So, Today was my first day of college. I started at Mesa Community College and thought today was as good as ever to start keeping a journal. And I figured it would be easy online.
I woke up at 4:30 am. I got in the car and drove to Papago Park in Tempe and met my cross country team for what was supposed to be an 8 mile sand workout on the sand volleyball courts by what used to be Tempe Town Lake. We started with a 2 mile warm up and then got to the volleyball courts and removed our shoes and socks. We ran our workout today barefoot to strengthen ankle and Achillesr muscles in the foot. I have always been a fan of running barefoot because I feel faster barefoot. We had a loop around all 6 or so courts and up a grass hill and across a flat grass straightaway to the finish. That was 1. I had 11 more to go. By the time I had done all 12 reps, I was already at 7.7 miles including the warm up. My calves were on fire from running in the sand and my chest was burning from lack of hydration the day before. I was so excited to have already done that much mileage because that meant that we would only have a .3 mile cool down. But knowing my coach, that wasn't going to happen. We went back the way we came and finished at almost 10 miles for the day. I felt it was a good workout but I was dead tired, hungry and out of gas to get back to school. I headed out to school and stopped at Circle K to get gas and put my last 2 dollars in hoping it would get me to school and all the way back to Queen Creek. It did and I went straight to the locker room to shower up and find my first class.
My first class was Spanish 101 at 9 am. Luckily, I got out of the locker room at 8:20 because it took me about 30 minutes to find the class on that huge campus. I had just enough time to partake of the the free doughnuts and water they had on campus. I was in class on time and enjoyed it. It was only the first day and all we did was go over the syllabus but I can tell its going to be a relatively easy class. The teacher is very funny and although its hard to understand his english he seems like he isn't there to watch you fail but to rather succeed. :)
After spanish I had a 40 minute break till my Computer class at 10:30. After locating my class I went back outside to see if they had any water left. It was almost lunch time so they had water, punch and sandwiches! It was awesome because I had no food, and no money. I had alot to drink because the sandwiches went fast and I actually didn't get one. So i tried to satisfy my hunger with punch. It worked temporarily but it made me have to go to the bathrooom. I was already in class when i realized this and didn't know if it was appropriate to ask to go to the bathroom in a college class so i just held it. The person at the computer next to me probably thought i was a freak for jittering around so miuch. The class seemed promising and I think I will do well.
I was done with school by 11:45 and am so happy with my schedule. I have that schedule on Mondays and Wednesdays and have a totally different schedule on Tuesdays and Thursdays. After school I drove to my place of employment, Quiznos, and picked up my minuscule paycheck and went straight to the bank to cash it and fill my car with gas. I also took my laptop to Starbucks to partake of the free wi fi and did the homework I had for my computer class in the air conditioning. It was nice, and I felt like a true college student. After that I went home to get some food, and watched some TV before Lyndee, Nicole and Dallin came over to watch a movie. I like my friends, they are fun.
Tomorrow I have Cross Country at 5:30 and Spanish, English and Communications classes at school. I hope my second day is as good as my first. :)
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