At least this is what the "system" says. my life mission is to prove them wrong. Howard university is my home, it is the single place of peace i have been searching for.my dorm room is my halycon. classes start tomorrow, and honestly, im ready.
Drew Hall is more than just a place where i will be living, more than a dorm, more than an air-condition lacking, single elevator having, five-story project building. it is a brotherhood. this is my family.satsitical anomolies. all with a single mission. succeede.
...earlier today i had planned all that i wanted to leave on this blog. suddendly it has escaped me.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
the move-in
...life has begun. high school is over, summer is done, college has yet to truly start. freshmen oritation week has barely gotten underway and already i can tell that this is where i need to be. washington dc...howard university.
the move-in was short and simple, at least for me. being the first in line to actually recieve my keys and unload my personals, i moved in first and with swiftness. only actually getting my room together was a slight hassle.
my parents and i have been in dc for the past two days. we have gotten along wonderfully [which is saying alot]. we havent had the slightest altercation. wonderful.
after getting "settled"... i roamed. many people i had met on facebook were attending hu. some of us met. john knight, ahmed inhram, gabby todd, to name a few. all day we ventured around campus looking for things to do. we went to macdonalds at least 3 times.
my family had left to pick up a few last minuet items. i was trying to head to "china town" upon their return...my plans were cancelled. after an hour of after the move-in move-ins, my family finally left...for good. the feeling was so surreal. so unbelieveable. so foregin...it still hasnt quite sunk in yet.
after my last final goodbye, i walked back to the yard. i ran into ahmed and john with a small crowd of ladies [5 to be exact]. we ended up roaming the campus, going to macdonalds, and finally sitting in the yard.
this is where the most inspirational moment of my life happened [...well kinda...]
we sat on the benches...ten of us. chatting.small talk. simply exploring one anothers mind. conversation seemed to get deeper and deeper as time passed. topics went from defination of sexy to malcolm vs king to religion to bush to katrina racism races...to list all the topics would be quite the task so i refuse to do so.
i, after searching for so long, finally found a group who could relate to my philsophy of life and understand my reasoning. people who wnated to see change in the black nation, in the way blacks are viewed, the way the color black is viewed. we wanted change. we argued, debated, agreed, and expressed a lot of emotions through our words. it was love.
we stayed out well past six-thirty having met at midnight. it was beyond wonderful.
if there was ever a way to spend one's first night at any decent university, we found it.
love.
the move-in was short and simple, at least for me. being the first in line to actually recieve my keys and unload my personals, i moved in first and with swiftness. only actually getting my room together was a slight hassle.
my parents and i have been in dc for the past two days. we have gotten along wonderfully [which is saying alot]. we havent had the slightest altercation. wonderful.
after getting "settled"... i roamed. many people i had met on facebook were attending hu. some of us met. john knight, ahmed inhram, gabby todd, to name a few. all day we ventured around campus looking for things to do. we went to macdonalds at least 3 times.
my family had left to pick up a few last minuet items. i was trying to head to "china town" upon their return...my plans were cancelled. after an hour of after the move-in move-ins, my family finally left...for good. the feeling was so surreal. so unbelieveable. so foregin...it still hasnt quite sunk in yet.
after my last final goodbye, i walked back to the yard. i ran into ahmed and john with a small crowd of ladies [5 to be exact]. we ended up roaming the campus, going to macdonalds, and finally sitting in the yard.
this is where the most inspirational moment of my life happened [...well kinda...]
we sat on the benches...ten of us. chatting.small talk. simply exploring one anothers mind. conversation seemed to get deeper and deeper as time passed. topics went from defination of sexy to malcolm vs king to religion to bush to katrina racism races...to list all the topics would be quite the task so i refuse to do so.
i, after searching for so long, finally found a group who could relate to my philsophy of life and understand my reasoning. people who wnated to see change in the black nation, in the way blacks are viewed, the way the color black is viewed. we wanted change. we argued, debated, agreed, and expressed a lot of emotions through our words. it was love.
we stayed out well past six-thirty having met at midnight. it was beyond wonderful.
if there was ever a way to spend one's first night at any decent university, we found it.
love.
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