Three Posts for the Price of One

Finally my internet is working. I've been keeping a bit of a journal since I got here since I didn't have anything better to do without the internet & all. Well here's what I've written thus far.

8/14/05 1:00pm (No internet yet)

Wow I’m surprised how easy it was to watch my parents drive away crying. I guess I’ve sort of been training all summer for this moment in a sense. I really haven’t spent much time with them at all the past few months. Anyway I just met my roommate & he seems sorta cool. He’s reading Harry Potter #5 right now just like I am, he brought down a chess set just like I did (however mine is infinitely cooler thnx Erin) & he’s into games like Warhammer 40k & Halo. I spent the night at Nat & Slack’s dorm last night and we just watched TV and played games all night (which is what I expected college to be like). Actually I feel sorta weird living nearly on my own. I feel just like I did at the St. Jude’s confirmation retreat or at camp Eberhart. The initial shock of leaving all my friends has passed and it’s actually pretty cool down here.

11:30pm (Still no internet)

Slack, Nat & I hunted down some of the Marian students at Purdue today. We successfully found Jessica Williamowski, Mel Harker (not a student here but she was helping move in Jessica), and Chelsea Sieradski after that we headed back to our dorms for the official start of the boiler gold rush. We broke into small groups & did icebreakers till we had to go to the auditorium. When the speeches were about to start it was really dark in the giant auditorium & when the rules displayed on a screen told everyone to turn off their cell phones everyone got theirs out and started waving it back and forth. It’s one of the coolest sites I’ve ever seen. There were 5,000 students in there and most of them were doing it. There was a sea of L.E.D. lights in the middle of a near pitch black room. After all of the boring speeches there was this stand up comedian who gave us a 30 minute speech. He was hilarious & he gave us an awesome message. You should check out his site it’s GotAloha.org.

8/15/05 4:30pm (No internet yet)

Well my internet connection was supposed to be up by now but sadly it isn’t. This morning we went to this open area (where I assume concerts will be held in the future) called Slater Hill. We watched the cheerleaders perform and we listened to a small band. The only really cool thing about all of that was when the band played enter sandman. Not only did it sound awesome but it also reminded me of home somehow. Later we went to the other building that we were at last night and listened to speeches. We did the whole L.E.D. thing again and somehow it just wasn’t as cool this time probably because it wasn’t random. We listened to yet another comedian who covered some of the serious issues like drugs and alcohol.

Well thats it for today my faithful viewers or readers or whatever the heck you people are. See all of ya in like 2-3 months or so.