August 24-27th
The Cultural Connections program ended awesomely. I made some pretty cool friends! We had sooo many activities. On one day, we went to this place called the Fieldhouse, which is, in my opinion, a Malibu-wannabe. But it was fun nonetheless.
Also, the squirrels here are FEROCIOUS. One day we were eating breakfast outside on Old Campus, and I put down my bagged breakfast (we were having intense Yale-discussions on politics and ethics and the economy and all those things, not childhood shows... :D). I had cut my bagel into sections and there were several pieces just looking delicious and all in the bag on the floor. Then, one of the squirrels had the audacity to steal my food. It scampered over to my bag, created...nay, FEROCIOUSLY TORE, a hole near the bottom of the bag (the bag's top was open, by the way), took a section of my bagel and decided to eat it near the location where my friends and I were sitting. The following pictures depict the evil squirrel. Be warned: it is an evil, evil short squirrel.
I was so pissed. I was in need of a good fur lining to my coat to get me through the East coast winters, so I suggested killing the evil animal, but these hippie college students convinced me otherwise. I still wanted to get that squirrel before it got me again. And get me it would, I knew it.
No lol. A week later, it would come to stalk me again. While I was sitting in my college's courtyard, I had SEVEN berries or whatnot thrown down at me from the trees above. I moved around, I promise. It was not coincidence. I yelled and threw a berry back at where I knew that squirrel was hiding, and before you know it, it scampers down from the tree, sits on a bench and stares at me. We have a staring contest for about three minutes, much to the amusement of onlookers. It then scampered away in its haughty, tail-waving demeanor.
During that pre-orientation week we also had a party, by the freshmen, for the freshmen. It was a pretty makeshift-like party in one of the unused suites on the 5th floor. Here is how the room looked like before:
After pushing the beds and desks to the side, the party started!There were only two people dancing, five others meandering.
They had awesome Pitbull songs! They tried! The International students were also having a preorientation program on campus, and somehow they got wind of it, and decided they wanted to have a party with equally "cultured" people. So they walked across Old Campus to L-dub (the name of our residential hall) and brought their exotic flava with them. Soon, the party looked like this:
It was actually pretty packed. The photo above was taken at the very beginning when the exotic international freshmen were shuffling in. Unfortunately, after TWO MINUTES, they noticed the lack of inebriating drinks and declared the party "lame." They were gone in two minutes, leaving the room like this:
Lawl.
The pre-orientation program ended with a talent show showcasing, get this, Yale frosh talent. Needless to say, it made me want to hang up my brand new Taylor 214-CE acoustic-electric guitar for good. The show ended with a big hurrah by the camp counselors, who sang "Lean on me." In a cheesy finale, we joined in and hugged and swayed to the music.
Present
I'm doing great! Just yesterday I got a sore throat, and it's starting to worsen and I'm beginning to get headaches and chills. It might be that I didn't get enough sleep on Monday night (to remedy that, though, I slept for ALMOST 12 hours on Tuesday night!!!). But I'm trying to get back in a schedule where I seriously get at least 7+ hours of sleep. That way I won't be completely burned out by my 3:00 class.
Freshmen are advised to take no more than four classes/credits. The classes that I am taking are Japanese L1, Introductory Graphic Design, Basic Drawing, and Spatial Language in Architecture. They are all so amazing!! I meet for Japanese once a day at 9:20 (which is COMPLETELY managable; it's an incentive to go to sleep earlier!). Graphic Design and Basic Drawing meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Architecture meets just on Wednesdays with a section on Friday.
I balance these with designing for the Saybrook Daybook (my residential college's lit and photo essay magazine) and La Fuerza (the latin american lit magazine on campus). I am also "technically" part of Design At Yale, but I haven't been going because I would be too time-constrained in the evenings. I also tutor kids in a bilingual second grade class in a New Haven elementary school! Putting the social responsibility aside, teaching them is just fun!!! I am also in MEChA, and am organizing the Dia De Los Muertos event now! OH! And this also is AMAZING: I work at Saybrook's buttery, called "The Squiche," which is a late night eatery run by STUDENTS. It is so amazing getting to know so many different people between 10 PM and 1 AM while making their super greasy grilled cheese with mozzarella sticks on the side.
I didn't have midterms. :D Instead I had TONS, or as I like to flaunt on the East Coast, HELLA, projects for my art classes. They are super challenging, super time consuming, and super fun. I have my midterm grade back from Japanese! And it's better than I expected! WOOHOO! I'm so happy! But just to make it EVEN BETTER, I'm getting a tutor and going to office hours. にほんご むずかしい ですねえ！
I'm having the time of my life here. :) However, one down side is the COLD. It's not even winter (It's barely October!) and it snowed last week. Luckily I went to NYC to visit Orlando/Lluvia/Rumika/Rocio and bought a heavier coat at H&M.
So this is my time at Yale thus far. I guess I'm doing ok. :D
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Call me whenever you have a chance and keep writing! Your blogs are the best!
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thats hella late.