Housing: I moved into my apartment on Ridge Ave shortly before we started training for orientation. It's really nice. I like it a lot better than my apartment on Sunset Blvd. It's exactly as the landlord showed in the pictures. It's a good size for one person. I really like it. Plus my commute to campus is much shorter than before. It now takes me about five minutes to drive to campus. Plus there are so many cats in the neighborhood...which makes me happy because I love cats. Don't worry, I don't feed them. They're perfectly capable of finding their own food. But anyway, the apartment is slowly beginning to feel like home. I'm slowly adding some more supplies to the apartment. So it's a work in progress. But I love it here. Plus I'm not in the ghetto...I'm in a good area, and about a block and a half away from a school.
School: Classes have been getting busy. About a week and a half after classes started, I noticed that I still needed a literature class to fill the humanities core for my major. Speaking of major, I officially dropped the catechetics major, making me just a theology major. Anyway, I added Renaissance Lit. Since I added that, I decided to audit Youth Ministry, since I felt that if I carried 15 credits, it would have been too much for me. So it's been busy, but not as busy as it could have been. I like my classes. Plus I like that the classes don't last 1 1/2 hours like they did in Austria.
Household: So I'm back to going to commitments on campus. It's so good to be reunited with household, especially with those who went to Austria last fall. And it's good to be able to go to Lord's Day in person rather than by Skype. This semester we have 15 stars in Austria. I was really surprised by the number. About more than half of the girls in Austria this semester just got into household. So now that I'm back on campus, they're not here. So I have to wait until next semester to get to know them. I just wish I could get to know them now rather than having to wait even longer. I wasn't on campus when they intented, and I never got a chance to get to know them. I don't want to be a stranger to them when they get back in January. I want them to get to know me, and for me to get to know them. Concerning twinkles, we only have one twinkle so far: Kelsey Bowers, who has been a twinkle since late November (she went to Austria with us last semester). Hopefully we'll get more twinkles soon so she won't be the only twinkle in Stella so far.
Well, I'm going to sign off for now. We have morning mass tomorrow, so I have to get up early.
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