I'm Backkkkk!

Oh my goodness, it has been longer than a long time since the last time I was on here. I really wanted to keep up with this blog, but like everything else in my life I got distracted and just gave up on it. I'm honestly trying to do better and I have a lot of plans of what I would like to post on here. I legitimately just made a sticky note on my laptop about different post ideas and so I'm actually looking forward to posting. 
Here's a quick little update on the chaos that is my life:
I just finished my third semester of college (yay!) and my first semester at the University of Texas. I met some amazing people and got closer to people that I have only known for a few months than people I have known my entire life! My roommate is crazy and scary but I love a big group of girls that live on my hall so I don't have to deal with her much. I love living in Austin, it's true about what they say. It's definitely weird but there is always something to do, somewhere to explore, and the food is really great! I never want to leave. The schoolwork kicked my butt and my GPA took the brunt of the pain. I registered late because I was a transfer student and went in pretty blind not knowing the good professors. I truly think that that really affected me and my classes. I am taking less classes next semester and I supposedly have some really teachers so I think that will help me out. I need to be making a certain GPA in order to get into my major. As I could not do this semester which is a major bummer. 
My studying abroad plans have changed quite drastically. The plan when I started this blog was to go with a professor I had last year to Europe for 5 weeks to 4 different cities. I attempted to contact this professor when he told me to so I could get more information about the trip, but he never replied. Just another disappointment. I ended up talking to my current French professor about an opportunity she talked to us about in class and she convinced me into applying for a trip to Lyon, France this summer. I think that this decision is better since I have never traveled abroad, especially by my self so travelling so extensively and essentially by myself was quite frightening to me. I think going to Paris for a week and then to Lyon for 5 weeks is much more doable for me. I'm not sure when I will find out if I got into this program, but I think that I should hear by the end of January. 
I feel so blessed to have gotten into this beautiful wonderful school that has genuinely been the best decision I have ever made and I can not remember a time I have been this happy! 
More to come soon. I promise! 

New Life In A New Town

I know it’s been about a million years since I’ve updated this thing, but when I’m signed onto my school email in Gmail it won’t let me go to the blogger website. It’s really annoying.

It's been an eventful week already. I just moved in yesterday morning and was completely unpacked by 1:00. Having to carry up all my stuff up from the pit parking lot and then up three flights of stairs was incredibly horrible. Apparently all the muscle in my arms turned to fat over the summer and they were of absolutely no help yesterday. I was shaking and sweating so badly. I saw a lot of the people I had creeped on/talked to on Facebook, but the only person I really talked to yesterday was my RA Abby. She’s a sophomore also and really cool. I ending up getting really bored waiting for my roommate, Erica, to show up especially after my parents left. She didn't show until around 5. It was just me and her having to get her stuff upstairs. We did it in one trip. Definitely a lighter packer than I am. After that we went to dinner downstairs together (it was delicious!). Then Erica went to her yoga class and I struggled to stay awake. At around 9:30 we headed down to the ballroom and watched This Means War with some of the girls living in the house. It wasn’t a very good movie. Except for the fact that Tom Hardy is freakishly gorgeous and perfect and I might be a little obsessed with him… After the movie I crashed and was out like a light by midnight. Erica went drinking with some of her friends at like 11:30. I have no idea when she got back. I left my bedside light on for her so she wouldn’t have to stumble around when she got home, but she never turned it off so it was on all night. Whoops.

Then today, we were up and ready for the day at a little before 9 and so we went down and got breakfast together. Then I was planning on going to go with Abby and some other girls on our hall to the bookstore and pharmacy on the Drag (where all the cool restaurants and shops on one block from campus and my dorm) but at 9:30 when we were supposed to meet up Abby was nowhere to be found! I went to her room but the door was closed so I went downstairs to see if she was in the main office or the living room but she wasn’t so I went back up to my room and saw that her door was now wide open! The house is so big that we never even crossed paths.

So since I didn’t get to go to the bookstore with everyone, Erica and I got really bored and so she decided to show me around campus since I've never had a proper tour. Before now it has just been me and Google maps struggling not to look completely lost when I was in Austin for orientation a couple months ago. We ended up walking through the middle of campus and then veered off to go to the Drag. I needed to go to the bookstore because I got an email from my English professor this morning saying I needed to get an iClicker (a high-techy remote that you can use for different classes to take pop quizzes, polls, and take attendance) for the class. So we went and got that done and taken care of. Then we went to a frozen yogurt bar that Erica loves and it was really adorable, I honestly have never seen so much candy in my entire life and it was also cheap (always a plus)! After that we just kept wandering around. Erica also took me to the Union and down to the basement where you can play pool and there is a huge bowling alley. It was really cool. We were also sort of looking for jobs along the way since we both need to get on that! In total we walked probably 3 miles and now she's about to go to the gym. These past two days have been the most active I have been in a long time. My roommate is going to be great motivation for me to get back into shape! It’s kind of ridiculous how sore my arms are today. And my legs probably will be tomorrow.

Hopefully soon I will make more friends, but it kind of seems like everyone is already friends and they are all off doing their own stuff.