Well, I did it, I survived my first day of being "independent"! Woo hoo! I woke up at the early hour of 7:00 am after a very long night of tossing and turning while I was severely missing my comfy bed at home. (this one just doesn't quite cut it for my sleeping needs) We all took mostly cold showers (or at least I did, but I was last in line), ate some breakfast and headed out the door to catch the shuttle. We got to the stop at 8:15. The bus was supposed to arrive (according to my roommate Richelle's sister) at 8:30. 8:40 came and we had seen two busses pass that weren't ours. We opted to walk. Turns out we were in the wrong place. But we had a good chance to get to know each other. Hooray for our first adventure as roommates!
I walked into a completely full Kent Concert Hall to attemt to find my professor Gary Straquadine. After searching for a bit, I found him. I went to get my name tag and our conversation went something like this:
"Heidi Eddington"
"You wouldn't happen to be related to Darrell Eddington would you?"
"He's my dad"
"I remember him from class years ago!"
Turns out, he remembered my dad, by name from when my 53-year-old father was a student at USU. So weird. But then my professor was a bit unique: he has run 67 marathons in the past 17 years, he buys 3 pairs of running shoes a year (one for every 500 miles), he uses words like "malleable" when describing what students are like (he also included the definition for the metalurgy term in his PowerPoint so we wouldn't get confused) when he teaches them, and described his Ph. D as the "highest achievement for the narrowest thinking. He was an intersting man to say the least, but for some reason he took a liking to me and learned my name really fast (when I turned in my assignment at the end of class, he didn't even have to look at me and make sure he knew my face). He talked to me a lot about my major and what I want to do with my life (I still have no clue). I thought it was rather strange.
At the beginning of our class, we played some random Jeopardy game, went to the computer lab to learn about the CIL test (which I passed in high school so I just sat there... "Straq" came and talked to me during that part because he had my name on a list saying I already did it.), built towers out of drinking straws and tape, talked some more, then got out. I walked "home" and called my parents on the way; it was nice to talk to them, it's silly how I can get homesick in one day, but I guess I have lived with them for 18 years so it's probably normal.
Then, Sheena, Amylee, and I walked up the the "hper" field to get some free food (strange looking hot dogs, but hey, they were free!), we sat on the hill and watched some kids playing stuff and joked about how we really had no desire to join a sorority (even after they offered us a tour), and just relaxed before we took our daily Wal-mart trip. I hate that place. I have taken a secret vow not to spend anymore money this week, we'll see how that goes.
I met a few friends today from my class: Emily, Brittany, Lauren and Joey. We randomly kind of formed a little group walking around campus. I ate lunch with Emily and avoided the huge circle of Box Elder kids (there are SO many up here URGH!). She is from Colorado and she is way fun. We have a lot in common. Hopefully we'll keep in touch.
Anyway, today has really been pretty fun. I'm excited for real classes to start next week so that I can get a routine going and meet more people.
Hope everything is well where you are!
