ThunderHi

Oh my goodness, this is a wild group of people! Not only are we scheduled up every minute of every day, but they are cazy!

Orientation started yesterday, with a mass meeting and introductions of the student leaders. Then we broke into our cohort groups with whom we are blocked into classes for the first term. There are eight groups total, which are all named after a "desert animal," but I wasn't aware that there are Broncos and Mustangs in the desert... I am a Scorpion, paired with the Tarantulas in the Arachnid group. Before they fed us pizza we had to participate in the ThunderHunt, which was trivia-based exercize that sent us all around the campus taking pictures in various locations. It would have been more fun perhaps, if I hadn't been around campus for a couple of weeks already, or it was cooler than 109 outside.

We finally finished the race after about an hour, and surprisingly we came in third! It was quite a relief to be released. My roomate Kristin is a Falcon, and she was about as tired as I was so we went home and hung out. I'm really glad I am not the only nerd who prefers my pajamas to the ThunderPub on a Saturday night! She is great and I think we will get along really well.

Everything is Thundered around here, to the point of being quite ridiculous. It's kind of witty sometimes, but all of the titles and nicknames and places amuse me. For example, you can go to the ThunderShop to get a Thundershirt to wear to the Thunderlympics on Friday, which is the warm-up for ThunderIdol. After the talent show you can go to the ThunderLab and log into your T-Bird account and do some online ThunderStalking while you are browsing resumes looking for ThunderLove. This, of course, is only a viable activity for ThunderSingles. Myself, being an espoused student, will visit the ThunderGym to work off the ThunderSlices and ThunderBurgers they fed us for dinner. Then I might go check out the ThunderKids' pee-wee soccer game on my way back to the apartment.

All in all, last week was pretty good. I made some friends with people who I will not have classes with, which I decided is a good thing because after I am sick of my classmates I will have other people to hang out with! I am comfortable with the area now, and have found a local strip of decent restauraunts that should keep us occupied for a while. I am missing my ThunderSpouse and my ThunderPet and wishing I was at home to help with all of the crazy construction and cosmetic repairs. Hope things are well in your world! Hopefully I will be posting some pictures this week.

ThunderBye!
MK