Current Location: Couch - C-Street - Greencastle - Indiana

As promised...


This is my first year seminar group on our first day of orientation. The basic idea was to get us to do as many ridiculous ice breakers and team-oriented games as possible. Kind of like summer camp. It really felt as if we had reverted back to third grade, especially with this game... the human knot.


This is Kevin and Charlie (Chaz), a pair of roomies from College Street the residence hall I live in. Kevin's a soccer player and is generally the slave driver of our jogging group. Charlie is really funny and insists on calling me Juneau.


This is from our adventure in East Campus. This building was supposed to be locked but for unknown reasons it was completely open for us. Will played Phantom of the Opera for us on the piano there which was pretty creepy. We also explored the attic of this place which was even creepier. Especially since gigantic 3 inch diameter spiders could have jumped on us at any moment!


These two guys, Rob and Matt, are part of College Street as well as our impromptu jogging group. We were at Kevin's soccer game in this photo... the one where we lost 3-1. Depressing but Homer was never too excellent at soccer anyways, so I guess some things never change for me.


Here's a pretty brick building. We have such a traditional style campus here... with the brick, the trees, the people under the trees studying. Oh yeah, we've got it all.

I'm off to go play with puppies at the Community Service fair (and maybe sign up for some service hours too), then to the play tryouts to see if they need backstage help, and then *maybe* a jog. I'm sure I'll fit in homework somewhere. Maybe... ;P

Current Location: Dorm Room - C-Street - Greencastle - Indiana

My fish finally has a name... Tyrone Jahquil or TJ for short. He's lived through three days now and the traumatic fish bowl cleaning experience without eating any food. What an amazing fish. :)




Math wasn't too bad. The quiz was only three questions long and I think I might have done pretty good. I guess I'll have to see. Umm...... I went to rugby practice. That was interesting. I'm pretty much terrible at holding on to the ball...and throwing it. Sorry Dad, I guess I didn't inherit your skills. I'd like to hear some more about what position you played and any other rugby stories you might have. I'm going to keep at it for a little while to see if I get any better. Who knows, maybe I'll be the rucking master! Or the "insert rugby term here" queen!

I am kind of tired since I watched the Monday night football game with Kari. Green Bay vs. Cincinnati. The Bengals pretty much dominated the field. I guess I didn't really care at all until everyone in the dorm commented on how much the Packers suck. Kari's a Packers fan so I decided to stick it out with her. But yes, I'm tired and I have to get up somewhat early for my art class. Goodnight all!

Current Location: Dorm Room - C-Street - Greencastle - Indiana

It's been a pretty long weekend for me here in college. Olivia left to visit her boyfriend in Bloomington which meant I had the whole room to myself for a couple days. It was kind of lonely though...empty...quiet. Not good for people who are homesick so I kept myself busy doing other things. Saturday morning started out with the first year community service plunge. I was signed up for Habitat for Humanity so I went with a few people to build a deck for an almost finished house. My hammering skills were a bit rusty and there were gigantic spiders lurking about (almost three inches across!) but it was still fun especially since it started raining heavily right when we nailed the last board in.

After that I had to scoot over to the Lilly Center for Tiger Pep Band practice. I think this was the most interesting part of the whole weekend as it had been many months since I last looked at my clarinet. Sadly they do not have Livin' on a Prayer or The Horse or Anchors Away (duh!) which are all my favorite pep band songs....but they did have a couple new snappy ones that I could kind of bash my way through and...drumroll please... Hey Baby! That's a good one.

After putting away all the percussion equipment, I headed over to the soccer field to watch a scrimmage. We lost 3-1 which was kind of disappointing, but it's early in the season...a lot could happen. I'm pretty sure I ate lunch after that.... then went for a jog with my good C-street friends Rob, Kevin and Matt. Big mistake! I'm not in shape at all right now and I was dying at the end. I went today too though and felt a little better. Granted we did run slower and not as far, but it's a step. No freshman fifteen for me!

Today was mostly for studying as I kind of ignored my books all day Saturday. Nothing too interesting except that I found out I got an A on my first paper!! Yeah!

Oh no! I completely forgot about Friday in which the most exciting thing happened for the whole entire weekend. I bought a FISH!!! At Walmart! He is the cutest ugly thing you have ever seen....black with enormous bug eyes that stick way out. He is still just "Fish" to me because I'm afraid he's going to die soon...I haven't seen him eat any of the food I've put in. The other fish a girl bought at the same time as me died just today so I'm even more freaked out. Hers was a beta too, cost about four dollars more than my little dollar-eighty-eight guy. By tomorrow night, if he is still alive, Fish will be renamed.

It is raining heavily outside right now. When it started of course I had to go run around a bit. I regretted it soon after when I stepped back into our arctic AC dorm. Brrr.... Tomorrow will be interesting as it supposed to keep pouring and I have no umbrella. Apparently it's an essential piece of equipment for living in Greencastle. I must not have gotten that memo.

Well, my first math quiz is tomorrow morning so I better get some sleep tonight. No crazy frat parties for me! Goodnight, and remember to keep in touch!

P.S. More pictures to come!

Current Location: Green Chair - C-Street - Greencastle - Indiana

Ahahahah! I just won Risk! YES! The world is mine to control forever... everyone must listen to Ozone constantly while doing the Numa Numa dance and Odwallas will be 10 cents each! And in college at DePauw the only classes offered will be PB & J: Science or Mystery? and Failing at Life 101. And the whole world will be one continent that will be named Alaska Rocks! (exclamation mark included). Except for New Zealand which will now be known as Middle Earth.

And now to my studies...

Current Location: Ottoman - C-Street - Greencastle - Indiana

I just learned how to play Risk. It's very fun. ted is cool. ted should rule the world. go ted. woot!

