First Week Back

Here we are at the beginning of the last ten weeks of school at the Hill. These are the weeks we are meant to be enjoying life even more and going crazy even more and just making the very most of the time we have together as a school. As a room without really talking about it we all decided we were going to work out in these last ten weeks. Some run, have a workout have Jillian Michael’s and then three of us are all doing Insanity. If you don’t know what it is, that’s probably for the best because it is one of the most painful things ever. I don’t think I have ever sweated more in my whole life. Noelle tells me every time I tell her my caffs hurt that it is a good feeling. However, I think she is way wrong.

On Monday the two girls from my room that went home for break came back to the Hill. Noelle arriving first – middle of the afternoon as most of the girls are laying out on the back deck of the dorm enjoying the sunshine. We see the schools white van turn onto the road that leads up to the hill. With a scream and pointing finger from Heidi we all jump up and begin to run to the van’s parking place. What we didn’t think about it how hot the ground was going to be when running without shoes on. It was so hot. Both Heidi and I realized after hugging Noelle and standing and talking for a moment that we were burning the bottoms of our feet. Turning around and running back to the dorm where we soaked out feet in cold water we found out what happened to our feet. She had two blisters on the bottom and I had seven (three on one foot and four on the other). It was horribly hard to walk around the rest of the day and then the next day as well. So after talking to a few people here I came to the conclusion I needed to pop them all. Tuesday night sitting up on the bathroom counter again I stabbed a pin into my foot four times (three of the blisters weren’t hurting me so I am letting them heal on their own for now). I don’t like gross things like blood, blisters, cuts or anything along those lines on other people but on myself I am pretty fine with it. Since the next night I had to do it again to the biggest blister cause it just won’t go away.

It is so very nice to be back at the Hill with all my rooms again. Two of the girls I roomed with last semester as well so a day without seeing those two is a very sad day. Everyone here is my friend, then there are some I am closer too and then there are my roommates who are like my sisters. They wake me up in the morning, reminded me of my daily duty at lunch, tell me when something really doesn’t look good together and can tell how I am feeling better than anyone else. Without these four I would totally be lost in Texas. Last semester it was a bit harder to find time to have roommate dates or snack times and things but this semester it happens like four or five times a week just because we are always in our room hanging out. Not saying last semester we didn’t enjoy our room or that we weren’t friends but things are just different. I will surely miss these girls a lot after May 24.

love,

a.m