Thursday, March 5, 2009

Friends and Dorm Life

As my Leader article will eventually say, I love life at the College. I've become good friends with the majority of the girls in my hall and a few in other halls. The five of us spend significant amounts of time together chilling, watching movies from the network, and making Maccas {McDonalds} runs. Everyone in my hall is quite amazing and everyone who leaves their room (if your name is Jarrod or Jarod apparently you are confined to your room) gets along. Many of us have a tendancy to leave our doors open while we are inside so we can see who is walking by. It's quite interesting when I wander from Bec's room (4) to Rhiannon's room (17) or to my room (8) and walk multiple times by Milko's door. His door is commonly open but the downstairs Hutton Hillbillies are pretty much open to each other. Since Hutton has the largest rooms my friends (I'll call them Sailor Scouts since that's what superhero we are dressing as for the party tonight) hang out in my hall. Sadly, we don't have a foyer so we have continued to take over the hallway with other neighbors joining us for late night chats. Soon we will need to start spending more time on our studies but this is just the first week of classes.
Earlier today I had my door open which was like an opening for craziness. Both Josh and Owen wandered in to see my famed art from The Arts class. We were given tissue paper, paper, and glue with directions to make whatever we wanted. My mind was on campfires since I only had red and orange flames. Although I still am not a very good artist if you look at my art correctly you can tell it's a campfire with 10 people sitting around it. However they decided it was a Cyclopes if you turned it upside down. Hearing their explanations for every thing like the different colors was quite amusing. Apparently an australian tv show for kids called Mr. Squiggles (a little bit of it is on youtube) worked on figuring out different interpretations of art. Very amusing show that I encourage you to watch the few clips.
I finally decorated my room to add more color to the walls. As Owen and Josh pointed out I have seven different calendars on my wall with three different months showing. At the shopping centre the calendars were 60 cents each and include amazing pictures of Australia that I plan to frame once I return home. I'm just too lazy to stand on the table/sink to fix the months. I also bought boomerangs which are displayed in my room. My posters are still to be made because I have yet to pick the verse of the semester although I will take suggestions.

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