Chapter 9: Moving Away
Ell was right about not having a car for a while. After everyone was back safely at home from the little car mishap, Ell realized that she would have to be taken to school everyday.
The new semester began at Ronkar, and it appeared Ell had some great classes; they were pretty much right after each other and appeared Ell would not have to walk to any class except one. As colleges go however her classes were shifted and she was running from one side of campus to the other, also with the hour drive to and from Nuke burg it was very hard on Ell.
Lucky for Ell she had a friend who went to high school to join up at college. Her old buddy, Boo Nard had an apartment down in Ronkar, and said if Ell wanted, she could come stay down with him whenever she wanted. While staying with Boo, she also convinced him to come with her to Exchange Your Life, where they met Ty-Ty Mckeil, and began to hang out with her as well.
The semester continued on, and since Ell discovered the benefits of Public Transportation and the fact it was relatively cheap, she began to head up to Crate State quite often to visit Sirius.
Classes were going like a roller coaster, and she had to drop her language class. Her Arithmetic was not suffering because she was not doing well, or even because she was visiting Sirius, it was suffering because she did not have the book to do the homework. Her Literary class was going pretty well, except when she arrived late to class due to the traffic from Nuke burg to Ronkar. Due to the fact she was arriving late, Ell missed out on taking quite a few quizzes and failed her literary class.
Her Speech class went really well in her own opinion, she passed it at least. Not doing really well on the test and missing a few project days really affected her grade and brought it down, but at least she passed the class.
Ell was becoming worn down, and looked for a way to take the next semester off without affecting her college career. When Mama Oranik was helping Ell work on paying for college, she spotted an internship opportunity at Wally World. Ell loved working at amusement parks, and Wally World was the biggest one of them all, they offered a lot of professional career opportunities and Ell felt this would be the greatest way to let herself shine.
As soon as she got home that day, Ell applied online to Wally World. Within a week, she had a reply saying she was accepted. Another week went by and she received her official hire packet, she would be working in Admissions. Ell was a bit disappointed, however, because the place she really wanted to work, Mouse Land did not offer housing. As the time grew closer for the semester to finally be over and Ell to start at Wally World, things began changing for the better.
A few weeks before Ell was going to complete her finals, an e-mail was sent saying that Mouse Land now offered housing and Ell was selected to apply for the program. Ell was ecstatic and applied as soon as she could. Everything seemed to be working out for the best, and about a week after she applied, Ell was accepted into the Mouse Land College Program. Ell could not be happier and was welcoming the break with open arms.
There were a few problems with going to Mouse Land, since it was about a thousand Earth miles further than Wally World. Wally World would be taking Ell to Florida, but she had heard things about the temperature, and humidity so was not looking forward to those things. Mouse Land had Ell going back to California, but the problem was how to get there since gas and every thing else was really expensive. Eventually Papa and Mama Oranik decided on driving Ell from Ohio to California, and left a few days before she needed to be checked in.
The drive took about three days going through the Rock Mountains, Slot City, stopping at Arch Park, and sleeping in a comfort room. Once in California, they slept at a Ho Joe Hotel, and spent two days just driving around OC. Ell and Papa were able to spend a day together visiting HollyWeird, Bur, and Note Berry Palace. Mama Oranik was still recovering from a cold and stayed at the Ho Joe.
The day of check in was soon upon Ell, and she could not be more excited. The building she would be in was brand new. There would be three other people living in the apartment, B, Jen, and Kas. They all seemed really chill, and people Ell would get along with really well. Also there was a welcome event where Ell met some other cool people, and people she knew would be really great friends.
For the first day being there, Ell and the roommates went out shopping for food that would last them about a month. Also they drove by Mouse Land California and Ell was able to see one of the roller coasters and the Ferris wheel. The first night at the apartment was really interesting; two roommates headed out for the night and were gone for a while. Ell and Kas stayed in for the evening and pretty much caught up on any sleep they were missing. For the next day, they were scheduled to meet up in Mouse Land and finalize paperwork for their jobs.
Things around the apartment were very interesting, as B and Jen were out at friends all night, so Kas and Ell had their rooms to themselves. When B and Jen finally came back, the roommates had a meeting to see if everyone would be in agreement for B and Ell to switch rooms to make life a bit easier for the apartment as a whole. Everyone sat around the apartment for a while until they had to leave for the park welcome session. Also Ell and B did switch rooms.
The welcome session lasted a few hours and the group of girls headed back to the apartment and chilled there until they had to head back to Mouse Land. For another couple of hours, the group had Orientation in which they met some of the program alumni and had a backstage tour of Mouse Land.
B and Jen seemed to be getting along very well, but did not seem to like Kas or Ell very much, and they were not even spending time in the apartment that much. B had a friend, Elise who was also in the program, and spent most of her time in Elise's room. All the money spent on food seemed to be going to waste. Also Ell and Kas seemed to be getting along relatively well, but this was a shared apartment so all roommates needed to be on the same page. The idea of placing a whiteboard in the community meeting place was tossed around, however at the time of this writing, the board had still to be purchased, Kas and Ell enjoyed the room to themselves, yet another evening, and B and Jen are down in Elise's room dealing with drama. Seems like a typical being left out type of situation.