So I just have to say this was a fun week!!! It was only a four day week so that was definitely a plus for me- no school this past Friday!!! :) Monday, I had my classes and did nothing as usual. Tuesday was the same. Wednesday was normalish. On Wednesday night, I stayed up until past midnight to help my friend Jimmie celebrate his 21st birthday on Thursday! His sister came over and celebrated in the traditional way that is the 21st birthday. I did not partake since I had an early day on Thursday. Thursday was fine. But Thursday night was AWESOME!!! 

I got to go to Cirque du Soleil with my friends Kristy and Maria! It was freaking AMAZING!!! It was the show Saltimbanco and was full of single performers and cast performances and flying high stunts and awesome showmanship and just extraordinary make-believe skills! We had so much and it was just across the river at the Bank of Kentucky Center on Northern Kentucky University's (NKU) campus so that was just a stroke of good luck to have it so close! It's never been this close that I know of in the last few years! The bad part of it all was we weren't allowed to take pictures because "if your camera goes flashy then our performers go crashy" (that's what the woman in the beginning told us- she was one of the performers so when she said it, it was funny as heck- the intro, not the part about crashing). My favorite part was when Eddy (that's what the program named him as) went up and down this imaginary hallway and opened all these doors and one was a closet full of toys. Such as a yo-yo that he played with, a bat, and then a ball that became an interactive part with the audience (one guy did well, a woman managed to "throw" the ball short and then too far, and then a man who threw the ball at Eddy but when Eddy tried to hit it with the bat, the ball flew into his mouth and then he ended up swallowing it. He tried using the bathroom to get it out but the toilet was already clogged so when he tried to flush it, the bathroom filled up with water and he became submerged in the water. He called someone on his "cell phone" and they let him out and flooded out and knockd down some other performers. I will remind you, though, that none of this was real and all of this was done with just Eddy on the stage. No props. Just him, his body movements, and his sound effects. It was freaking HILARIOUS!!!). I ended up buying the DVD of the show for my parents since it was their anniversary, but it's also so I can see it again and enjoy the fun I had all over again. 

Some of the other acts were two women doing high flying acrobatic work, a juggler that used like 12 balls, two muscle men (hot!), four high flying bungee cord performers (they were AMAZING!), a woman with these two balls flying around on these string things (I don't know what it was so I can't explain it), and some awesome singing (it was all in French so I have no idea what they were trying to sing but I got shivers anyway so it must've been awesome whatever they were singing). And of course, everytime they just "said" something, it was just jibber jabber in some made up language and I didn't understand a word of it but it was funny as heck! :) 

We had an amazing time and 2 and half hours was too short! I want to go again as soon as I can because Cirque du Soleil is just an amazing demonstration of creativity, ingenuity, athleticism, and pure genius! Wow... just... wow...! 

Friday I had off so I did some service hours as Mercer Elementary School on the East Side and got about 6 hours worth in. Then I had to go "rescue" my brother. His car broke down on the side of East 275 so I had to pick him up and follow the tow truck to the car repair shop. Then Saturday I got to go to the home football game. We lost to Anderson University but I got to hang out during the game with my parents so I had a ton of fun doing that. Then my mom and I did some errands and now here we are! :) Tomorrow I'll go back to school and it's all down hill from here. We're in the home stretch, half way done with the semester and just half of it to go! Only 8 more weeks! Amazing how fast school has flown by...! I'm ready for a real long break but I'm not ready to get to the end just yet... It'll be too much fun just getting there!!! :)

I've found out that I have one of the weirdest personalities that I've ever encountered. Let me explain. 

I love being busy. I do. That's why I was so bored this summer. I had a summer baby-sitting job for which I had to literally sit in the living room of this family's house for about four hours a day because the two girls I was "baby-sitting" were 14 and 11. They really didn't needed to be "sat" but they needed someone to drive them to activities, piano lessons, volunteer work, to their schools' summer programs, etc. The parents worked in combination 4 of 5 days a week and needed me to cover those days that they couldn't drive their daughters around. So that's what I did. But most days we didn't do diddily sqwat. I got very bored, very fast. I've completed 2 and 1/2 full cross-stitch projects in the last two summers. That's how bored I was.  

