Ramon carried his bags to his room, dropped them off and headed to the cafeteria. On his way he thought, [i] Today is going to be the start of a new day. Less friends, less popularity, more focus on getting my Doctorate. I'll try and make new friends today, if my track record is right, should be a synch.[/i] He arrived at the cafeteria seeing the woman giving her short speech. He sat down near the middle of the a random section of the auditorium and pulled out his note book ready for the Dean to give his standard orientation. As the Dean spoke, Ramon began to take notes of anything that might be useful, but was slightly taken aback when he was told to stay in the auditorium with the unknown number of people who were also specially invited. Putting away his notebook he noticed the variety of people attending the university. 

Ramon picked up his pen and began twirling it in hand, it rotated on his palm seemingly endlessly, it's metal reflecting the light of the auditorium. As he viewed this he wondered if there would be any clubs to attend at the school for Martial arts, and if it did, what would the competition be like? He sat there waiting for the new presentation to begin wondering if he should get up and talk to the new specially selected students. After a moment he got up and walked to a girl sitting in the back, Grace. Sat down next to her and said, " Hi, I'm Ramon, what's your name?"