Well, I've now been to all of my classes at least once. Pretty exciting business, I know!! I really like all of them (except math is ridiculously elementary at the moment, but I know that will change in time.) The only problem is that I have 10 minutes to walk what normally takes about 15 minutes to walk...so that's pretty exciting...HA. I basically speed walk the whole walk and hope that I make it in time. However, I do love that my days all go from 10-1.

This week has been signing up for/auditioning for/learning about all the groups on campus. Important news: I GOT INTO DSO!!! (Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra) Funny thing is that they told us we needed to come at 7:30 one morning to fill out paperwork and it ended up being that they made us breakfast instead. Kind of a cruel trick as we all walk for 15 minutes in the freezing cold in our PJs, expecting to be done in 2 minutes.

I've been to the Hanover ward now (best sacrament meeting in a long time) and I also went to the bishop's house where he and his family had a barbeque for all of us students. It was so nice to be away from the dorms and being with people I didn't really feel like I needed to be so guarded or fake with (I mean, I just felt a lot more comfortable I suppose.) Plus the food was great! And seeing all these people, many of them seniors, so easily interacting with each other made me hopeful that things do get better. You do make best friends. You can find your home and feel completely comfortable. I just gotta wait it out.

Also, I've signed up for fencing PE (how awesome does THAT sound?!), possibly joining Cabin and Trail (part of the Outdoors Club), and I signed up for lots of community service opportunities.

I'm definitely finding out who I think I'll be hanging out with a lot, but I still get bouts of loneliness. I think it's that when I am home in Oceanside, I don't feel lonely when I just sit at home by myself. But when I'm here, I feel like the only person in the whole world. Like I can't even describe it. I don't have my mom in the next room over. I can't just call my best friends up and figure out something to do. I can't play with my dog or watch one of my favorite movies. I don't feel home here yet. So while I am loving meeting all the new people and going to classes and having all these experiences, I still feel like I'm not entirely 100% in love with life. Which is sad, cause I love to love life!