Recent Events

 Meet Rasputin!

I needed a little buddy in my apartment, and since I can’t have a dog, I got the next best thing… A FISH! He’s a pretty little purple and blue betta fish. He’s pretty spunky and just swims a lot and is a content little fellow. He is also afraid of heights.

Here’s the story: I have a bar top counter situation in my apartment and it is pretty high up off the ground. It’s almost shoulder level for me when I stand right next to it. When I brought Rasputin home, I placed his bowl on to the counter and went about the rest of my day’s business. I noticed that Rasputin didn’t really move much and I thought to myself, “I’ve only had you for like two hours if you’re dying already I’m going to be SO mad.” So I took him down from the counter and placed him on my coffee table to kind of check him out to make sure he wasn’t dying and he started swimming like a maniac! Thus… I discovered Rasputin is afraid of heights.

Another event this weekend was AOII’s annual chapter retreat.

Chapter retreat is essentially a giant sisterhood event held every spring semester. It helps the older members get to know and connect with younger members and helps us learn about AOII and what our sorority is all about. Unfortunately, due to work, I could only attend Friday’s portion of activities but it was definitely a ton of fun. We played a lot of different games to initiate bonding and a ton of laughs. One of the highlights was probably the banana game, where you had to move a banana from one end of the room to the other using only your feet. If you dropped the banana you had to go to the beginning of the line and start over. Very hilarious and very hard. Another highlight was definitely hidden talents. Who knew all the random things my sisters were capable of?! There was talking with their mouth closed, juggling, whistling, tumbling, and so many other things. My hidden talent is that I do the WORLD’S BEST Forrest Gump impression. Seriously. Tom Hanks is probably the only person who is a better Forrest Gump than me. We ended the night with a few other games and watching Pitch Perfect and a giant slumber party. It was definitely a lot of fun to just be silly with over 200 of my sisters.

Until next time!

Entrance Essay Problems

Over the break my mom and I were looking up the requirements for different schools that I’m interested for grad school. For those curious it’s here at Arkansas, University of Louisiana Lafayette, and University of New Orleans. I’m hoping for University of Louisiana Lafayette but will be happy to just get in. One of the schools asks that I write a short essay detailing my plan of what I want to do after I receive my masters, which, again for those curious will be in public history.

Well here’s the deal, and don’t freak out Mom and Dad because I know you’re reading, I… really don’t care what I do. I don’t. Yes, I want a job and yes, I want to work but more than anything I want to have a home and a family and a husband.

Now, I realize I blog about being married a lot. I know I do. But that is what I want in my life. I will be fine working as a teacher or in a museum or something else that you can do with a history degree, but more than anything I want to be somebody’s wife. The problem is I can’t write that in a scholarly way on my admissions essay. But the truth is I want to be somebody’s wife. I’m a really passionate person and I put everything that I have into everything I do whether it’s school or work or relationships and I just feel like if I put that into being somebody’s wife it would be like the best marriage ever.

I also realize that I’m nowhere near close to being married. I’m not crazy. I know I need to be focused more on school because, obviously, that’s actually currently happening. And I am excited about grad school and finding a job, don’t get me wrong. But I also know that there is someone out there who is completely 150% perfect for me. I know that there is a perfect job out there for me, too. What I am struggling with, and learning to do better, is to just sit back and do my best to be myself and let things happen. God has a plan and I can’t take that over. So meanwhile, I’m going to focus on actually getting in to grad school and enjoying my time here in Arkansas.

So thanks for listening… well reading… some of my own self-therapy. Sometimes you just have to get things out, right?

Until next time, y’all!

First Day of School!

I have a love/hate relationship with the first day of school. I love it because it’s exciting and I have new classes and it’s fun to see who is in my classes. I hate it because, let’s face it, it’s school. But, like I said, I am looking forward to my classes.

Which brings us to my first day assessment of my classes.

Russian History

I am SUPER excited for this class. This is the second section of this class, and I took the first last semester and LOVED it. I don’t know why but for some reason I LOVE Russian history. It’s so different from other countries and there’s just so much to it. My professor is from Russia and seems really nice. I don’t think this class will be as hard as the first section but I don’t really care. I love Russian history.

Ethics

I’m not going to lie.  Going into this semester I was NOT looking forward to this class. I didn’t feel like I needed to take it, and I didn’t understand why it was required. However, after the first day I don’t think that is going to matter. My professor is AWESOME. He’s really into what he teaches and it is obvious that he loves what he is doing, which I like in a teacher. He’s a little nerdy, but that’s okay. Aren’t we all?

French

Ah French. My third semester of French. How I hate this class. I hate everything about it. I don’t pick it up easily AT ALL, and it frustrates me to no end because I try REALLY hard. My professor is pretty nice, even though she yelled at me for not speaking in French on the first day of class. SORRY ‘BOUTCHA it’s the first day give me a break! Hopefully I will be able to get through my last semester of language smoothly and without too much frustration.

Schola

I love being in Schola. I love the people in it. Most of the time, I love the music. And I love challenging myself musically. I am definitely looking forward to our FULL concert schedule this semester. More on that later…

History of the Modern Middle East

I’m hesitant about this class. My professor seems nice, and I have heard that he is an easy professor, but I just don’t know if I’m going to like this class. The middle east is just not a region of the world that particularly interests me history wise so I’m hoping that this wont make it too boring. I don’t know. We’ll see how this class goes. The good thing is I don’t think it will be too hard, so that is promising.

Antebellum America

I’m definitely excited for this class. I love this time period in American history. I love that a lot of it is in my home state. Growing up I took many a field trip to plantation homes across Louisiana and I loved every second of it. My professor seems really cool. I think this class won’t be too hard but I don’t think it will be too easy either. Who knows. I’m looking forward to it.

So at the risk of this post being ANY longer (thanks for sticking around if you’re still reading!) I’m going to wrap this up. That’s a little overview of how I feel about my classes this semester.

Until next time!

Christmas break is over. Sad day...

Well Christmas break has come to a close and with school starting tomorrow I should probably get a little blog in.

This break was exactly what I needed. I caught up on some much needed rest, I spent time with my family, explored a new city, and began making some plans for my future. I got a break from Fayetteville, which I think I needed. I did some healing and am making steps forward. The break was the perfect way to calm me down and prepare me for this semester

This semester will probably be challenging, but I’m looking forward to it. I’m excited to get back to Fayetteville and learn new things. I’m happy to be back with my friends and get back to work. My class schedule this semester is packed, so forgive me if I don’t keep up with this as often as I should. I’m so excited but a little anxious to see what this semester has in store for me.

And since I haven’t put up many pictures in a while here’s a few from the break!

Always great to see best friends

Two of my favorite things about home

Merry Christmas!

Until next time!!