I am still not totally organized in my new apartment. Around my desk there is a lot of clutter. I haven't quite figured out where to put everything. When it gets bad enough, I will probably make myself organize it all. But for now, it will stay like that. My roommates have had their stuff put away since the second day after we moved in—they are a lot cleaner than I am.
I like our apartment much better than the dorms. I have not actually missed Williams too much. I seem to only miss being so close to campus and near all of my floormates. Here we have a kitchen, a living, a “bed” room, and an office. It works pretty well; when my two roomies are in bed, I can study in the office. I have already done that a couple of nights this year. There have only been two big problems with the apartment. Since we are half underground (on the first level), we have a big bug problem, especially with rollie pollies. They seem to come from everywhere. Our other problem has occurred because of the weather we have had lately. It has been raining off and on for the past week or so, and today it has not stopped. The roads are flooding along with everywhere else you go. That brings me to our other dilemma, which you probably could guess. The water has decided that it wants to live in our apartment as well. It is seeping up through the foundation. The apartment next to us was flooding in their kitchen, so I am very grateful that ours it not as bad.
The first two weekends back at Olivet, we had Ollies Follies. This is a competition between the different classes here at Olivet. Well, last weekend we had the talent show/movie competition. I decided to participate in the talent show. Every year each class has a different theme and color. This year the overall theme for Ollies Follies was “Through the decades”, so each class represented a different decade in the United States. The sophomores were the 80s and the color blue. With this in mind, we decided to learn the dance to Thriller and Footloose for the talent show. It was a lot of fun dancing, meeting other sophomores here at Olivet, and learning choreograph for the two songs. Not to mention the outcome of the whole competition. Usually the seniors win; however, this year they did not do very well at all. The actually competition was between the juniors and the sophomoresJ. I think this has only happened one other time the in history of Ollies Follies, but we WON! I was stunned when they announced it; I was positive the juniors had beaten us. I was a big surprise, but a very welcomed one!
From left to right: Emily, Abby, Rachel and me. Emily and Rachel are my two roommates, and Abby is one of my friends here. This picture was taken after we danced Thriller--which is also the reason we look like we do.
Celebrating our victory with the girls from my floor last year. It was great to see all of them together like this. It had been a long time!
This next week looks like it will be busy for me as well. I decided to play my viola for Broadway Review, which is this next weekend. I believe I have rehearsals every night this week. I am also hoping that I can go play in the rain tonight. A few of my friends are going to go mud sliding, and I want to join them. Whether I do or not depends on how long I am at Home Groups tonight. I am very excited for the home cooked meal that awaits me. =]
Well, I think that is most of the important things that have occurred lately. I love being back at Olivet again. It is almost as good as being at home for a little while. I had forgotten what it was like here, but this year is definitely much better than the last year. (I don’t have to worry about not knowing anyone and finding all new friends because I already know a lot of people. Not to mention I know my way around the campus as well.) Well, I hope you all stay dry, because it seems impossible here.
