Tuesday, August 25, 2009

"Brooklyn Zoo"

Today is my fourth day of being at school/living here in Brooklyn. In total honesty, I love it here and have not felt a drop of homesickness. Granted, my last experience with my parents before being dropped off was my mom crying and telling me how awful I am, and my dad taking swipes at me in the backseat. To say it perturbs me how they acted on move-in day would be a huge understatement; they felt as if they day was a big event to them (which it was in a sense, I'm leaving the nest etc.) but it should have been a bigger event to me. I'm bummed that my first memory of what I assume will be 4 years of awesome ones is having that awful tiff with my parents. It should've been a positive day for them and me, but it ended up quite the opposite. But, enough emotional griping, this is not a livejournal (it's a much more mature thing...a blog...)
I've made more friends easily here in the past 4 days than all 17 years spent back at home. Everyone here is interesting, everyone is creative, everyone has something to talk about. Everyone knows what they want to do in their field, and could hold a very long conversation telling you about it. Most importantly, everyone listens to good music, or at least is heavily interested in it (there's a few kids who listen to some awful shit.) I hope it won't be long until I can find some other kids to play music with, it's been so god damn long.
The first night here I didn't leave campus until 10, and went with my roommate to Fort Greene park a few blocks down from the school. Second day we went to Williamsburg to try and see Girl Talk and ended up waiting in line for an hour, getting rained on, and eventually leaving. Yesterday I went to Manhattan by myself earlier in the day to check out Generation Records, came back to school only to leave shortly after with a group of kids heading to Williamsburg. We checked out a bunch of thrift stores in the area (way too hip) and got some pizza. At night I went with my roommate and another writing major to this kid's apartment, and I got to hang out on my very first rooftop in the city. We bought some Magic Hats with waaaaaay too much ease at some sketch corner store near the apt., then headed back to Fort Greene to enjoy them and what-have-you.
This all might sound rather lame, boring, and uninteresting to a lot of you. I would rather wander aimlessly around Brooklyn for eternity than spend one more day in the municipal parking lot back in New Milford. Everything is so much more alive and active here, people are so much easier to talk to and socialize with.
I'm not really sure why I wrote this long self-centered post. I just do not miss home one ounce at all, and love it here.

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