Anyway, I like to be busy. But then I discover that I get agitated while being busy. Or maybe it's when I get too busy. Take this past Thursday. I was supposed to have class 10-11:15 AM, then I was supposed to have one meeting at 11:30 and then another at 12 PM that was off-campus so we (a group of us were going) had to leave at 11:40 to get there but we had to be back in time for class at 12:45 PM. Then I was to have class until 3:30 and then I had another meeting at 5 PM. Well, as it turned out, the two meetings at 11:30 and 12 were cancelled. I was actually kinda excited that I got to have a full day but at the same time, I was agitated that I had to do all this running around lacking the time to breathe. So in the end, I guess it worked out okay. 

But then on the days I'm bored, like Friday, I get just as agitated. On Friday, I woke up at 9 AM to conduct an interview at 10 AM and I was supposed to have class 11-11:50 AM but the teacher was sick so class got cancelled and my next class wasn't until 2 PM. So I had nothing to do between the hours of 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. I ended up getting some laundry done and read some of a new book I got ("Public Secrets") but that was it. After my afternoon class I did more homework while I watched part of "The Patriot" (LOVE! that movie!) and then I went home for the weekend. I got home, caught up on my shows on DVR ("House," "Project Runway," but I couldn't find "Eureka"), and then went out to dinner with my parents at Main Street Cafe in Newtown (I/My parents [I guess I don't technically 'live' there anymore since I dorm] live on the East Side of Cincinnati). 

You have a lot of down time while you're living on campus. I never realized that. When I commuted, it was all about when to schedule my driving times around the rush hour Downtown and when to leave and when to come, etc. But here in the dorms, it's more like, what do you want to do when you don't have anything to do? There's only so much homework to do and only so many TV shows and movies you can watch. I also try to stay ahead in making CAB flyers and working on my article(s) for Dateline but again, there's only so much to do. I'm sure I'll come up with something... 

And this weekend shouldn't be anything extravagant either. I'll prolly watch TV or go shopping with my mom on Saturday and Sunday I know our family will sit down and scream at the TV as the Bengals play the Cowboys (and prolly lose in the process but we'll still keep our hopes up). :) 

Next week should be fun though! That's what I'm really looking forward to! We'll be heading into our 7th week of school (I can't believe how fast school is moving along this year!) so we have our mid-semester break on Friday so no school! But on Thursday night, my friend Kristy and my roommate/friend Maria and I will going to the Cirque du Soleil show at the Bank of Kentucky Center at Northern Kentucky University! It's so exciting! I read their book my Senior year of high school in my cermaics class (it was supposed to inspire more creativity in our work but I don't think it worked) and ever since then, I've just really been interested in thier performances and the work and elegance and fun that goes into each show. The show this time is Saltimbanco, meaning "to jump on a bench" in Italian, and it delves into the world that is the urban. It explores the city and the streets and the hustle and bustle of city life, according to their website (http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/CirqueDuSoleil/en/default.htm#). It looks absolutely AMAZING and I cannot wait to go!!! :D 

I'm sure I'll have another blog up soon, and it will be full of the details and fun of the Cirque du Soleil show and I can't wait to share it with everyone!!! So until next time, did you ever figure out if a tree would hear you if you fell in a forest? ;) lol

I am a HUGE football fan! If I get the chance to go to a game, I will. This weekend was awesome because I got the chance to actually go to two games!

