Day 5 and I think I'm starting to completely get why Reed is one of those places you can't describe. And why it's one of those places that isn't for everyone. But I think it certainly will be for me. Granted I've only just finished international orientation and so all the amazing nuanced people I've met so far are also international students, but, after spending 5 hours, wandering to 7/11 in the absolutely pouring rain, drinking whisky and falling between discussions about political idealism, James Blake and The XX, celebrity culture and The Hunger Games (as you probs know one of my fave topics) and yelling, 'come on y'all to keep it fair let's do some guys' while playing snog, marry, avoid with a group of 10 or so guys who don't even bat an eyelid and immediately switch from phoebe, monica and rachel to sean connery, brad pitt and ryan gosling, has made me feel like this place could easily become home. It reminds me of me and Tash in our starrybs in Croydon but with a group of twenty people. I know things will probably be different once this infamously insane workload hits, and the campus fills with other Reedies, but for now I feel like this synaptic speeding, bubble is just one of those places that will shape me.
Oh yeah, and we had a carnival this evening, with sparkly llamas. Real sparkly llamas.
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