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I have decided to start this blog as it was suggested to me by multiple people as a fun way to update friends and family at home about my goings on here in Gambier. For this first entry I have about 20 minutes to write an update that includes the first month of my time here...so as you can imagine this will be quite abbreviated. I hope to add things later to fill you in on the details and in the future I will try to update at least weekly so I don't have to write such lengthy posts.

I arrived here August 20th for the Writing and Thinking pre-orientation program. There was a good deal of as you would expect, writing and thinking, and at night there were social activities. It really wasn't as fun as it sounded, but it wasn't terrible either. I met some pretty cool people and was able to familiarize myself with the campus. If you didn't know, Kenyon College is in a tiny place called Gambier. It is literally known as a village...and basically almost the entire place is owned by the college. Thus, campus is pretty tiny. The path (known fondly as Middle Path) that stretches from my end of campus (or North) to the far end of campus (South) is only 2/3 of a mile long. So, walking everywhere is pretty easy. The only problem is that there are a lot of hills, the most notable one on campus is the one down to the Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC). So, once you exercise you then must trek uphill. The joke around here is that you get enough exercise walking there and back that there's no need to even go in. All of the athletes here drive there with the upperclassmen who all for some reason own SUVs. I find this to be amusing since I wouldn't think a hill would deter some of the fitter students, but even they don't want to walk up and down it. 

After writing and thinking, there was regular orientation. All of the other first years moved in August 27, and the upperclassmen moved in the 29th. During orientation I met my faculty adviser...who happens to be a classics professor. She's a really great person and I think Kenyon matched me well. After meeting with my advising group, I got to select the classes I wanted to take this semester.

My schedule is as follows:

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays:

9:10-10 Latin 101
11:10-12  Intro to Archaeology
1:10-2 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

Just Mondays:

2:45-3:35 Violin Lessons
4:50-6:30 String Ensemble
7:30-9:30 Orchestra

Tuesdays and Thursdays

2:40-4 Greek Literature

I really like all of my classes and professors. Because of my prior language experience, Latin is pretty easy but very interesting. My favorite classes are intro to archaeology and Greek literature. I think this is mostly because I have really cool professors. They make their subjects interesting and their lectures are informative and thought-provoking.

Since it is almost time for me to leave for Greek literature, I'll end this here but I'll be sure to post again soon to fill in some details of some of the more exciting things that happened here.

I love and miss you all!