Orientation: Day 4 and 5?

I can't even keep track of the orientation days anymore...That and the day of the week. It'll be good to start class to help me with that!

Orientation yesterday was the math workshop and Bren 101 (basically going over some logistics from the handbook and stuff like that). Today was the math workshop or "math camp" and resume workshop (I have to redo my entire resume!). Not too exciting for either day. :)

After the resume workshop today I went out with about 10 other Brennies to hang out a pizza place down the road from where we live. About half of us road our bikes over. I just bought a soda and they all bought drinks and we just sat and talked outside. It was nice to get to hang out with my fellow classmates and everything. After that we went to a "sports bar" not even a block away so a few of them could do shots. It was a bar, but it's the smallest bar I've ever seen (course, having only been in 1...I can't base that off of anything!). I think our apartment has more square footage than the actual sitting/standing area of that bar. I kid you not. Plus, it was inside and it was getting cold outside. I, once again, didn't buy anything, but it was fun talking to everyone. After a while, though, I just couldn't take the literal yelling at everyone and my ears/head were starting to hurt from the noise and the yelling. It's hard to yell a conversation and breath at the same time! So I came back early and Jane came with me. I have to tell you, there are a lot of people who came from the San Francisco area.

Anyway, I'm about to hit the sack because there's math workshop tomorrow at 9am, but also because I'm not sleeping well on this bed they gave us. I'm going to have to invest in a memory foam pad or a good pad because the bed is simply too hard for me. It's not soft, so my back doesn't hurt like a bad mattress, but it's too hard! So my back aches in between the shoulder blades instead and I'm waking up a lot throughout the night. I also find I'm sleeping at an angle too. Not sure why that is...I had to switch pillows too. My contour pillow wasn't comfortable with the bed. Go figure...

Jane and I have found, though, as nice as our view is, living next to the soccer field is quickly having its downfalls. This morning at 6am they were mowing the lawn (I woke up to it, no one else did, though). At 7am there was soccer practice (or ultimate frisbee practice?). At 9am it was the other sport (soccer or ultimate frisbee). Also, funny enough, there were a few Killdeer birds outside our window and they make a TON of noise and they woke me up at one point too. Jane and I went on Wednesday to a San Clemente information meeting and I guess the noise from the soccer fields is a pretty common complaint and I guess when the garbage gets picked up it's loud too. We all laugh because it's not the players that are an issue, it's the parents. :P Least for the games. For practice, it tends to just be the teams in general when they yell at each other.

With that, I'm off!