wait... i have a live-journal??
wow. it's been a while.
i guess life has just gotten too crazy, hectic, and all kinds of madness for me to really keep people posted on the happenings of my life. but dana finally updated hers, so i figure i owe my few, faithful readers an update. what the hell, here goes...
college. this definitely has proven to be the hardest semester i've encountered so far. i'm so drained from it that i really have no emotion left to feel relieved. i started my education curriculum, and let me tell you... it's extremely unfair that elementary education is not a major at muhlenberg. it needs to be. i'm taking more than double the classes for this concentration than i am for my actual spanish major, and it's intense stuff. i took 2 education classes this semester, and i'll be taking 3 next. i also start my fieldwork in the spring, so i'll go into the schools and actually help teach the kids. i'm really excited and looking forward to that, plus i'm really excited that i got over the foundations hurdle. that class took up so much of my time and energy that it's an experience i'd rather forget. but i feel pretty confident in this path i've chosen... i really am glad that i switched out of the pre-law program and into something that i really enjoy and am actually proud of. one sunday i went with my friend to work with adults with disabilities... and it just felt right to me. i felt like i belonged there, and that i'm supposed to be helping these people out. so i guess the whole spanish/el-ed route was my calling after all. i'm also so proud when people ask me what i'm studying to say spanish and el-ed. i guess that pride is more rewarding than my pre-law major ever would have been, and i'm grateful for that. and hey, i'm going back for another semester, so i guess the school's working out for me.
friends. to say that my friends at school are my family would be a gross understatement. it's gotten to the point where it's very difficult to live without them. like, i'm feeling physical withdrawl symptoms. they say that your friends in college are your friends for life, and i couldn't agree more. i think living together, eating together, taking classes together, and just spending all our time together contribute to the fact that i'm so much closer to my friends than i really ever was before. i'm so grateful for the friendships i have because i really have not ever had friendships like this in the past. i absolutely love my best friends, and i would do anything for them. and the great thing is, i feel as though i can fully trust them. i've never really had friends like that before, and i take great comfort in knowing that i do now. this past semester i feel as though i've changed and grown and matured a lot, and that is mostly because of my friends. a particular few have been there through the best and worst times, challenged me, made me look at myself through new eyes, and i will be forever grateful for that. i also have a lot of new guy friends, which i like a lot because i was always better friends with guys than girls, and i've gotten really close to my one guy friend mark. he and dana are really my rocks. i don't know how i would have gotten through some of the tough stuff without them.
phi mu. among my closest friends are my sorority sisters. i never thought i would ever go greek, and i'm so glad that i have. phi mu isn't the most popular sorority on campus, but the girls that i am lucky enough to call my friends and sisters are amazing. they're some of the sweetest, most genuine people i've ever met, and like i said before, i've never really had friends that i was super close with and trusted completely. the whole pledging experience brought me so much closer to the girls in my pledge class (i think we have the most spirited class out of the entire sorority, hahaha...) and the other girls, and i'm really glad i went through it. having one group of girls that i'm really close to is awesome, and i really enjoy myself with them. i'm also on the executive board (yay!) for the first time ever. i'm the panhellenic representative, so basically i'm one of two voices on the panel that handles all the issues of the sororities on campus. we deal with recruitment and stuff, and i'm basically the liason between the house and greek life on campus. next year i'll be on the executive board for the panhellenic council, so when we get a new rep for the house i'll be (hopefully) president of panhel, which i'm really looking forward to. i'm used to leadership positions like teaching, but this is the first time i've been on a student-body type board. yay! =D
dance. the knee is holding up great, which means lots of performances for me! mint* has been awesome this year. i tried for a captain position but didn't get it, which i find to be a blessing in disguise because of everything else going on. but i was elected to the executive board and choreography committee, so that will be a lot of fun too. i love our dance team, we're the shit hahaha. and my roommate made it as an alternate this year, so we're having a lot of fun dancing around our room when we're not studying =)
family/holidays. as some of you know and most of you don't, my grandmother passed away on august 23rd, the day before i was supposed to leave for school (and the day after my last summer update entry). i took it really hard, i think just as hard as my dad (she was his mom). i found it really difficult to talk about and really hard to deal with, because it really happened very suddenly and i kind of had to drop everything to mourn. i then moved into school the day after her funeral, which was one of the most difficult things i've ever had to go through. i took it really hard, probably because i didn't really have time to grieve after her funeral, and i felt really alone through the beginning of the semester because it was still fresh in my mind. but we're getting through it, every day gets a little easier, although there are the really tough days. the holidays are going to be really hard this year, just because it was her favorite time of year and she had all kinds of traditions that we're trying our best to uphold. on the bright side, i've gotten a lot closer to my cousins on my dad's side because of it. grandma was kind of the glue that held all of us together, and her absence is really felt among all 11 of us. but i think that we've all gotten closer because of it, and i'm really happy for that.
i guess i'll end this here. not much else to write about, perhaps i'll be updating again in the next lifetime, haha...
