Class, Recruitment and Fun!

Hey all!
The first couple of weeks back at school have been busy but great! I finally got all my classes worked out and I am enjoying all of them. I am taking 4 classes for both of my majors and then I am also working as a research assistant in the Psychology Lab. I haven't started yet, but it should be really great. I get to work with one of my former professors on her social psychology research. It will give me great experience that should make me more prepared for graduate school which I plan to apply to this coming fall!

These first two weeks have been ultra busy because of sorority recruitment. I am a member of Pi Beta Phi and last weekend was the first weekend of formal recruitment. I was at our sorority house ALL day Friday, Saturday and Sunday preparing for it. As stressful as it is while we are going through it, in the end they are actually 2 of the best weekends of the semester because we get to spend so much time together. Next weekend is the final 3 days. Friday and Saturday are the third and fourth days of recruitment and Sunday is called Bid Day! It is when the freshman get their official bids from each sorority. Everyone brings their new members to a restaurant for a brunch and to allow them to spend time getting to know the older chapter members. It is so much fun! It makes all the late nights and time spent organizing worth it!

Last Thursday was one of my best friends 21st birthday so we went to one of our favorite sushi restaurants called "Sake Cafe". There were 22 of us at the dinner! As you can see most of the girls are dressed in white because after dinner we went to a big party called Original Sin. My friends and I were in white to be dressed as angels. It was great to be with all of my friends after being abroad last semester. The party was at this location downtown called the board of trade. It was a beautiful building and the party was a lot of fun! Tons of dancing! Below is a picture of my friends and I dressed up at the party!




I am off to go do some reading for class! Talk to you soon!

Kelly

Back at School!

Hi All!
I just arrived back to New Orleans yesterday. I drove my car down with my mom all the way from Connecticut and it took us 3 days! We stopped overnight in Tennessee, Alabama and then finally made it down to New Orleans. We stayed with one of my mom's friends in Alabama which was nice.

Its great to be back! It seems so weird that I have been gone for 8 months! Not much has changed. The bubble is gone I hear but I haven't seen it yet. I have been spending all of my time driving back and forth from Target, Bed Bath and Beyond and Wal-Mart getting everything I need for my new house! This is my first year living off campus and 3 of my friends and I are moving into a beautiful house on Calhoun St, which is one over from McAlister (which is the main road that runs through campus), so it is really close. I can actually walked about 100 feet and enter the gate directly behind Monroe (freshman dorm).

Since I was gone all last semester, I thought it would be too costly to store alot of stuff so I ended up giving alot of it away, which meant that when I got here I had to go buy all new stuff! But it really hasn't been that bad and with all those superstores so close it is easy to find everything you need.

I can't wait until all the students get down to school. New Orleans is awesome all the time, but it just gets that much better when all the students are here. PLUS I am going to get to see a bunch of my friends who I haven't seen in a very long time! Everyone will start arriving in the next few days so I am super excited about that.

Tonight I am going to go to a japanese Resturante about a mile from Campus called Hana. It is one of my favorites in the area and I have been missing this noodle salad that they make SO badly while I have been gone and I can't wait to eat it. Food is one of the things I have missed most about New Orleans so I can't wait to start going back to all of my favorite places over the next few weeks!

Ok time for dinner! When my room is all set up I will take some pictures of it and my house to show you!

Talk to you soon! Its great to be back!
Kelly