random tangents

texas may be the friendly state, but philly is DEFINITELY the city of brotherly love...

first day at upenn...i cannot even beleive how nice all of the students, faculty and people are here. mo and i are staying on this couple's couch, and they even gave us KEYS to their apartment. the dean himself greeted us personally and then even came by later to check on us. we had almost all of upenn's administrative staff welcome us(5 students) and then proceed to walk us through the whole process of integrating into the school. the couple that we stayed with bought us coffee this morning, and then a friend of theirs that they introduced us to WALKED us personally to the student center to get our id's. we've been given a zagats guide, a full map of the city, a map of the campus, a tour of favorite local pubs and eateries, the book store, AND the couple that we are staying with even offered their advice on getting a place for the 4 of us(the tulane students that showed up today and are good friends).
all together today has been one of the most exhausting of my life, and one of the most stressful, if for nothing else we are currently without an address...but we are posting AND searching on craigs list and we have 4 people on the case. it's going to happen soon. tommorrow is just another long list of places to go and people to meet with, but i am finding comfort in the fact that it seems as if the whole city is looking our for us right now.
goodnight.

posted by ekeith @ 10:23 PM