The Mount had it's own home game on Saturday night at 6:30 PM against Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and unfortunately we lost 27-21 but it was still really fun. A bunch of my friends were there and my mom even made it to the game. :) We had fun talking, making fun of each, occassionally paying attention to the game, and then my family and my roomie Maria and I went out to each after the game. I love going to games here because the atmosphere is totally awesome and you never short on seeing people you know at the games. It is so fun!!! :D

Then today, I was able to get tickets to the Bengals/Browns game from my dad and I took my friend Sam to the game for her birthday. (Her birthday is in April but since she loves football, it only seemed fair to take her in the fall before her actual bday.) She is an even bigger football fan than I am- especially when it comes to the Bengals. She knows a ton of stats and records of the team and she is addicted to Shane Graham and Carson Palmer. Now while I'm a huge fan of the Bengals, there is still one player I do not like. I'm sure to get a ton of boo's on this but I don't care. I really do not like Chad. And yes, just saying his first name, most people know of whom I am referring to. Chad Johnson. Sorry, correction. Chad Ocho Cinco. That's right. He has legally changed his last name! It's so stupid! So here's a guy getting paid more money in one year than I'll prolly make in a lifetime, playing football. Well, he doesn't even really play! Not well at least. He rarely makes plays and he always seems to be botching the passes. And now, he has the audacity to change his last name. For gosh sakes... get over yourself! O! O! O! And what's more! Even though he has changed his last name, his jersey still says C. Johnson on it! Howdya like that!? I don't know... Whatever... Anywho... Sam and I went to the game and I thought it was going to be disgusting and vulgar because of the hatred the Bengals and the Browns share but it really wasn't that bad. Except for some crass humor walking in through the stadium gates, it really wasn't that bad. Someone did throw a beer bottle onto the field after the Browns scored their second touch down but that person was later ejected from the game... Some people should just really grow up. But it was a TON of fun and I really want to go back soon!

I love fall and I love football games and I especially love them together. I may go to the Bengals/Eagles game coming up or even the Bengals/Redskins game in December. I don't know. We'll see just how much my dad really loves me. ;) (He controls the tix that I'm allowed to use so maybe some good brown nosing- no pun intended- will go a long way) :) 

Pic 1 is me and my Mom at the home Mount football game. Pic 2 is part of the Mount home game. Pic 3 is me and Sam at the Bengals game. Pic 4 is an awesome shot of Shane Graham kicking off after we scored!!! :)

I can't believe how weird of a week it has been! So I'll just recap it in a short little ditty 'cuz I know you've prolly heard it all before.

So, Saturday I came back to school and hung out with my friends Kristy and John and then Kristy spent the night. Then Sunday, it seemed just like a windy day. Little did I know it was Hurricane Ike. Go figure. Ohio would have a hurricane! Geez... I heard this story from one of my professors that he had a friend who had a tree fall on his house and the insurance company wouldn't cover him because he didn't have hurricane insurance! Who needs it though!? You live in OHIO! We don't have hurricanes! So why would you ever even consider buying that...! Wow...

Then of course, about 2 PM at school the power went out. I drifted about and found some friends still here and we went and hung out in the west lobby of 6th floor. We were playing pool and Uno and some were doing homework. Then Tim Bessler and Rayshawn Eastman (our Asst. Dean of Students and our Hall Coordinator, respectively) told us to go back to our rooms and that the lobbies would be closed until the storm was over. See, the lobbies have two walls of windows across from each other. Apparently the wind was actually breaking some of the windows (West and East dorms have proof of that) and Tim and Rayshawn didn't want us to be anywhere where the wind could blow in one window and come out the other and possibly break the windows... Wow... talk about scary. The school really did suffer more damage other than just the broken windows. The roof ripped off of the top of Seton West and the rooms in the that corner had to be 'evacuated' to the 4th floor because since their room didn't have a roof and rain was predicted, they didn't want the room's contents to be ruined but thankfully it never rained and the roof is being fixed. The roof also came off the top of the 6th Floor Chapel but again that's being repaired. Also we have wires come down in the West parking lot and some trees come down, like one of the bigs in the Quad came down but thankfully did not land on the library. It was pretty awful to spend all day Sunday without power.

