All moved in and ready to go!

So, as you can see from the title, I am officially all moved and settled in here in Seattle! Everything has been going great so far, we've mostly just been doing intoductory type things, but you know, that's how it goes when around a thousand people pick up their entire lives and move to a new city...I will try to be more frequent with the updates, but I can already tell my free time around here is going to be reeeally limited. Yayy!

Anyway, here are the last few days in a nutshell...

My parents and I arrived in Seattle around 9:00 AM Saturday morning, since the Bellarmine Hall (my dorm) freshmen only had from 9-2:30 PM to move in. I was almost immediately sent up to my room after I got the key to go scope it out. One of my roommates (yes, I am in a triple) Nyakuiy, had been here since last Wednesday-ish, so she was in the room when I got up. It was so nice to finally get to meet her in person! As I'm sure the world knows, technology does wonders nowadays, so we had been talking on Facebook/texting for awhile. My other roommate, Arielle, came around an hour later, and before we knew it, moving in became chaos! I never thought that it was true what they say, that teenage girls tend to pack A LOT whereever we tend to go, but uhh now I believe it. All ended well, however, and we now have managed to safely organize wall posters, printers, a TV and DVD player (thank you Arielle), a stereo, three laptops, clothes, AND food. Woooot!



Saturday in general was just a reeeeally long day it felt like. After moving in there were all these parent/student meetings to attend, and then us students had to split off into our "small groups" led by an Orientation Advisor, aka. an upperclassman. My leader's name is Rachel; she's a sophomore. Each group also has a team name, ours is the Horsey Heads...don't ask. haha. They pretty much formed these groups as a way for us to get to know one another better, because odds are your roommate(s) and/or floormates are not in the same small group as you. That's true for me. We mostly just played a lot of ice-breaker games, but no one could really escape the awkward silences....haha. Saying goodbye to the parents was weird, I must say, but I guess that's how the world works, we all have to leave sometime, and just accept the emotions we have about it.

Yesterday was a little more low key in terms of required meetings, but we did have to go on our "Urban Invasion," aka. adventure through Seattle with our small group. It was pretty fun, but again, a lot of awkward silences,..meeting new people is sometimes a new adventure in itself, I think. haha. Our group ventured from campus down to Pike Place Market, which if you count it, is about 14 blocks away, and yes we walked. There and back. My feet died. I swear it was uphill both ways. Anyway we visited the gum wall

Believe it or not, this thing is actually kind of cool...people write things on it in gum...yum?

Horsey Heads!

Later today we are to go to our Academic Convocation, you know, the thing we go to to see all of the professors and listen to about two hours of speeches. Yep. And then after that I have a dinner I have to go to with my learning community, Faith and Great Ideas. I would explain that to you, but in fear of being boring, it's basically something I'm in for my core classes; I take special classes with a certain group of people, and in this case special classes means ones that focus a lot on 19 and 20th century thinkers and how their ideas pertain to our lives today. It's pretty interesting if you're a history/philosophy buff...just saying.

Well, that's about it for now! Oh wait, here...

This would be the process/result of a very intense Bellarmine 5th floor Apples to Apples game that went on last night, and then about a sixth of my floormates. Bell 5 is pretty much the best :)

<3

~Erin :)