I never thought I would consider myself to be from a small town. Now, Waco is a small town and I lived there for 4 years but Austin...Austin is the capital, it's a big city and I lived there for 18 years. Dallas wasn't going to be a huge change from Austin? I was wrong. There are more highways than I have ever seen, more traffic, no grocery stores around the corner, taller buildings, people honk a lot, and I find myself constantly confused as to where I am. Let me just say I thank god every day that I have TomTom (my GPS). TomTom has prevented me from having a complete nervous breakdown!
Living: Currently I am living at a hotel until June 17th. So far I have only two complaints. First, as much as I love walking into a room where there are dirty underwear in the closet I decided that it was not adequate for my three week stay and promptly requested another room. Second, I love chinese food but my room reeks of teriyaki. It's an appetizing smell for a restaurant and all but I will be glad to smell something a little more fresh once I move into my apartment!
Class: The first day was exhausting. I didn't sleep much the night before considering I had completely convinced myself that I was going to be horrible at grad school. Therefore that made a long day even longer. We started around 8:30 and I wasn't finished until almost 6:00. Everyone I've met is amazing so far. It's really nice to know we are all having anxiety about the same things. We start with our kids next week and I'll explain in another post exactly what I'll be doing (once I figure it out)! What I'm learning quickly is that everything is unknown and nothing is planned. Little kids don't work that way! The last few days have just been class and orientation, nothing exciting. However I have had a couple, "I'm not at Baylor anymore" moments when a professor cussed in class and another one talked about our president and how the war was unnecessary. It is a refreshing change to be away from the conservative side of Baylor.
