Updates
Hi Everyone,
To those who have read this, a lot has been happening. Let’s see where I left off. I, last wrote in November, which is crazy because I thought I wrote about my vacation but I guess I didn’t. Both of my Freshman Seminar class ended well. No problems there, thankfully!!
November, November- What happened in November? Thanksgiving happened and I spoke to my cousin who was in Melbourne, Austria for work, the previous month. The conversation I had with him made me realize that I wanted to study abroad in Austria. He had a couple of points to make, one of them being that if I studied abroad, it would need to be a country that I could see myself be comfortable living in. The second was that I shouldn’t go to Thailand because I can just go there for the beaches and travel there another time. The only reason why I wanted to go to Thailand because it seems exotic and I’ve never been to Asia. Thailand will have to wait because I applied to go to Austria, which is as you may or may not know, in Central Europe. I am excited!! I just need to get accepted and start working on the actual leaving part.
December: Lovely December…. The end of finals, the end of the semester, the end of a new year. December from what I can recall what a good time. I didn’t anyone presents because I told them in advanced that I am saving for my study abroad so I will get them presents from Austria.
January: This was not a favorite time of mine. I took a class that challenged me to my core. It was a lot of reading practically a reading once every class, and that class met everyday, Monday to Friday from 9 to 12, if I recall correctly. i worked hard at that class, didn’t sleep as much as I wanted to and got an okay grade for it.
February: Valentine’s Day, start of classes (again)…. I was getting into the hang of being positive until Valentine’s Day. Seeing all the couple out in the open just reminded me that I am yet still single. I am proud to be single but I was a grouch that day. My mother was leaving to see her sister for two weeks and honest to goodness I was sad. It wasn’t a good day to begin with and then the actual two weeks without her made me realize how much I am really going to miss my family when I go study abroad. I think this feeling was because I was mostly by myself when I was home. I am not used to that feeling of loneliness especially on weekends. I think I might need a roommate to study abroad. Even though, I have my own room, I used to share a room with my older brother from when I was born until a couple of months before I turned 13. 12 years with sharing your entire life with someone, “sharing” the remote control of the television, sharing secrets about people at school. I think that is what I like, being able to share without actually sharing, if that makes sense. I like for someone to know that something is wrong with me without actually stating or trying to get out of me, “How was your day?” Anything, really.
March: Change is coming and it’s not just the time change nor is it the season changing. Change: I finally heard back from the study abroad office, only to hear that my faculty hadn’t submitted his recommendation. I was freaking out. I thought he had already done it, what’s going to happen if I don’t go…etc. Obviously, I am still going to study abroad because I have a spot now, but looking back on it, it was a rough week waiting to get my professor to hand in his recommendation. Another change that happened was I got accepted to get matched for an internship abroad. I am currently applying to countries and hopefully will get a response from my favorite listing. I am crossing my fingers!
April: Today is the first of April and I am so excited! Today is Relay for Life at my college and I am so pumped up. The Relay for Life Committee came together and I am so glad that I am a part of it. I am on the Entertainment Committee, where I need to get bands to come and play, and I also made the schedule of games that went well last year. It was a hectic time especially because changes that needed to be made but hopefully everything will come together.
Wait for updates soon about everything!