So it's been awhile since I've written anything, so I thought it was time to update everyone.
Well...nothing much exciting has happened, i've been attending my classes, doing a lot of reading, spending a lot of time in my room with my roommates, we don't go out much. Classes have been good, I feel like I've actually been learning, which I suppose is a good thing seeing as we're paying for an education. Last week was full of midterms and was quite stressful and exhausting. I had both my psych and Environmental Studies midterm on Tuesday and then my Music Exam was split between Wednesday and Friday. This past week was definitely a good learning time for adjusting to college and they way things work. A lot more emphasis is on tests, especially in all my classes since they are all big and I doubt professors want to grade sixty homework assignments. So learning how to study efficiently is going to be something I have to focus on.
Also within the past three weeks my roommates and I have had five prospective students stay with us. The first three were all here at the same time, which was kind of hectic. We aren't exactly what you would think of as "stereotypical" freshman college students, but I think most of them appreciated us. The Sunday night that the first three came we baked pies. Mom had sent me marionberries because nobody on the East Coast knows what they are and I decided it was my duty as an Oregonian to introduce them to this fabulous berry. So we brought the three Prospies to Mac house with us (our social house where we've cooked before) and spent around three hours baking pies. 
Here's a picture of Mary and Jade with the pies, they look delicious don't they?! I think that if i were a prospective student, I would definitely look seriously at a school where my hosts were baking pies, but that's just me. I'd bake pies over partying any night, though we were partying in our own way. One of the prospies said her mother was very impressed and that she thought it was really cool. We were also the deciding factor in Jenny's (a later prospie) choice to apply early decision to Bowdoin, she was choosing between three schools and after staying with us she decided on Bowdoin, that's pretty cool!!
Here's a picture of Mary and Jade with the pies, they look delicious don't they?! I think that if i were a prospective student, I would definitely look seriously at a school where my hosts were baking pies, but that's just me. I'd bake pies over partying any night, though we were partying in our own way. One of the prospies said her mother was very impressed and that she thought it was really cool. We were also the deciding factor in Jenny's (a later prospie) choice to apply early decision to Bowdoin, she was choosing between three schools and after staying with us she decided on Bowdoin, that's pretty cool!!
We've only been able to go puddle jumping twice, and that might be it for this season, we're expecting for it to continue getting colder and the next time it rains i doubt any of us will want to put on shorts and a t-shirt and go get sopping wet. But here's a picture of our crew, starting at top left: Malachi, Me, Sam, Danny (both from next door), Chelsea, Teresa, Hannah (my roomie) and Atilano. We had a great time exploring new parts of campus. There's an elementary school right behind Thorne (one of the dining halls) and we spent a good while sliding on the slide and swinging. The past few days have been breathtakingly beautiful here, which is great because we've been on our fall break. Saturday I spent about four hours out on the quad reading a novel that Malachi had written, it as so peaceful to sit in the sun with the autumn smell surrounding me. There was a wedding taking place in the chapel that day too and it was definitely a perfect day for it. Here's a few pics of what the weather has been like up until today when we woke up to overcast skys and rain.
Jen and I have the room to ourselves for this long weekend and we've done about...nothing all weekend. we wake up late and go to brunch with two of the boys who also stayed from next door and Malachi who also stayed because she lives just as far away as I do, almost exactly in fact. Today I cleaned my area and did laundry and puttered around the room which was good. I've also read both of Malachi's romance novels that she wrote in high school over the past couple of days, and yes, she does write romance novels. It was nice to read something that was not academic for the first time in a long time. Right before everyone left on Friday my clan did a kind of photo shoot because the trees and the leaves were so nice. I had to go to my chem lab though so I didn't really end up in any pictures, but here are a bunch from both my camera that Mary took and Jen's really nice camera. 
Jen's not a big fan of pictures, kinda like me, but she likes being behind the camera. 
Here's a pic of our beautiful quad.
This is Malachi enjoying the quad and the pretty pretty leaves.Last night we decided it would be fun to go into town for dinner because we've been going to Moulton for every meal for the past couple of days, so we went into town. Little did we know that everything closes Sunday's in small towns. So we played on the traintracks for a little while, went to Dunkin Donuts and then went back to dinner on campus. The sunset was awesome, here's a pic of Peter with it.
Well that's about been my life for the past couple of weeks. Classes are going to start again on Wednesday and though this break has been good, I'm looking forward to my room being filled with happy chattering roomies once again.
