Things have been going pretty well. I bought another one of my textbooks for a few bucks less at the used bookshop here on campus. It looks practically new...
I don't think I'll be able to find another bargain for my other books like I did for my Eastern Religions one. $10, regular $78; I got so lucky!
I've made a few friends here. There's just so many people, you can't remember everyone you meet. The two girls that I recently made friends with over the past two days, were both asian, lol.
Maggie was one of the girl's in my square dancing group (one of the activities on the first night here) and Ling... Actually, I can't remember how I met Ling. But Ling sat with me on the bus to cosmic bowling last night and I was on her team with two other asian girls, Qi (pronounced "chi"--I ACTUALLY KNOW SOMEONE CALLED "CHI"! XD) and Stephanie. There was this other girl I was talking to a lot on the first day... but I can't remember her name! *cries* I'm not sure what ethnicity she is... maybe part Native American?
When I first heard Stephanie say Qi's name at bowling, I thought she had pronounced it "Gi". So for about an hour I was cheering her on as "Gi"! I felt so stupid! Ling corrected me, and I was all the more glad to find out her name was pronounced "Chi".
Things have gotten fairly quiet now. I think the movie they are playing in the lounge ("Napoleon Dynomite"... took me forever to think of the title!) has started. I'm not going to see it. I have to get up fairly early tomorrow to go to the financial aid office to drop off some papers... I could have sworn that I mailed them back in August... but it hasn't shown up in my online account and I really need these papers to go through (ie, they're my bursary papers). Then I have this "English Proficiency" test that I have to write at 11am (everyone has to write it) which is basically a 300-400 word essay. I hope it's something easy for me to write about!
Ling's really worried about the test. If you don't get 65% on it, you have to take a course for it in the winter in order to get your degree. Ling's Chinese and hasn't written anything in English for 4 months! She invited me to her room tonight and was giving me kind of the grand tour of it, lol, which included lots of Kanji characters on her computer (she went on MSN for a bit... I don'tknow how anyone can write Kanji on the internet! There's like, this whole other menu to use with all the characters, or something like that). I hope she passes! She's such a nice girl! She even learned a little bit of German when she was in junior high! She doesn't remember any of it though, lol.
It's about 11:45pm now, and my room mate hasn't shown up. I think she went straight to the movie cuz I've been here for about an hour and a half since my shower. Anyway, I'm going to go to bed now. I need to get as much sleep as I can because over the past two nights, I've only slept a total of 6 hours. I just don't sleep well in strange beds...
Two New Friends...