Month: October 2013

October 25th, 2013 MY BOYFRIEND CAME TO SEE ME IN EUGENE!! Literally the best weekend since I’ve been here. Robbie came up on thursday on the train but didn’t get here until midday friday because it takes so long to get here. (He’s dedicated) He was supposed to leave on Saturday evening at 5:10, but for some reason we both mixed up the times and got there at 5:30, after the train left, so he stayed a whole other day!:)

This is us pretending to be gangsters in front of this graffiti. We were walking by a building near Barnhart and it just said “money.” so we decided to be silly and take some pictures in front of it. All weekend we were just playing around. I showed the campus off to him, my favorite spots around, and the town. We walked EVERYWHERE and had yummy junk food all weekend! He loves it here and can’t wait to come up again soon. I’m so glad we had a low key weekend together again and were just able to enjoy the time we had. Watching him leave was heart breaking, but I know I’ll see him when I go home for Thanksgiving. Even though it’s a month away, it’s hard to wait. I become so impatient because we are just so happy when we’re together. It’s hard being so far away from someone you love so much. The time I spent with him this weekend though made every day apart worth it.

So today is Halloween here in Eugene, (hey that rhymes) Oct. 31st, 2013. I turned in a midterm for my ethnic studies today and also took my last midterm for US history. Both were written exams, which is the type of exam I’m probably strongest at. The exams weren’t too difficult at all. In fact, I felt more prepared than anyone around me. I started studying for all my tests way in advance.  All the other kids I know in my classes didn’t even start studying until two days before, IF that. I am just so happy to have those finished! But it also means… that much closer to finals! Oh joy.

Halloween Night! 2013! Can this count as my group activity? hahah! So this is me (left), Leah (middle), and Kate (right). I was lucky enough two girls this awesome in our FIG! Leah dressed up as a teenage mutant ninja turtle, Kate as a sailor, and me as Miley Cyrus! We all decided to go out tonight together! It’s nice to spend time with new people and really click with them. I love hanging out with girls who just know how to be themselves and have a good time.

So SINCE I dressed up as Miley Cyrus, I just HAD to take a picture with Robin Thicke! At the VMAS 2013 (Video Music Awards) Miley and Robin Thicke performed his hit song “Blurred Lines,” and she twerked on him while he was wearing the Beetle Juice costume and Miley danced with a foam finger. Hence…. the picture. When I got to this party, everyone started shouting “MILEY!! ROBIN THICKE’S LOOKING FOR YOU!” And at first, I was slightly confused since I knew that I didn’t know him. When I found him, I overhead him having a conversation of how he was looking for a Miley all night to complete his outfit and I tapped his arm and said “Hi, I’m Miley and I’m here now.” It literally made his night! HA! Had a blast last night! Can’t wait for the rest of the weekend 🙂

I’m happy to report I am making friends! I’ve been so busy with homework, taking care of myself, talking to Robbie, my mom, etc. I was having trouble finding the time to go hang out with new people! It’s nice to have another girl to hang out with other than my roommate, who I absolutely ADORE, but our friendship was automatic since we live together. This is my friend Leah Jacobs, she’s also in the FIG. We are wearing pink shirts in this picture because we were going to a “pink-out” volleyball game. October is breast cancer awareness month so we show support by wearing the color pink! Additionally, I just want to say that the girls won the volleyball game! It was really exciting. I want to go to another one soon!

FRIDAY! October 18th, 2013. Taylor and I decided to go out again. All the Greek life here on campus is still on probation (5-8 freshmen girls got alcohol poisoning and parties are on hold) so all the parties we went to this weekend were just house parties. Nothing too exciting happened, except some drama between Taylor and a hall mate Brent. He offended her pretty badly, so I had to scream at him. If you make my roommate cry, you WILL feel the wrath of Drew. When it comes to girl friends, I’m very protective. Girls are sensitive, and need support!<3

So, this picture requires some explaining. I went to my friend Jaden’s house again, the only other girl from my high school who goes to the UO. I ended up actually spending the night there this weekend and I have plans to do the same next weekend! This is a picture of her little sister Bella who is 8. As I know from personal experience, little sisters LOVE to bother their older sisters. So naturally, Bella would barge into Jaden’s room every… hmm ten minutes or so! One of the times, she decided to hide behind the curtains and just stick out her face, which I thought was hilarious. So I took a picture! (While Jaden was running upstairs to tell on Bella to her mom!) HA! I love Bella 🙂

