Sketchy College Games

Yet another day that felt like a week. We had orientation activities all day and I'm in a group with my friend Melisa. We talked about our weeb days and our first OCs and many other fun things. We had an ice cream social where I hung out with another group that Im friends with(the group I made at registration). After that there were more info sessions and then a pizza party!!! there was white pizza with bacon!!! at the pizza party it started to rain, and everyone ran for cover except me and my friend Emily(who's quickly becoming my best college friend). We walked back to the dorms and our friends ran inside, but me and Emily ran around very excited(I took videos). It rained harder and harder and a few people came outside to play in it too. It was beautiful. 

After I changed out of wet clothes, me and Emily went to Jacobs room and played Nintendo 64 and listened to music(a lot of all time low). 

We did that until we found out about a cards against humanity game going on so we went and on the way there we invited everyone we saw. there ended up being over 20 people in one dorm. The game lasted from 8 to about 11 and it was super fun.

After that we hung out in the hallway and attracted two girls and two guys and they joined me, Jacob, and Emily and we went outside to hang out and we were joined by yet another guy(a roommate of someone in the group).  We started playing truth or dare after a lot of talking about things like sex and random shows we were interested in and inspiring bras. 

I got dared to kiss Emily(who's straight by the way hahaha) and Jacob had to kiss a super gay boy we were with. It was funny and very expected. More funny dares happened and we kept commenting on the sketchiness of college kids playing truth or dare in a parking lot at midnight(hahahha). 

We also planned a mean girls party for Sunday night so that will be exciting.

I also found out that Emily and Andrew like One Direction so we're gonna go see the movie together.

This lasted a while and we decided to head in around actual midnight or 12:30. 

Me and Jacob walked Emily back to her dorm and on the way out we saw something weird in the lobby so we went in.

They told us they were playing lap tag.

Yes.

Lap tag.

So basically what you do is sit on someone's lap and try to run to the wall, and they try to hold you back. A very personal way to meet people obviously.

Jacob asked if I would play and I really didnt want to roll around on the floor with him so I sat in the lap of a (v attractive) girl I recognized from Facebook. The game was hard but really fun. 

We headed back after that and I told my roommate about my day and she told me hers and we laughed about dumb tumblr people and furries. I'm in bed on night two, and I'm going to bed very satisfied with college so far.

Finally, a quote by an awesome presenter we had today:

 "don't become a social justice warrior-- those people are the biggest jokes on the planet. it's social justice, not social 'just us'."

Move in and cool kids

Today was 12 days long. I moved

into my dorm this morning and me and my roommate(Emma) are getting along great so far. We had orientation activities and then a mixer where we stood awkwardly until I ran around and made people talk to me and others.~ 

then Emma's dad took us to whole foods for dinner and it was really good. We had a few hours before anything else so we organized and relaxed~

Then at 10 we had a dance party and I wore that polka dot dress and I got a lot of compliments~~

Me and Jacob and Emily went together, they're my friend group so far give or take a few other friends we've made. 

We met a sophomore named Kendall that was really pretty and she danced with us. During (the second) We Can't Stop, she danced on me and I was very surprised. College! 

After the dance ended at midnight she invited me to the park to meet her friends so I went. Two were orientation leaders so it was weird but fun too. We talked about fun college experiences that I'm bound to have and then met more

Cornish kids that were hanging out there. It started to rain and me and Kendall were really excited. After about a half hour we all decided to head back and she walked me home to my dorm and asked for my number(I can't text) but we said we'd hang out more this year so I'm excited.

I can't wait to meet even more people tomorrow!

Now it's time to rest my crazily sore feet and legs as well as the rest of me so ill be ready for tomorrow. 

Finally

I'm finally here in Seattle! The weather is great and everyone is so nice. I hung out with two freshmen today, and were all in the same major. One was named Jacob and we've been talking on Facebook. He's really nice and we talked a lot about ourselves and our lives and we fangirled/boyed together. We also hung out with a girl named Melisa who I met at registration in July. We geeked out about stuff too, especially cosplay, and I said I'd help her make hers. We hung out from like 7:30 until just now(midnight) so like 5 hours. It was a lot of fun. We also all live in the same dorm so we'll definitely be seeing more of each other. So far they are my new friend group! I can't wait to expand it tomorrow and over the next few days/weeks/months. 

