Week One

Hey everyone!
So I decided that the best way to keep everyone up to date with every thing going on would be to start a blog, since I probably won't be able to call everyone every week. I will try to do one post a week on either Saturday or Sunday, but things might get a little busy so if I don't post every week I'm very sorry.

So to start at the beginning, I moved into my dorm on Wednesday, August 21. The only stuff I had for my dorm was my clothes and some things to put up on the walls. I met my roommate, Jaylen. She is from a small town in Southern Illinois. It's only been a week and a half so I don't know if she is going to be a great roommate but right now it seems to be working. For the rest of Wednesday I mostly set up my room. Thursday and Friday I had orientation where we did things with all the freshmen and also broke into our LUL class groups (a class we have to take as a Freshmen that helps get involved with the campus). On Saturday I went to the St. Louis Zoo with my mom, which is a free zoo! How cool is that?! Sunday my mom left me to go home and I mostly just hung out in my room since it was too hot and humid to do anything really.

On Monday I started class. I have three classes everyday except on Fridays I only have two because I only have LUL twice a week. My Monday/Wednesday/Friday classes are Survey of Professional Media (I love my professor, he is so funny), LUL (we don't actually do very much in this class), and English (my professor is a little crazy and his class syllabus is messed up and our whole class never know what we are suppose to do for homework and what we are doing in class). My Tuesday/Thursday classes are Radio Production (I have to be "on air" for ten hours this semester, but it's not real radio, just a recording, but still sounds like it'll be fun), Concepts of Mathematics (I thought this was going to be an actual math class, but it's not really. I actually freaked out when I walked into the class because it said Statics on the overhead and I was worried because I only made it to Algebra 2/Trig in high school. Turns out this class is for people who wish to become elementary school teachers and my homework is for like 3rd graders. Maybe it'll get harder, but I doubt it.), and my last class of the day is American History: Post Civil War to World Powers (I'm very excited about this class because it seems like it is going to be a lot of fun and there is only about eleven of us in the class. Fun Fact: we have to sign the roster the first week of class to state that we were there for class and in my history class I was originally the only girl in a class of ten. But I'm guessing some guys dropped the class and some girls added so there are about 5 girls now). On Tuesdays and Thursdays I also do Work and Learn from 4-6 (2-4 your time) and on Saturdays I work from 9-12 and then from 3-6 for a combined total of  10 hours a week. By doing Work and Learn it takes off of my tuition, yay! I work in the cafeteria which isn't as bad as it sounds. I haven't had to cook anything yet (thank god!). I've had to pass out bananas, apparently people really like them and try to take like 5, but then we run out of them, so everyone is only allowed 2. I've also had to take the clean dishes (the ones the students eat off/use) of the racks and stack them, as well as wash dishes in the kitchen, and I served food at dinner Saturday night (which was the hardest job I have had).

Wednesday I had a water polo meeting and I met most of the team. It seems like it is going to be a lot of fun and my suite-mate is on the team as well. We have conditioning this semester and only have one to two practices a week, a few scrimmages throughout the semester, and a couple of games as well (I don't understand how we are having games if we are not in season). I was really nervous and not sure if I was going to play before the meeting, but I am now pretty sure I want to play.

That's all I have for now guys! I miss and love you all so much and can't wait to hear from you guys!
Kisses~Heather