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Posted Friday, September 9, 2011 // 0 Leave a comment!

Is pretty great. My first day was Wednesday and I made the great decision of wearing four inch platform wedges. As you can see, my feet were incredibly swollen on Thursday and still are, though not as badly. It was horrible! My toes were so swollen, I couldn't get them to move apart. And, because the wedges were peeptoe, there are two, huge blisters on my big toes--ignore the lovely Incredible Hulk band-aid.

My first class starts at 10:30 and is Swahili 1. My professor's name is Fidele and his first language is French. It's kind of cute, really, because he'll ask us, "How you say in English?" He's also a refugee from Rwanda, but didn't want to talk about it, because it was "A long time ago." He lived in France after that, then moved to America. I believe this is his fifth year in the US and third teaching at Columbia.

Next up was a wait of six hours. Because it was Wednesday, I have no class scheduled in the middle. I went looking for The Loft, which is this freakin' awesome place with plasma tvs, beanbags/chairs, a microwave, and wifi. Sadly the tv wasn't working. Boo. So I hung out there for three hours, until Angelica got out of class and we could go get lunch. I had opened an Arizona, but in the distraction of meeting up with her, I left it on the fucking table! XO I suck, I know. I did feel bad though.

So we ate at Panera bread, but I had brought a lunch, so I only got a (clear) lemonade. I also met her roomate, Ray. I thought she was wearing these cool gauges and almost told her so, then I realized they were tumors/leasons. Still, I thought they were neat. She turned out to be pretty rad and I'm looking forward to hanging with her again.

We went shopping at Forever21, so I could get socks, and American Apparel. I knew they were expensive, but fuck. I found a headscarf/scarf, but it was $18 and I couldn't decide if I wanted it or not. I'll prolly go back and get one. I've been searching for a while and they're really that staple for my wardrobe.

Finally, we meandered back to my Writing and Rhetoric building. The class was chill and the guy sitting next to me, Cameron, was really nice. I'm looking forward to talking with him tomorrow. He's a game design major, as is half our class. You know how much I love games, so this is boss. There were two other Indiana guys there! Granted, I'm not a man, but they were the first Indiana students I had found. Hopefully we'll bond, because they weren't far from where I live. We introduced ourselves and that was it.

Of course, because I commute an hour and a half there and back, I had over an hour to waste before my train left. So what did I do? Go look for The Loft, take the elevator, and find out the place closed at Eight. Fantastic. I traveled far and wide (10 minute walk) to Carribou Cafe and bought a dark chocolate hot chocolate. They're a coffee place, but since I don't drink coffee, this was the next best thing. AND IT WAS DELICIOUS. I will forever go there for hot chocolate now.

That's how my first day of college was.