I wake up to the alarm on my phone going off. Tony is still asleep, he totally didn't finish the pizza.
I take a shower and change my undergarments that put the same clothes on other than that, they didn't really get dirty.
We don't have long before classes start.
I go up to Tony and shake him lightly.
"Tony Dude first day let's go."
He rolls offer and looks suppriced.
Since he seems to be getting up. I grab a left over slice of pizza and an Orange pop for breakfast.
Tony found it surprising how feminine James's face looked, but didn't say anything.
After I eat my pizza I head out yelling "see you later" as I walk out. He was in the rest room and I didn't want him talking to himself.
It doesn't take me too long to find my first class on the map. How ever I feel like it's a 5-mile hike from the dorm to my first class. I am not athletic enough for this. I end up being 5 minutes late for my first class, and that pattern continued throughout the day.
I have 2 classes a day that are 4 hours each. With a hour lunch between them. It take so long to walk from one end of the campus to the other I didn't have any time to eat. You would think was how much I'm paying tuition I'd be able to eat in the classroom but no.
By the time the days over I'm starving. I take my car off campus and decided to do some grocery shopping. If I'm not going to eat good during the day I should at least have a good breakfast and a good dinner. Our fridge in kitchen in the dorm are a little small but not bad. I get lots of pasta because it's easy to cook and goes with like everything.
When I get back to the dorm I carry the groceries up. One of the other dudes offer to help he just happen to be close by in the parking lot.
I really appreciate him offering to help and definitely took him up on it.
"That's cool I'm right down the hallway." He said as I open my dorm room.
"That's cool, maybe we can hang sometime."
A girl screams as we open the door.
"Sorry man didn't know you had company. I got food." I say to Tony.
"oh it's no big deal, Marry was just leaving and saw a spider." Tony replies with a smile.
"Marry??" Yelling something in Spanish... "Mariah" .... more yelling and the do slammed.
Tony me and the guy who helped carry stuff all laughed.
"what was that?" I ask
"I don't know I don't speak Spanish" Tony said.
"Oh she said you are a lying childish pig, You don't need to make excuses when you have a girl over. and her name is not Marry but Mariah. " Dude that helped
"sup dude, what's your name?" Tony asked completely ignoring the explanation of what the girl had said.
"I'm Steven but my friends call me Steve. You are?"
realizing haven't introduced myself yet I go ahead and introduce myself first.
"I'm James and this is my roommate Tony." I tell him.
"well it was nice meeting you guys but I'm going to go" Steve
"Thanks for the help Steve." I say as he is leaving. "so Tony I am starving my glasses are so far apart I didn't get to eat all day I spent my whole time walking. "
"so your solution for walking too much and being hungry was to go walk around the store and buy food that you have to cook before eating???"
"I got to eat good, plus I'm an awesome cook."
my brother used to always tell me so. he ate everything I cooked.
I start cooking. I make spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread. I also bought some eggs for my breakfast so don't have to worry about doing it in the morning.
"hay Tony you want some?"
"you sure bro? Food can be expensive?"
"one I like cooking for people, Two i already offered it to you. Three since I already made the food it doesn't really matter how expensive it was now someone needs to eat it. Finally, the only food you bought was ramen noodles. "
"okay okay okay okay, you don't have to twist my arm or anything, I'll eat." He makes a plate and starts eating "mmmm you are good. can I just give you my food allowance from now on and you take care of the food? Damn this is like restaurant quality."
"sure I like cooking, but you'll have to shop with me next time." I tell him.
"deal!" he says as he sells a whole meatball in his mouth.
This is going to be great. I'll have more money for food and help shopping plus I won't have to eat alone.
I feel like if I was in the girls dorm
they probably would have complained about the smell the garlic bread and the calories in the meal.
I don't worry about stuff like that. maybe if I dressed and skin-tight clothes it would bother me more. I could probably gain 40 pounds before anyone would notice with what I normally wear. That doesn't mean I want to, I want to be healthy so I eat healthy but I don't do the whole diet trends.
After the first day I wasn't late for anything again. I was able to plan everything out so I'd have plenty of time to walk to and from each location and still get a big breakfast and at the dinner. Tony didn't seem to mind me cooking early in the morning.
Although she thinks my pink and purple pajama pants are hilarious. Calling them very flamboyant. Most of the time it doesn't bother me because I don't really care if you thinks I'm a guy or not. Other times I really want to scream in his face that I'm a woman. He isn't being vicious or mean about it he just isn't used to seeing a guy wear girly colors.
sigh
month one of school goes fast.