New Coffee Shop, Old Friend

Drinking: Coffee, black

Reading: Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky

A Small Key Opens Big Doors – Chen, Jay (editor – there’s a lot of authors!)

A GRE book given to me by my best bud, Lysa!

Feeling: Pretty good – Grades remain intact, for the moment.

Hey y’all!

So, I’m writing to you from a new coffee shop in town, Mama Carmen’s!  Well, it isn’t new to town, honestly.  It’s just the first time I’ve been here because I’ve been wary of the place.  A little back story – this shop is owned by people who I used to go to church with, and when I stopped going to church, I didn’t want to come here and see them.  I really didn’t want to be bothered about why I was choosing to sleep in rather than go to church.  It’s awkward. But anyway, it’s a beautiful day, and I’m relaxing with one of my bestest best friends, Lysa, and I’m wearing a cool Deadpool shirt that my other bestest best friend Maria bought me!  (Here’s a stockpic of the shirt:  – Isn’t it cute?  She got me a large, so I’m wearing it with leggings.  I feel so nerdy, it’s the absolute best!)  I am so happy to be here relaxing and studying (sort of – I’m taking a break to talk to you lovely people!).  It’s so busy in here that I’m having a hard time concentrating on my work, and I’ve elected to people watch for a bit.  Everyone here is so similar, it seems as if the culture of the shop is very “fashionable college hipster” complete with long haired, bearded men.  Not that I mind, that’s the majority of Fayetteville.  I do kind of wish that there was a bit more diversity here.  But c’est la vie!

Anyway!  So, on to my update!  I am still trying to find an internship – it’s hard.  I need one in order to graduate, but it’s so hard to find one.  Hopefully, I can talk to a hotel and ask for a position and have them call it an internship!  That’s what most people do.  I just want to graduate soon.  If you guys have any ideas, please let me know!

I haven’t started on any projects with my Venture Crew, yet but we’ve got our first camp-out coming in February!  I’m so excited!  We’ll be going to the Old Spanish Treasure Cave in Sulfur Springs!  This is one of the first outings I went on as a Venture Scout when I was younger, and it has always been one of my favorites!  We’ll get to take the traditional tour of the cave first, then we’ll break for dinner.  After dinner, we’ll take the less traditional tour (we’ll get to visit the “Peanut Butter Room,” where I was sent to my first visit after I complained that I wasn’t getting as dirty as the rest of the boys – I still wasn’t dirty after that, to everyone’s amazement!) and then we’ll sleep in the cave!  It’s going to be so much fun, I can hardly wait!  My role in the crew is really just to give my counterpart, Susan, a bit of a break.  We’re the only two lady-leaders in the troop (both in Venture and BSA) and so if a girl wants to tag along to an event, either of us have to be in attendance.  Hopefully, I can give Susan a bit of a break.  I know she loves being outdoors, but it has to be exhausting to go to every single event so that other girls can go.  Anyway, I’m trying to convince Lysa to go, but she’ll have to see whether or not ROTC will allow her time to do that.  I know it’s so hard for her to balance studies with extracurriculars.  I sometimes forget that she has two majors, including a language minor, that requires a lot of her time.  That, coupled with the fact that she does ROTC competitions, makes  her a very busy (very awesome) girl!

So, that’s where I am right now!  I’m going to nail an internship soon, so I can feel okay about starting my application to Peace Corps soon!  I’ll write about all of that later!

Here I am, signing off! Adios!

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela

Hey guys!  So you might wonder where I’ve been off to since I haven’t updated in a while… Well, all I can say is that I’ve been very, very busy!  You know how school is (or you can imagine, I suppose), all the professors want to give us tests at the same time.  I may have broken a few curves since I’ve last written. 😉  But, really, all I’ve been doing is studying…

Anyway, let’s talk about education!  So, I just found out about some free online courses with certifications and everything!  There are so many subjects that are covered, and there are a lot about business!  This is such an awesome opportunity!  I wonder if this can be accessed over seas….

Anyway, this was short.  I don’t have much of an attention span right now.  😦  I’ll talk to you soon!!!