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college: where quiet hours mean run up and down the hall.


Read the chapter and take notes before class starts means scribble something on a paper with large enough spaces to fill up the page 10 minutes before the class begins.


Where homework time turns into Facebook time and Facebook time overrides sleeping time.


Where there's more hair in the showers and sings. and floors. and trash cans. then actually on the girls heads.


Where space is immediately associated with the planets instead of the room you have for your possessions.


Where nap time becomes a pipe dream.


Where live band is the guy outside your window singing and playing the ukulele at midnight.


Where petting zoo is outside your door.


Where the daily food groups consist of pineapple, juice, pudding, and bagels.


Where stressed is a daily emotion.


Rushing becomes your one and only speed.


Where a stray cat will find water, food, and a nicely made bed, and 25 different names.


Where the people riding the bikes and scooters are automatically "the cool kids". Cars? wait there's cars on this earth?


Where getting sick of a class can be cured so easily a caveman could do it.... "d-r-o-p".


Where walking becomes running and running becomes sprinting


Where friend are made, stories are made, and no matter how early you go to bed, you're still tired in the morning. here's to college ladies and gentleman.. it's gonna be good.

Welcome to college..

College: the desks are tiny, the teachers spit, you never stop walking, and the classes are easily turned from one subject to another. Ladies... if you are just counting down the days until you can go to college and meet mature boys... think again. I think that college has more immature boys than high school did. Boys: Sunglasses on the back of your head is not cool, stop swearing it's not attractive, and go to class. ,because let's be honest here, i'm walking down the isle to someone with a degree in his hand, not the guy with marks from his text book etched into the side of his face. Whoever invented college schedules definitely didn't plan on hawaii rain. I walk 10 feet out of my dorm to perfect weather, i turn around and it's pouring rain. I get into the building and it's completely done. It's like utah weather.... only prettier. It's nice walking around campus because it's small, but it's still far enough away to be a pain. I have completely given up trying to make my room cold. The doors and windows are constantly open and 4 fans are constantly running, and still.. it's hotter than hot. i've also given up on straight hair.. no can do with this humidity. i guess curly will just have to learn how to work, because that's the best i can do! So far i have met people from utah, florida, california, texas, idaho, and pretty much every other state, not to mention the people i've met from fiji, new zealand, australia, england, and tonga. This place is crawling with diversity. I had 17 languages in my first class of the day. I'm still getting used to hawaiian time.. everything starts later, everyone walks slower, and if you're late just walk slower! it will take some getting used to after getting raised by my mom who is early for everything, but it's kind of nice to just relax. shoes are taken off before you enter into some rooms which is weird if you don't like feet.... i hate feet. praying and reading scriptures in biology, and social work, and classes that you normally wouldn't is kind of hard to get used to but other than that it's good! its a good kind of strange. I'm glad that i have a mom who made a medical basket for me in case i get sick, and for a dad who stalked up my water in the fridge because without it i would be dying. i'm glad i have a mom who thinks of every little thing that i could possibly need down to bug spray, and power strips, and a container to carry my laundry detergent in. They may be an ocean away but the things they teach me effect my every day life. i'm loving college so far, only when i don't stop to think about my family being an ocean away. december 16th finals and then i'm outta here to see the familia! welcome to college... here goes nothin.

College?

I never realized how hard it would be to leave my family until i watched the car drive away. the image of my sister crying will be stuck with me forever. Seeing my family cry hurts me clear to the core, and i hate it. I want this to be a happy time, and i want to experience the world and learn and grow but it's so hard knowing that in order to do that i have to leave the people i love the most. I will never ever take for granted the time i get to spend with my family. i have the best siblings, and the best parents in the whole world. i realize how lucky i am to have parents who would fly across an ocean for me, i honestly don't know what i would do without them. On a happier note... I am in hawaii! hot weather, sand, pineapple, and whole lot of happy people!

This does not even show how much luggage we had. I took 6 bags (one softball bag). needless to say, i may have overpacked. but oh well! we also made 20 thousand trips to target on the way to the school.






We should have gotten an award for how good we packed that car in. well i guess i shouldn't say we... dad did a REALLY good job haha it was a struggle, but we did it!




The bed... there's not too many colors that can match with the gorgeous pink cabinet color, so we went neutral! The bat bag in the middle of the room... this might become a problem.







Pictures and necklaces... this is a little taste of home.







This is where i'll be spending most of my time in my little nook!! yay for homework.
Needless to say... college has begun.. ready or not.. here i come!