The time has come. Emmy is in college.

I started this blog back in December (re-reading that previous post made me laugh) but I never really got to active blogging so I kinda just swept it under the rug. But now that I’m in a totally new environment, here’s a good place for spitting out random thoughts. :)

I’ve been here in Bloomington, Indiana since Monday, August 24th. I shipped two boxes of stuff over from the week before containing my blanket and my pillow and some winter jackets, so they were here waiting for me when I got here. I flew over myself, with my gigantic rolling duffel full of clothes that I couldn’t get off the baggage claim carousel on the first heave. :( Kind of embarrassing. Everyone just stood and watched too! Hmph. Oh yeah, for those of you who ask me “So where is Indiana?” NO its not in the middle of nowhere! The campus is a lot like UC Santa Cruz actually. It’s set in the rolling hills and there are lots of trees everywhere. The big forest kind. :) AND THERES ONLY CORN IN THE RURAL AREAS!

There ya go! Bloomington is an hour south of Indianapolis where I fly to. I started this frequent flier thing with Frontier Airlines which always stops in Denver. But its okay because it’s cheap. Anyways, after landing in Indianapolis, I take a shuttle to Bloomington which drops me off right in front of my dorm!

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Class starts tomorrow, but it’s been interesting so far! I’m here to get a business degree with the Kelley School of Business, and was lucky enough to get into the Kelley Living Learning Center. So my whole dorm 4 floors, 250 students are all business majors. I guess it’s good in the way that we all take the same classes and were all kinda on the same page. We had a retreat on Tuesday at a professors giant ranch house, and it was almost identical to Leadership retreat and Gym Jam. Plus a lot more awkward ice breakers though.

On Wednesday my roommate Allie came with me to the gigantic Target at College Mall. We hopped on bus and it took about 15 minutes, and I basically got alll my college stuff. Shower caddy, mattress pad, white board, Brita water filter pitcher, binders/notebooks/paper, hangers, shampoo/conditioner, etc. The bus stop is at the bottom of a hill and our dorm is at the top, so thanks Allie for helping me carry 6 bags of stuff all the way back. :)

Some random hilarious tidbits:

- Some people here have southern accents. awkward mom. They say AAAH-K WERD  MAM. Hahahaha. It’s all pretty nasally.

- You can’t buy alcohol on Sundays. Apparently Indiana is part of the “Bible belt” but I’m not sure because people were arguing about it in the hallways. Shrug.

- My room mate who is from South Bend (four hours north of Bloomington, also home of Notre Dame) says in her town everyone has horses. And the best part is… okay you know how people back home have house parties? PEOPLE IN SOUTH BEND HAVE BARN PARTIES HAHAHHA. And its exactly what it sounds like!! Someones parents are oblivious or too far away from the barn during the night, and the kids break in to drink and hang out with the horses and tractors!! Oh gosh I had a field day. Bahahhaha. Welcome to the Mid-West I suppose.

The weather is different but not significantly. It’s a lot more humid, so the nights are a bit warmer. Other than that its basically the same as Cupertino! Except… on thursday is was 85 degrees plus humidity, and at about 3 in the afternoon it starts POURING RAIN. Like no other. Then it just stopped. like within 5 seconds. It was wack.

It’s 11:30 and I’m tired. My first class (National and International Policy) is at 9:30 tomorrow so I’ve got some time to sleep in. Oh! And all the freshman got free tickets for the first football game against Eastern Kentucky on Thursday night! :) The renovating of our stadium just finished up this summer, so this’ll be the first game in it. The new one has two decks surrounding the entire field, including the end zones. This is our old one:

At the bookstore I saw a shirt that said HOOSIER DADDY? Hehe.

Oh yeah a Hoosier is simply a person who lives/resides in the state of Indiana. Our mascot is a little man wearing IU apparel. Hahahhaha. -____- Okay I’m out. Drop me a line if you read this! :D Lets stay in touch.

peace and love.