Galinda
It has been a few hours since I have finished unpacking. It's about noon. Most people are in whatever their dorm dining hall is. The dorm towers are all named after the quadrants. Of course I'm in Gilikin. I had requested to be there. I wanted to be somewhere more familiar. I don't know how Elphaba got into this tower. I guess she hadn't requested a certain tower. As I got settled into a table with my friends Elphaba is looking around for a spot. She sees me and starts to go to our table. I put my purse on the empty seat and everyone else laughs at her. She starts to blush but due to the green skin it turns her face brown, which causes everyone to laugh harder. She is such an outcast already. Once she leaves everyone tells me how bad they feel since I have to share a room with her. God always tries to challenge the best people.
After lunch I go to The Square. It's pretty much a grassy place everyone sits at to study, do homework, or just hang out. Today they have signups for different types of magic. I look around not giving much thought to many of them. You don't have to take a magic course until you are a 3rd year. Obviously I'm a 1st year so magic isn't a worry yet. I meet up with one of my friends who I found out share a class with me. We start to read the syllabus and plan when we should study together. We had decided that every Thursday we will study together because biology is on Wednesdays and Fridays. It makes it easy because it says all tests will be on Fridays, and all homework will be due Fridays too. The Square smells like flowers which is very comforting.
Flowers remind me of my life in Gilikin. I would play in my family's garden, pretending I was a fairy with my friends. We would wear dresses, plastic tiaras, and wings made of fabric. My mother sewed all of my wings. Mine would always be unique. We would have little cakes, sandwiches, and small glasses of tea, just like how we thought fairies would. We would never get dirty or anything because we all hated dirt. I'm not a germaphobe I just don't enjoy the mess.
As I start to type an essay to start biology, I notice that my friend has left which isn't that bad for me. I like being alone to work most of the time. It helps me concentrate. The sky slowly turns gray. I feel a storm coming so I pack up and head back to Gilikin Tower, hoping to stay dry. Nothing gets wet really. My shoes are damp but that's about it. I notice the time and realize it is 7:00 p.m. and I should probably get dinner. I head down to the dining hall and eat with the girls I did earlier, hoping Elphaba wouldn't try to sit there again.