That was Ted, he's from C-Street too. We're having good times here in the Lounge. Our hall meeting was earlier where we pretty much decided nothing except that the guys on the second floor have to have at least a towel with them in the hallway. Not neccessarily on them though. The RAs should have been more specific, these guys are tricky.

I can't believe I'm still in this Risk game. It's been going for hours and I was almost positive I'd be out in the first two minutes. I've got an alliance with Kevin though and we have North AND South America. America ..... yeah! You know the rest...

I'm sure you don't want a play by play of this very interesting game, so I'll continue on with something else. I didn't actually go swimming because the guys swim team was having an unofficial practice. I didn't really feel like diving in their with a bunch of scary upperclassmen awesome swimmers so I just went back to tanning.....and writing my essay. It's called Technology: Friend or Foe. I'm going for the foe route and talking about nature. Something like that.

I have to concentrate on my strategy now. Don't worry, if I fail out of college from playing too much Risk... I can always get a job as a general.....or president.

Current Location: Sunny Lawn - Outside - Greencastle - Indiana

Currently I am outside on the lawn enjoying some lovely sun with my two friends Olivia and Tim. The first day of classes went allright, I can tell that Wednesdays are going to be my worst days though. Well...unless my art professor is a real piece of work. I've heard from some people that he's a really amazing artist, but expects a lot out of his students. Being a non-art major I don't know how he'll deal with me in his class. I have that Tuesdays and Thursdays for a couple hours in the morning. Tomorrow I will know.

My math class was decent. I believe I will be able to understand our professor if I pay attention and listen carefully which I'm sure will help me understand the math better. This first lesson he taught is still kind of hazy in my mind so I'll have to go over my notes again tonight and see if I can understand derivatives of inverse functions.

Also tonight I have to write my first paper for this college. Exciting! I feel like I have a lot of homework to do right now especially when the professor says it's due by the end of the week, but then again I always forget I have a lot more free time and a lot less classes. I think I'm going to head over to the pool now to ch-ch-check it out now that I'm all hot and sweaty. :)

Current Location: Desk - Dorm Room - Greencastle - Indiana

First day of school.

Roommate Olivia is up now, she has some sort of acute bronchitis so she took some NyQuil last night that hasn't really worn off yet. Thank goodness that's not me. I need to be as alert as I can right now what with Calculus being my very first college class ever. My teacher's name is Rahim something I can't spell too so you can probably already tell that I'm going to have to pay close attention or risk not understanding anything. Ten minutes to class....I better go.

Current Location: Big Green Chair - C-Street - Greencastle - Indiana

Life in Greencastle, Indiana has been pretty good lately. We went to downtown Greencastle with our mentors groups to explore a few places we might need to find later on. My favorite was Goodwill (a thrift store) where I bought a fish bowl, a Revere ware cooking pan, and an Indiana University baseball cap. The cap is brand new and even has "Hoosier" on the back of it. Yay! I'm a real Indiana-ian now. I got the pan just because we have a nice kitchen in C-Street, but very few cooking utensils. I plan on making pancakes in it eventually. And finally the fish bowl because I don't think it was an accident that I wandered into the fish aisle when me, Austin and Chris were at Walmart two nights ago. It was fate.

I changed a course around in my schedule since I didn't like the sound of "Human Cultures" and thought it would probably be a slight waste of a class period. Instead I'm taking Calc II with another person from C-street. It will probably be kind of hard but overall it will be good to keep the math thing going from last year. I think I'll forget everything from the past six years if I don't take math for a semester. The full list of my classes is :

CSC 121B Computer Science I (has a lab too)
ART 153 Painting I
CSC 197C First Year Seminar - Seduced by Machine?
MATH 152A Calculus II

Doesn't look like much there but my first class starts in about an hour so I guess I'll see pretty soon. The professors and mentors have spent a lot of orientation telling us how hard the classes are going to be and how much we're going to have to study in order to even comprehend the possibility of getting an A. I think all the first years are a little bit terrified right now.

It's time to go wake up my roommate and clean up the messes that are growing in my areas of the dorm.

Current Location: Couch - C-Street - Greencastle - Indiana

Hello all! I'm finally here in lovely Greencastle, Indiana, looking out on a gorgeous sunny day on campus. I've been moved in for two days now and I've settled pretty good. I really like my residence which is College Street Hall, especially since it has big comfy couches in two different lounges and a full kitchen for...whatever! It has a great setup and great people that make up for the slightly smaller rooms. Not to worry though, I even like my dorm room which I am sharing with Olivia Lobdell from Indianapolis, IN. We bunked the beds and moved the desks and dressers around with her parents help the first day and got everything else unpacked before that night. It's a very cozy, homey kind of place which will be great because all I plan on doing there is sleeping. This hall just has such nice common rooms that everyone just chills out here. Much more comfortable.

Orientation has been interesting so far. I met my mentor group yesterday and spent nine hours with them! Nine! After many ice breakers and games led by our student mentors Sarah and Michelle we knew eachother pretty well. It's good to have a few friends outside of College Street. It's a better group than most and it seems we'll all get along just fine for this first semester. I took placement tests as a part of orientation this morning, Spanish and Calculus and somehow tested out of the first semester of spanish. I was very surprised, but happy too since this means I only have to take one semester of spanish to complete my requirements. I haven't gotten my Calculus results yet....I'll keep you posted on how that turns out.

All that school business aside, these first few days have been really good with moving in, meeting people, getting used to more responsibilities, eating differently...all that good stuff. I'm sure I'll have much more stuff to talk about later on so I'll keep using this journal thing and hopefully that will work for everyone. Hope everyone is doing awesome in Homer town! Keep me updated on any essential news!