Saturday, September 12, 2009

Soccer and Biking

I got up today to the sound of soccer being played...Great! I went to sleep to the sound of soccer being played! I feel like the only sport around here is soccer!

Okay, to explain. UCSB (for those who don't know) doesn't have a football team. So soccer is "their" big sport. If you looked at my apartment photos you'll see my view is of soccer fields and a stadium! That stadium is the soccer field for UCSB. Last night there was a game against the Rutgers (NJ school). The game started at 8pm. The PA started at 8:30. People were let in at 7pm (looong line!). We can hear the PA perfectly from our room! I didn't end up going out last night (way too tired) so I ended up hearing every time a goal was made. "Gooooaaaaallllll.....!!!!!" We won 4-0. (Another game on Sunday.)

So then this morning I wake up around 7:30am, up for 10 minutes, and then go back to sleep. Wake up again at 8 and 8:30am. I finally got up at 9am. But, thanks to Jane, local soccer teams (high school? elementary? middle school?) were play soccer at 7:30am when we both woke up then! It is now 4:35pm and they're STILL playing soccer. LoL There are 4 soccer fields outside of our room. We happen to be RIGHT in the middle of all 4 fields. So I've been catching a few glimpses of soccer throughout the day.

Anyway, just a few minutes ago I decided to bike to campus from our apartment to see how long it takes and to see how to get there before the masses of students arrive. It took me 10 minutes and that's with getting lost (I had to turn around once) and biking at a pretty slow pace (wasn't constantly peddling). Not bad! After I found Bren and kind of took my time going back, I decided to see if I could make it to the shopping center close by. Biking straight from the UCen and all the way to the corner of El Colegio and Storke wore me out! LoL I timed it from the apartment and it's about 7 minutes, which is about half the distance. So it'll take me about 15-20 minutes to bike to the shopping center. Not bad!

I keep forgetting school doesn't start next week...Move-in is on the 19th (a week from today). So I get another week to get used to the campus before mayhem breaks loose! Bren also changed the orientation schedule some too. So I'm only missing the math workshop the Friday I leave. Not bad! It seems like they took out some stuff and added in a 3rd group for different things. At least it seems more streamlined now. If you're interested, you can look at the orientation schedule here.

I have a few more things I have to take care of (student ID card, bus sticker, and calling the financial aid office to ask about my miss $87) and then I'll be 100% ready for the quarter to start. I'll take care of all that next week.

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