Evansville: Day One.

On Thursday, November 12, 2009, my mother picked me up from school and we climbed in the car and set off on our newest adventure: Evansville, Indiana. Mission? To visit the University of Evansville (aka my first choice school).

Things started off pretty well: Being the hopeless shopaholics we are (and because I needed a top to go w/ my audition skirt!), we stopped at the mall. My phone began to ring. (the following is my actual ringtone. I made it all by myself. It's amazinggg.)

*a moment, a love, a dream, a laugh...*

I looked at the caller ID and the area code was pretty foreign to me; I'm used to the 502's, the 859's, and obviously the 606's. But this was a new one: 812. I answered the phone and it was the UE admissions office asking where I was because my overnight was on the 12th and I was supposed to be there at three. I freaked. When my nerves get the best of me, I get hot and start shaking and sweating. This freakout was no different. Luckily, we patched it all up (my letter was incorrect) and we hitched up the old buggy for the remainder of I-64 we had to endure.

I hadn't MapQuested the directions to the university, either, so I began to get a little concerned. I flipped my campus map over and, lo and behold, there was a gorgeous map of the interstate highways and important streets we needed to take to campus. I turned my map-reading skills on and I (luckily) navigated us the entire way to campus without much trouble (except for the passing up the entrance part, but that was only by a few feet!).

We parked the car, I got my stuff together, and journeyed into the admissions office, where I met my host. Her name is Melinda. She's a total sweetheart and we really got along well. Plus, she got me donuts for breakfast the next A. M., which I find pretty admirable. I went to an Admission Ambassadors meeting and an intramural volleyball game with her (I had absolutely no idea what was going on in that game, BTW). I met a lot of sorority girls. I think I'm going to rush next year (as long as I go to UE; I don't like big schools' Greek systems). I met a TON of people, and it barely phased me. Usually, I'm quiet and tense around large crowds of people I don't know - I guess I'm getting a little less afraid of people.

My overnight was awesome, though. I'm going to post about the rest of this in another entry because I'm tired and I have senior pictures tomorrow.

<3