Tomorrow an important chapter starts in my American experience. I get my social security number! This winds down the two weeks of brutal bureaucracy I've been going through since I can't even apply for a SSN until I've been in Florida for ten days! I can finally get a debit card, buy a cellphone, get a USF email id, get my tuition waiver, apply for health insurance, get a credit card in two weeks and finally start accumulating credit. Can you believe my credit resets to zero just because I move to a new country?? Sadly frosh week is over and a new term has already begun. I have a lot to read ahead! I hope some of the first year PhD students feel adventurous and still want to do touristy things, otherwise the most exciting part of Florida I see may be the local pub! They seem a fine bunch though. Usually my closest friends come from Residence, but this time around, it may be different. Especially because it seems I will be interacting with these people for at least 3 years! Anyway, I have an hour long bus journey to the SSN office, but it'll all be worth it to get the last of the running around out of the way. Maybe I can take more pictures of the fauna! I'm think I'm still going to be taking pictures of the fauna for a few months now, I'm still in awe. It's very surreal to see palm trees everywhere.
Anyway, here's a Floridian duck.
