the hallway leading to the elevator. The man who was in charge of the chair moving operation(he owns the mill or something like that) said she might have seen the ghost. That led to a discussion I could somewhat add to! I mentioned that the house I live in is fairlynew and built for and by my family so there's been no human deaths. Turns out the girl who had seen the face (Leeann, I like her, but she's one of the leaders so not who I'm supposed to make friends with) used to live in a renovated tuberculosis center. How creepy is that? After all that, we rejoined with all the groups and played stupid "get to know you" games and made a fool outt of ourselves. Overall, it was fun. I forgot to bring a towel and I feel incredibly awkward that I'm not talking to my roommate. People keep telling me that it'll take time to make friends. Everyone else is getting along like best buds with each other. I won't believe my well-wishers from home until I make a friend. I guess I will, these are the kinda of people I like here. A little on the weird side. There are friendly twins across the hall, but they get along great with everyone because they aren't completely alone and apparently being identical twins is a great conversation piece. alright, I'm done for now, thanks for reading this ramble xD. Day one of orientation complete.