A VERY Big Day!

Over the weekend, we moved our daughter into her dorm room at Indiana University in Bloomington. She'll be studying music education/percussion at the Jacobs School of Music.



The school is eight hours away from our house so of course, the distance from home made her pretty apprehensive. But once we arrived and she started setting up her room, she began feeling right at home.

Of course, she SHOULD feel right at home in her room because somehow she was assigned to the EXACT room (and even the exact SIDE of the room!) she stayed in when she attended a week-long percussion academy there last summer! At a school of 42,000 students and multiple dorms, what are the odds of that? ;)

She had to arrive early for drumline auditions so for a couple of days, she had the entire floor almost to herself. Her roommate will arrive later this week, so we used the empty side of the room to spread out while she was organizing her side.

She's in one of a handful of "double" rooms -- formerly single rooms joined together by a partial wall (visible in the picture below). This configuration is really nice because it gives each person his/her own space.

When we started the college search process last summer, we had no idea where the journey might end. As it turned out, she ended up in the very room where the journey began and this time, she's all smiles!

We could not be more excited for her as she begins this new adventure!