i guess life has just gotten too crazy, hectic, and all kinds of madness for me to really keep people posted on the happenings of my life. but dana finally updated hers, so i figure i owe my few, faithful readers an update. what the hell, here goes...
college. this definitely has proven to be the hardest semester i've encountered so far. i'm so drained from it that i really have no emotion left to feel relieved. i started my education curriculum, and let me tell you... it's extremely unfair that elementary education is not a major at muhlenberg. it needs to be. i'm taking more than double the classes for this concentration than i am for my actual spanish major, and it's intense stuff. i took 2 education classes this semester, and i'll be taking 3 next. i also start my fieldwork in the spring, so i'll go into the schools and actually help teach the kids. i'm really excited and looking forward to that, plus i'm really excited that i got over the foundations hurdle. that class took up so much of my time and energy that it's an experience i'd rather forget. but i feel pretty confident in this path i've chosen... i really am glad that i switched out of the pre-law program and into something that i really enjoy and am actually proud of. one sunday i went with my friend to work with adults with disabilities... and it just felt right to me. i felt like i belonged there, and that i'm supposed to be helping these people out. so i guess the whole spanish/el-ed route was my calling after all. i'm also so proud when people ask me what i'm studying to say spanish and el-ed. i guess that pride is more rewarding than my pre-law major ever would have been, and i'm grateful for that. and hey, i'm going back for another semester, so i guess the school's working out for me.
friends. to say that my friends at school are my family would be a gross understatement. it's gotten to the point where it's very difficult to live without them. like, i'm feeling physical withdrawl symptoms. they say that your friends in college are your friends for life, and i couldn't agree more. i think living together, eating together, taking classes together, and just spending all our time together contribute to the fact that i'm so much closer to my friends than i really ever was before. i'm so grateful for the friendships i have because i really have not ever had friendships like this in the past. i absolutely love my best friends, and i would do anything for them. and the great thing is, i feel as though i can fully trust them. i've never really had friends like that before, and i take great comfort in knowing that i do now. this past semester i feel as though i've changed and grown and matured a lot, and that is mostly because of my friends. a particular few have been there through the best and worst times, challenged me, made me look at myself through new eyes, and i will be forever grateful for that. i also have a lot of new guy friends, which i like a lot because i was always better friends with guys than girls, and i've gotten really close to my one guy friend mark. he and dana are really my rocks. i don't know how i would have gotten through some of the tough stuff without them.
phi mu. among my closest friends are my sorority sisters. i never thought i would ever go greek, and i'm so glad that i have. phi mu isn't the most popular sorority on campus, but the girls that i am lucky enough to call my friends and sisters are amazing. they're some of the sweetest, most genuine people i've ever met, and like i said before, i've never really had friends that i was super close with and trusted completely. the whole pledging experience brought me so much closer to the girls in my pledge class (i think we have the most spirited class out of the entire sorority, hahaha...) and the other girls, and i'm really glad i went through it. having one group of girls that i'm really close to is awesome, and i really enjoy myself with them. i'm also on the executive board (yay!) for the first time ever. i'm the panhellenic representative, so basically i'm one of two voices on the panel that handles all the issues of the sororities on campus. we deal with recruitment and stuff, and i'm basically the liason between the house and greek life on campus. next year i'll be on the executive board for the panhellenic council, so when we get a new rep for the house i'll be (hopefully) president of panhel, which i'm really looking forward to. i'm used to leadership positions like teaching, but this is the first time i've been on a student-body type board. yay! =D
dance. the knee is holding up great, which means lots of performances for me! mint* has been awesome this year. i tried for a captain position but didn't get it, which i find to be a blessing in disguise because of everything else going on. but i was elected to the executive board and choreography committee, so that will be a lot of fun too. i love our dance team, we're the shit hahaha. and my roommate made it as an alternate this year, so we're having a lot of fun dancing around our room when we're not studying =)
family/holidays. as some of you know and most of you don't, my grandmother passed away on august 23rd, the day before i was supposed to leave for school (and the day after my last summer update entry). i took it really hard, i think just as hard as my dad (she was his mom). i found it really difficult to talk about and really hard to deal with, because it really happened very suddenly and i kind of had to drop everything to mourn. i then moved into school the day after her funeral, which was one of the most difficult things i've ever had to go through. i took it really hard, probably because i didn't really have time to grieve after her funeral, and i felt really alone through the beginning of the semester because it was still fresh in my mind. but we're getting through it, every day gets a little easier, although there are the really tough days. the holidays are going to be really hard this year, just because it was her favorite time of year and she had all kinds of traditions that we're trying our best to uphold. on the bright side, i've gotten a lot closer to my cousins on my dad's side because of it. grandma was kind of the glue that held all of us together, and her absence is really felt among all 11 of us. but i think that we've all gotten closer because of it, and i'm really happy for that.
i guess i'll end this here. not much else to write about, perhaps i'll be updating again in the next lifetime, haha...