Yesterday's Post

Hello everybody!

I am currently in MY ROOM on THE INTERNET posting THIS BLOG. Amazing!!! So I bothered the internet guys some more and they finally gave me a temporary password to use until they figure out what's wrong with the other one. Hurray! I love life!
So today orientation started, which was cool I guess. I am so oriented-out though. I feel like I have had orientation nonstop since I got here.
I am also wondering if the internet plan I got is going to be enough. I think skype uses up a lit of Gbs, or something. I really don't know.
Today I plan on going to the market for some groceries, since the rain stopped (yay!) and figuring out a budget based on what I get today and what I have already bought, etc. And I need a latte. My brain is really fuzzy right now with my cold.
Anyway, here are the posts I made yesterday. Enjoy, mon petit ... ummm loved-ones!

July 19, 2010

…I only have two Tim Tams left… :(
I really want to eat one right now, but then I would only have one left…
I don’t care, I will go buy more.

Hopefully, by the end of the night, I will have internet in my room. As of now, 4:40 pm, I am writing into Word again. I went to McDonald’s this morning to get internet for a second to transfer money into the right account, so I did get to check facebook and my blog.
So I am making my room much more homey! I put away all my clothes. Wow, do I have a lot. Probably too many. I always pack too much. But now I have my empty suitcases under my bed, so it looks less like a hotel room I’m staying in temporarily. Oh, and I got a comforter and space heater today! Ahh, everything is so much warmer. The heater is actually very bright, like a light. It’s very warm when you get right up close to it, and sitting a few feet away it’s very nice. So if I ever come home with wet shoes, I will just set them in front of my new heater. :)

So I have a bit of a cold, you guys. :( It’s not that bad, just stuffy in my nose and my throat hurts a little. My stomach felt upset a little while ago, I’m not sure if that was related, but that went away. I’m a bit phlegm-y, I think that’s why my throat hurts. I don’t think this cold will last long, though.

I am so bad at meeting people. I’m okay at it when you are forced with people, like for the welcome program when you are sitting across from people you don’t know and need to introduce yourself, but not when you are passing a person in the hallway or on the elevator together. I tried saying hi to a girl I saw in the tv room just now, and she said hi back, just not in a warm way at all, with no smile. It seems like the people on my floor are already locked into friend groups, and no one is really all that interested in getting to know me. Oh, except for this guy from Maldives who let me and the internet guy take his computer to test the internet on it. He was nice. I don’t remember his name, though. Hope I see him again, at least. Just someone.
I mean, I’m American, and that’s interesting, right??? And I’m nice looking and friendly, right??? At least I try to be. Wouldn’t people want to know me? Sheesh. I gotta do all the work around here.
I feel like I’m only meeting international students, which is nice, and it’s nice to know other Americans I guess, but really. Let me meet some Australians already!

Tomorrow Orientation starts for international students. : /
More programming. Well, that’s what they call it at Oxy. “Programming.” It pretty much means organized events for students that you are kind of supposed to go to. I’m not sure if I like these kinds of events that much. It takes a lot out of me to keep introducing myself, and trying to remember names and where to go.
Well, I looked at the info from the website, which I luckily saved to a word document, and it seems I only have to go to the introduction meeting and an info session for the arts department, and that’s only until 12:30. Phew. Thank you, uni, for letting me keep settling in for a little longer.

Oh, I just got invited to a party for Avery’s birthday. Hmm that would be fun! I could see some of the people I know from the welcome. I got to know Avery a little bit better, and I find she’s not necessarily that nice. I was really glad to be with her the first day, but I don’t necessarily cherish our friendship, haha. But the girl who invited me, Tiffany, I really like. She and I walked around the zoo together. It was really fun. And she befriended me on facebook! Our friendship is legit! Haha. I think I’ll invite Monika and Olivia as well, if they don’t already know about it. It would be nice to be out of my room for a night.

Anyway, things feel like they are going well right now. I can easily find my way to all the places I will probably be frequenting, and my room feels nice and comfortable, if a little blank on the walls, but that’s ok for now. I got to talk to my daddy today, and that always makes me feel better. And I have a hair dryer that works really well. Oh, the little things. :) Anyway, I’ll just have to keep hanging on, little tomato! Xoxo to everyone!


Later, 10 pm

Well, the night spent out of my room didn’t really work out. I was supposed to go meet Tiffany and the party right now, but they changed the location so I don’t know where they are or if I know how to get there, and Monika texted me saying she’s a bit too tired by now, so I wouldn’t have a walking buddy. Definitely wouldn’t want to walk it alone. I don’t know my way around that well, and I don’t own any pepper spray or switchblades for protection in case of random attacks on the street. Yes, I do believe walking around Melbourne at 10 pm alone is not in my game plan for the night. Instead, I will continue reading. I think I have already read about 50 pages of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami just today (I have been reading for a little while now). I think I might switch to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo now. Would it be weird to read two books at once? I think I could follow along…
Speaking of books, I passed this great looking used bookstore a couple times today. It’s really close, and it looks like they have cool postcards too. It looks like the kind of bookstore where they really take pride in what books they have. Not like that creepy one in Medford. It was so sad. All romance novels and weird sci-fi and all those super long series of bad paperbacks that somehow sell. I’ll have to go into this nice one. I think I might have taken a picture of it and put it on facebook… I can’t remember.

I have one square of dark chocolate left… I cannot decide if I want to eat it. I just had two. And I only have the one Tim Tam. Sighhhh so sad.

I think I may just go to bed now. Man, do I wish I had internet. I was supposed to have it by now, I should have called the company again to remind them to come fix it. I miss everyone a ton. Oh, quick note, there were some cute Australian guys sitting in my kitchen when I went to get dinner. I hope they live on my floor. I didn’t talk to them because they were kind of all conversing, but hopefully I will see them again. I am at the point where I just want to yell, “HI WHAT’S YOUR NAME” at everyone I see here. I need some frieeeends.
Well now that was a boring post. Sorry about that. I am kind of bored tonight, so I am getting my emotions out on this. Well, goodnight world! Xoxo!!!!