University

Last week I moved into the University I'm currently attending. I had four days of orientation.

The first day, last Thursday, there was a matriculation ceremony (inducting us into the university; opposite of graduation) and at night there was some activity....I honestly forget now what it was.

Anyway, on Friday, we met with our Fiat Lux (freshman class) class and was forced to play games with everyone. It was to build teamwork skills and whatnot, but I was uncomfortable with it. During the rest of the day we had meetings with our advisers. (I'm a creative writing major, by the way.) I was happily surprised to see that there are four creative writing majors in my grade! That's a lot. Anyway, at night there was a Boardwalk kinda thing with food, games, and prizes. It was great. Also that night, I struck up enough courage to play a game with random people I didn't know. That was also fun.

On Saturday, we were all forced to go on a service trip. There wasn't really much to do and it wasn't hard..... It was just so hot because we had to wear pants and a long sleeved shirt (note: it was easily 90 F that day). So I painted a fence black for two hours. That night there was a luau, again with games, food, and prizes. I won a T-shirt from a sorting game and I won a mini-cart filled with food.  

On Sunday, we had an anit-rape, anti-drugs, driving safety, etc. seminar. Then the whole day was free to do whatever, so I hung out with my boyfriend and watched Game of Thrones. 

So far, I've had all my classes--Intro to Theatre, College Composition I, Intro to Psychology, Intro to Creative Writing, Intro to Computers, and Fiat Lux. 

Yesterday, I tried out for the school orchestra. It was awful. Of course, I was automatically accepted because there are a little less than 10 people in the orchestra. But, anyway, everyone was given warm-up music to play, music I've never seen before, and was expected to play it perfectly. I was still reading the notes and everything, so I hardly played a thing. Learning a song takes a couple hours for me, but perfecting one will take a day. So, I'm not going to be in the orchestra... Maybe the Jazz Band though because that seems cool.

For my creative writing class we've had our first assignment: write about a grudge. It was pretty fun, actually, and I'm happy to have had an assignment already. 

There's more to add but this journal is already pretty long so I'm going to end it here.