Move-in day was last Thursday for returning students (everyone moves in so early because the choir conductors have to place everyone into voice parts in the choirs). When I walked in with my parents, who were once again really happy to drop me off and get me out of the house, we looked around the room and saw that there was no chest of drawers. Now I know the closet has space, but it doesn't have enough to fit all of my clothes and my bath/cleaning supplies. We found my RA and asked her to put in a work order for drawers, but she told us that they may have a short supply because so many people were already putting in work orders for drawers. Great... So, I left all of my clothes in my suitcase, set up everything else, and by the time my parents and I came back from lunch, we saw a chest of drawers sitting awkwardly in the middle of the room. Well, I told my dad that Sarah, my new roommate who is awesome btw, and I would handle it. Unfortunately, Sarah and I couldn't find any
room to put the drawers on the wall, so it still sits awkwardly in the middle of the room. Sarah decided to cut some sticky notes and make a smiley face to stick on it as well as hang up hooks to bring some meaning to the drawers. I now have two hooks on my side that will eventually hold all of my scarves.
So since move-in day was Thursday and classes start tomorrow, I basically had a whole week of free time. I thought that it would be really difficult to find things to do, but I was wrong. I had three movie/game nights, a picnic on the Princeton battlefield along with a fun and interesting game of badminton (six people while only having four rackets, the wind blowing, and none of us being very athletic), a welcome-back BBQ with the Westminster Christian Fellowship, and a girls' night out to a Chinese restaurant and the small movie theater where I got to see "Julie and Julia" for the second time :) I had so much fun getting reacquainted with my friends, plus my friends seemed to enjoy the fudge I made for them.
Even though I'm having such a wonderful time, I'm not having the best of luck when it comes to injuries. In six days, I managed to give myself two major blisters (that was my own stupidity) and a swollen shin. On Sunday, I did the mile walk to Trinity Church for the first time since May and I decided to wear my brand new high heels without any stockings/pantyhose/padding and I gave myself two fine blisters on each of my pinky toes. Much to my embarrassment, the family showed up to church, but it was also nice that I had a ride back to the campus, haha. The shin, on the other hand, was the result of me being the unfortunate one who was on the end of my team's line when we played "Red Rover" at the Christian Fellowship BBQ. A person on the other team was called over and she tried to run and break through the grip between Andrew (the guy standing next to me) and me. She didn't get through, but she took me along for the ride and I ran into the side of the swing set that was next to me. My shin hit a corner and it's now swollen. I guess being part-Treusch I should know that I'm prone to getting injuries.
Anyway, I've been having a great time and I'm enjoying the last few hours that I have before I lose most of my social life. This year, besides taking classes, practicing voice and piano for 4-6 hours a day, and ripping my hair out over music theory homework, I'll be returning as an active member of Christian Fellowship, Sigma Alpha Iota, and MENC (Music Educators National Conference). I'm also going to serve as a coach for students taking
Critical Pedagogy II online, you know, the class I took over the summer and almost needed therapy afterwards. I'll still be at Trinity and I will once again sing with the CMENC Singers (where we sang choral music from Brazil). This year, we will be singing Hanukah jazz music and will be going on a trip to Longwood Gardens in December! This is worth double Professional Development Activity (PDA), so I'll have all my hours done for this semester and next semester! Wish me luck! I'm going to need it...
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