MONSOON!

I'm still a little bit jetlagged; I probably haven't been doing the best job of getting to bed early and getting up early, but I'm definitely feeling better. It's not a severe case of jetlag by any means, just a bit tired, understandly too, since they have us running around from one thing to another all day. I took an English and a Math Placement Test today. I was really frustrated with the English one because the topic was "what was the biggest mistake of your life" or "what was your most important life experience?" They're such lame questions. I probably shouldn't have started my essay with an indignant paragraph explaining why I couldn't write on either topic very well. I'm supposed to be at a College Resources Fair right now, but I'm not. First of all, I've already met with the IT guys, so I know where they are, etc. and the other thing is the Writing Center. But the real reason follows:

So as Katie (she's from Minnesota) and I were leaving the LDV camus (that's for Leonardo Da Vinci), it looked like it was about to rain, so we figured we would just hurry. But within about two minutes of our leaving it started to pour and we got lost. Within five minutes it was hailing. Within ten minutes the roads and sewers were flooding. We took refuge under some Swiss-Italian's garage port for a while and then we made a run for the North Campus and hid out there for a few minutes and were laughed at by many a maintainence person. As soon as the hail stopped (not the rain) we made a dash for Girasole (where we live), which is a fifteen minute walk from the school. My clothes were totally soaked through as was my bag (luckily, the contents of my bag stayed dry--thank you, Oma). I was wearing my new boots too! I tried to waterproof them when we got back, but I couldn't figure out how to break the seal. Alas. I'll have to work on that again later. Anyway, I stripped everything off and hung it to dry and put on my fleece Washington pants and Fox Island shirt. Talk about Washingtonian pride. My skin was dyed black and blue from my clothes. My shirt had a bunch of black dye on it from my jacket, so I rinsed it out in the sink and washed it with some soap. I need to do some basics shopping for detergent and whatnot still. Anyway, that was exciting all right. Hopefully no one will get too upset that I'm not attending the Resources Fair... I've attended everything else so far though, promise.

Tonight we're having dinner with our Orientation groups. Luckily I just have to go across the street to the Florida Residence, not back up the hill. My bedding still hasn't showed up, so far as I can tell. I'm going to go shopping this weekend if it's not here by Friday/Saturday. By the way, if anyone wants to contact me, just leave me a message on my Skype phone and I'll do my best to call you back at a convenient hour. It's 4:30pm over here right now, and 7:30 am over there... Strange, isn't it?

I've got registration for my classes tomorrow; that's also when I'll figure out my Academic Travel, so I'll let you all know what happens. We're taking little trips to places nearby on Saturday, so I'm looking forward to that too. To Baba & Angi, if you're planning on coming by, please let me know when, so I can give you an idea of how busy I'll be. All right, I'll write more soon! I miss you all! Smile :-)