Sudnay night we all got texts and calls saying school was cancelled on Monday so when I found out my house had power, I left school at about 11 AM and went home where I had power and water. Oh! The water! Ya, the water had to be shut off during the night because a pipe broke above Seton Lobby and was leaking down through the panels and into the lobby itself. It was not good but that's been repaired. I spent Monday at home and then got another text on Monday night saying school was cancelled again for Tuesday so I obviously stayed where I was. Then I got an email on Tuesday saying everything was being repaired and there was only minor damage and that school would resume on Wednesday. I ended up spending my Tuesday hanging with my friend and saw "Tropic Thunder" in theaters- freaking hilarious movie btw!!! :)

Then school resumed Wednesday but felt like a Monday unfortunately, then Thursday felt like Tuesday, but luckily Friday was really Friday to me and I was so happy the weekend was here. Even though I love 3 day weeks, I did not like how we went about getting that 3 day week. All my classes were screwed up because of the change in schedules and now because of that, this coming week will be screwed up until the professors can reassess our situations and progress and fix the syllabi to follow the new schedule accordingly.

But Friday was good. I got to help my friend Sam get her car fixed (she had a flat tire but the tire place couldn't fix it so she ended up buying a new tire) and then she and I went to the Reds game v. Milwaukee Brewers. We witnessed 7 Reds' Home Runs!!! It was awesome!!! But because the Reds were doing so well the game became kind of a bore and actually one of our other friends, Eric, was so bored he went down to the Build-A-Bear shop inside the stadium and made a puppy dog. lol :) So Sam and I ended up leaving during the 8th inning and the Reds were winning 11-2. She and I hung out all night and didn't go to bed until 2 AM but I'm going home on Saturday.Sam is also going home with me because she has an interior design project that requires making a 3D model in a computer program of someone's house and she asked that she use mine so she'll be photographing my house for her project. That should be quite interesting... :) I'll also be hanging out with Kristy again (she goes to UC in the DAAP program so she doesn't start school until Wednesday, Sept. 24th... lucky... lol). On Sunday is my grandma's 85th birthday party in Columbus so I'll be joining my dad's family to celebrate another year with my grandma! :) Exciting! (My uncle Doug is excited about this party because then he can go to the OSU game on Saturday and then the party on Sunday and he'll just have a blast!)

This past week has been crazy and it's not over yet... We'll see if we can't get back to normal this coming week... But what is normal? "To be normal is to be abnormal. And to be abnormal is to be normal." So what are we to do in this cunundrum? Go figure... :)

Pic 1 is me and Sam at the Reds' game. Pic 2 is the first 6 home runs we saw (we saw a total of 7). Pic 3 is Eric and the puppy he made at the Build-A-Bear workshop inside the stadium. And Pic 4 is Sam, Me, Natalie (Ryan's girlfriend), and Ryan in the stadium but infront of the Cincinnati skyline.

I can't believe that time is passing so fast! I remember waking up on Monday morning, and thinking, oh my gosh! It's Monday! Where did my weekend go!? And it's another week that I have to deal with. And now, here I am. Sitting in my house, watching TV, and I can't believe that this week has flown by completely! It's the weekend again and with the few plans that I do have, it's gonna go by so slowly.

Yesterday and today were days that the poster sale went on at the Mount. There's a company that comes in and sells their posters, tapestries, frames, sticky tack, post cards, and memrobilia to the students. My friend Jimmie even got to make some money while they were here. They asked if anyone was interested in helping them out with keeping things clean and then help them pack up when they left. He offered to help and they're paying him for it. :) It's pretty cool actually. I ended up getting three posters. One is a kitten that is struggling to hold on a tree branch and it says, "Oh, Shit" on it. It's pretty funny actually. The other says "Attitude is everything in life" then it has four mugs. The first is half full (technically half empty) and says pessimist. The second is full from the middle up but empty under the drink to the bottom. That ones is optimist. The third one has the drink floating above the mug and it's the spritualist. And the last one was completely empty and it's the realist. It's actually really funny. :) The third poster is 101 Famous Movie Quotes. It's quite interesting to read and learn about some movies I've never even heard of. This sale is once a year at about the same time so I'm looking forward to seeing it again next year at the Mount. 

