Dev Does NCCC: Getting started

The last two days have been exhausting. And exciting. And wonderful, and awful.

The start of the bad stuff was my fault: I got less than an hour and a half of sleep before I had to leave for my flight. I didn't finish packing until four in the morning even though I knew I had to be up by six. The fact that I was drowsy through the whole first day was my doing entirely.

No lie: I did a fair bit of crying the first day. I cried at the airport when Byron (my fiance) kissed me goodbye, and then I cried for a good while on the airplane. I held it together after that until bedtime, when I called Byron to say goodnight. Totally lost my composure for 15 minutes straight--I'm really glad my roomie was in the shower.

Most of the rest of the bad was circumstantial. I came up to my room at lunch today with a friend (I'm making friends! Yay!) to deal with some paperwork stuff. While there I realized my roof was leaking a little bit onto the heater next to my bed. It was a slow leak, so I wasn't too concerned; I went downstairs to get some towels and tell the person in charge about the situation. I grabbed two towels, headed upstairs to find out what the problem was (the room above me had a pipe break in their heater, but the repairman told me he was fixing it), then went back to my room.

Thirty feet away from my door, I could hear the leak; it now sounded like raining.

Apparently the repairman didn't think to shut off the water before he tried to fix the pipe; in a matter of just a couple minutes, my bedding was soaked.

They got my roommate and me moved into a different room, but because we were dealing with that we were late to our uniform issue. As a result, all my tops are one size too big (they ran out of my size), and I don't have several of the things I need (such as a hard hat etc.).

Enough of the bad; let's move on to everything that's been fantastic so far.

I took pictures of the view from campus on my camera, but I don't have a card reader on me, so you'll just have to wait to see them. All I have access to are the pictures I took on my phone--I'll get some of the good stuff tomorrow! But take my word for it--the view is amazing. From the cafeteria, you can see 200+ named peaks. The campus where we're staying is at the highest point of the Mile-High City, and the view is absolutely breathtaking.

And everybody here is so nice. I made a friend in the Denver airport within minutes of stepping off the plane; I've talked to several people since that I really seemed to click with, and have already made plans with. One of the things I was really nervous about was being surrounded by strangers, but it feels less and less like that with every hour.

I also seriously lucked out in the roommate department. Araina is hilarious and super-sweet.

I think I'm really going to enjoy it in NCCC. We're still sort of in the processing stage, so time will tell, but I'm more excited now than ever to really get started.