Wednesday, September 1, 2010

The New Place

Hello!:) Sorry for the long wait. I moved in last Wednesday and now it's Wednesday night a week later. I've just been literally too busy to do much of anything in terms of online recreation. But anyway, I've got some pictures (not enough) and stories.
So like I said I moved in a week ago today. Devrey, Dad, and I took the day an
d drove down. We moved Devrey in in Salt Lake first, and then we drove to Provo for me. We got to my apartment park and checked in and a million phone numbers, fliers, and pamphlets later I was finally moved in. I'm just going to post the pictures right now and get them out of the way. Sorry I didn't get any "before's", but here are some pictures I took this afternoon. I'll start outside and then come inside into my room.



Here's the living room. Don't be fooled: that couch is the most comfortable thing I've ever come in contact with.

Looking at the kitchen from the living room. The hall to our rooms and bathroom is on the right.

The rest are of my room. Just a warning: I didn't clean anything up or even make my bed before I took these pictures haha. I just randomly decided to take them so...bear with me.

My little closet

Haha...so tidy.

So ya that's my half of the room. The other half is my roommate's and is obscenely pink, so I'll spare you. But my roommates are really awesome. One is from Colorado and the one sharing a room with me is from Idaho Falls. I got really lucky in the nice roommate department!

Here's a funny sign we passed by the library. There had been a booth there during all of Freshman Orientation and on the sign said something different every time we saw it. On the last day I think they were getting a little bored/desperate haha.

So Wednesday I met up with Jayde and Logan and we went to the welcome BBQ thing. The food wasn't amazing but it was still fun. Then we just went back to our apartments and finished unpacking and stuff.
The next couple days we spent walking around and getting familiar with things. From Wyview to campus is about 35 minutes, so by the end of the weekend our feet were killing us! We decided to definitely get a bus pass since none of us have a car. After the first ride on the bus we knew it was the best $100 bucks we had ever spent!
On Saturday we woke up early because we were going to meet Logan's family at Lagoon. So the plan was to ride the bus/trax thing to Salt Lake and meet up with Devrey, and then drive to Lagoon. Well we made it there, but it didn't go exactly as planned. I won't tell the entire story but Logan ended up leaving his laptop at one of the transfer points, and our schedule got thrown off. So we had to do some frantic figure-outing and ended up getting separated from him and...it was not pretty. At least not to me. I spent a good hour sitting next to Jayde at the train station contemplating my existence and wondering if I was enjoying this whole adult life thing yet. But eventually we got back together and got on what we hoped was the right train/trolley to Salt Lake. But we made it and Lagoon was fun and relaxing! From there we went straight home to Shelley to go to a couple of missionary farewells the next day. They were both really good! It was SO good to see my friends again and hang out with them. Even though it had only been half a week it felt like a lot longer. So Sunday was a good day and then that evening we packed back up and drove back to Provo.
Monday classes started. They've been going good so far! I got some really good teachers and I only have a couple of classes that I really don't like haha. But other than that they're going good and I'm optimistic. I finally think I won't get lost around campus anymore, so that's good.
Oh ya one thing that happened on Monday - I was coming back from my evening class and I was trying to hurry so I wouldn't be late for FHE. Well I ended up barely missing the bus. I would've just had to wait another half hour for the next one but I was stupid and decided to get on a different one that I thought for sure would take me to the same place. Nope! I ended up on the other side of Provo and had to figure out how to get back to my apartment. I was upset because it was dark and I was late for FHE but I figured out which bus to get on and made it back home about an hour later than I planned. But at least I didn't die!
Anyway that's my experience so far. Sorry I don't have more everyday-type pictures but they'd be boring anyway. So I'll post more when more exciting things happen!

5 comments:

  1. Great apartment!! Couch does look comfy:) I am glad you are getting settled and don't get lost on campus anymore:) Good luck with the bus system, I bet it can be confusing.

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  2. Glad we are getting updates! Looks like you are going to love college!

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  3. diggin' the blog dude! and kickin' crib! looks nice! =) hey Sadie's friend McKenzie Harmon(d) is staying at the same place you are! She knows me! So if you happen to meet her... ya! tell her hi! looks like fun! talk to you soon! =)

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  4. Dude, nice place ya got there. Be cool about fire safety.

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  5. Dude, you better post something soon! I am dying for an update on the life of Danielle!!! We miss ya and hope classes are going well!!

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