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Sep. 17th, 2004 10:03 amAt long last I can update! Go me! I've been trying since I left (September 11), but my computer decided it wanted to be bitchy and wouldn't let me on line at all. You wonder why I hate it? But yesterday I took it to the computer services desk at the campus, and they have fixed it!
College is, so far, great. (You can actually walk through my room! It's big! Like a real bedroom!) My roommate is awesome; she brought a TV/DVD player, a mini-fridge, and she likes the J-rock that I've been playing from my iPod. These people include Seki Tomokazu, L'Arc, Porno Graffiti, and Kagrra,. And she thinks my posters of Dir en grey, Malice Mizer, and TMR are cool. I think we'll be getting along just fine. The other girls in my dorm are really awesome, too. Freya and Emily are probably the two I'd consider myself closest with right now, Caitlin is close behind. We all share similar muisc tastes (in English music), so we've been working on it from there.
We've had two days worth of activities (my parents left yesterday at 5:30), to help us get everything together (like our class schedules), and to help the transition. Tomorrow they've got a shopping trip planned from 10:00 to 4:00, incase any of us forgot anything. And Appleton really does have a city attatched to it, instead of just the campus (albeit it's small), so there are stores and a Starbucks. I'm waiting for the campus coffee house to open because it's so much closer.
Oh yeah, and there is a conspicuous lack of Bible pushers in the surrounding area. Thank God for liberal campuses.
The Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame is really cool; you could stand there for five days just listening to the music of the inductees. If I remember there were 5,000+ songs to go through. And the display of statue-guitars is pretty (all the guitars represent one of the inductees). There are also short movies about different things, like the history of rock, song-writing, and highlights from the performances of all the inductees. (We were in Ohio on our first day out.)
Chicago is a very nice city (it's very clean), with very nice and friendly people. The waitresses especially are really friendly and sweet and love to give you food. The restaurant we ate at had really good garlic bread (but 'nee-chan's mom's is better), and we tried the deep-dish pizza. I tell you, eating pizza with a fork just ain't right. But we had to because it was too heavy to be picked up. Chicago kind of reminds me of Coruscant from Star Wars, because everything is on levels, and you can walk underground in special walk-through tunnels. And I don't mean ones that just cross busy intersections; I mean full-out sidewalks that take you across the city. It's also built in two parts over a canal, with lots of bridges running over it, so it's really sci-fi-ish.
In spite of all the good stuff, though, I miss everyone and I can't wait for Thanksgiving. I had better see you all over that vacation! (Thanks be that classes have started yet - and don't start for almost another week.)
College is, so far, great. (You can actually walk through my room! It's big! Like a real bedroom!) My roommate is awesome; she brought a TV/DVD player, a mini-fridge, and she likes the J-rock that I've been playing from my iPod. These people include Seki Tomokazu, L'Arc, Porno Graffiti, and Kagrra,. And she thinks my posters of Dir en grey, Malice Mizer, and TMR are cool. I think we'll be getting along just fine. The other girls in my dorm are really awesome, too. Freya and Emily are probably the two I'd consider myself closest with right now, Caitlin is close behind. We all share similar muisc tastes (in English music), so we've been working on it from there.
We've had two days worth of activities (my parents left yesterday at 5:30), to help us get everything together (like our class schedules), and to help the transition. Tomorrow they've got a shopping trip planned from 10:00 to 4:00, incase any of us forgot anything. And Appleton really does have a city attatched to it, instead of just the campus (albeit it's small), so there are stores and a Starbucks. I'm waiting for the campus coffee house to open because it's so much closer.
Oh yeah, and there is a conspicuous lack of Bible pushers in the surrounding area. Thank God for liberal campuses.
The Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame is really cool; you could stand there for five days just listening to the music of the inductees. If I remember there were 5,000+ songs to go through. And the display of statue-guitars is pretty (all the guitars represent one of the inductees). There are also short movies about different things, like the history of rock, song-writing, and highlights from the performances of all the inductees. (We were in Ohio on our first day out.)
Chicago is a very nice city (it's very clean), with very nice and friendly people. The waitresses especially are really friendly and sweet and love to give you food. The restaurant we ate at had really good garlic bread (but 'nee-chan's mom's is better), and we tried the deep-dish pizza. I tell you, eating pizza with a fork just ain't right. But we had to because it was too heavy to be picked up. Chicago kind of reminds me of Coruscant from Star Wars, because everything is on levels, and you can walk underground in special walk-through tunnels. And I don't mean ones that just cross busy intersections; I mean full-out sidewalks that take you across the city. It's also built in two parts over a canal, with lots of bridges running over it, so it's really sci-fi-ish.
In spite of all the good stuff, though, I miss everyone and I can't wait for Thanksgiving. I had better see you all over that vacation! (Thanks be that classes have started yet - and don't start for almost another week.)
