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| alitar (profile) wrote, on 9-1-2003 at 12:25am | |
| Current mood: tired Subject: Small pleasures... |
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| I'm posting now, dumbass (can't use DA for short form as it reminds me of David Anders, the guy who plays my TV boyfriend no. 3, Sark, on Alias; no. 1 is a tie between Adam Brody and Michael Vartan). I'm at Western, at the end of my second day. I live in one of the suite style residences that have SO much room it's incredible. 2 bathrooms for 4 people. I have a living area, kitchen, and my personal room. I have nothing on the walls yet, but I'll bring pictures and art to spice things up. My suite mates are all really nice, friendly, slightly shy and seemingly academic people. We hang out together all the time, for meals, frosh activities, campus walks, everything. It's really nice to have 3 approachable, gentle people to live with. My neighbour and I share a bathroom, while the other two share the one on the opposite side of the suite. I totally lucked out, because she is a NEAT FREAK. Yesss. We keep our bathroom perfect, with a cute fish floor mat in front of the shower, matching Braun Oral-B toothbrushes, and separate drawers. The smart girl brought disinfectant, so everything is clean! Whoo-hoo! This is exciting, folks. I'm serious. Move in day was pretty good, although after my parents left I felt extremely lonely. I'm still not comfortable here just yet, but I'm better tonight than I wsa last night. I fine in my own suite, with the 4 of us together, but outside, there are over 6000 first years none of whom I know. It's only Day 2, so everyone's still really nice and introducing themselves, but after sending and receiving dozens of introductions, I turn around and forget every single one of them. It's an art, I swear. I get their name, and then just forget it a second after, even if they're still talking. Enervated, LOL. Western is WHITE COUNTRY. My suite mates: an Asian (I think anyway, not CHinese), an Indian, and a white. Not bad. At least I didn't get stuck with 3 hardcore partying white girls who have sex with their boyfriends and smoke and drink. Thank goodness. There are many rooms for all 4 white girls on my floor, many of whom seem to know each other from high school. It's hard to bond with anyone on this floor. The rooms are far apart, many have their doors closed, and ours is all the way at the end of the hallway, so not many people walk past it. I feel better today because I finally talked to some Chinese people. Enervated (you're E or En from now on), again, LOL. You're right; it's like I've completely lost the ability to communicate effectively with The White People. I can handle minorities fine, but White People? Forget it. They're nice for now, but a few weeks later? I can tell they're going to be The Cool White People. I have met some shyer white people, resembling Emily Da Silva type people who live right on top, so I'll definitely pay them a visit. The AEO is in my building, but on the other side. So I didn't end up lucky twice, but I'll take Elgin and shut up. I met two Chinese girls from that floor, who I felt pretty comfortable with (dude, UTS is a BAD influence), so I'll visit them. I hope I'll be able to remember their names. Also, I was walking back to the suites after some cheering events alone, because I had lost my suite mates in the crowd, and I saw another Chinese girl walking nearby, so I thought, what the hell, I'll go introduce myself. Turns out it's Nancy's One Western Friend! Debbie! She lives at Alumni house, just across the street, very nice girl, so I'll go talk to her as well soon. Out of thousands of people, the one person I chose to talk to is someone I was looking forward to meet. Again, luck. I brought a Frish Week package for 65 bucks yesterday, and there was a bright orange Elgin EXTRA LARGE tee-shirt inside that we're encouraged to where these few days of Frosh, so most people have been wearing their res shirts of various super bright colours. Apparently, cheering is a huge thing here, and I'll assume where you are as well, so all the residences have about 7 different cheers, and we scream them at each other at huge gatherings. Stupid, but in good spirit, and everyoone's new, so why not make a big fool of ourselves? Our cheers are cute, ie. Suite! Style! Sweet! Style! to rub in our new, pretty rooms, but there are some, um, interesting ones as well, like: E-L-G-I-N, N-I-P-L-E, the latter a loose reverse of the first, pronouced "nipple." Every res has come up with a sexual spin on their names or mascots (ours is a tame garden knome sp? Hee). Another cheer is, after some guy plays a little tune on his megaphone, we all yell at the top of our lungs "NIPPLE!!" Lol. A res across the street has a chicken for their mascot, so, as you may guess, the word "cock" is used in many of their cheers. Another res is named Essex. So there were many moments today, as we were waving our towels hockey-style, banging our pots and pans and blowing whistle in a big lecture hall and outside on campus, during which I thought: "What the FUCK am I doing here?!" This is a white party school! Why did I not choose to go to Waterloo, again? I need to go join the Chinese club, the Mahjong Club, the AEO club, and find myself some people I know how to talk to! I miss everyone, and I hope people'll write to me often. Please do, I'll reply. I'll be in Toronto on the 12th to 14th, same as En and tri, so I'll try to drop by UT to see everyone. love, alitar ps. saw Canadian Idol (not particularly talented) Top 30 finalist Taylor Done- or whatever- today. Not particularly impressed with his manners. p.p.s. Had a hypnotist come in to Western today to do a show. Hilarious. I'll tell you about it when I come back. |
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gbk | 09-05-03 2:00am Dude, ALL the people I've met (and still talk to) are Chinese. I need to make it stop! I kind of wish it was more white here =) But not the partyers of couse.
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