i wish i had a marauder's map for BYU.

well here's the highlights of my first week @ Brigham Young University.

yeah.

i moved into my off campus dorm--i share a place w/ 5 other freshman. my shower doesn't have a showerhead. sad day. but i moved my stuff in and i really like my room even thought it's a bit tiny. i don't really know my roomie yet, but she took top bunk so i've got bottom. i don't really mind that, except the fact that i can't sit on my bed; i can only lay on it. but i'm getting a funky chair to sit in next to my bed. i don't have internet access in my dorm yet, but will soon. very soon.

the campus itself is FRIGGIN GIGANTIC.

I have to take a bus to get from the south of campus to the north part of campus. luckily, all my classes are close together and bus ride or walk away. people here are friendly; i hear my church ward has a lot of return missionaries; *rolls eyes*. i'm a bit stressed and i've got headaches everyday, but i think i'll feel better once things become familiar and i start classes. it's hard moving away from my family, because i've always leaned on them no matter what happened to me and now i can't see them whenever i choose.

i hope i get along w/ my roomate; practically everyone here is from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints here, but that doesn't mean we all get along and i don't know if we may have troubles along the way. i brought a lot of decorations for my room, but they're mostly things i can set by my bed (i.e. pictures of my friends, boyfriend, family, ect.) but she brought boxes after boxes of clothes, shoes (which she stuffed under my bed), bags, the works. i've always been very lucky and a bit spoiled because i'm the only girl and what-not, but i have a feeling she is way spoiled. i don't know how, but she stuffed everything in her closet. i met her briefly yesterday, but i'm still wary.

i just miss everyone. there's no way of explaining how much i miss my family back home, how much i miss friends who care about me and how much i miss Germany. i mean, i love the fact that i'm finally out of high school and onto college and plowing through towards my degree (in English/Creative Writing) but i wish i could share it w/ my friends who are probably having a blast as high school seniors of the class of '09.

so yeah. lost doesn't quite define it.