Tonight, I have plans to hang out with my mom and eat dinner and go shopping and just have fun. I haven't seen her since last Sunday and I know it's a very hard time for her to not have me at home all the time like she's used to. I am also sad that I don't get to see her everyday but we're both dealing with it by texting constantly, talking on the phone regularly, and using our web cams. :)

Also, I have plans to hang out with two of my friends, Kristy and John, on Saturday night and CAB has an event scheduled on Sunday afternoon to go to a Corn Maze. That should be an adventure. That's one of the perks of being a part of CAB. You get to find out about all the fun things that are going on at the Mount. :) As for the rest of the week, it'll just be classes, reading, TV shows (I think there a few premieres of shows this week but I can't remember which ones off the top of my head. My roommate, Maria, and I have a calendar in which we have all our shows and their premiere dates and times so we can remember when to watch our shows :) .), CAB events and flyers, and Dateline should be having their first issue coming on the stands sometime in the middle of the week I believe.

Not much is really going on this week or have happened this past week so it's been kind of a bore around school for me... But I'm sure it'll perk up sooner or later. :)

We're in our second week of school, about to start the third and I'm already starting to feel the pressure of school weighing down on me. I have homework out the wazoo and so many things for CAB and Dateline that it's driving me insane. I'm sure I don't want it any other way, I get bored way too easily and if I keep my work load heavy then I won't get bored and I'll be able to have a lot of fun doing a lot of things even though it doesn't seem like I'm having that much fun- but I totally am. :) LOL

 But this was a good weekend for me! I went to the Mount's first home football game yesterday and we beat the Wilmington Quakers 21-7 so that was pretty awesome! I went with my friends Sam, Jimmie, Tom, Nicole, and others. We had a ton of fun hanging out in the perfect 80 degree weather! :)

 Then today we went to the Newport Aquarium. When I say we, I mean the executive board of the CAB (Campus Activities Board). There was: Ally the president, Brittany the VP, me as publicity, Molly our secretary, Brittani our Cincinnati Connections Chair, then also James and Justin our 'assistants', then also Tim Bessler, the Assistant Dean of Students. We got to go on a private tour of the Aquarium. We were checking out the space for the upcoming Spring Formal on April 18, 2009. Dates fill up fast for functions at the Aquarium so we had to act fast and we had a ton of fun this morning! We were seeing things most people don't get to see on a normal trip there and we were talking about some amazing things we can do for our dance. One thing that I know I'm super psyched about is the animal encounter. We have the chance to get a penguin or two to come and hang out with us during the dance! They come in a little wagon that says penguin mobile on it and then we can take pictures, pet, and 'play' with them in about 25 minute increments. I am SO excited about that! I mean I know the dance is a fars way off and we have to get through Homecoming first (October 24th) but this is just so exciting and so different from what the Mount is used to that I am just dancing out of my skin trying to be patient and wait for this to happen! This is gonna be one THE premiere events that CAB will be putting on this year and I am just SO excited! (Can't you tell!? Alright, alright. I'm shutting up! lol)

 Later tonight I get to hang out with my family as they come to visit me. My mom really misses me and even though we talk every day, she still misses me. Dorming is different than living at home, obviously. But it's different in the fact that I feel like I'm living in some sort of weird hotel kind of thing and that if I want to go home, I can at any time. I just really miss my pets (two cats, Milo and Domino, and my dog, Ranger) and sleeping in my own bed... But this is where being busy comes in and that way I don't have too much time to think about all those things and those people that I miss the most...

 It's a goregous day outside and I can hear through my open window the soccer game going on in the stadium across the way. I feel like going outside and doing whatever I feel like... So go out and enjoy the sunshine and blow off some start of term steam! :) 

The first is me and Tom at the game. Tom's a fellow blogger. The second is the final score of the football game. The third are two of the penguins that could visit us at Spring Formal. And the last is part of the ballroom that the Aquarium has that we can use if we so decide to. :)

It seems just like yesterday that school ended back in May... Then in just a few short months, it's August again, and we've started school! It's amazing how fast the time went by. I remember getting out in May, and thinking, "Yes! Summer!" Then by the end of May, beginning of June, I wanted to go back to school because I was SO bored! And I wanted the time to fly by, and I got my wish. School just started! But now I wish it didn't go by so quickly, that I had more time to hang with my friends, and spend more time hanging with my family before beginning the adventure known as dorming. Yet, I'm glad that school has started back up again. I get to see all my friends that I didn't get to see over the summer and reconnect to those that I've missed the most. And I have things to do! I'm no longer bored! At least I hope that'll be the case soon...

