Yellow school buses, red plastic cups and brown paper shopping bags. It’s the little things that count. It’s the small things that you’ve been waiting for, and when you witness or experience them you get a little bit too excited and wonder if you are the only one feeling this way? You aren’t and admitting how excited you are about the simplest of things is a great way to bring people together.
I was met by Stacy West who is the Willamette University version of Erica and Caitlin Ellis a WU peer advisor who has studied abroad and is here to help me ‘settle in to my new home’ for the next semester. The transport from the airport to Willamette University was a big yellow school bus. I was in a small pick-up group and no one was talking very much. Stacy and Caitlin tried to start conversations but it isn’t the easiest thing to be the best version of yourself when you’ve spent 16hours travelling, saying that I was excited to be on a yellow school bus felt childish but I’m glad I said it because it started everyone else off.
Within 30 minutes we almost had each other’s life stories, Heidi from Finland, Maral and Sofie both from Sweden and me, we spoke about our families, where we wanted to go and what we wanted to see while we are in the States, I am really looking forward to being a tourist! We entered Salem and I was the last to be dropped off at my Hall; Doney. It was dead because I was an early arrival student and the only other people of my floor were footballers who were here for pre-season practice.
Me and a corridor of American Footballers; I love studying abroad!
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