So, I’ve been negligent in updating this lately, so I’m going to do the perhaps flawed technique of trying to catch up. Luckily, I can watch the World Cup in another window while I write this post, so hopefully I will be able to stay focused on writing this.
Going back to Memorial Day Weekend, nothing too terribly exciting happened Saturday. I had some Habitat stuff I had to take care of, and that took up much of Sunday. For memorial day itself, I decided to just be lazy, which was fun. One of the other students arrived that night, but she went to bed early due to jet lag.
The next morning, I had to move out of the guesthouse. That involved waking up early (ew), heading to the student center, and asking to get let in. They didn’t seem to be too prepared for us at that time. Also, there was a bunch of people here for some NMT REU program, which kept on getting people confused. Res Life sent us to the Registrar to get IDs.
At the Registrar, the person minting the IDs was trying to find my information in a stack of papers, but was unable to. So she went to someone else in the office where they looked me up. I proposed that this was because we were working with NRAO and NOT here for the NMT REU (which I had mentioned several times earlier), and they finally caught on. So, the two girls, who had been behind me in line, had to get pulled from line to get their information looked up. This then put them to the back of the ID line. As I said, it seemed poorly organized.
After we all had our freshly minted IDs, we headed back to Res Life and had our keys coded. Then we headed to see the new digs.
No one was around in my suite when I showed up, so I went in and checked that there was no obvious damage. Then I took two loads over from the guesthouse using an NRAO van, put all my stuff in my room, and headed out to work.
At the end of the work day, we three summer students went to the grocery store than Wal-Mart. Upon returning to the apartments, there was someone in the common room playing xbox. I talked to him for a bit. After I mentioned something about the other roommate, roommie #1 got roommie #2. We talked a little bit. Then I started unpacking everything.
It turns out there’s no wi-fi in the dorms (a strange concept to me), so I had to head back to Wal-Mart to get a 7′ ethernet cable. After I got that, everything was peachy keen. A couple things about the dorms worth noting –
- Laundry — both washing and drying — is free here.
- There is a room on the second floor with a TV in it, so I can watch Cup games on something other than my computer (I watched the Argentina game there, and I think I will be watching Holland there tomorrow).
- Lots of closet space.
- My roommates have provided pots, pans, skillets, etc for me, along with plates, cups, cutlery, et al.
- I supposedly have a fourth roommate — he has yet to check in, however. Summer school starts on Wednesday, so I assume he will be here tomorrow.
- The bed is a Twin XL. I’ve been spoiled on Fulls since last August, so this new bed is tragic.
Pictures of the guesthouse and my new room are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/113708845568647784424/LivingInSocorro#
Go Oranje!
