Day 1 in L.A.!

Ugh! I just wrote a huge long thing and totally accidentally deleted it all....I'm so pissed!!!!!!


I'm too tired to write it all again so to sum up:

Hitch Suites (where I'm living) = Bigger than Robinsion, but not as nice.
I thought I was done with sharing bathrooms, bedrooms, crappy twin sized mattresses, and no privacy after freshman year. So,while I can survive for 8 weeks, I will definitely be jumping into my big expensive full sized bed and sigh at the privacy when I return home.

Roommate/Suitemates - I originally posted a long thing here, but I decided in the name of ethics, it's not right to post a huge long description with my opinions of 3 people who don't know they are being written about for the world to see. So if you'd like to know, ask me personally. I saved what I wrote. :)

Okay. so that's basically what I'd written before, believe it or not, in a shorter version.

I'm going to recount the rest of yesterday and then hit the hay, so look for today's update sometime tomorrow. I'm starting to fall asleep at my computer...it may only be 11 pm here, but i'm still on michigan time and that makes it 2 am in my poor body.

So after I got settled yesterday we had a welcome reception. The view from where we ate on campus is absolutely gorgeous...I will have to take a picture of it to share. Unfortunately, gluten-free options were slim to none. My dinner consisted of an appetizer plate full of corn chips and a little guacamole. I was actually a little upset because I notified them of my condition well in advance, but I told myself since it was a catered thing it probably wasn't thought about. I'm one of 261 participants...I'm sure they are more concerned with feeding the masses.

Bryce, who was my internship coordinator and is the program director for the LA program, talked for a little while, welcoming us and outlining the next few days. (Um, he is way beyond drop dead gorgeous, in case anyone cares. We've secretly having a thing. It's so secret he doesn't even know about it...) and of course we had to partake of cheesy ice breakers. But because of the icebreakers I met this Sigma Chi who is really nice and I talked with today for awhile, Alex. Anywho, we broke from the welcome reception and stuff around 9ish. My roommates and I had talked about maybe going to see a movie, or just hanging out, but then we walked by this room full of guys. Who invited us to the local favorite bar (one of the guys participated in the program last year too.) He was an interesting character. He said he went to Vegas before coming here and woke up with $800 more than he started with in his pocket and no clue how it got there.Some of the girls thought he was hot...I thought he was very cute. Totally my normal type...very metrosexual. However, my radar went off multiple times, so I'm advising them to be on alert and steer clear. He was just too pretty boy and just too eager to have female attention to be legit if you ask me.

Anywho, long story short, a group of 10 of us head down to a bar (think second floor of McFadden's) called O'Haras in WestWood (about a 15/20 minute walk!) where I have a feeling I will be spending many a night at (rumor has it it's everyone's favorite Westwood bar). But we get there and this guy I was talking about pulls out a wad of cash and offers to pay for everyone's drinks! (i wasn't even planning on drinking but hey, who am i to turn down a free one? not to mention at a bar in a city that gouges you for alcohol and well, pretty much everything!). It got back to me the next morning that he easily spent $300 that night as he continued to buy everyone's drinks well after myself and a few others walked back. I was so tired by midnight because my body was on eastern time -3 am-still. But it was fun.

Oh, and did I mention UCLA's entire campus is built on hills? Specifically one very steep one at the entrance up to where I live? yeah, that part of walking back? not so fun. I don't even need to go to the gym...I get a workout walking off and on campus!

Okay. I seriously just nodded off. Today was incredible, but very packed and I'm so ready for bed. I'll tell you more about it...and my first day of work tomorrow....later!!! :)

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