Tuesday October 22, 2013. I finished my first mid term today for my macroeconomics class! I feel really uncomfortable in that class in general. Macro econ is a sequence course which follows after micro econ, which I haven’t taken yet! The micro class was full when I was registering for classes, and my counselor said it wasn’t necessary to take micro first. But coming into the class, having taken micro first would have been really helpful. I’m probably the only freshman in this 300 person lecture, since I chose to take macro first. BUT I studied really hard for this test so I feel great about it. (That’s why I took this happy selfie). I feel like a great load has been taken off my shoulders. Next week: two more finals, LET’S GOOOOOO!

In honor of Halloween approaching, I thought that I would post this photo of a spider web that I saw walking to my first class this morning. (October 24th, 2013) The spiders here are unreal to me. They surround the windows outside of my building, which is odd to me since I’m on the seventh floor. They are always so active here, whenever I see a spider, it is always working on its web. It FREAKS ME OUT! Spiders are one of my biggest fears. Back home, the spiders are way bigger and hairier, which you would THINK I would be more scared of. But the spiders back in Clovis are seemingly more idle. They aren’t always making webs or in my face when I look out the window. The spiders in Clovis hide in little nooks and crannies outside and, for the most part, go unnoticed. Sooooo Thanks Eugene; thanks for having super active scary spiders everywhere. It’s realllyyyyyy helping me feel comfortable and well adjusted. NOT!

Stupid scary spiders.

Friday October 11, 2013. This picture shows all of Taylor and my friends from Riley, the dorm right next door. Riley is the only other dorm off campus so Taylor and I spend a lot of time there. As you may have noticed, this picture shows me in the front, taylor on the left-middle, and all the rest are boys. (Alex, John, Nico, Brandon, Danny, Adam, Troy, Cooper, and I don’t remember the last..) This is what we call our “crew.” Taylor and I usually go out with these boys to parties on the weekends. They sure know how to have a good time! They always make me feel better 🙂

This is a picture of our door decorated on Saturday October 12, 2013 BEFORE our RA made us take our penis-shaped name tags off. He said they were “inappropriate,” which I don’t necessarily understand. Our friends in Riley have penises on their doors. I don’t see why our RA is so disturbed by penis-shaped name tags. I took a good five minutes making those nicely shaped name tags. At least Taylor and I got a picture with the door before the “inappropriate parts” had to be taken down. We still kept them, they are just inside our room now! HA

This is a picture of my dog Max. She’s a girl with a boy name, like me. I decided to include a picture of her this week since I’ve been missing her so much lately. I actually have 6 dogs back at home (Max, Cubby, Tyson, Riley, Drake, and Tramp) but Max is MY dog. Halloween is getting closer so my mom put her Halloween costume on early to make sure it still fits! She is a little butterfly 🙂 I miss her so much, it’s slightly odd. I’ll see a dog around campus or something and go crazy; I’ll have to go and pet it. And as soon as I do, I walk away with an empty feeling. I spent every day hanging out with my dog over the summer. I just hope she remembers me when I go home.

October 14th, 2013. Today is an uneventful Monday so I decided to take a selfie walking home. This picture reminds me of fall in general. The leaves are changing color here and it’s already as cold as it is in the middle of winter back home. I’m not used to wearing so many layers of clothes! For my birthday, that happens to be coming up in November, I’m asking for more sweaters. I definitely was not properly prepared. Someone informed me last week that this winter is going to be extremely cold, and that it WILL snow a lot. Last time it snowed in Clovis, I was in elementary school and by the time I ran outside it had stopped.This will definitely be a new experience for me. Hopefully I can make it through okay. It was 46 degrees outside today at noon, yikes!

Today: Wednesday October 6th, 2013 Robbie had roses sent to my dorm. He had Taylor in on it with him and helping him out. This is actually the first time he’s ever slightly surprised me. He is really bad at surprising me usually, because I know when he is lying. He is a terrible liar ha! But it was easier for him to get away with a surprise since I wasn’t actually with him. He is better at lying from 650 miles away! I miss him so much. I bought Robbie a train ticket so that he could come visit me. He will be here next friday after my last class and I can’t wait to see him!

This weekend is the second home game since we’ve been in school. It’s also homecoming/ parent’s weekend. This has been a long week and will an even longer weekend!

