Two years ago today it felt like my life was just starting. Not that high school and everything before that didn't matter, or that I wasn't living. None of that at all, it was two years ago today that I left home, flew to California by myself, and started the crash course journey to the rest of my life.
Let's see what started thanks to that trip to California.
- I got used to not being home, sorta. (more got my feet wet so college wouldn't overload me.)
- I learned what CS was, and fell in love with it.
- I formed some of the best friendships on this planet, in three weeks.
- I got to see where CS could take me, which is different than learning CS.
- I got a blog. (This is totally the best thing out of it all. =P)
Two years ago I had three weeks of solid adventures. I traversed San Jose with nothing but the pictures of bus routes to guide me to an In-N-Out, which I was just now able to find on the map just by looking because I still remember the whole experience.
I was doing photo shoots in San Francisco while waiting for the bus that never (eventually) came, singing Hakuna Matata on buses and getting the bus to sing along, arguing Batman vs Iron Man, walking the Golden Gate bridge (and thinking of X-Men), climbing 8 billion stairs to get to Coit tower, and getting sung Happy Birthday to on a bus when it wasn't my birthday.
I was sitting in a super fancy restaurant having "bro" time with the 7 other guys who were there when we went to Santana Row. I think this might be the first time my Blueness really showed, and I think this story ended up getting to most everyone, even if it wasn't supposed to leave the table. Haha. I bought a green feltish hat and a nice jacket type thing from Urban outfitters. Oh yeah, and everyone was in love with the supernice cars that were right there where the shuttle dropped us off.
I was going all over Great America, not shouting Enrique's name, but instead just getting to know different people while trying to find the best rides there. I'm fairly certain I ate some sort of junky food that was way more expensive than it should have been, and then left sorta early to head back to the dorm.
I was playing Ultimate on a near nightly basis, and quoting Romeo and Juliet to get people to play, and running around till we couldn't see anymore, and staying up late in the lounge, and having my laptop used for a terrible excuse for a movie ( =P ), and running off to see Step Up 3D, and then pretending to Parkour everywhere, and going with everyone to see Inception, and "Mind = Blown", and almost getting us killed but Sour Beth saving us, and our shuttle driver running a red light, and sleeping on the shuttle, and playing with the id holder things, and roaming a boat late at night, and strawberries.
There was the time they were talking about time management, and Virginia and Linda had to take a piece of yarn and measure out the time they spent eating and sleeping then cut it off, and Linda had less than an inch of yarn left.
The time that Enrique stole the show with his dance moves on the Intern boat. Literally no one could touch his dance moves.
The time Kyle nonchalantly decided to tell us the building might be on fire.
How Sara Cain got a virus on her computer within a day.
Michelle's obsession with penguins, which it turns out was more of everyone else saying she was obsessed with penguins and it stuck.
When Lynn found the wheat grass shot, and eventually got most people to try it.
Izzy's super fancy outfit for the last day when we were going to present our projects.
Kasra's elevator speech about corn soup.
Sam Couch, Scouch, Scellen, Skeleton? Trying to figure out how Lori and Linda did that.
Kofi impersonating Charles spectacular method of teaching.
Emily, Sara Cain, and Antwan Dodson.
How intense Virginia was in Ultimate Frisbee. Seriously, she's like pro or something.
Itty Britty. I dunno how you spell that, but that. Just Brittany in general.
Sarah, Sarah Beth, and Sara.
Christian having his own theme music thanks to his Nexus One.
Kofi being offered up for trade by Kasra during a project presentation.
There are soo many more memories, and I just spent a good while thinking up things, but I tried to hit things that everyone could remember.
All this though got me started. After this heading off to college didn't seem hard, because I A) was still in the same state, B) knew what my degree was and knew what the future held, and C) knew 4 of my class mates, and had a network of friends who were all starting college with me.
It was the smartest most ingenious thing ever thought up by any company, and I express my gratitude on a regular basis, but thank you Google. Thank you Kat. Thank you Jessica. Thank you Carolyn. Thank you Charles. Thanks to everyone who came and talked to us.
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