This is the post I promised to make

So this is it then.

I've been here since Friday now, so I guess this is my fourth day here.

On Friday, I basically packed in Sydney, drove down to Canberra with my mum, got here to my new residence (it's called Fenner Hall) at about 4pm unpacked my crap into my new dorm, bought some groceries and just came back. Since Friday was a day before Orientation Week (O Week for short, and we've made out theme Mexic-O-Week) started, almost no First Years (they're all the new kids) had arrived yet, so it was just a few older students setting up and shit. I talked to a few of them and like, holy shit, this place is really welcoming. Of course everyone is nervous as fuck and it's weird enough coming to a new place, but they really make it hard NOT to make friends.

That night I just stuck in my dorm on my computer and felt sorta shit. Even though I knew I would be fine it's hard not to feel sad when you're leaving your fam / comfort / lifestyle behind. Plus, I knew no one here, so I didn't feel like I had anyone to talk to.



Anyway, second day was way more productive. In the morning I met up with my mum and we bought some more supplies, had brunch at some mulitcultural festival, picked up a bar fridge she had bought for me from someone, and then saw a movie as one last thing to do together.
The first event for O week was just a floor meeting with all the First Years on the floor and the Senior Resident for the floor (I'm on South 4, and there's like 3 new dudes and like 8 new girls, so pretty good gender balance I say.) That was cool, semi awkward but not really. Just in the way that when you put a bunch of new kids in the same room who don't know each other there's going to always be a bit of awkwardness. We settled in pretty quickly.
Then there was a welcome speech with all the first years, a general low down of the rules, dinner, trivia, and just a chance to socialise. I didn't meet anyone I really liked at first, but as the night went on I met more and more people and pretty soon had some friends. All cool as fuck people.
Then there was drinks after everything, people just in the courtyard talking, then a few of us (including some of the girls on my floor) went clubbing, lol. How typical. I got pretty hammered, the club was sufficiently full of people (you don't want an empty club), made out with a chick, and then I left everyone to get a taxi home with some random asian guy. It was a pretty eventful night for a day when I had barely met these people.


Sunday was yesterday, probably best day yet. I woke up at like 11.30 after clubbing, had shower, etc. and got down to the foyer at like 1 (I missed brunch), then basically we spent the day chatting with new people. Cool shit. Playing pool, checking out the halls, etc. We went out on some "coffee tour" or some shit to Civic (which is like the CBD here. It is suprisingly big and city-like. It feels like a well-developed Sydney suburb, with like office buildings, shopping centers and everything) and just drank coffee at like 3 different places. Dear god everyone at Fenner is easy to get along with. You can just talk to anyone, no matter what age or we're they're form.
Then we got back, had dinner again, then we had this event called Speed Friending, so just thinking speed dating but with just casual conversation. Tiring shit, I don't know how many times I said "I'm doing a Bachelor of Latin American studies, yeah."
After that, it was just talking with friends. We had tea in one of the small kitchens on each floor, talking about random shit, good times. The dorm buildings have roofs you can go on with benches and shit, so we went there and talked just about shit for hours. No one could be fucked doing anything so we all just went to our dorms at like midnight, and then I just played Skyrim till 3.


Then that brings me to today. Since I went to bed so late I woke up pretty damn late, so I missed my chance to actually go to the Uni and attend some learning skills lectures and shit like that. Not too disappointed, but I still need to check out the campus before I go there. Have to enrol and shit.
So then I just dicked around for like 5 hours watching MTV, got a slurpee with a friend, got bored and now I'm here. Tonight more shit is planned; there's massive events pretty much every day.




So yeah. That's been Fenner Hall for me so far. No cooking so far because all the food has been provided for O week, and I'm still not fully unpacked (lol), but I've got time.


And yeah. There's a girl. I don't want to say for sure, but I'm pretty sure there's a girl. Girls.