When we were walking around Seattle we passed a strip club that had special theatres for gay, bi, and trans, so I though that was really cool.

It still feels so surreal, but by this time tomorrow night I'll be leaving the dance(woo!) and going home to sleep in my new bed. I think it'll really hit me then.

I've also already located the nearest McDonald's.

Anyways, big day ahead! I can't wait! 

Growing Up.

I'm growing up today.

Living life means meeting the most wonderful, important people in your life.

Growing up means leaving them behind.

Growing up means packing your entire life in 3 suitcases. 

Growing up means learning that people in the real world are not nice,

and growing up means learning how to deal with them.

Growing up means entertaining the possibility that school might not continue past the winter.

Growing up means telling your little sister "be good" for the last time for a long time.

Growing up means sharing last laughs and cuddles and brownies.

Growing up means saying goodbye in the rain.

Growing up means paying close attention to every last thing that happens on that last day.

Growing up means getting life advice.

Growing up means framing memories because growing up means causing the fear that you'll forget.

Growing up means hugging pets and pillows that will be gone in the morning.

Growing up means finally leaving that small awful town to go somewhere you can change the world,

and growing up means looking at yourself in the mirror when you get there and knowing that's exactly what you're going to do.

Growing up means laying in bed in his shirt and her shorts with ghosts of kisses on your cheek and hugs on your waist.

Growing up means pain, but none greater than the pain that will finally be relieved by getting where you were really meant to go.

Today, tomorrow morning, forever, that is what I am doing.

I am growing up.

See you later

I stand in the dark kitchen of my mothers apartment at 11:11 pm eating chocolate and wishing for everyone's happiness. there's only one more day here, in this hot desert state. 

this awful place that I hated living in and never wanted to call it my home as a child. the place I grew up and went through the toughest trials of my entire life. the place that I learned, and loved, and grew. I'm here, right now. In that place. And after tomorrow it will no longer be my home. It will never be my home again. 

The possession of such a place, a home, is fleeting. That is probably the thing I have lived and learned the most in my last couple of years. But home was always where I was going next. A friend's house, a parent's apartment, a hotel room at a convention... it changed day to day.

And now, a dorm room. A small room with a new friend where I will do all of my sleeping. 

But not all of my living. I will have my new city for that. 

New people. 

New friends means a new family.

But never my only family.

Just another.

The family I have here, back in the desert, will always have been my first real family. 

The one I met at school, or on the bus, or at a convention.

They'll always be the dearest to my heart.

And that is why I will always come back.

Until every last one has found their path and moved on, I will come back.

And even then, it won't be over.

Because you'll always have your family.

And they are mine.

I'm not saying goodbye, because it isn't goodbye. 

It's only "see you later".

One Week Left

Hey guys, I was going to start on my leaving day but I couldn't wait so I'm posting tonight.
I have one week left in Arizona and then it's goodbye to the desert! I can't wait to get out, but of course I'm also really nervous and afraid. I started packing today (with the moral support of Gillian and my silly little sister) and it's becoming so real to me, but at the same time I feel like it's all a dream.

I'm going to do my best to see friends this week even though I have so much more to do; I have to get glasses, pack my mom's, finish packing at my dad's, make a list of what to ship to the dorm, send in all my stuff to the school.... it will surely be a busy week. But tomorrow I'm visiting NSAA, so watch out for me at lunch my high school friends~

All of this is moving crazy fast and before I know it I'll be settling down to sleep in my new dorm with my new roommate in a new city thousands of miles from here. It'll surely be the adventure of a lifetime.

Intro

Hello friends! I'm going to be using this blog to talk about my experiences in Seattle at Cornish College of the Arts! I can't wait to get there and have exciting adventures, so I'll be updating(and upd9ing, and so on) everyone right here. Check back often to see what I'm up to if you please~

Along with just talking about my life I'm going to try to upload a picture I took each day because I think it'll be really cool to do (let's see if I can keep up with that).

Thanks for caring about my life and check back for more!