Ten Things I Thought I'd Never Say

unedited picture I took in Tempe

1. "It's gonna be way colder today, like 80°F"

When the day before was literally 30° hotter, 80 degrees is downright chilly.

2. "I need to buy a Brita filter"

You're telling me I can't drink the tap water? There's rocks in there? What the hell, Arizona?

3. "I sweat completely through my bra today"

Not even from exercising. From riding the bus.

4. "I'm the most aggressive driver on this road"

By east coast standards, I'm a pretty cautious driver, but I swear people here won't even switch lanes. The light is green. Gooooooooooooooo.

5. "Calvin has been wearing sunscreen"

My brother never wears sunscreen. He hates it. But he took one look at the Arizona sun and another at his paper-white skin and decided he'd rather not die.

6. "Have you ever seen snow?" and "No, seeing it on the top of a mountain doesn't count"

Without snow days, how do you guys plan to skip 29 days of school this January? Forget a white Christmas, I'm used to white Halloween. White Easter!

7. "No I am not the only person who lives in Pennsylvania"

Have you ever heard of Philadelphia? I mean I get it, you've never heard of West Chester or Downingtown or King of Prussia or Exton or Lancaster or Coatesville or Malvern or...okay actually you have a point.

8. "I should pay attention to this weather alert on my phone"

Tornado warning in Pennsylvania? Thanks for trying to help Siri that's really cute. Storm warning in Phoenix? I have 3.8 seconds until marble-sized raindrops are hurled at me by Thor himself.

9. "I like Mexican food"

I never liked Mexican food before, and I have recently discovered why. The Mexican food in Pennsylvania sucks. Arizona knows what's up.

10. "I feel really at home at college"

If you have an aversion to sappy reading material, I respect that. Now's the time to click out of this page, though. Still with me? Okay. I freaking love it here. It's hard to pinpoint why, but I just feel so at home. The campus I'm on is the quiet, pretty one. It's really small but I love that. I'm in the honors college and I'm so excited about taking challenging classes and finding opportunities to do research. I went to LBC for a year, and not once did I feel the way I'm feeling now, though I've only been here for two weeks. So I think I made the right choice. Now I just have to get used to the heat.