1. Most important meal of the day.
I eat breakfast every day, which is a big change from school where I basically never had anything besides coffee before my first class and then lunch immediately afterwards. The coffee here is hit or miss, depending on who attempts to work the giant, intimidating, touchy monstrosity of a machine we have, but my coffee consumption is way up compared to home because there is a hot pot on at all hours of the day. As for breakfast, I cycle through the same two things throughout the week: a bowl of cereal with cut up banana or toast with peanut butter and an apple. I keep waiting for them to get old, but so far so good. I think I'm gonna keep up with this breakfast thing when I go back too, it's kind of nice.
2. The early bird gets the worm.
We have class or a trip every day at 8:30 or 9 am every day, and you have to be done with your dishes by 8:00 so the kitchen crew can wash them. If you can't tell where this is going, the girl who previously never started homework before 11 pm and never scheduled classes before 11 am now gets up at 7:40 am every day and is usually in bed before midnight. This is not a routine I plan on bringing back with me, I don't like being up that early. A) I'm tired, which sucks. B) It's COLD out early in the morning, and I think that when you're in weather that hits 70 degrees by 9:30 am, there is absolutely no reason to spend any part of your day cold. C) The grass is all dewy and gets my socks wet on the way to eat breakfast, and I'm only wearing the socks in the first place because it's freaking cold . . . honestly I am just not a fan of mornings I think
3. New uses for sun
If you click on this picture to see the bigger version, you can make out my yellow steelers t-shirt (next to my hot pink shorts) on the line.
4. Reading
Even though I was big into reading in high school, I don't usually have a book going at Michigan, there just isn't time (but it could definitely be argued that I use that time for other, less literary activities). I'm currently reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith--it was my airplane book--and I have a few others with me that I've been meaning to read for a while. I've set a goal for myself to get through at least 3 while I'm here. Having a book to read is actually great; while I really like spending so much time with the group, it sometimes feels hard to find time totally by yourself, so going off and reading for a little bit each day is a nice break.
5. Music
There is ALWAYS music playing, wherever you are on campus. It's always hooked up to someone's computer when we're studying, it plays very loudly in the kitchen whenever anyone is cooking or watching dishes (it's what makes kitchen duty fun: you may be cleaning 25 dirty plates, but it's usually a dance party as well), if you walk back to your cabin in the afternoon you will probably hear Jon B or Natalie on the guitar on their deck. It has been cool to listen to the different music of 25 people. I have added so much new stuff to my library since I've been here, I don't even know what to do with my overwhelmed little iPod
6. Feet
It's a Maori thing to take your shoes off before you enter a room, so we don't wear shoes in class, and we're usually barefoot outside too
7. Buggin out
Giant bugs, and a zillion million flies. There really aren't that many mosquitos, there are definitely more mosquitos on the porch at night in Michigan than there are here, but there are so many flies and crickets, especially once it gets dark. The crickets reach absolutely gargantuan sizes, some are as long as my middle finger, and they make really loud noises to go with their really big legs (I'll try to get a picture). My roommate, Kayla, is not a bug person. She FREAKS OUT when she finds them in our room, and her personality means she is very very loud and hilarious about it (the whole process involves a lot of eye-closing and swearing). It's a good thing they don't bother me that much, or we would have an obnoxious little cabin on our hands where no one ever slept.
8. Stars
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