As far as school goes, I have 18 credit hours plus a service learning credit for a total of 19 (but I only have to pay for 18 since the service credit is free at the Mount). I am taking Contemp. Perspectives with Dr. Shannon- love his classes!, Educational Assessment with Mr. Santoro, along with Human Exceptionalities with Mr. Santoro, Philosophy with Dr. Sontag, American Sign Language with Mrs. Ison, and Applied Peer Leadership Seminar with Ms. Mills (it also goes along with the IDS 100 course with Mr. Jenkins, in which I help facilitate a go between with the freshmen students and Mr. Jenkins in the class). They all seem pretty good so far but I may just fall asleep in Philosophy since that's not my cup of tea persay... :)

But this year I am also dorming! So that is super exciting! My roommate is Maria. She's a friend I made from last year so she and I are getting along really well and starting to set ourselves up into some kind of discernable routine and schedule... I'm sure it'll work out perfectly. :D Most of my friends are back and living in the dorms- Tom, Jimmie, Sam, and Anne. Along with my other friends still commuting- Alex and Nicole, along with others.

In addition to all my school work, I have a ton of extracirricular activities I'm participating in. I already  mentioned the peer leading in the IDS 100 course for freshmen, but I'm also the publicity chair for CAB (Campus Activities Board) so I get to make posters and flyers for all the events that will be happening around campus for the next year (and there's an event EVERY week...); I am the Associate Editor of Dateline (the school newspaper) so I get to find student life stories and put together articles and assign articles, etc., for that kind of thing; and then, of course, I'm also blogging! So I have my work cut out for me this year but it should be very exciting!

This year looks to be great and I can't wait to really get it going! Below is some pictures of my dorm and how I've got it set up to begin my dorming adventure! So until next time, think about this, "If you fall in a forest, will a tree hear you?"

Hey y’all! (I’m from the South today, just kidding lol) So I thought I would just drop by and say hey! Hoping your summer is going well J Mine’s doing okay so far… nothing too much out of the ordinary… just chilling, working, hanging… the normal teenager/collegiate student type stuff…    

Some of the highlights have been: at the end of May, I visited my friends Sam and Maria up North in Piqua- that was a blast. J Then um… in the beginning of June I went with my mom to Nashville, Brown County, Indiana, for our annual mother-daughter get-away. I had a TON of fun there… Then I started my baby-sitting job when I got back from that vacation/long weekend (it was only four days which ironically was during the worst rain and flooding in Indiana’s history- ugh). That’s kept me occupied for about four days a week. I haven’t really been working at my other job lately, just ‘cuz it’s slow going there and they really don’t need my help right now. Um… for the Fourth of July, I went up to Anna, Ohio, to go Maria’s family’s party on July 3^rd. That was awesome! There were 300+ people there!!! I stayed the night and then went to a family party on the Fourth.    

As for upcoming events, I am helping out at the July orientation for the incoming freshmen at the Mount on July 18^th. I helped out at the June orientation too so that’s why I’m doing this again. I’m sitting at the CAB (Campus Activity Board) table during the lunch on the first day if you wanna come visit me or find out about the CAB. Last time we gave away free t-shirts to those people who took a quick survey. So I’m looking forward to that. Also, my cousin’s wedding is next weekend, July 19^th, in Indianapolis so that’ll be exciting to go to- I love this side of the family’s weddings! At one wedding, they actually got the bride to roll around on the ground to one of the songs, and for another, my dad and my uncles “kidnapped” the groom and took him out on the town- of course, their sister (my aunt), freaked out and to this day does not forgive them for doing that but it’s all good.    

