Even though school doesn't officially start until Monday, today was the day everyone was set to arrive. I had stayed in the apartment alone last night and that is when I realized that maybe watching a week's worth of people getting murdered on Criminal Minds wasn't such a good idea when I had to be alone in a new city where I literally did not know anyone for miles around.
(For those counting at home, that is the 3rd time I have mentioned Criminal Minds on this blog so far)
Thankfully, I did not get murdered and got to enjoy the day meeting my new roommates, going on the tour of the neighborhood with the apartment-coordinator Joe and pretend like I didn't know where anything was. ("Really? 17 coffee shops on this block? I had no idea!")
This whole week is orientations and this afternoon was the first one. I've realized that ice-breakers are universally hated by everyone so people just bond over the fact that they wish they weren't doing them. Maybe that's a just a sneaky trick planned by the people who invented ice-breakers?
Ours included Skittles and questions pertaining to the colors one picked. For my red Skittle I had to answer "What is something about you that we don't know?" (That seemed easy since I had never met these people before in my life) but it was followed up by "Something really unexpected". The only thing I could think of off the top of my head was that I have been hypnotized a bunch of times which is obviously a longer story but when they asked me to explain I just said "Uh, I was afraid of buses" which isn't quite true but I probably shouldn't have brought up my mental health history for a first impression.
Now everyone is super exhausted and jet-lagged, meanwhile I am on a normal sleep schedule so while they all go to bed at 7pm, maybe I'll do something else...like watch Criminal Minds.
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