Week 2 and going strong! Had a great weekend out with Taylor on Friday and Saturday and TJ joined us for the second night, October 5^th, 2013. We made a group of friends in the dorms nearest to us. Taylor and I live in Barnhart, which is one of the two dorms off campus. We are about 10-15 walking distance from campus. Riley is the other dorm building that is closest to us and that’s where TJ lives. I met tons of people this weekend actually, which makes me feel so much more comfortable here in Eugene. Walking to school every morning becomes so much easier when you run into friendly faces along the way.

Today, October 6^th, 2013, my father finished his 15^th marathon! Just so we are clear, a marathon is 26.2 miles. To say I’m proud would be an understatement. It’s so nice to still see my parents being so productive even though they aren’t the youngest! Whenever he finishes another marathon, it makes me feel more and more obligated to run them myself when I’m older. He’s 56, and I’m 18; I should be in better shape! This marathon was in Portland, which he has run once before. I’m really upset I couldn’t make it up to Portland to see him, especially since they are so close! Hopefully I can make sure to go see his next one.

October 9^th, 2013:

Today there was a street market on our campus today! There were a bunch of little tents with merchants selling assorted things. It reminded me of the Saturday market but this one was on campus. It was actually a surprise when I came across it since the streets are just usually filled with kids going to class. I didn’t buy anything, although the food smelled great. BUT I did happen to stop and take a picture with this cool Yeti manikin.

Also today, October 9^th, 2013, I taped my mouth shut. I am a talker. I LOVE to talk; I practically think aloud. However, my roommate really wanted to study. Therefore I thought I would help her out by taping my mouth shut. In fact, my mouth is still taped RIGHT NOW. You’re welcome Taylor. I hope this helps you study more efficiently. Ps. I’m sorry I like to chat so much 🙂

This is part of my Halloween costume. Obviously not my WHOLE Halloween outfit. I’m going to be an angel for one of the days and Miley Cyrus for another night. I’ll keep that outfit for a surprise until later. The light was shining perfectly on my wings and halo so I figured it would make a great picture! I love Holidays, especially Halloween. It gives you the opportunity to be whatever you want to be for just one night.

September 26^th, 2013

This week was move in week! I’m from Clovis, CA and made the 11 car trek all the way up here with my mom and my best friend Rachael Pyle. We’ve been friends since the summer before our freshmen year in high school. She’s an extremely colorful person, pun not intended by the color of her hair. I will miss her here more than anything, especially since I know she would love to live here as much as I would. Hopefully I can convince her to come visit soon!

We had our first home game after move-in day on September 28^th, 2013. Since I’m from California, I’m not exactly used to all the rain. However, I’ve never seen rain like I did this weekend. I cannot reiterate how appreciative I am that I didn’t get tickets. The rain came down, not in sheets, but what looked like a whole ocean falling from the sky. Unfortunately, everyone else I know here so far went to the game. I got to help dry people off and assist in some laundry. Of course my roommate got sick immediately after!

I wanted to make sure to include a picture of my two closest friends here so far. My roommate is on the left and her name is Taylor Rios. She’s also a freshman and happens to live in Cali as well! I couldn’t have been more nervous about having a horrible roommate. You hear all those horror stories about your roommate being a psychopath or evil, or just unbearable. Honestly, I couldn’t have gotten any luckier. We both had loads in common and we are practically attached at the hip. The guy in the middle is TJ. LaGrow I met TJ at freshmen orientation and we’ve stayed close since!

This is my boyfriend Robbie Domm. He lives back in Clovis, CA still.  In this picture, we are “Face Timing.” I like face timing so much more than talking on the phone. It makes me feel like he’s still here with me. Next year, he’s planning on transferring to a community college here in Eugene. In fact, Taylor has a boyfriend back home in California too and now he is considering moving up too! Taylor and I have already started looking into housing already for next year. It’s definitely way too early to be looking into housing, but I’m just so excited and I can’t help it.

This is a photo of my dad and me from THIS week! My parents already came to visit me, October 4^th, 2013. My dad has always been extremely active and they came up to Oregon so that my dad could run his 15^th marathon this weekend. My mom and dad both treated me to dinner in a restaurant right next to the train station. It was my first meal that didn’t come from the dining halls! I was quite excited, I took advantage of the opportunity and ordered lobster! I probably won’t be eating lobster again for awhile; oh the college life!

EVER! I’ve never had a blog before! This could be fun 🙂

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