Week 1= Success

Abbey and I found out we had to audition next Monday so we spent a lot of time this week searching for and memorizing monologues. So far my classes seem fun, interesting and I can understand all of my professors. I sure it will be a lot of reading and writing though! I already had a project due too!
We went to Amanda, Megan and Cam's house warming in Boulder and stayed the night at Taylor's apartment on wednesday! It was a fun get away and something we would have never been able to do if we were in college.

Friday I came down with the worst migraine I've had in a really long time so I spent most of my day sleeping and trying to keep food down but I mustered up all my strength to go to the Volleyball game, that way I wasn't completely wasting my first real Friday in college.  Then Taylor came to see me on Saturday evening so I got to see him twice in one week! We visited his best friend Jesse and watched the finale to Game of Thrones. Sunday night there was mass on the grass which was really cool and afterward I engaged in an intense game of ultimate frisbee!

All moved in and ready to go!

I packed up all my stuff and made my bed for the first time in months and left what I knew as mine to the unknown. It took about an hour and a half to get to Fort Collins and after hours of arrangeing and rearragning Abbey and I ended up with the sweetest set up on 3rd floor Aspen.
We went to lunch with the family and then were rushed off to a floor meeting and some welcome activities to get to know our neighbors. It was a whirl wind of fun and excitement but it made for some pretty hasty good byes with the parents. :(

       

In the end Ram Welcome week was a lot of fun I found out the people on my floor are awesome and they are going to become some of the closest people I know. I love that we all share a common desire for community. I met so many people and I failed at remembering names.

We made a trip to super target that was meant for only CSU freshman. It was crazy!!!!! Then we finished off the night watching brother bear in our neighbors room.

The night before classes started everyone was extremely exhausted! I went to church which is the cutest church ever and I can't wait to get involved and eat all the free food after mass.  That night to kick off the end of summer we made a colossal amount of puppy chow in our dorm room and fit like 20 people in to join us.

I can't wait to see what this year will bring!

Revelations

I have less than a week until I move up to Colorado State University. It's all so surreal. Some of my best friends have already left for their journeys. Some who are older than me never came home this summer. It has been a summer of transition, of learning, and of accepting. I know there is no way to keep in daily contact with all the wonderful people that have crossed my path over the years but I hope they all know what an impact they have made in my life. It is because of the people I met, mostly through theater, that I know I am ready to move on to the next stage of life. They have helped me get this far the next step is up to me.  Thankfully, I have Abbey at the same school and Taylor not to far away to help keep me balanced.
I AM READY!
Watch out world here I come.