Kangaroo Dancing
Visiting Grinnell was an amazing experience. I'm so glad I decided to go. Now, I probably won't go to Grinnell because they are all freakin' geniuses, but it gave me a good taste of what life is like at a small liberal arts college. Now I'm sure that I want that kind of atmosphere. The biggest change will be living with friends and being completely self-motivated. The dorm I stayed in was co-ed by room and I really liked it. I say boys lighten things up. My mother, however, is completely against that idea and wants me to at least live a dorm that is co-ed by floor. We'll see about that.
My host and her friends were all super nice. Ivy is a girl I met from Guatemala and she taught me how to do the kangaroo dance in the hallway. The funniest guy I met there was from Greece and everyone called him Yanni. He says, "I respect my women" in the best accent ever. I was amazed at how many stars I could see at night! It was incredible. We crawled out of Vicky's window and went out on the "loggia" which is the top of the roof connecting all the rooms on one side of my dorm. We were up until 2:30 doing random things but unfortunately, Thursday night is their slow night so I didn't get to party with them. Last night there was a stoplight party where you wear red if you're unavailable, yellow if you're confused, and green if you're single. Haha, what a great idea. Let's do it.
There were so many activities going on- from free movies to all kinds of organisations, speeches, sports practices, studying, and lots of frisbee playing.
On Friday morning/afternoon I sat in on an African Politics class and an Introduction to Philosophy class. Both classes were really interesting and the Philosophy prof was intense and British. Grinnell is extremely academically challenging and they made it very clear that classes are their number one priorities. However, they "work hard during the week and play hard on the weekends."
A major theme I noticed was that things are what you make of them. The more you put into the things you do, the more you get out of them.
Now I can't wait to visit St. Norbert on Oct. 3rd and make some comparisons.
My host and her friends were all super nice. Ivy is a girl I met from Guatemala and she taught me how to do the kangaroo dance in the hallway. The funniest guy I met there was from Greece and everyone called him Yanni. He says, "I respect my women" in the best accent ever. I was amazed at how many stars I could see at night! It was incredible. We crawled out of Vicky's window and went out on the "loggia" which is the top of the roof connecting all the rooms on one side of my dorm. We were up until 2:30 doing random things but unfortunately, Thursday night is their slow night so I didn't get to party with them. Last night there was a stoplight party where you wear red if you're unavailable, yellow if you're confused, and green if you're single. Haha, what a great idea. Let's do it.
There were so many activities going on- from free movies to all kinds of organisations, speeches, sports practices, studying, and lots of frisbee playing.
On Friday morning/afternoon I sat in on an African Politics class and an Introduction to Philosophy class. Both classes were really interesting and the Philosophy prof was intense and British. Grinnell is extremely academically challenging and they made it very clear that classes are their number one priorities. However, they "work hard during the week and play hard on the weekends."
A major theme I noticed was that things are what you make of them. The more you put into the things you do, the more you get out of them.
Now I can't wait to visit St. Norbert on Oct. 3rd and make some comparisons.
1 Comments:
it WAS amazing! i can't wait to go to college now. stoplight parties are the best idea ever.
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