Day 19

I wanted to sleep in, but at 8 o clock I decided that it was late enough.  I took my time getting ready, and I went out at 830 with an apple as breakfast, and did the chicken chores.  I was excited that all I had to do was collect the eggs, and feed the animals and then I was a free man for the weekend.  However, Josh had different plans.  He told Zoelli that after we did the chores he would like for us to pick a bucket of spinach each...classic.  I wasn't sure if he knew that I was leaving in about an hour or two, but we still did the work anyways.  I was on turbo mode because I wanted to get packed up, and I h ad big plans for a hilarious picture that is now my profile picture on facebook.  I have started to get a little annoyed with the information Zoelli will spew out ant any chance she gets, about everything.  And her sources include...the internet.  I am in no way saying that that is a bad way to get information, but all she does when we are not farming is look up things on wikipedia and google, and then tell me about them.  So when she starts to go on a rantI usually become pretty unresponsive, just because sometimes I genuinely dont feel the need to add to it.  So we picked spinach, and then Josh told us we could start to pick some carrots.  And thats when Zoelli told him, that we both had the day off, and Josh was just uninformed.  So after we picked the spinach I went to go pu ton a flannel and take the picture that I have wanted to take.  I thought it would be hilarious to take a picture posing next to my wood pile, to feed everyones stereotype about what I am doing when I tell them I cut wood.  It is a real classic picture, and the caption had to be equally as classic : just another day.  #genius.  After the picture, I went upstairs to pack my things up, and I did a practice SAT section before I left as well.  When it was 11 Troy and I left the house and entered the Honda Prelude, which looked like it was made in the late 19th century.  It even sounded like it too.  The ride was pretty quick, especially because Troy just keeps on talking and talking.  It's strange how he can be so talkative, but not very social.  Basically the whole car ride consisted of Troy explaining how a car works to me.  I thought it so interesting that I didn't even know where the battery of a car was, but I have been driving for two years now.  I love learning about those kinds of things.  We approached Waterville, and if there wasn't a welcoming sign, I dont think I would have realized we were there.  What I mean is that Waterville is not a very flamboyant, or large town for that matter.  We pulled into the school, and Wayne was taking a shower, and wasn't near his phone, so I told Troy that I would just start walking to Wayne's dorm ( even though I had absolutely no idea where it was ).  That's the good thing about having a 20 year old guy drop you off somewhere, as opposed to a worry-some mother who won't leave until they know that whomever you are meeting is in sight ;).  So I went off and wandered into Colby.  I had no sense direction, but I assumed I was walking towards the middle of campus.  It was insanely gorgeous.  The trees color was so colorful, and bright that it completely caught the autumn feel.  Wayne finally called me back and he gave me directions ( which turned out to be wrong ) and so I couldn't find where he was talking about, so compromised with myself to sit on a bench and wait for him.  I people watched for a little.  It was super nice, just observing everything that was going on around me.  Wayne called again and I spotted him from a good 100 feet away, because of his bright tie-dye shirt.  I walked over, and in full embrace I realized how nice it was too see someone from Palos Verdes.  We walked for a little, and as soon as we walked into a library esc. building wayne completely ditched me to do some survey, and at first I felt a little awkward, but then I remembered I was a farmer, and it was alright...classic.  I looked around, and then Wayne introduced me to his close friends.  Three girls, one named Olivia, who was immensely frantic because she was convinced she just got a problem wrong on a midterm.  One named Jen, who was pretty quiet, but super nice.  And one named Sam who reminded me of a girl I knew in high school.  Sam was super cute, and kind of quirky, but I had some strange liking towards her.  After I was introduced to them, Wayne and I branched off and went to eat at one of the cafeterias.  He gave me a guest pass, and I was excited to finally eat something other than Lauras home style cookin'.  The food was alright, not amazing; but the dessert was classic.  We talked a lot about my farm, and all the crazy things I have written about on this blog, and then we talked about Colby, and Wayne sure id have a lot to say.  Wayne is a very interesting person because he is extremely steadfast in his beliefs.  He doesn't waste his time for douchebags.  He told me that last year was hard because he had a hard time connecting to people.  He wanted to change the social scene here because he felt like people weren't truly being who they wanted, and they were all just focused on getting drunk.  I said Newsflash Wayne welcome to college.  He found it hard to have heart to hearts with people on campus.  