New Beginnings

Sorry it's been a while. These past few days/weeks have been fairly hectic. I just finished my first day of college today. :) Anyway, so I've been M.I.A. because I've been getting ready for the great journey: moving through two (or is it three?) time-zones and getting settled in a new environment. Well, also, I haven't had the best of luck on this journey, but I'm bearing with it. I'm actually having a great time aside from all the bad luck I've had (knock on wood?). So, you're probably like, what bad luck? Wait 'til you hear the stories.
First off, before leaving San Diego just about a week ago, I had been hanging out with friends almost 24/7. If I wasn't hanging out with friends, I was sleeping... If I wasn't sleeping, I was hanging out with friends... pretty much anyway. Also, I had been slowly but surely getting prepared to the great Pennsylvania state (and Pennsylvania State). I had gone to Dave & Busters, Applebee's (for the first time might I say), and many other places, doing many other things. I got to spend time with my friends (though I can't say the same for my family *sadface*). There had just been so many things, it's hard to even begin going into detail what had happened.
Now, let's fast-forward to the day of my flight, or rather, night I suppose. My original flight was from San Diego to Chicago, from Chicago to Washington Dulles, and then from Washington Dulles to State College. It was a "red-eye" flight, fun, right? Anyways, checking into my flight, I ended up having to pay almost $300 for luggage, even though one of the bags was tiny anyway (but each person is allowed only one carry-on and one personal item or something along that lines). While I was waiting for my Chicago flight, some flight attendant or worker person called me up and asked me if I would rather have a direct flight to Washington Dulles since they had space on that flight. I was kind of just like: uh, what? Sure? So, it was like: hey, I get to go to school earlier and settle in earlier. I arrived at Washington Dulles at about 7-ish in the morning. That was alright. It was a bit chilly. I had two jackets on though. When I got to my gate, the plane had been delayed. Then, it got delayed even more. Then, eventually, it got cancelled. A lot of students including myself (and also other random people) had to go to customer service to figure out what to do. It turned out that all the flights to State College were filled or being cancelled or whatnot. If we wanted to take a flight to State College, we would have to wait the next day, or after the weekend. Some people got mad, and what ended up happening was that me and five other students grouped and chipped in for a rental van/car/SUV vehicle. We drove all the way from Washington Dulles to State College because a lot of us had to be there by the next day - or really, that day. So, it took us about five hours to drive all that way. I had to leave my box of linens/sheets at the airport (or wherever it was) because it didn't show up.
So, the other students and I got to the school (area) at about 5-ish or so. I had my four pieces of luggage as well as another bag and whatever else (it's all a blur now). One of the other students helped me bring my luggage to the building and I got to the elevator myself. Fun. My room's on the top floor. I didn't want to leave my bags on the elevator, so I struggled getting all of them out at least. Then, I tried finding my room, while moving my luggage too. So, my luggage was pretty heavy... and by the time I found my room, I started to get a bloody nose. What a great first impression. Two girls on my floor ended up helping me out by showing me where the bathroom was, as well as providing me with toilet paper and tissues. I also had to get my key from another building, so I walked there with a tissue to my nose and people just asking: Are you okay? What can I say? "Yeah, it's cool. I'm fiiiiine. Don't worry about it." Fun times. When I got my key, I just tossed all my luggage into the room and since I didn't know where any food was, or if any food places were open, I just slept on the bed... with no linens or blankets or pillows, not to mention that the bed was pretty much covered by bookshelves along the wall. Through the night, I bumped my knees into them a couple of times.
The next day, I had my advising day where I got my ID card and scheduled my classes. This part wasn't that bad because I actually met some pretty cool people. There was this one guy in my sort of orientation group that I really enjoyed talking to (pretty much made my day), but it turns out that we don't have any similar majors (like really, nowhere near), and we live in different residence halls. So, I'm left thinking: what are the odds that we'll see each other again? (I suppose this is the one time I sort of regret not doing something - asking for his contact info. *sigh*). After that whole part, that same day, well actually, right after that part, I decided to get something to eat since I hadn't eaten for about 20-21 hours from then. So, I decided to get some food, which I ended up barely even eating (but I saved it for later and ended up eating more of it later, but still didn't finish it all). Then, I still didn't know about dinner or anything, and I was just about to call it an early night again, when I got a knock on my door asking if I wanted to join the floor dinner. Yay. I get more food, right? That was good for me. I could have gone for another 20 hours without food then. That would have been a bummer. But after the dinner, I ended up getting another bloody nose, though I don't think anyone really noticed this time since it looked like I could have been blowing my nose. Then, I also called a nurse, and was told to visit a doctor. I ended up going to the emergency center and found out that I had an infection. Then I was prescribed antibiotics and other medication. That was a bunch of fun. I was told that the antibiotics may turn my urine and stool orange, so I shouldn't be surprised. Joy.
