Negligence

I’ve been negligent; I apologize. On Monday I spent all day packing my stuff so that my parents won’t have to pack very much when they drive it down on Saturday. Yesterday, I moved in with Charles, my roommate, and spent the day taking our stuff down from storage and hanging out with our RH’s, the RA, and the O-Aides. Don’t worry, by the time you’ll finish reading this sentence, you’ll either have forgiven me or simply don’t care.

Today was a fairly tiring day. I had to wake up at 8:00 to go to orientation training. Lunch was pretty nice – we had a BBQ catering service feed us. Afterwards, we played the most defensive capture the flag game that I’ve ever played. When you’re little, you just run at the flag until you’re in jail or you’ve got the flag. When you go to my crazy school, you plan out your path very carefully, while standing on your side so that you’ll be ready to stop anyone that crosses over. Nobody touched the other team’s flag and it was sort of a stalemate. The game ended when some kid hurt his leg.

The worst part came when we had to go to three hours of absolutely useless training lectures. The first one basically informed us that we had to give a presentation on transportation for forty minutes. In the second, we learned about working as a group, which I remember learning in kindergarten – times haven’t changed. In the third, we learned nothing about diversity, because everything that they said was blatantly obvious. The last one was the only useful one, since we learned useful tips about holding a discussion with a large group of people. I’m dreading getting up at 7:15 tomorrow and going to yet more training lectures.