right…so…i’ve been here at uarts for about 5 days now, and classes are due to start tomorrow.

orientation has been an experience. lots of kids decided that they were too cool to participate in many of the activities, and while i myself missed a couple of surely ace workshops, i’ve actually been to most of the things that were on the schedule.
including the “sex and excess” assembly held on sunday…which i managed to capture a snippet of on my camera. take a gander and get a nice feel of how they do things here:

click–>“sex and excess” assembly

then it went from awesome to rockawesome on monday night, when after famous comedian, rene hicks did her act, there was a kick-a** dance party bumping ALL NIGHT LONG (until 11:30)! check it, son…

…jealous?!?!?!

move-in on friday was fairly painless, and while furness hall is hot and steamy, it’s actually not bad. the room is decent, the courtyard is decent, both of my r.a.’s are decent, the people in this building are decent, and my roommate is decent. that’s right…singular. one. i originally had two roommates, but one of them decided that philadelphia was just too horribly unbearable, and she left on sunday evening. i think that i would probably understand it more if it weren’t for the fact that i grew up around here. philadelphia still has that “home” feeling for me.

as for the social atmosphere, i fear that i’m not taking full advantage of my surroundings. not yet, anyway. classes will start and i’ll probably sink into a more comfortable position in the coming weeks, but i’ve only found a handful of people with whom i could bother to spend any time outside of orientation. it really is just me, though…the people here are great, but i seem to have impossibly high standards when it comes to teenaged peers. i need more substance than idle walks and sitting around, laughing while someone does something stupid. it’s too reminiscent of being at a large party where i don’t want to be, and where i don’t know anyone. sort of like high school. yeah…meh…high school.

that’ll all fade away, i’m sure. i’ll find my like-minded folk, and we’ll skip off into the sunset with sparkling eyes and monumental grins. it shall be a long-term goal of mine.
as for a short-term goal, i need to skip over to utrecht tomorrow morning and pick up some pencils and a 24″ metal ruler before class. and get groceries before the weekend.

effing neat.