Day 18

Someone built a snowman in the middle of the campus. I walked by again later and it had been decapitated. :(

Day 17

Saturday January 20, 2010




Snow, horses and friends. And not just a dusting of snow. Like 6 inches of snow. Life is good. :)

Day 16

Friday january 29, 2010



It snowed. Actually it's still snowing. Anywho, I thought that this looked really cool. It's a shadow of a tree in the snow.

Day 15

Thursday January 28 2010




My to do list for the weekend. We'll see if I get anything done since there is snow outside. :)

Day 14

Wednesday January 27, 2009



My lunch date for Thursday. :(

Days 12 and 13

Day 13 Tuesday January 26,2010

One of my Vietnamese residents made me food. It was tasty. I don't even really know what I was eating. But it was good.



Day 12 Monday January 25,2010

My professors Poe collection.

Day 11

First day of classes tomorrow...

Days 9 and 10

Saturday January 23, 2010



Picture with all of the UofL RA's at KRAC. We had a good time and their RAs were pretty cool. Doug made the crack that this was probably the best that UofL and WKU had gotten along in any capacity in a long time. LOL.

Friday January 22, 2010



On the way to KRAC (Kentucky Resident Assistant conference)

Day 8

My "oh snap I have to take a picture of something before I go to bed" picture. So, the shoes I wore today while filming our roll call video for the RA conference this weekend. :)

Day 7

Door decs. :) Someone said they were very elementary school, but cute.

Day 6

Steak and shake run for dinner the first day of training.

...closely followed by limbo and dancing at the HRL social thing (pictures on Facebook)

Day 5

Floor decorations, door decs, oh my. =)

Day 4

Sunday January 17, 2010



I had exactly 1 friend online on Facebook at 6:30 this morning while I was working the desk. A little part of me was hoping that it would get to 0, but 1 is good enough, seeing as I have never had less than 9 friends online when I have been online.

Day 3

Saturday January 16, 2010



Party at Amber's house--LaVada was being disagreeable about the whole makeup-and-look-pretty thing.

Day 2

Friday January 15, 2010



LaVada (aka my partner in crime) came down to BG to visit for the weekend, so we headed to Toots with Amber and a handful of people whose names I don't remember...

Project 365...here goes!

Project 365 is very simple...in theory. Hah. Basically it's a "project" where you take a picture everyday for a year. My friend Sarah Jessie is doing it and has suggested a few times that I should do it. Why not? It gives me something to do, and it gets me to update this blog more often. It'll be more interesting if I actually get to go anywhere on vacation in the next 365 days (well, 364 now), but it'll be fun to see at this time next year where I was versus where I will be. So here goes!

This is one of the reasons why I love being the International Exchange RA. Not only do I get to interact with girls from other countries (so far South Korea, China and Vietnam), but I get to do stuff like this!! I'm decorating our elevator hallway for the new semester with the sayings "Welcome back" and "good luck this semester" in different language. Gives the floor that international touch. Being an RA on the international exchange floor also feeds my curiosity about intercultural communication, and will most likely give me a lot of examples for my intercultural communication class this semester. Yay!

My own worst critic

I wont lie to you. I am my own worst critic when it comes to my writing. It doesn't really matter what I am writing. I lost count of how many papers I scraped and started over last semester. Everyone I have read them always says that my papers or speeches are great, yet I never think that they are as good as they could be.

But you tell me that my essay is going in to a contest to win a 10 day trip to Africa with a New York Times journalist, and that criticism shoots through the roof. It's people from the freaking New York Times that will be reading and judging this. I have to find a way to be myself and have my personality shine through, yet sound sophisticated, put together and seem interesting, like I could hold an audience if chosen to go on this trip and blog about it.

I know the chances are probably slim that I'll actually win this trip but it would be absolutely amazing if I did...

College screwed up my sleep schedule

Proof: It is midnight. Both of my parents have gone to bed and I am wiiiiiiide awake. Hopefully I can rectify this wonky sleep schedule before classes start up again in 2 weeks...

Snow 2

Okay. I have decided that I like snow except for when I have to drive in it. Driving home tonight was...interesting. Freeway wasn't bad, except for speeding yahoos that were still flying at 85mph while it was snowing. The main roads in Bowling Green and Brentwood weren't too bad, but the roads in my actual subdivision were covered. City apparently doesn't clear the streets in subdivisions. Under the snow is this slippery thing called ice. And driving over THAT in a little subaru outback wasn't fun. No accidents though, thank God and KTB (I feel like she keeps me safe when I drive).

The snow at home doesn't look nearly as fun as the snow at school. Not enough of it to play in, and it doesn't look very packable. It's very powdery.

Snow!

Photo credit: Shelby Heiden and her iPhone picture taking skills. We found some empty beer boxes in the parking lot and turned them into makeshift snowboards...then went to find cardboard for sleds It is very easy to amuse college students when there is snow on the ground.

I have that itch again...

...a metaphorical itch, that is. I haven't been anywhere significant since I went to Europe the summer after high school in 2008. As a result of being stateside for a year and a half, I have that itch to travel again.

A few months ago, I mentioned that I wanted to study abroad with Semester at Sea next school year (junior year). Well, right now that might not happen. I think that I am going to stay here for junior year and work on getting credits towards graduation, work to save money that I'll know that I need, etc. I figure if I focus on getting enough credits, I can take fall semester of my senior year "off," study abroad and not have to worry about if those credits will help me or not, and still come back and graduate on time in May of 2012.

To try to satisfy that itch, I am planning on going to Ireland for a week after school is over. Whether or not that works out is a different question, but I really hope that it does. Ireland may be in Europe, but it's a country I haven't been too yet. And after my first trip, I'm all about new stuff. (Mom still wont get me to go sky diving, but you know what I mean). There's something that intrigues me about being in a different country, in different surroundings, in a completely different culture.

But on a different note, I can enter to win a trip to Africa with a NY Times journalist...Africa. With the NY Times. I just have to figure out what makes me stand out for my essay of up to 700 words...I'm open to suggestions. :)