So iv been at Millersville University Pennsylvania for four nights now and not much has been happening as its just been orientation for all the new international students. Boring! There is only seven of us; Two Indian South African chicks (There Indian but from South Africa....from what iv gathered) Marissa and Taron there pretty quiet but cute I secretly think there narcotic dealing gangstas. I asked Taron if i could call her Taz dog she didn’t seem too pleased but i just ran with it anyway. Also two French ladies who both have boyfriends that I insisted they get rid of ASAP their names are Lisa and Anne they don’t speak the best of English but they want to learn how to skateboard before they leave which is gunna be fun! Then there is only one dude from Chile who’s name I can’t pronounce to save myself let alone remember it so i asked him if i could just call him JQ and i think he said that’s fine...he doesn’t speak the best of English either. And there is well me and Shilo the loud mouth Aussies. Iv already been labelled the crazy one.
First thing they said to us at orientation was pretty much “Your all gunna get fat....” Great... We have been fed so much and the food over here is so incredibly unhealthy and massive its ridiculous. Me and Shilo have been obsessing over what we eat and how much we eat. We have been pretty good so far. No desserts and trying desperately to stay away from carbohydrates (Carbs are the enemy!!) and eating anything on the menu with the lowest calories in it. Hopefully we keep it up and don’t turn into another fat American statistic. Wouldnt want my thunder thighs any bigger than they already are. Wouldnt mind the bigger boob size but im not willing to risk the possible boob growth for fat legs.
Anyway first night me and SHilo just skated up and down the corridor till 2am day two i almost fell asleep during more orientation crap about how we are probably gunna hate our first week and want to go home...probably even cry. Wow looking forward to that thanks for the encouragement. Then the lecture about drinking was absolutely classic! They gave us a speech about what we should say when a Millersville student asks us to come to a party and drink with them and how we should politely say ‘Thankyou but no thankyou I don’t want to put myself at risk of getting in trouble because if i do it affects me more then you but i appreciate the offer very much i just have to think of the consequences but perhaps we could catch up for lunch or coffee sometime’ Ohh yes thats exactly what im going to say when a uni student asks me to party when im trying to make friends. HA! We also got told the work load is so much more then Australia and heaps harder and they told us all these scare tactics about getting caught drinking in the dorms. But one of the first girls we met here Julia a Dutch chick who is fucking wicked told us the work is piss easy and they have already allocated her friends dorm for drinking. There are three Dutch chicks who are here purely too party this exchange doesn’t even count towards their degree their just doing it for the experience. Yeh me and SHilo have been hanging out with them haha
Thursday night we went ice skating which was sick i was the first on the ice and it was actually so much harder then i thought. I couldn’t stop laughing i was in hysterics for the first three laps everyone was giving me the kooky eyes. I felt like a giraffe trying to walk for the first time. But i soon got the hang of it and was bossing around like a boss. My legs were fucking killin after. Friday night it started snowing i had never seen snow before so i was flippin out. I watched it fall for about half an hour then got SHilo and we ran outside at 1.30am and played in the snow for ages i was so excited and pumped I wasn’t even cold. Massive stipples but! Its so beautiful. Probably gunna be over it within the week but right now im still loving it. We were supposed to go on an Amish excursion Saturday but it got cancelled because of the snow which was unfortunate we just bummed around inside most of the day. But Sat night we went disco bowling and the Amish people were there! These chicks were rockin the most ridiculous outfits and had these things on their head that looked like a set of white boobs. And the boys had the worst haircuts iv ever seen in my life. Like bobs. Beatles bobs but worse. First there were only three boys there before the rest came and they were wearing matching suspenders, funky coloured shirts and black pants and these stupid bob cuts. I said to Shilo maybe there in a beatles band or something then more came and i was like maybe that haircut is just the trend in Pennsylvania at the moment....but then when the chicks came we got told they were the Amish teens who get the chance to try out normal people stuff and decide whether they want to stay an Amish folk or join the real world. What a choice. Anyway we went to leave and all there horse and carts (buggies they call em) were outside so we started taking photos with them and then another one rocked up and our guides told us to get in the van straight they weren’t even joking we were literally running for the Van the Amish were not happy at all. Paul said they actually believe we take away their soul when we take photos of them thats when Paul told us they get the chance to think wow maybe life as an Amish really does suck zomg! hahahah i was laughing for ages. Other then that its probably one of the quietest Saturday nights iv had in years. Paul said he would come pick me and Shilo up for a party which we were pretty excited for. But then told us they had run out of beer L Apparently what happens at parties is the guys who put them on will buy all the alcohol kegs and what not and then you pay like $5 or free if the guys pay for you and then you get a red cup (Yeh just like the movies) and you get to drink as much as you want. Gunna be saaaa Craig
So today is Sunday and all the students are rocking up im still waiting to meet my roomie.... rumours in the dorm are she snores...real bad! Greatttttt i can barely stand hearing Renae snoring from the other Bedroom of the house.
Differences so far between the university back home and here; You are treated more like a child. I feel like im back in highschool all the corridors and bathrooms are decorated with cartoon pictures and streamers and shit. Everyone decorates there doors. Parents come in and drop you off at your dorm. WE have hall monitors....You have to eat at the big halls and stuff very limited self sufficient cooking. And apparently you have to go to all your classes teachers take attendance and get really annoyed if your not there. FUCK! You get heaps of homework and you have to call them Mrs, Mr, professor or Doctor and their last name. All the girls are running around like grade 8ers at a bluelight.... I have been introducing myself and shaking their hand and they have been looking at me hell weird so iv stopped that. The dutch chicks are mad and have been clubbing since they were 16 and feel the same as we do so probs be hanging with them.
School starts tomoz. Fucka ma life! Will let you know how it goes.
