I feel like I'm in limbo, just hanging out here, waiting to hear from the Peace Corps, waiting to graduate, waiting to move out of my apartment, waiting waiting waiting. I have very little that I have to do to finish the semester, I'm mostly just killing time and wasting hours online.
I have one presentation to give tomorrow, one paper to write, one final to take. Then I'm finished with college. It's taken me 6 years to earn 2 Bachelors Degrees, I'm looking forward to being done with school (for now anyway).
The next several months I want to spend lots of time with friends and family. I'll probably really annoy a few people to get together, so prepare yourselves! :)
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
I love this song
Live Like We're Alive by Nevertheless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7g2T1fJtFQ
Listen to it, I'll wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7g2T1fJtFQ
I especially like the lines "We're here only for a second and then we're gone when we least expect it so do more than survive. Let's live like we're alive!"
Driving with a friend this weekend, I turned the radio up loud and sang along to the chorus of this song. We had been talking about the Peace Corps, and I was trying to explain that I know that things will change when I come back. I know that I'll have crazy-but-impossible-to-explain experiences that will have become a part of me. I know that joining the PC will be hard and challenge me everyday. I know some people wont understand, but I want all of that. I don't want to just be surviving this world, I want to really live in it, to see and experience and change it. Years from now I want to be able to look back and be able to say more than "I heard about that," I want to tell my grandkids "I was there, and this is what I did."
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Weekly Challenge
My friend Atesh and I (and anyone else who wants to join) are started a new challenge each week. Some ideas we've thrown around include: making soap, reading a classic novel, being vegan, new exercises, etc etc etc. She's going to blog about it each week, that alone will be a challenge for her. I'm looking forward to it, I'm looking up homemade soap recipes in another tab as I write this blog post. If you have any ideas of things we should try please comment about it so we have lots of things to choose from.
I've also been reading up on blogs by current and returned Peace Corps volunteers to start thinking about what I need to buy or collect to take with me abroad. Since I'll be teaching, someone mentioned that I should bring stickers and silly bands as small rewards for my students. I'd also like to take balloons so I can make balloon animals for the kids and embroidery thread to make friendship bracelets. If anyone wants to donate to my collection of things to take, that would be much appreciated.
Other than that I've had a pretty boring week. This weekend was busy, what with the FE Exam on Saturday (that maybe went okay, minus the fire drill 90 minutes in to the 8 hour exam) and SWE Banquet on Sunday (that went great!). Anything I have to do this week will feel like a vacation!
I've also been reading up on blogs by current and returned Peace Corps volunteers to start thinking about what I need to buy or collect to take with me abroad. Since I'll be teaching, someone mentioned that I should bring stickers and silly bands as small rewards for my students. I'd also like to take balloons so I can make balloon animals for the kids and embroidery thread to make friendship bracelets. If anyone wants to donate to my collection of things to take, that would be much appreciated.
Other than that I've had a pretty boring week. This weekend was busy, what with the FE Exam on Saturday (that maybe went okay, minus the fire drill 90 minutes in to the 8 hour exam) and SWE Banquet on Sunday (that went great!). Anything I have to do this week will feel like a vacation!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
"Coffee" with Dr. Skaggs
It's always fun when you get together with an old friend and catch up on things. The telling of stories reminds you about what's happened in your own life and how the little things add up. I've experienced a snowball effect with so many different aspects in my life that I didn't recognize until I was telling Jennifer about the last year or so. I needed that. Thanks again for "coffee" (aka Pepsi and donuts).
As far as the Peace Corps goes, I finally passed the medical review process!! Celebration!! Within the next 6 weeks I should get a letter from the Placement Office with an official invitation to serve. After that, I'll have about 8 weeks before I leave. It's real, it's really happening! Words cannot describe how excited I am. :-D
One small damper on my excitement is the FE Exam this Saturday. It's pathetic how little I've studied for this 8 hour exam, but I'm banking on UK's 98% pass rate for mechanical engineers. I'll let you know how that goes.
To get excited again, I watched this Peace Corps PSA: http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.media.psa.television Check it out and I hope it makes you want to sign up too!
As far as the Peace Corps goes, I finally passed the medical review process!! Celebration!! Within the next 6 weeks I should get a letter from the Placement Office with an official invitation to serve. After that, I'll have about 8 weeks before I leave. It's real, it's really happening! Words cannot describe how excited I am. :-D
One small damper on my excitement is the FE Exam this Saturday. It's pathetic how little I've studied for this 8 hour exam, but I'm banking on UK's 98% pass rate for mechanical engineers. I'll let you know how that goes.
To get excited again, I watched this Peace Corps PSA: http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.media.psa.television Check it out and I hope it makes you want to sign up too!
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