What else… Oh! At the end of July, we’re having a family weekend/vacation together. My parents, my brother, and I will be doing a weekend of all things Cincinnati. It’s just like any other life in any other big city. You live here all your life and you never go to the tourist attractions. So we’ll be doing that… Then school starts August 25^th and since I’m dorming, hopefully, I’ll be moving in the week before school starts and before all the out-of-towners decide to move in. So that’s exciting- of course, I still need to buy and arrange and pack all the things I need for dorming… J    

Well, here’s a funny and ironic story for ya: so I was shopping the other day with on my best friends, Alex, and while in Icing, the clerk asked if she and I were sisters. We said no, obviously, but the more we thought about it, it almost seems like were sisters separated at birth. Here it is though: I have a twin brother, who is ironically named Alex. I was born at Good Samaritan Hospital on November 7^th and my friend Alex was born at Good Sam on November 9^th. This means, that, she and I were “nursery mates,” (as my mom puts it) while we were there! In the end, this means, that I’ve had a best friend since, literally, birth! I thought that was an awesome story that I had to share with ya… But maybe it’s only funny to me or one of those “you had to be there” or “you had to be them” kind of stories… but still, I thought it was cool… J    

But, any who, summer is moving pretty quickly, not to mention the year 2008. It’s all so very exciting but very sad considering how fast time really is moving… So I hope all is going well and summer’s going good for you… Let me know what you’ve been up to- I’d love to know what fun things go on for others. Story-telling and sharing is one of my favorite things to do, as you already know. ;) So, until next time, see ya later alligator! (This is where you say, “After a while, crocodile!”)

I know that people have been talking about stress and relaxation and exams but I had something fun to talk about for that.  

But first, I wanna tell you that I don’t stress out easily. I usually just wait until the weekend to do homework or projects and just do it all in two days. That’s how I do things and I seem to do well with it. All my homework is done from Saturday afternoon to Sunday evening and then it’s done for the week. 

I can only assume that Damon, in the pool (there was no water), and Steven were just having too much fun hanging out in the Quad. (Notice how freaking green the grass is! Wow… I love spring!!!) I thought it was just really cool that they found a way to relax and just hang out. So a shout out to them! But what were you guys really doing? (If either of you read this, leave a comment at the bottom if you want) J    

So some people have some really interesting ways of relaxing and getting ready for summer. Only three days of school left and four days of exams. I have three days of school, only two exams, and one project left so I am sooo excited to finish and have an awesome time during the summer!    

So keep up with your studies, relax, take a deep breath, and have fun!!! J

P.S. Alpha Phi Omega ended up raising $515 for MS :) Congrats guys!!!

Cincinnati! I love this city. Granted I’ve lived here the past 19 years of my life… which is my… entire… life. Hahaha! LOL And sometimes I still don’t know what to do in this city.     

But one place I went this weekend was Newport on the Levee. Um ya… that’s Kentucky but still- you cross the Big Mac Bridge and you’re in Cincinnati.    

I was down there to go the Newport Aquarium on a field trip with my mom’s class and I got to walk around the levee and then part way across the Purple People Bridge. It’s this awesome PURPLE bridge that is strictly a pedestrian bridge that connects Cincinnati and Newport. It’s an awesome bridge if you think about it. You get to cross over the Ohio River from one state to another, one city to another. It’s a really cool concept.     

But I had so much fun at the Aquarium and I’ve put some choice pictures up below. It was fun seeing the fish and the sharks and the divers hanging out with those sharks. There were also the jelly fish and the penguins and the alligators… LOL J     But it was an awesome little trip and a break away from reality when I only went fifteen minutes from my house and actually it’s only fifteen minutes from the Mount. It was a great little outing in which I got to a break fun my busy and hectic life and just hang out a bit. Newport also has a movie theater and shops and restaurants and fun things to do. It’s a great place to hang out and get away… I recommend hanging at the Newport whenever you get a chance- too much fun. J