A Day At Flagler

Today started off miserably. The only reason for it was that I had to wake up at 4:20am. We had to leave by 5:20am to get to Flagler College in time to find a parking spot. Once we got to St. Augustine we ate breakfast at McDonald's. It was delicious and the first time in forever that I had breakfast there. I had a Sausage Egg McMuffin, a hashbrown, and a small Mocha Frappe. It was sooooo good. Then we got to campus and after a couple of times driving in circles we found the parking lot for the orientation. Then we made our way over to the Student Learning Center.

Once there, since we were kind of early, I got to read more of Beastly. I was determined to finish that book today as Courtney had just gotten The Nine Lives of Cloe King, was almost finished with it, and said that I could read it after her.

Once the orientation began we split up, me going with Courtney for student orientation and my parents going to the parent orientation. Once there we started playing Apples to Apples. This is a really fun game that I hope to get for the apartment. I think it would be fun at slumber parties and stuff. It's a lot like charades, sort of. You get 7 red cards. All the red cards have words on them, nouns including names of peoples, places, and things. There is always a judge, someone who goes to the front of the room (in this case) and draws a green card. This card has an adjective on it. We were supposed to introduce our selves and use the game to get to know one another. Luckily, when I ended up being judge I did not get in trouble and later found out that I wasn't the only one taking the student orientation ride instead of the parent one. Anyways... the judge reads the adjective and the definition to the group. Then everyone chooses one of their cards that they feel best fits the word. It is best to choose the wackiest one. Everyone discards that card and draws a new red card. Once all have discarded the judge reads the choices aloud. They then pick the best choice and the person who discarded the chosen card gets to become the judge, take a green card with them when they're done, and is next to introduce themselves. Whoever has the most green cards at the end wins. We didn't get to that extent. By the time we had to stop there were four people with more than 2 green cards. There was a semi finals and final round of Rock-Paper-Scissors to determine the winner, which just so happened to be Courtney! She won a red, cheesy pair of Flagler sun glasses.

After that we took a tour of the different student housing buildings. Ponce de Leon Hall was by far the coolest. I was jealous cuz the rooms were really cool and slightly bigger than my own student housing room, even the doubles. We then got situated with the general things like picking a room, signing up for a micro-fridge, and getting her student ID. There were also student group sign-ups, and mobile Internet connection information stations there but Courtney didn't want or need to do either so... We were finally off to lunch and it was time to regroup with the parents.

We had gotten to the dining hall earlier than the parents and made our way over to the shorter sandwich line. We are stilled amazed with the cereal dispensers. lol. They make omlets, grilled sandwiches, subs, and different pastas and stir-fries along with different drinks and a soda fountain (all unlimited/all-you-can-eat). That was only one section of the dining hall. They also had a salad bar, and a buffet with hot things like pork roast with cranberry filling and mac-n-cheese (among other things). It was awesome. I only had a plate of homemade potato chips which I shared with my sis and a couple of Root Beers. We met with our parents and discussed everything we saw and did. Then we split up again and waited until our group reconvened. The buildings there are amazing, fyi.

Then we took a tour of the campus visiting some of the administrative buildings, classrooms, and library. We heard a couple of lectures from people in each place. Then we finished in a lecture hall which has those awesome slidey desks, and Courtney got her schedule. Unfortunately she has a class almost every morning but I think she's excited about it. It's more like what she's used to and it will give her plenty of time in the afternoon to do homework.

Then I really got to read as our parents waited in long lines and went to several different places to do financial stuff and last minute errands. We finally finished, unfortunately is was at the estimated time of 5pm. This thing took all day and, of course, we still had a 2 hour car ride back home. It was dreary most of the day and the sky finally opened up, with roaring thunder and eerily close looking lightning strikes, just after our last stop, so the trip home wasn't as pleasant as we had hoped. We did, however, get fries and sodas for the trip home. I slept all the way back from as well as to Flagler.

When we got home we vegged out, and I got to read some more. I finished off the day with Night Watch. It was the first foreign film I was actually interested in watching all the way through. It was Russian with English subtitles and narration. I really liked it. The filming techniques used were pretty cool, like the oscillating focus. The story line is what had originally caught my attention and was so interesting that I now want to read the book series the film trilogy is based on. I didn't like how it ended but that was mainly because none of the other movies are available on Netflix. I wanted to keep watching them. I love how I didn't see the end coming. It was one of those supernatural mind-benders where everything ties together in the end, even things you didn't think were relevant. I look forward to continuing the film trilogy with the next film Day Watch. I am going to try to get to bed early since we have big plans for tomorrow. It was quite a long, yet still exciting, and somewhat depressing day as my sis prepares for her new life in college. *sniffle*

Stayed tuned for more of my random summer adventures. Peace. Out.