Saturday, November 3, 2007

My sister and I drove up to Ohio on Thursday for my overnight visit at Kenyon. (Some of you might remember the post I made a month back about this.)

Firstly, Emily and her roommate Laura were really nice throughout the visit. There wasn't much to do on campus on Thursday night, so they frantically tried to keep me distracted. (Which was nice, but really, I'm not a difficult person to please. xD) After giving me a tour around the campus, they drove me over to a nearby town to eat at one of their better Chinese restaurants. One of their friends tagged along with us, and I found out that she was a fellow DBSK/SuJu/JE fan from Singapore. (Who friended me on LJ after meeting me, yay!) The four of us talked about NEWS and the AADBSK DVDs over dinner, then went over to the nearest grocery store to take advantage of post-Halloween candy sales, and drove around the downtown area while listening to Super Junior songs. xD

After heading back to our respective dorms, Laura let me watch an Arashi concert on her laptop, during which I started feeling really tired because of the previous night's lack of sleep. (I had to wake up at 4:00 AM to get to Kenyon in the late afternoon.) But the sleepiness was helped a bit when the three of us went over to the campus coffeehouse to buy drinks--I got hot chocolate and felt like such a kid amongst the caffeine-induced masses. Out of morbid curiosity, we watched a Hey! Say! JUMP PV while finishing our drinks back at their dorm, as well as NEWS's performance of weeeek on Utaban. (During which Laura said, "They solved the problem of NEWS's sucky dancing by giving them no choreography!")

And then we played with sparklers outside. xD

And spent the rest of the night making fun of DBSK's Rising Sun concert, during which we established that Yoochun = Barry White and Yunho = Human Gumby

Yesterday was the more academic-oriented day. I ended up waking up at around 9:30 just like a real college student and sitting in on an English class at 10:00. One of the interesting things about Kenyon is that the school is really small--small enough to accommodate about fourteen students per classroom on average. Which might scare some people, but seeing as how I've attended small schools all my life, I suppose I've adjusted to it.

Afterwards I had a formal tour around the campus, mainly through the academic departments, then headed back to the dorm to eat lunch with Laura. I caught her laughing at me when I freaked while putting my used tray on a crowded moving conveyor belt. xD;;

I ROCKED MY INTERVIEW. It was my first one, and I felt really proud over doing so well. Especially since I felt horribly inarticulate throughout my entire time at Kenyon before that point, but thankfully, my brain managed to pull through. It was a more casual interview, but it was filled with all sorts of random curveball questions, such as, "If there were 26-hour days, how would you spend those two extra hours?" And since fandom is present in every aspect of my life, I managed to squeeze in a vague reference to DBSK towards the end and still come out seeming normal. xD

I headed back to the dorm one last time to pick up my stuff. Emily was still at classes, and Laura was rushing out the door by the time I arrived, so I ended up just leaving them a thank you note. ^-^;;

Admittedly, the visit got a little weird at some moments, partly because I think I'm overly conscious of how I can be a little socially awkward at times. But Emily and Laura were very accommodating, the campus was gorgeous and Kenyon seems like a genuinely nice school, so it was an overwhelming positive experience all things considered.

Lastly, I went into scary paparazzi mode and took a bunch of pictures of their dorm. xD

Wall 2 | Wall3 | Corner | Closet Door | Ceiling (yes, on their freaking ceiling) | Front Door
My new goal in life is to amass a collection large enough to decorate my room just like this. Because I now know the best way to be greeted in the morning is the sight of a dozen pictures of pretty Korean boys a foot away from your face.
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