Aug22, 2012

Hey! I am all moved back into Ball State! I moved back in last Saturday, I got to move in early because I was a part of Opening Committee for the residence hall I live in. For those of you who don't know a residence hall is what most people often mistakenly call a dorm. A dorm is where you sleep, a residence hall is where you live. Wow...I hang out with way too many people involved in housing and residence life hahaha. Anyway, back to Opening Committee, I basically had a blast! I made many new friends and became closer to those I already knew but wasn't super close to. We have been having so much fun! Oh and I also have my van here this year so it's been pretty fun going to do all these random things. We've gone out to eat, to the mall, to Wal-Mart at midnight to get The Hunger Games, etc. Let me just tell you, that Wal-Mart trip was fun but exhausting! We had all gotten up early to do check ins and then we didn't get back till 2 am and had to get up and ready to do check ins again by like 8 am. We all got so much stuff that they literally got one of the move in carts here to bring in all the stuff. Opening Committee put on 2 programs for opening week. There was an ice cream social/game night which turned into a huge dance party. We learned the Interlude dance, which is kind of my new obsession. If you haven't heard of it go YouTube it, the song is Interlude by Attack Attack and there's a real easy dance to it but when there's a whole room doing it it looks awesome. The next night we had karaoke, which was also a ton of fun. So many people showed up to these events, it was crazy! I hope we can get people out like that for Hall Council events and programs.

Sunday we had got together and had waffles, it was like the waffle sales we always have but it was just for us and they were free. It was pretty fun. Monday was the first day of classes. I only had one, family wellness. It seems like it's going to be a pretty easy class, kind of like a health class but also about families. That evening a few of us went to the Student Center, I didn't eat because I was getting dinner later with Matt but I went and hung out while the others ate. We then came back and chilled by the couches, it was before or close to 6 pm. The group got bigger and Matt came over so we ordered pizza and he stayed for a bit but there were like 7 of us that stayed there till after 11 talking. We were there for over 5 hours! We had a lot of good conversations though and we had a lot of fun. Today, well technically now it's yesterday, I had 3 classes. I was nervous because I can't reach the elevator buttons in the buildings where 2 of my classes are. It all worked out though and I think this semester is going to go great. I had my computer class, then lunch with Matt and Bri, then French, and then the study of designers and forecasting. I came back to my room and was talking to my mom because I'm stressing out about money. I then got very upset because a lot has been on my mind lately and I was thinking how I would normally talk to Bethany about this stuff that's bothering me. So then I was really sad and kind of losing it because it's still rough. I started to feel better though after a little while. I decided to check Facebook and stuff when one of my new friends sent me a message asking if I wanted to watch Mean Girls, so the same group that was there for 5 hours yesterday was there again watching that. It was fun and I definitely needed it.

Well I think that's about all for now. I need to go to bed, I have to get up in 6 hours. I'm sure I'll think of more to write after I post this but it'll just have to wait till next time. Night!

~Cait :)