Boy’s State Baby! Part 2

After my parents said their goodbyes and left, I was uncertain what was going on. We almost got are rooms backwards. The hallway was separated in two sections on each floor and, of course, they didn’t tell us this at first. After everything was squared away in the dorms, we had our first formation. I never was in any type of formation before, so it took a little while to get used the thought. You should’ve seen me trying to march in formation, that was “fun.” Don’t get me wrong I was able to do it, but it took some time. On that same day we had our pictures taken. They had us wear dark dress pants too which was a little hot, but it was manageable. If you don’t know me, I’m pretty obsessed with how my hair looks on an hourly basis. My hair is also straightened every day, but I wasn’t able to do this while there because I normally didn’t have enough time to take a shower in the morning and plus it would have been too much of a hassle around the guys in the dorm. My hair was adequate for the picture but it really didn’t turn out that great.
After we took the pictures, dinner was served to us. I was actually quite surprised by what they had. Some of it I actually liked to eat. I’m a pretty picky eater so eating in places sometime can be a bit difficult for me. Derryberry Hall was the next thing we went to on that night This is where we had almost every assembly at boys state. It was pretty comfortable in the room. You would think 580+ guys in a single room would be a problem but it wasn’t that bad. I mean at least nobody stunk that bad! In deed if felt like a lifetime while we were in that room, and it felt like that every time we were in there until the that following friday. To top off the day, tests were given to us that night. They weren’t that bad but I was really tired since the tests were given at 10:15 at night, and I normally go to bed at 9:00 or 9:30. It was a big change for me, and come to find out that everyday after that was a little worse on that category. Everyday the lights out was around 10:30 to 11:00 depending on everyone on the floor. When the day was over I got to know a little of the peers I was around, and got to know them a little more throughout the week.
The days after that first day seemed so long to me. Getting up a 6 in the morning and going to be at 11 at night almost every day for a week can do something to you, let me tell you that. Even though each day was feature packed with activities for us, the days still seemed to drag on until the last day, which went really fast. One other thing that I wasn’t wanting to do was athletics. Don’t ask! I somehow got out of it. Actually I know how it happened, but I’m not going to tell. HAHA!