The Beginning

Hello helloo.

So. Just in case you don't have enough going on in your own lives and you find yourself one day thinking, "I wonder whatever happened to that Alexa girl", I'm setting up this blog. Trust me, I would love to chat on the phone with all of you every day but I'm quickly finding the college life doesn't really allow for much of that. And given my previous history with e-mail I doubt that would work out much better. So in an attempt to be wherever you are whenever you are, I present to you The Swat Life. Haha. Oh gosh. 

But basically I miss all of you like crazy after only 3 days and this is my way of staying in your lives while, hopefully, you can respond in comments telling me about the happenings of your life. Is it a real relationship when facial expressions are indicated by punctuation marks and battery power and internet access dictate communication? Mm no, probably not. But I'd like to think sometimes you can hear my voice.

Anywayss. It has been 3 days. And I'm exhausted. I've never been constantly around other people so much in my entire life. Example: After soggy goodbyes with my dad, ma, z and bec I stood in the middle of my dorm room sobbing until a knock on my door 2 minutes later from 5 of the soccer girls, there to say hello. From that point on I sleep alone and that's about it. We were given a schedule of the next week and a half and every day has a strict itinerary from 7 am to 11 pm, to the hour. We've been practicing twice a day for around 2 hours and spend an hour in the classroom and team meetings, bondings and meals the rest of the day. I was so relieved to get the fitness test over, though. I ended up 4th in the 2 mile (time unknown, unimpressive and never to be released to the public), did 42 push-ups before literally collapsing (not even top 10) and got 1st in sit-ups with 93 in 2 minutes. It's good to have it over because I was really freaking out about it. Embarrassingly so.

The team is awesome. It gets hard for me to keep putting forth the effort to get to know all 27 people (yeah, 27) without wishing to God I could be around people that I don't have to explain what my favorite concert was or who's in my family. People that were there and people that are them. I mean, of course it's fun and I love it but it can be a lot of work. Yeah yeah yeah enough complaining though. So there's 9 freshman and we all get along- last night we all got together in a dorm and ordered pizza and played Apples to Apples. I'm getting to be really good friends particularly with 2 of the freshman, one from Virginia and the other from Seattle. The upperclassmen are a different story because they already have each other but they're all still super nice and definitely reach out to us. Coach is big with that. Togetherness and such. Our theme this year is "One."

I'm playing pretty well and the freshman are definitely reppin'. We took all top four spots in the 2-mile and quite a few of us can duke it out with the older girls. I think my dad would say my body language doesn't look like I'm having much fun out there, though. I just get in a zone where I want to just play and compete and there's not much smiling involved. Wait, that's not true. I talk during breaks and stuff I'm just not all goofy like I was in high school soccer. That could be a good thing though. I just need to make that FUN song from Spongebob a mantra of mine...

Tonight for team building we drove to New Jersey to see a minor league baseball game. Before we got to campus we were told we were going to a Phillies game, but yeah. Definitely not. It was still pretty fun though. They set it up so the freshman had to go out on the field during the 7th inning stretch and sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" for the crowd. Hmm it was lovely.

As far as school. Oh yes, school. That's why I'm going to college. New student orientation starts Tuesday so that's when the rest of the new kids move in (right now on campus it's only the women's soccer team and volleyball team so it's really really quiet). Then we set up our schedules and all that jazz. So not much to talk about there.

Wow. I'm embarrassed about how long this is. But I did have a lot of catching up to do and I promise the rest won't even compare. I miss everybody so much and I have had only one major episode of homesickness yesterday. It just really hit me hard and I felt like I could cry at any given moment but later in the day we had a freshman meeting scheduled with Coach and it made me feel a lot better. However, I still miss you. Hope everyone's well and it's not as humid there as it is here. Sheesh.

Love.