Saturday, August 13, 2005

Eeeeeeeeee.

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Shin- But then people might confuse it for a pet store! :O

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So, yesterday was this whole freshman orientation.. Thing. Basically, they crammed us into the gym, made us touch each other, make noises for them, and move whenever they so desired lest we be paraded around in front of the entire crowd. Then they locked us into rooms with older kids who made us do things to each other, as well to them. They then made us dress up in whatever they wanted us to so they could parade us around in public like their trophies.

..Well, it wasn't quite like that. Basically, they tried to give us a "fun" experience to familiarize us with the school. Since I had summer school, I already knew what they were telling me. So I spent more time trying to figure out how to complain about things.

The guy that spoke to us seemed very un-faculty-ish. It was as if they hired a stand-up comedian and motivational speaker to tell us to work hard. He made us do stupid little.. Actions, I guess. For example, he made us massage the people next to us and called a few people up to have a hugging contest (the winning team popped five balloons between their abdomens first).

After that we were herded into our assigned groups of five so we could meet our junior-or-senior helper person, and this reminded me of Naruto. These herds were then herded into other herds so that there were about fifteen to twenty of us sitting in an empty classroom "getting to know each other" through cheap-ass games. There was one other guy in the room who, much like me, was like "hell no" when they tried to get us to do the particularly stupid things.

Then they tried to dress us up before we went out to tour the campus. It was some really stupid Party City stuff, so I didn't bother, and there were tons of other stupid costumed people running around. I think there was a contest to see who could do the funniest thing.. Or something. No matter what, it wasn't a tour so much as a big jackass festival. They didn't tell us where anything was.

And after that we went back into the gym where they could talk to us some more, and after that we walked to my friend's house, where we played Street Fighter and Katamari, and watched Clerks for the second time.

It was pretty stupid, and I regret waking up at seven in the morning for it.

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Today they had a barbecue-slash-dance thing going on. My mom insisted that I go, so that I could be social, so I got a ride from Ethan.

We got there early, and his girlfriend was cooking hot dogs, so he felt obliged to help. In fear of looking useless, I started wrapping the hot dogs in tin foil.

Two hours later, I had wrapped 250 hot dogs, most of them with unsatisfactory amounts of foil (parts of the things were visible in some cases), and I was blamed for when they were crappy.

And my reward? Two lukewarm hot dogs and a can of coke without standing in the huge-ass line. Also, I got to skip the pep rally we were suppossed to be at, which was probably Jackassfest II.

After that I was tricked into cleaning up a bunch of balloons I popped. At this point I called home to see if Jump Super Stars had come in the mail, and it did, so I got home as fast as I could.

At the expense of two more hours of socialness with friends.. But whatever. I've been waiting for this game too long.

Too early for impressions, other than "God, I don't know as much Japanese as I thought I did." And I didn't think I knew much to begin with.

Comment whoring question #2: What was your first day of school like? Be it kindergarten, junior high, high school, college, whatever.. Which was the most memorable?
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