The day after that, I didn't have much of an idea of what to do. I walked around and whatnot. Oh, right, I had another night with no sheets or anything, and then I had found out that my box was shipped to a different city that I didn't even go to (flight-wise). I was worried that I was going to have to take a taxi to pick up the box. Be aware that this city is about an hour away. Imagine how much the fare would have been, you know? But then, I called the airline again, and apparently, a taxi service had picked up a lot of luggage and transferred it to the college town's airport. Awesome, it's closer. So, this day, I took a taxi to the airport and picked up my linens. Oh, how happy I was to have comfy sheets to sleep on for this night. When I got back, my roommate had come in and was getting settled. I got to know her a bit and then we parted ways for a bit. I went with our floor for another floor dinner as well as a floor meeting, and then we later went to a "convocation." This meal, I actually ate a lot more than usual (I was hungry). Then, after the convocation, we were all walking (well, I actually wasn't sure where we were all walking, but I had planned to walk back to the dorms), and some guy walked next to me. I decided to talk to him since it was awkward to just walk side-by-side silently. He ended up complimenting my hair and told me about this late-night activity/event thing. And we got free stuff and I tried rock climbing (on those walls with the buttons at the top) and played pool (and got 10 free hours for that). I ended up hanging out with my new friend for a while and met his friends (making more friends!) and whatnot. Then, I eventually went back to my dorm, but when I tried getting into my room, the door was blocked. :( I didn't want to disturb my roommate who was already sleeping, so I almost ended up sleeping out in the hallway. It was about an hour before I eventually sucked up the courage and got into the room (without waking my roommate up, kind of - she said she had trouble sleeping anyway).
Then, the following day, I had my college orientation for an hour. I woke up just in time to get to the orientation and then I was off for the day. I hung out more with my new friend and whatnot and stuff. We also hung out with his roommate and we all ate dinner together. Then, that was pretty much the gist of the day (though I may be leaving some things out - I just can't quite remember - hectic, remember?).
And that leads to today. Today, I had my first day of classes. I had my morning chemistry class with a bunch of people, and I was probably one of the last people to arrive. My professor had/has an accent and since I was towards the back, I could hardly understand half of the things she was saying. Then, I had an hour to get some breakfast, though I didn't know where to get breakfast. I ended up checking my laptop, then when I tried turning my laptop off, it had 63 updates. Like, really? Why was there so many? Anyways, that took half an hour. Then I got some Starbucks and went to my next class since I had no idea where it was really. I took a really round-about way of trying to find it and when I got to the building, I wasn't even sure if there was classes there because it looked like a bunch of offices. I eventually found it, but the room was dark, and I was there about fifteen minutes early, but I got to meet a couple of people in my class. The professor for this class (math) had an accent also, and that was funny. Two professors with accents back-to-back. After that class, I had my philosophy class. This teacher pronounced my last name right! AWESOME. But before that class started, people were being really quiet, and it was awkward. I think I broke the ice by saying that out loud and introducing myself to the girl next to me. (What a trend-setter I am, right?). That class actually got let out early since none of us had questions. Then I had my English/Communication class next. The people here were a bit quiet too. So I introduced myself to the people next to me. That class was pretty fun because the professor was a bit silly, but in a good way. That was my last class for the day. Also, to sum up the rest of the day shortly (so there doesn't need to be any useless details), I made two trips buying all of my textbooks, and wasn't feeling that well (that time of month - ugh - if that isn't too much info.). Then also, later on, I got dinner in downtown, but the food wasn't that great, or at least my choice wasn't that great. And also, it was raining, so I walked in the rain. But yeah. That's pretty much what had happened. Now, waiting for tomorrow, where I now have the psychology class I wanted, but it's at 8 in the morning and now I have 6 classes so far. Also tomorrow, I have math still, and then my religious studies (intro. to world religions) class. And I think that's about it. (Sounds about right, right?).
Well, I think that's it for now because I'm not feeling well still (MY LUCK, you know?). And hopefully tomorrow's a better day (though, don't get me wrong, I've been having a good time aside from the bad times). Let's hope for the best, until next time.