my "first southeastern friend," ryan (a freshman from alabama, who i actually have not met yet...but he seems nice :) ), put it best when he asked me last night, "what you got planned tomorrow as the first day as a college girl?" then it hit me. i am now officially a "college girl!" :)
so, for my first night in my dorm as a "college girl," i did the "college girl" thing...i stayed up to see the coming of the next day :) after enjoying some much-needed time with the family at my grandfather's birthday party, i quickly re-visited my house to pick up a few things essential to not only survive, but to thrive in the night at hand...namely, my miniature palm tree with christmas lights :)
around 9, vicky came over to help me carry in enough groceries to feed a small army...or enough to completely conceal the backseat of my car :) after dumping said groceries (carefully) on my room mate's vacant bed, we headed off to chick-fil-a for dinner...at 9:17 pm, thus providing confirmation that i am, indeed, now a "college girl." :)
after vicky left, i spent a good amount of time talking to mandy, one of my best friends since the third grade, and vince, one of my "newer" best friends. i had to practically force myself to get off the computer to start making preparations to go to sleep. after all, it was about 2 am and i knew i had to wake up early the next morning to make the oh so long travel home to shower and pick up a couple other things i'd left behind...
my bed (i had to switch sides of the room because my room mate wanted the bed near the wall, which works out because i secretly wanted the bed near the window, but i wanted to be nice and give her what i thought was the "best bed")
my fuzzy blue rug at the foot of my bed
the view from our window
the mirror on the back of our door has a bible verse written on it; lamentations 3:22-23:
"The unfailing love of the Lord never ends! By His mercies we have been kept from complete destruction. Great is His faithfulness, His mercies begin afresh each day!"
but the most memorable thing about my first night in my dorm? i had an awesome time praying and reading my Bible between 2 and 2:20 this morning. despite the occasional, resounding shutting of a door (the walls are paper thin here...and i do live with about fifty other college girls that, likewise, do not grace the bed with their presence until 3 am) it was quiet and peaceful; enough to calm my nerves and quench my anxieties about starting a new adventure in my life.
i woke up a little before my alarm went off obnoxiously and promptly at 8 am to the rays of the rising sunshine peeking in through the blinds of my window and the gentle hum of wake forest commuting to work. i threw on some clothes and went home to shower and transfer more of my belongings from my old home to my new home.
mandy came over around 10:30 to admire my room (she's going to liberty in lynchburg, virginia, where everything closes at nine, the dorm rooms are smaller, and one recieves reprimands for attending dances). we made lunch; some sort of italian butter and herb noodles and rolls! i sent pictures of this miracle to my mom and to my doubtful best friend, vince :) of course, it was in the process of cooking that i realized i had no big metal spoon to stir the pasta with...so we made due, rotating between a small plastic spoon and a tablespoon on one of those rings with all the different sized spoons :) we had lots of left-overs...so we gave them to vince, who, being a teenaged boy, we can always trust to dispose of large quantities of food in a heartbeat :) unfortunately, vince had already eaten lunch and didn't exactly like the plasticity of our now cold (and sculptable) pasta :)
chef mandy in the kitchen, cooking pasta! she burnt her finger stirring the pasta and i burned my lip taste testing :)
our creation!
vince and i spent the afternoon praying at binkley and hanging out. he surprised me with a moving in present - a fuzzy yellow blanket from his sweet mother...and a night light that he made out of a trash can, serving to scare my room mate when i find it necessary :)
and now, i'm sitting in my dorm, typing this...about to have my quiet time and go to vince's house at 7:30 to play guitar hero and watch wipeout :) tomorrow i'm going to see the sisterhood of the traveling pants 2 at the movies with some good friends from high school and thursday, i'm thinking about going shag dancing with some southeastern friends in the master's program.
though it's been fun, it's been a very tiring day...i think i am going to become a coffee "college girl" very soon... :)
2 comments:
your dorm room looks nice! very roomy with alot of bookshelves... go candidate for "party room" ;)
it's huge! except the beds are extremely close together, separated only by a night stand, and there's an awkwardly large amount of space in the corner...but it's nice haha :) oh you know it haha :)
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