dorm days...

Hey everyone! I finally FINALLY have internet in my dorm room so you'll be getting many more posts! Dorm life is going really well. I'm liking it a lot. Keeneland is one of the nicest and oldest dorms at UK. My roommate, Amie, is a really cool outgoing girl and I like her a lot. Living on my own and coming and going as I please is a definite plus. Also, eating what I want when I want (don't judge me for this Mom!) is quite nice. For example, my first night here in the dorm, Amie (the roommate) and I had a wonderfully nutritious dinner of grapes and m&m's. I guarantee my Mom is going atleast she ate grapes! haha

In other news, I've slowly been decorating my room and we keep trying to hang up our cork boards with duct tape (you're not allowed to nail anything to the walls) but every night while were asleep they fall down, so we've given up hope. This is what my dorm looks like...

This is the little shelf area above our drawers where we keep anything and everything. Especially food.

This is the roommate, Amie, on her side of the room. Note the Jimi Hendrix poster. Hell yes. Another plus, while I was moving in she was playing Bob Marley. Can't beat that!

This is my little desk area next to my closet. It's a little messy because I'm still hanging up pictures. I'm pretty much done... just waiting for the other 50 I ordered from Kodak to come in the mail. :)

This would be my bed (and the new backpack on the floor). Now, you might be thinking, 'why did she pick out such a plain bedspread?" Well, here in Keeneland, because were so old, we DON'T have air conditioning so I haven't put on my bed spread yet... until winter it's gonna stay up here...

...in my closet. It's actually pretty nice and decent sized and it holds all of my stuff.

This is the essential area of our dorm (besides the food). We don't really have any drinks in the fridge yet besides Monster, some Jello, Juicey Juice, and water. But come next week when my parents buy me some Cheerwine, that'll all change. And if you don't know what Cheerwine is and you're thinking its got alcohol in it... you're wrong. It's pretty much the BEST cherry coke from South Carolina.

And this is the outside of my dorm...

It's sooo nice. Sorry about the small picture. I got this from the UK website because a. I don't feel like walking outside and taking one for myself (which I will do at some point) and b. I'm really comfortable and don't feel like getting up :)

There is another downside to living on north campus though... all my classes are on south campus. And when I say south campus I mean like a mile and a half away. So I've been taking the UK bus service to and from class everyday and its working out quite nice for me. I probably will walk back occasionally in the fall when its nice and cool out but not when its hot like its been here.

College life has been going good. I had my first two college tests today and I'm pretty sure I rocked them both. I studied for like 5 or 6 hours last night so I think that paid off. I just got inside from smoking hookah with some friends (UK isn't smoke free yet until November) and going to dinner with Patrick at one of the on-campus cafeteria's. They're not that bad at all. Really good food and goooddd ice cream.

On friday, I'm going back home to hang out with the parents and.... JESSIE! I finally get to see her! Even though we've only been away from each other for 2 weeks it feels like a loooonnnggg time. And seeing as how it's labor day weekend, I don't have school on Monday so I'll be staying in Northern until Tuesday morning. But right now I think I'm going to go eat some jello and watch some TV and relax because I don't have any homework. :) I'll talk to you guys soon!

Love,

Morgan