the good that won't come out: drawls, accents, and confederate monuments

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drawls, accents, and confederate monuments

Hey everyone! Well, this should be a relatively short post in terms of writing...they SWAMP you with orientation meetings, collaborations, educational movies, etc. Yikes. In any case, I'm here and it's beautiful-haha and so is that ac system! Yes, Imp, I have seen the gnats. They are everywhere. BUT it's well worth the annoyance. :)

I don't really know where to start; the last week or so has been jam-packed. (Whoa, that is odd-I haven't even been gone one full week-it certainly feels as though I had, though) In any case, I arrived to an incredibly welcoming and fun family, compliments of the best uncle in the ENTIRE world (dispute fruitlessly if you must), my Uncle Barrett. His sister Penny is the sweetest person and her husband Vince is wonderful. With them I saw Richmond, giant memorials of Jackson & Lee (although I have not yet been out to the Jackson shrine where his arm is buried in Spottsylvania County), visited my amazing friend-since-pre-school Cass who just transfered to Virginia State, drank lots of sweet tea, had some southern speaking lessons, and had a wonderful tour of le south! So now I am moved in and undergoing my second orientation for my second college. Haha up to about an hour ago I hadn't met anyone from CA specifically, but all of a sudden my transfer orientation group links up w/ another one and there's this super funny guy and after a few moments I spurratically blurted out, "Where are you from??!!" and he was like, "San Diego" and my jaw dropped and all I could say was, "No. Shit." So basically, the first and only person I've met at this school from CA is from La Mesa...a little odd, right? Haha but in any case, people are nice here and I'm really excited for saturday b/c my friend Amy moves in then. (Returning students don't move in until then.)

SO! That's about it here, but I have LOTS and lots of pictures! Heeeeeere we go!

so I thought this was hilariously Texas; this was from my stopover flight in Houston. It might be kinda hard to see, but note the cowboy hats, boots, and rhinestone-studded boots. Yeeeeee-haw!

Ohhhhhhh, Confederate Whitehouse in Richmond. How we do love thee. (This is my 1st day in VA!)

Me and Cass at her new school, VSU. It's almost, quite literally, ghetto. Cass, please don't get shot.

The South: The only place where you can get good sweet tea from a fast food chain for a dollar. Yeeeesssss <3 America

Me at move-in! This is my hall. Virginia Hall. All girls, with the RA, mostly freshmen. No, I didn't sign up for this, but it's really pretty cool.

A random pathway

Seaco, the cafeteria

Some administration building

Class building w/ many trees

The outer rim of the campus. As you can see, it's all residential directly surrounding the campus...as borat would say, "It's nice!"

Trees on a campus!

Vines on a sign!

Snakes on a Plane! I kid, I kid. ;)

Another entrance (there are about 4 entrances to the campus, though this is the prettiest)

A random pretty dorm

And lastly, another welcome sign from back in the Mary Washington College day. (The college was changed to a university because it separated its self into numerous colleges, such as a college of letters and science, etc.)

And theeeeerrrreee you have it!! Life here is good and now that I've emptied my camera I'll be able to take some more...it'll also be really interesting to put up the pictures through the seasons so that I can look back and view all of the changes. (I've heard that fall in VA is incredible). Love to everyone reading this and love to Jer-I can't even believe I'll see him in a couple of weeks. Haha-that's weird to me. It'll be nice, though. Then we can explore Fredericksburg like we did last time! (It's such a fun place to walk around-I literally, today, walked through the battlefield from the Battle of Fredericksburg and saw where General Cobb fell after fatally receiving huge shards of wood in his leg from an explosion that tore apart a house.) There's SO much history to learn in this town, sometimes it feels slightly overwhelming. And then I'm like, suck it up and keep learning.
On Saturday, Amy and I are ordering bbq to have delivered to one of our rooms and break it in after a day of exploration through the old cemetaries and historical disctirct!

It really is incredible-haha-who would have ever thought I'd end up here?

:)

posted by stephy_andthejets @ 10:35 PM

3 Comments:

At 4:38 PM, Imp said…

I thought gnats was spelt with a g...like gnome

amish people talk cooler than you.
At 1:29 AM, Unknown said…

i'm so glad you're having a great time! your school is so pretty and i am envious. do you have work already? i'm already swamped! anyways, i might call you at the end of the week because i'm super busy getting back into the swing of things but i want to hear more about your adventures! mucho amor
At 11:53 PM, Lily said…

snakes on a plane cracks me up every time!!!
thanks for being a love, stephie.
you're pretty flippin sweet.

are you enjoying mary washington?
i hope so.
ps i love sweet tea!!