For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details Part 3 — Page 154

I am so. incredibly. bored. I was bored at *my* orientation, so my brother's is basically torturous.

It's probably just a blood blister.

I'm sorry, Ash. Why are your at your brother's orientation?

How much longer do you have to stay?

Elphie, what ended up being in your toe? I'm glad you got it out.

I ate too fast. I might throw up.

I called my mom a while ago and she said they're having one of the worst storms she's ever seen at home; it was pouring sideways, and there's terrible thunder and lightning. My pool might overflow and the front door is leaking.

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Updated On: 7/11/06 at 08:06 PM

We leave tomorrow afternoon, but then it's a 7 hour drive home.

The token theatre freak in our group suggested it. It involved forming a circle of people and someone standing in the center. The center person would point a person in the group calling out different objects, and the person had to transform him or herself into that object before the person in the center counted to five.

Totally not kidding. Everyone loved it, though, so I'm probably just lame.

ETA: Emcee, you have a pool?! Whoa.

Updated On: 7/11/06 at 08:14 PM

Ooh, awkward orientation games. Surprisingly, Chris hasn't really had to do any of that.... there's not much, like, splitting up of the parents and students. We were all together most of the day. I wish there were interesting areas to explore, but not so, at least that I've seen.

I just found out that my brother has about half of the broadway CDs that I want on his iTunes! Yay!!! Now I won't have to rob a bank to get the ones that I want!

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I was REALLY late to school this morning.
I almost missed my tap class.
The toe taps came off both of my shoes, so I had to do everything in jazz shoes.

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Ecology.

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So am I, Elphie, which is why I tend to appreciate "mixers" and stuff, as long as they're not TOO lame.

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Aww, Elphie. It's not like that. Chances are you'll be wearing a name tag so you can skip the I'm me part. :-P

Really, most people are in the same boat as you. I felt the exact same way before my orientation. My mom skipped it and went shopping, so at our first "event" almost everyone was with parents, so it's not like I could approach if I wanted to. So I very timidly walked around, saying nothing. There was another girl doing the same. We passed each other twice, and though we both were shy, the third time, we both were kinda like okay we might as well talk at this point. And talk about luck on my part. I was wearing my Grease shirt so she said after a few sentences, she said she loves my shirt. Do I like musicals because she loves them. Haha. That was it, suddenly we both were extremely outgoing talking all about theatre. We're still friends.

Similar thing happened with the one other girl from orientation that I'm still friends with. At one event, I saw one of the girls who was in the room I was in, and talked to her and these other girls, and one of them turned out to be obsessed with theatre, so once again, I was totally outgoing.

Even if you don't have that, you know, they dorkily try to break the ice for you. At dinner they assigned us to "groups" where like an orientation student dude would sit with us and try to get us talking if we weren't already. You have the people in your room who you're in the room with, so you might as well talk. And then you find people who are in all your "events" and kind of stick with them. Most people I talked to I never saw again, but I got through it.

And I was terrified as well. You know how short I am, and I kept telling my mom that....everyone looks soo talllll

It's normal to be nervous, but you'll be fine

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