Personally, and call me an egotistical loser if you you would like, but I kind of pride myself on opening up people and creating relationships with all types of people, so the problems Wayne expressed, I felt, didn't apply to me.  After lunch, we went back to his dorm, which was smaller than I imagined, but still nice.  After hanging out for 30 minutes, we went and practiced soccer with his intramural team.  I was a little nervous to be honest, because I don't play soccer, and I never really have.  But, it turns out the guys that were playing weren't that much better than me anyways...classic.  We goofed around for a little, and then we scrimmaged, and I was definitely still getting used to it, but I wasn't doing terrible.  Then we moved fields, because the girls high school team needed the field.  We played a bunch of 4 on 4 games, and it was really fun.  I definitely prefer to be on defense, because with offense you have to dribble really well, and I am just not that skilled.  With defense you just have to be very focused and make sure the ball doesn't pass you.  We played for another 2 hours, and we ended playing a sort of two on two game, and Wayne and I ended up winning it, which was fun.  After that we went to the gym.  Classic case of my first time going to a gym besides for Peninsula Volleyball Winter training.  Wayne did his routine for a while, and I awkwardly did some ab work and bicep work.  AFter 30 minutes Wayne decided he was too tired to continue, so we called it a day for working out.  We went back to his dorm, and showered, and then went to a goodwill store, because Wayne needed a suit for a student government event.  After that we came back and went to dinner with the crew of girls I m et earlier, and a guy named Andrew.  Andrew is a super nice guy, who carries his camera everywhere.  He's that guy.  I had some pesto panini's for dinner, and then some ice crea, for dessert.  It was at dinner that, with a group effort we convinced Wayne to go out.  That made me happy, because I wanted Wayne to join me if we went to a party.  After dinner, we went to a fortune teller.  I was pretty against getting my fortune told, because I thought it kind of dumb.  I dont really want someone to tell me my future for me.  I am already worried about what I am going to do as it is, why would I need to worry any more.  But Wayne and his friends thought otherwise, and they made me join them.  I just decided to take a different route with it, as I do with many things.  I thought it would be funny/ interesting to get to know her, rather than have her try to get to know me.  I asked her about where she was born, her upbringing and when she knew she was going to be a fortune teller ( to which she responded: since I was born...classic ).  After the fortune teller we went back to Waynes room, and got prepared for the night ahead.  We went to one of the girls rooms that I had met earlier, and conveniently was only one floor below us.  We hung out there and "pre-gamed" in her room before we left to go to a dance party on campus.  It was hard to convince Wayne to come out, but once he came in the girls' room there was no escaping the night ahead.  After what seemed like 20 people eventually came into the room, we decided to head out to the dance party.  It was maybe only a 5 minute walk to the dorm and when we got in, it was packed.  It was weird though.  I kind of felt like I was at a high school dance.  There was a small lingering of awkwardness in the air, and a pinch of explicit behavior on the dance floor.  It was interesting though.  But as soon as we got there Wayne decided to go back to his dorm,  on account of this wasn't his scene.  That kind of stunk because then I had no for sure friend to hangout with.  I mainly hung out with one of Wayne's friends at the dance, and another girlfriend of hers.  We were all dancing together, but at some points it seemed like the other friend wanted to go somewhere else, or do something else, and so I kind of felt like I was hiding them back.  So I told Wayne's "girl friend" that it was cool if they wanted to leave I could just go back to Wayne's dorm.  They insisted I stay, but I thought it would be a good time to walk back anyways.  I usually don't have tricks up my sleeve, but I thought hey, why not.  So when she asked me if I knew how to get back, I said well maybe kind of.  So she insisted on walking me back, even though it was a pretty simple walk.  #score.  So we walked and talked until we were in front of the dorm, and then we just talked.  We talked for awhile, and then I mentioned that we should walk and talk some more.  We ended up going into the nearest dorm lounge because it got so cold.  The extent of the night turned into talking for a good 2 hours, about her and what she likes to do, and some about me.  She is a totally interesting girl, and the nicest I have met.  At about 205 we decided to go back to Wayne's dorm, and when we walked in, we almost got lost because the dorms connect in a way.  We ended up finding our way back, but just as we were going the right direction, a girl I had met earlier that night walks out of her room with a Large Pizza from Papa John's and offers it to us, actually she rather just dropped it off.  So we sat and ate pizza for awhile, and talked some more, and at 230 I walked into Wayne's dorm.  What an awesome night.  Maybe not the best party scene, but totally entertaining.  Nighty.