Day 1 Part 1

So right now I'm sitting on the steps to some big building/auditorium on campus...I don't really know what it is. I should be sitting in class right now.

After scrutinizing my schedule and deciding last night on the classes I was going to try out this week, my first class was to start today at 11:10. It was an education class, and luckily the education and music departments are near each other - but nowhere close to campus. They're on their own little area several blocks away.

I had to force myself out the door this morning because I was terrified and really didn't want to go. I finally got up the courage, and gathered my things to head out. It takes me about 10 minutes to walk to campus, so this morning I allotted myself 40 minutes to walk to this place, look around a bit, and figure out where I was going before my class began. I got to the main campus, the point at which I didn't know where I was going anymore, and reached in my pocket to get my map - and realized that somewhere between my apartment and that street corner my map had fallen out of my pocket - in addition to the piece of paper where I had written down all of my classes, room numbers, times, and professors, in addition to the professors' office hours for whom I wanted to talk to today. Awesome.

I hoped I would be able to find this place anyway, because I had found it on the map and had a general idea of where it was, so I just kept walking. It soon became very obvious that I'd missed a sidestreet somewhere, I was way out of the way, and there was no one else out on the street for me to ask and even if I could find it, I was going to miss my class anyway.

So now I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do. Some of the information was saved on my computer, so I can get that, but some of it wasn't. I can go to the international office and get another map so I can find these buildings, and just hope to everything holy that this day starts getting better soon.