It is with a little bit dread that I sit down to write this blog. In the past, whenever a new communicative phenomenon has entered into our society, its seems I am always one of the last ones to catch on. My family only started getting aol my junior year of high school, a full two years after most of my peers began gleefully iming each other via the internet super-highway. Needless to say, it was a tremendous detriment to my social life. Following that when cell-phones became all the rage, I personally held out against getting one. After spending a year at Bucknell as the only freshman without a cell-phone (once again, a tremendous detriment to my social life) and realizing that a future without a cell phone was looking increasingly grim, I broke down and bought one. Most recently when the facebook craze was sweeping college campuses, I stubbornly refused to hop on the bandwagon (this time effect on my social life was small, though still negative). And it was only about six months ago that I even discovered what this latest phenomenon called “blogging” actually was. I can attest to that fact that I was never even remotely tempted to join the millions of bloggers worldwide. But now I find myself involved in a program where spilling my guts in an online journal for everyone to see is required. What's even scarier is this thought lurking somewhere in the back of my mind telling me I might grow to like it.

Anyway, since I arrived in the state of Mississippi on thursday evening, things have gone well. I am not overly stressed out yet (though that may soon come). I have met some cool people in the program. I have experienced a little bit of Southern culture and although it and the people involving in it are very strange to me, I think it will be something I will enjoy learning about. Strangely my biggest concern over these last few days has been very basic: how to acquire enough food to quench this persistent hunger that keeps arising in my stomach (mom, if youre reading this, dont freak out, ill be ok). Its seems the world is against those of us who weren't so lucky as to be able to digest a wheat protein known as gluten.

School begins tomorrow, though the first week shouldn't be that hard for us first-years since we will only be teaching two lessons apiece. After that we will see.