Ok, so since there's not been a huge amount of news/goss to report in the last week I thought I'd give you an insight into our typical week here at Ole Miss. We have been here a month already and omg that's gone fast, that means I'm a month closer to leaving here and I am definitely not even close to being ready for that.
During the week, I have classes every day, one in the morning quite early and one in the afternoon. Inbetween classes I either go to the library and do homework, come back to my apartment or play around campus haha
At some point during the week, me and Heather take our regular trip to Walmart to stock up which is a bore. But not when we get off the bus around 6 stops to early and have to walk about a mile down the freeway in the heat and have to attempt to cross the road.
During the evenings, we usually either do homework again as we get a lot over here, do nothing together or hang out with the group of guys we have befriended since being here.
On Monday, we got invited over to play in their hot tub. The Dream!
Haha excuse our dodgy eyes, photos in the dark never seem to work.
We also have crashed the boys' tradition of Drunk Wednesdays which is always a weekly highlight. I don't think I've ever taken any photos of this but you can imagine its just a bunch of people hanging out, nothing too but always manage to leave me incredibly hungover for my Thursday classes.
This Thursday was one of the worst and so I spent a lot of time sitting and enjoying the campus life and decided a Dominos with the girls was in order to make me feel better.
Needless to say I felt better the next day.
Friday night, we usually go out somewhere. The past few weeks have been to Fraternity parties which are a lot of fun, however it was Rush week this week which means basically fraternities and sororities were recruiting new members I think- I'm not to sure about the whole Greek society over here still despite having it explained to me several times. Instead this week, we were invited to a Fandom house party by one of Krystal's classmates and this required dressing up.
Americans really go all out with themed parties. There was quidditch pong, themed food and drinks, hundreds of balloons and a lot of people dressed as stormtroopers.
We followed this by heading to the square to a bar we'd not yet been to. Although it seemed like a lot of people were there, there was no one on the only dancefloor we have seen since being here and so me and Heather took the opportunity to dance the night away, still dressed as pirates.
We also managed to get ourselves stranded on the square having to call the guys to come pick us up. This is resulted in my smacking my head on their truck and being subdued to mild concussion. That hurt.
But I manned up and we went out again on Saturday. We invited my classmate Hilary to join us as well as Krystal's Brazilian and Korean roommates and we had a lot of fun "pregaming".
As it happens, we decided not to go to the square, we stopped by the pool party for a while and then headed to the guys apartment. Turns out they were having a movie night so we suggested they put mean girls on, which they obviously appreciated.
Although I'm super sad this week because everyone has moved back to uni without me and they are all reunited, I am still having the best time out here.
They're cuties though, I opened these this morning.
Love you all, hope you're having a great time back at uni or if you're just starting out. I am still jealous of you all and thinking of you!
Speak soon
Em x
