Anyway I've been real busy, let me just try to recall a bit of what's been happening:
Moving in,
Eating at dining halls,
Meeting my "big brother" together with the other "siblings",
Shopping at everyone's favourite store (Target),
Walking a lot,
Visiting places,
Going to a state park and dangling our feet in 6 degree water,
Listening to talks and stuff,
Doing a lot of important things like setting up bank accounts and cell phone accounts and credit cards,
Making a lot of new friends,
Skipping everything on the schedule to hang out with the “family” instead,
Having emo nights,
Telephone calls from home and from the boyfriend,
Cheer up sessions with the "big brother",
Shivering in the unexpected 8 degree cold,
Going to the cutest little church in the countryside,
Looking into courses and schedules and academic related things,
Basically preparing for my next 4 years here.
It's strange being the "minority" now, when the Americans get together they just talk amongst themselves about things that I don't understand which tend to exclude us international students. But that'll be ok in time, and I'm super duper thankful for all the Singaporean friends I have (Nat, Yogi), though I haven't seen them in a while, and the other new friends I made like my "family" (HiphopHenry, NiceNicholas, KindKatie, IntuitiveInshita, and don't ask what my adjective is), my dorm friends (Yeung, Raina, Sinzy), and the other randoms who aren't really my close friends but keep me company once in a while.
Well here are some (probably horribly edited) photographs of Balch! I haven't had the time to do anything to with all the photos so these are just a few I randomly picked out of a selection of 10294718652 photos I took of my dorm. I love it, by the way. (:
1. Balch Hall from the side
2. The courtyard
3. The archway
4. Quaint decor