I am now a College Student--- Maybe

I spent the month that I wasn't writing this blog doing lots of things. I babysat a lot (I love those girls), biked around the city waiting for it to get warmer, packed, and hung out with people. Like Hollis. A nice way to end summer, even if it did fly by and I wasn't able to go swimming cause it was too chilly.

I would call this a productive summer. Went to a new country, saw a decent amount of friends, got a tattoo, learned lots of new things. But now summer is over and here comes fall and with it comes college.

Since I was bringing so much stuff, we had to rent a minivan. I liked it and felt like a terrible person for liking this gas guzzling machine. It was so comfy and had lots of space. The ride went by quickly, even though the stop at the border took forever. I now have a pretty piece of paper saying that I can reenter Canada whenever I want.

I did not expect Canada to be hot. But it was. Today its been raining which is actually a relief from all of the heat and humidity I have had to deal with. Several days have been in the 80's. Where are the lakes???? I need to find one and jump in.

The mosquitoes are horrendous. There are bajillions. I have so many bites spread all over my body. That made the moving in process not so fun. Who wants to be carrying loads of boxes while trying not to faint in the heat, and then on top of that trying to swat away the hungry mosquitoes? No fun.

A nice surprise was my room. ITS GIANT. Its even bigger then some of the doubles that I have seen. Crazy. Its a really long and skinny room with reallyreallyreally tall ceilings and I even have a walk in closet. Nice and classy. I have soo much extra room that I really do not need. I do need to print out some more pictures or at least get some posters to put on my walls. I was not expecting this much wall space so I didn't bring much.

It was a tearful goodbye. I cried. A lot. Its no wonder when not only do I have to say goodbye to one person, but when I have both parents, a brother and a boyfriend to say goodbye to, it adds up. Sad sad.

I eventually got unpacked. It only took a couple days. Haha. But I made a friend! A super awesome friend. She is right next door to me and we met my first night here. We were both homesick and had some choice things to say about the music booming from down the hall. We eat dinner/other meals together, split groceries and lots of stuff. When she had to do a load of laundry, but did not quite have a full load, she took some of mine. And she folded it!

Through her I have been able to meet some other people. She is good friends with a third year student and he has been amazing. He took us to all of our classes before hand so we would know where they were, drove us to the grocery store, took me to the bank twice so I could open an account, and lots of other stuff. And through him we have met some RA's and other older people that are handy to know.

I have had so much fun. As soon as I got to know Heather, life became a lot easier. I am loving this college life.

I MADE IT INTO BAND!!! This is so amazing I have to say it again.

I MADE IT INTO BAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so happy. So so so so happy.

I never thought that I would be good enough to play at the college level. YAY. Whats kind of funny is that the band is at the same time and day that community band is. It will be like being back home when I would look forward to Tuesday nights from 7 to 9.

I had my first and second day of class and that went well. I can feel a lazy spell coming though so I think I will post that at some other time. I am enjoying myself greatly and am meeting lots of cool people. In case you didn't pick up on that.