Day 8: Virginia with a splash of New Hampshire.

It's been a week since I've been here but it feels like I've been here for a year. The people I have met & hung out with everyday this week seem like I knew them forever; it's only really been a week though.

Maine is finally back home! The room mates & I totally missed her. It was so weird not having her around the house. We surprised her when she came back home, though I don't think you could call it a 'surprise' since she was 45 minutes early but, anyways, we baked her cupcakes, brownies & perogies.

I met a new person today. His name is Rick & he's from Virginia. He went to Virginia Tech & was a freshmen, I believe, when that whole Virginia Tech shooting happened. He's a very kind fella. He seemed to take an interest in my 'accent'. I met him today while we planned Maine the 'surprise' welcome home party since he was the one checking on the goods while they baked which earned him the name of 'Betty Crocker' which turned into 'Betty Duncan'. He's also Louisiana's room mate so I'm sure we will be seeing a lot of him.

It seems out of our whole group of people, no one really acts like themselves until the sun is down. We are all pretty awkward & just sit around barley saying anything to one another which ends up with me turning on my Ipod to break some of the silence. I'm sure with due time this 'awkwardness' will subside.

This night, however, was very fun. Almost as fun as last night but without the frustration of walking around in salt water air with a shirt for 12 hours. We ventured to yet another state. New Hampshire this time. We went there to get fire works for tomorrow since it is Labor Day but I don't think I'll light off more than a sparkler since I don't dig fireworks that much. I don't like loud noises at all. We are planning to BBQ tomorrow too but being a vegetarian of 8 years, well....I still love freakin BBQs!

My room mates & I had our first dinner together as our little 'family'. It was mac & cheese with Black Eyed Peas (don't ask me how that got on my Pandora) playing in the background. We laughed a lot & for the whole dinner I didn't think about the things that are bothering me. Apparently we were laughing so hard that Massachusetts heard us from outside downstairs right before he came on up. It was nice to forget things, even if it was for only 15 minutes

We all also went bowling tonight & it was fun except for having to be one two separate teams which kind of isolated us from the others. We were supposed to the drive-in movie theater since today was the last day till Spring that they were showing anything but Maine, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Alaska & I decided that sitting in a truck bed for 2 hours while it was 40C out wasn't the best idea so we just came home. We tried to convince Kris to sleep over since we didn't want him driving all the way back to his place since he was tired but he turned down out offer. So we made him sign a contract that stated he would sleep over before school ends or else we will have to partake in ball busting & punches in the neck.

Louisiana also found out how to sled without any snow.