Back on the Hilltop!

I am no longer in China, no longer in Seattle, but find myself already back at Georgetown. Although the last three months of adventures were amazing and they did pass in the blink of an eye, I found that return to campus was very normal. Almost as if I never left. I am slowly settling in, reconnecting with friends, attending the welcome back barbecue and buying books. I am living back on campus this year, on the 5th floor of Copley Hall. The first official dorm built of campus and it is filled with nooks and crannies characteristic of the old Gothic style of architecture. The floor I am on is all double rooms and it is a girls only floor, though the building is co-ed, this should make for some interesting times this year.

I ate in the cafeteria for dinner tonight, which has received a complete make-over especially the menu. Hopefully this will make eating there much more interesting with more options, in previous years my main complaint has been that it gets boring pretty quickly. There is now a stir-fry area, home-cooking and carvery, deli & salad bar with fruit (on both floors), a make your own pasta station, in addition to the pasta and pizza bistro down stairs, there is also a diner with burgers fries and the like, and finally a dessert station with Hershey's ice cream and fro-yo. The decor has also changed and they painted a huge Georgetown mural on the top floor. They also switched out the big 14 person tables for table that hold approx 6 people so it is a much more laid back and intimate atmosphere, there is even a bar counter to sit at and booths and pub tables downstairs. The other big change has been to eliminate trays, they say it is for environmental reasons, but I also see it as decreasing the quantity of food taken (even though it is all you can eat-buffet style).

So that is the big news, well that and classes start tomorrow, it should be a laid back week seeing as I have only two classes and I am sure that not much more than receiving syllabi will occur. But it should be fun, plus I have already taken classes with 3 out of my 4 professors so I know a bit of what to expect and the final class is Chinese and that is pretty by the book. It should be an easier paced semester. Mondays I have 1 class, Tuesdays thru Thursday 2 classes, and Friday no class. On top of that I have my first class of the week at 2:15 in the afternoon and my last class ends on Thursday at 2:30. Oh the life of an upper classman! I am really looking forward to this semester.