College is... amazing. Needless to say, I absolutely love it here. I moved in almost a week ago, but before we get into all of that fun, we shall start with last Tuesday.
So I was running around like crazy trying to get everything done before 4pm which is when people were welcome to start stopping by to say farewell. I managed to do that in record time, although my paycheck wasn't in yet, and I had to just forfeit that until mom could come back and get it later. Oh well, only so much I can do. So after being at my house for about an hour, Mr. Michael Boring, with the help of one Angie Colton proceeded to kidnapp me, blindfold and all and force me into an unknown vehicle to transport me to an unknown location. They ripped my jeans in the process, and I was not happy. Although, I'm freaking amazing when it comes to getting my hands out of zip-ties, I managed to break free three times. So there. So Angie proceeds to drive in circles in a very unsafe manner, and then stops at what later find out to be Willamette Park. There, there was a massive slip-n-slide waiting for me... I'm not going to lie, it was pretty freaking sweet.
Unbeknownst to me, Katie and Chris and Lacy had called everyone and gotten them all involved and it was actually really fun to party with random people... like Nick Foey. I challenged him to a chugging contest (just pepsi of course) but naturally, I lost miserably. So then we went back to Dad's house and hung out and played Battle of the Sexes, and I'm sad to say that I lost. Yes, it's true, Vickie Chambers lost. Take note, it doesn't happen often. It was a lot harder to say goodbye to everyone than I expected. That left me pretty sad most of Wednesday, but once mom and I got to Chicago, things seemed to shift to more excitement. We went to the White Sox/Royals game on Thursday because I couldn't move in until Thursday night. The game was actually a really good one, and it reminded me why I chose to come to school out here- TWO baseball teams. Then mom and I drove out here and moved all of my stuff into Alumni 514. It's on the top floor, which sucked because that meant we had to carry all of my stuff up a bunch of stairs. The elevator is ridiculously slow so I opted not to take it most of the time. Luckily, since I came from so far away, I got to move in earlier than most people which meant that I didn't have to battle people for space. I also got more time to move all of my stuff in and get it organized and that was really nice. I had orientation on Friday which was actually pretty worthless since I had already registered for my classes, but it was good to explore the campus before everyone else showed up. Everyone else moved in on Saturday morning, and my oh my it was a mad house. I met my roommate Sam, and we get along rather well. She has a boyfriend that lives on the second floor of our residence hall so I don't see her much, but we seem to live together just fine, and that's all that really matters. I had a lot of fun decorating my dorm room.
Classes started yesterday, and it should be interesting. I really like my Biology class, but my core class is at 8am and full of football players. My Philosophy class should be good, but there is a lot of reading involved and I'm the only freshman in my Lit Studies class. We're reading a lot of the same stuff that I read last year, which will be nice, but I also have to deal with The Jungle and some Hawthorne. Needless to say I'm not super excited for that class. I had my Biology class today, and that is a class that I think I'm really going to like. The prof is interesting, enjoys what she does and knows what she's talking about.
We had some real excitement today when the Tornado siren went off. I had no idea what in the world was going on. So I just continued on my way. My new friends and I were on our way to dinner, so we walked over to the cafeteria, apparently just in time. Right after we left the RA's made everyone go down to the basement. We just went to eat dinner. Then we got excited because we could see a storm was brewing and one of my friends is a Meteorology Major. So we went on a bit of a storm chase. Not long after that the staff of the cafeteria made us all come inside and go to the middle of the building- apparently this storm was serious business. After about a half hour of fusebal we were released and found rather large hail. Billy tells me that a tornado touched down in Michigan City, which is about ten miles from Valpo. I've been here a week and I've already had my life threatened. Figures.
it was some serious hail.
well... that's about all I have to offer right now. I'm going to the Dunes on Saturday with a bunch of people, so that should be fun. I'll get some pictures of my roommate and my new friends soon as well. I hope that all is well with all of you- I love you dearly.
