Fire Drill!!!

Thursday: it was a pretty long day I guess. I went to classes (NT survey, Intro to Music and Art- which I absolutely love by the way- and History). For my Home Ec class there was an assignment due Friday morning, so after classes were over, I went to dinner with some friends and then headed back to the dorm to do the assignment- I ended up doing the bulk of it with a friend from down the hall and we got talking about it and lets just say that instead of taking me an hour, maybe, to do it, it took us about three hours! By the time we were done it was close to eleven o'clock- My roommate usually goes to bed pretty early, but we kept her up- so the three of us were so tired that we could hardly keep our eyes open. So we each crawled into our respective beds and easily fell asleep.
But the day was not over yet...
In the middle of the night the fire alarm went off. I have never, in my entire life, heard a fire alarm so loud as ours. But I was so tired that even though I heard it- I didn't think anything of it (scary). So the ARA (assistant to the resident director's assistant) from one room over come in yelling for us to get out. I got up and she hollered for me to grab a sweatshirt as I began to do so she realized that it was in the closet behind the door and she told me to forget it and just get out. So I go out into the hallway- people are pouring out of thier rooms and heading for the emergency exit. The lights by the fire alarm on the wall are flashing like something out of a movie and the siren was sounding right there as well. Without thinking I covered my ears as I ran past- I'd like to be able to hear when I'm old and covering my ears when something is loud has become a habit. Anyway- Right about when I got to the emergency exit, somewhere in my half asleep mind, I thought, "Oh, yeah! we can go through this door- we don't have to go all the way around!"- yeah, I guess I get slightly... oh I don't know, young when I"m sleeping... anyway- I was the first person to the door and down the stairs somehow- we were all directed into the parking lot and I think that's right about when I realized what was going on (I finally woke up). We all got into groups of our wings and our RA's made sure that everyone was there. After they made sure they had everybody I realized that I was in my pajamas and barefoot. And it was slightly chilly outside. So, I sat down on the ground and wrapped my arms around myself and a few other people followed me. I have no idea how long we were out there- it wasn't very long- it was just a drill- maybe ten or fifteen minutes, tops. After however much time it was, we were told that we could go back inside and back to bed- so we did and that is were day ended- crawling back into bed at twelve forty five and wishing that I had stayed up a little longer before so that it wouldn't have been so hard to go back to sleep.
Oy.
Samia