By Diana 

Hello there.

So where do I begin?

I’m at Penn State Harrisburg. Move-in day was Saturday. Good news: I was early and one of the first to move in. The on-campus apartment’s really nice and spacious. I’m not sure what to do with all the storage space at the moment, but I’m sure it’ll fill up throughout the school year. The roommates are nice. Bad news: I woke up with a cold on move-in day and so I’ve been sick since I got here.

That evening, my roommates and I were hanging out in our bedrooms when three guys invited themselves into our apartment. I was the first to come out and see what was going on. I thought it was volunteers coming back to help install the TV in the living room even though it was kind of late. However, the first guy was half-naked and so I thought, “Who are they and what the heck are they doing in our apartment?!” It turns out they were going around introducing themselves and inviting people to a party they were having later. My roommate across the hall came out and they went through the whole thing again. As they left, checking out another one of my roommates, my roommate across the hall suggested, “Maybe that’s why we should lock the front door…” (A lesson to any high school girls reading this.)

Sunday, there wasn’t much going on but another freshman orientation sort of thing. Boring speeches you can barely hear in a hot gymnasium and weird activities to get all of us freshman to interact. I have to admit I did make some new friends, but it was at the reception, not while sitting on a stranger’s lap, a stranger sitting on my lap or dancing backward. (Grab a partner, stand back to back, link arms and dance funny.) OK, the dancing backward part was actually kind of fun…

Classes started Monday and things have been going pretty well. Tell you all more later!