My Friends ❤
These are all the new friends I've made after only two weeks!
Peggy, who's my roommate and from Colorado. She's not a morning person at all. She's sort of taking the lead in teaching me stuff about Earth college: the stuff I don't learn in class. That's important, because if we just wanted book learning, there'd be no point in the exchanges at all; we could just send books back and forth.
Christine, who is the first person I met at the dining hall (besides the nice old lady who watches the entrance). Christine has long orange-red hair and big canine teeth and likes Star Wars.
Joe, who is friends with Christine. He has a goatee and blonde hair and when he graduates he's going to teach school in Asia. He's usually pretty quiet—of all my friends who eat together, he's the quietest.
Sean, who has short blonde hair and a round face, and wears jeans and t-shirts. He likes Star Trek as much as Christine likes Star Wars. He's going to college for computers. He told me once that if I have a problem with mine, he can fix it.
Aric, who's tall and likes to wear plain white t-shirts. He's pretty talkative, and sometimes he eats with us and other times he eats with someone else. He lives in Michigan all the time, not just for college.
Ruth, who lives down the hall and dyes her hair different colors. Ruth has a weird obsession with pants. She made a daisy chain of pants out of construction paper and hung it around her room.
Rebekka, who's very quiet and wears long loose skirts that go all the way to the floor. She is an artist and always has a dreamy look in her eyes. Peggy told me that sometimes people on drugs have that kind of look, but Rebekka is just like that all the time.
Kat, who's Rebekka's roommate. She's quiet and wears glasses but she's really nice.
Brianna lives down the hall from us too. She's very tall and skinny. I thought she was a boy when I first saw her, just because she was so tall. I didn't know girls could get that tall, too. She's studying biology, and last year was in the rainforest in Brazil.
Mister Salvatore and Miss Cherilyn, the two people who rode with me from the airplane station to college and helped me get my ornithopter license and will take me places when Peggy isn't available or when I need to go somewhere she doesn't want to go.
Aquamarine, of course. Although technically I made friends with her before I got to Earth.
There are a bunch of other people that sit with us sometimes, like Kennith and Seth (Seth has a tattoo on his left bicep, which is sort of like a cutie mark but it doesn’t appear on its own), and James and Elizabeth who are so in love that they’re going to get married. Andy, who is very strange, and Nancy who has a lisp. I really want to get to know some of them better, but they mostly like to sit in the darkest, most confined room in the dining hall, and I’m just not comfortable eating there.
I’m gonna leave a couple of blank pages after this one, so I can add in more friends when I make them!