Back in Provo

So I'm back in Provo now. For those of your who don't know, I got a job as an RA at BYU. I flew in Monday morning. I got to the airport in Orlando around 5 and got to Salt Lake around noon. My BFFL (Best Friend For Life) picked me up from the airport and took me to Provo.

I have a temporary or "interim" apartment for this week until I can move into my actual apartment. Here are some pictures of what it's like to live somewhere with limited resources and when you're moving out in a few days.

It's sort of like a hotel, except there's no TV, no sheets, no shampoo or soap, and no towels.

My suitcases threw up

How I stay sane (there's no one to talk to here)

The other room in the apartment is empty. It's a little depressing.
I considered sleeping in a different bed every night this week :)

I made myself at home in the bathroom, as you can tell

I spent my night doing door name tags for all my new residents.
They move in Friday.

The extent of my refidgerated food at this time.
A hunk of cheese, and half of a Subway sub.

The rest of my food. I'm living large!

No sheets. It makes the bed a lot colder for some reason.

Alexa, the officially trained RA!

Yeah, today was RA training for all the new RA's for the summer. I showed up at 8 like I was told, and so did another guy, Jared. Turns out training wasn't until 9, so they sent us to get food at the Cannon Center. It was a long walk, plus we had to eat, then walk back. All in less than an hour. Well, needless to say, we were late coming back, so Ben Hess drove out to find us and picked us up on the sidewalk to drive us the rest of the way.

We had training with all the other RA's for summer, no matter what complex they will be in (Wyview, Helaman, or Heritage) and that was 9 to noon. We did fun activities to get to know each other and were trained on community development and stuff like that.

Then we had a 2 hour lunch break, and I wasn't too hungry, so I slept, then finished my snack wrap and fries from McDonald's last night and picked up a few snacks at the Creamery.

Training for just the Wyview RA's started at 2. We met with the Hall Advisors, Kim and Shauna. Me and Jared are under Kim, and the other 3 RA's are Sam, Karina, and Trisha who are under Shauna. Both the HAs were so nice. We had a good time getting to know them and learning more about our specific schedules and what we need to do when we are scheduled and stuff like that. The Ben trained us on check-ins which we have to do Friday and Saturday. I work Friday from 4 to 8 with Karina and am on-call Saturday morning from 9 to 1.

Other than that, I have RA class Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 for the rest of the semester (not this Thursday, though), and staff meetings every Tuesday nights at 8pm, and a 1-on-1 meeting with my HA every Tuesday. I am scheduled to rove one night about every 7 days. My first is Monday night. It's not too difficult, which is nice. Besides that, most of my hours come from spending time with the girls and planning community standards and programs (activities). It seems like it's going to be really nice. And I love the other RAs. We had a great time.

After we got trained on check-ins (which involved Ben acting like different residents coming to get checked who each had a weird personality and difficult needs-- it was quite entertaining and we laughed a lot, plus it was good practice), we went to the BYU Bookstore together in a campus van to get supplies to make name tags for the doors for our new residents. We got food too. Then I worked on my name tags and got those all done. So, basically I don't have anything to do for the next two days. An ideas what I could do with limited transporation? I guess I could always go to the RB pools and the temple and go bowling or something.

Man, I am so tired, but I am staying up for some weird reason. Oh well. Miss you all already! Love ya!