So first off:
Ive kept meaning to write whats been going on down here. JUst because its alot diffrent than all the "freshman stuff" and "college stuff" that goes on back home. but due to circumstances beyond my control (aka 2 computers breaking down on me....) i havent been able to keep up as much as i would like.
so here is the be-all end-all entry that few people will read. but it will make me feel better.
my parents and i drove from Portland, Maine, u to Castine. (about 2.5 hours) after my dad landed from the overnight flight. we spent the night in a dinky motel and then the next day was the beginning of Freshman orientation. my parents stayed for about half the day. (there were a couple f lectures adn stuff they had to stay for) but then it was time for them to go.
so what followed were three days of endless lectures and more icebreakers than life, and lots of lingo learning. see...first thing you Learn at this college is that everything is shortened. if you ask someone what their major is, and they say "MTO, and ive gotta go through MUG Month, cuz im REG, and i am NOT looking forward to RPT." you better as HELL know that they mean: "Marine Transportaions Officer, and i have to go through MUG Month (the first month that they start teaching the Regimental kids...) because im Regiment, and i am NOT looking forward to Regimental physical Traning (first week of Mug Month when they are SUPER FREAKING HARD on the regimental kids). Im not kidding. they have to be in uniform unless they are going to bed, but then they ahve to iron their sheets. they arent allowed to look at the independent (non-reg) kids, and if they are marching in groups of 2 or more...they can march, but if they are alone they have to run, and they ahve to eat square meals. wich means they cant chose what they eat, cant look at what they eat....ever. they ahve to sit at perfect attention (at only square, regiment tables of their class) and lift their fork up at a 90 degree angle take the bite, and put it down, etc etc etc. its just brutal. but thank god for the Reg kids. because they are about 75% of this schools population....and they provide about 50% of entertainment on campus. when your standing in the middle of the courtyard...and they are marching around. and their officers are yelling things at them like "YOU DO NOT HAVE EYEBALL PRIVLIGES!!!" its pretty much the most hilarious thing ever.
anyway. after the first three days of the lectures...we move on to the second part of "orientation" wich is really that they just want to get us off campus so that the REG kids can focus on RPT. so they take out fo various places to do some community service work. I was assigned to Acadia Ntnl. Park. wich is BEAUTIFUL. its an island...and omg. i got really close with some fo the kids in my group. Like Crazy Mary. why is she crazy you ask? no fear....i will tell you.
the first day at Acadia....they had us walking down a few paths taking branches that the warden had cuz adn dragging them into the woods. so they were outta sight and stuff. and i guess Mary was working a landscaping job over the summer...so she started off kinda telling the warden what needed to be cuz. she wo9uld be like "Ranger Bill, this one needs to go too." but by the end of it she was getting mean "Ranger Bill, what the fuck kind of cutting job is this?? your cutting it wrong! it needs to be liek this!" it was SO funny. jsut because it was SOO rude. i felt bad for ranger bill. and then later they had us go into the woods at a diffrent spot and take dead branches OUT (wich was the total opposite of the work we had been doing before...so we were like...wtf.) but thats when mary really started ripping into them. she had tree fo them there and was like "this is fucking stupid! why are you takking this wood to be burned! there are so many people that could use this wood! and you can't even cut it right and..." i mean she ranted for at least ten minutes. and the res to fus were in stiches. and the rangers sort of stood there and half laughed and half tried to reason with her. but there wasnt really much reasoning with Mary. to TOP it. a few days later we were walking down this LONG ASS road to get to a swimming place. (because im Maine...all the shores are rocky...so you have to walk to somewhere they have made it able to swim.) and they told us it would be like...a 20 miunte walk. ok. in Maine...apparently in Maine..."20 minutes" means "2 hours" that place was at least 5 miles away. lol. so were walkign this long ass road, and joking about hwo were gonna pull a car over and catch a ride. and the next car to come by...turns out to be one of the rangers who mary ripped apart. and so we start yelling "Hi's" to see if he'll slow down. and as he drives by he holes up two fingers in the symbol against a witch to mary. IT WAS HILARIOUS. but we didnt get a ride. wich sucked.
and i was walking on the beach with Ariel...(we were tide pooling. {wich is when you go look in the rocks when the tide is down for crabs or fish or watever might be left behind in little pools.}) and not only did we find cool stuff like that...i found a lobster bouey. so the first illegal thing i did as a college student? not drinking or anything like that. no. i stole a lobster bouey. you have to call them in by law. lol. its hanging in my room. i love it.
ok. section one to the "intro to MMA" is done.