Second orientation day! Aside from the pep rally, I'd say this was probably the better of the two orientation days overall--got a free shirt, a free odd little semi-backpack-like bag thing, and (after turning in my medical papers and student info forms) got another free shirt. Both are 2XL, so they only barely fit me, but... they do fit, so that means I've got two extra shirts now in addition to the 10 or so I brought. May need to get more shorts, though--I found that two of the pairs I have keep falling down whenever I have anything in the pockets (one that I knew did that because they're too big for me, and the other that... never did that until just recently, so I guess I must not have worn those much since I lost all that weight a year or two ago.)
Food continues to be good--French toast sticks (and Cocoa Krispies... or not; they were labeled Cocoa Krispies but they seemed to be Cocoa Puffs instead) for breakfast, and the usual giant salads for lunch and supper. Plus ravioli for lunch (yes, ravioli! a school cafeteria that serves freakin' ravioli! they had tortellini too, but I didn't try any since I was already full) and biscuits for supper.
No freak thunderstorms during orientation stuff today, though the sky was all gray and getting-ready-to-rain-ish all day. Guess we're getting the hurricane stuff tomorrow instead. Since I'm a transfer student I got shuttled out of the gym/meeting-room place during the "new freshmen coming in" survey, and got a free bag (which everyone else also got, whether they stayed in there or not... heh.) Bumped into a girl taking pictures of the fish in the koi pond (yes, taking pictures of the fish!) and ended up talking to her for a while; turns out she's from Texas and has never seen so much water in one place before. Lots of people from really, really far away here, it seems.
One bad thing was the pep rally. I probably shouldn't have gone; I always hated the ones at high school, but for some reason I got the idea in my head that this one somehow might be different. Wasn't, pretty much the same old "everyone is yelling and it's crowded and horrible" stuff (though I don't think AHS's cheerleaders could ever do six or seven backflips in a row like that.)
The dance, on the other hand, turned out good. Probably one of the best ones I've been to. Actually danced (well, slow-danced, since I can't dance to anything fast at all) a couple of times, and amazingly one of those times I actually managed to ask someone to dance rather than the usual strategy of "stand/sit somewhere until a girl comes over and asks me to dance" (which also worked later on.) The quote in the title was actually from a girl I danced with, by the way... when talking about how bad I am at dancing I said that I'd probably end up accidentally stomping on her feet (which didn't happen, thankfully) and when it was over that's what she said. Such a funny quote I pretty much had to put it somewhere!
Lots of wandering around and talking to people, and I'm actually sort of getting to know people now. Was surprisingly easy for me to just walk up to people and start talking to them--kind of weird how easy it was, actually... usually that's one thing I have a hard time with. I guess it's because SVU is so far removed from the AHS crowd of people (and the entire area!) that I don't have quite as much of the "afraid people will automatically hate me for no good reason" thing when bumping into new people here.
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