I miss all of you very much and hope you are all doing really well!
I miss talking to you, and feel free to email me or send me a letter! I would love to hear from you all, and I promise you will return messages and mail if i receive them, but i must receive it before i can respond. :)
So, back to my update.
The last few weeks have been full of craziness! I do not really remember what i posted in my last blog, so i am just going to tell the highlights. I went home for labour day weekend, which would have been my first weekend after a full week of classes. I was not really ready to go home, but it was a 3 day weekend and it was a perfect opportunity. I did not do much while i was down there unlike what i expected. i thought i would go out with the family and stuff, but i did not and so i just stayed at home and got on the computer. I did however go out with some friends to dinner, and the mall, and we rented a movie we were out really late and it was really great and we had a blast! I headed back up to CSU on Monday and it was a great ride back, we did not encounter a lot of traffic like we were expecting, it took us a little under 2.5 hours which is good because it is suppose to take 2.5 hours so that worked out. It took Angela and I almost 4 hours to get back home when we left that friday! it was absolutely ridiculous, but we made it home safely and thats all i can truly ask for.
Angela and I are doing a good job at getting along in the room and we have not had really any fights living together. We have recently gone out of our comfort zone and adventured to the dinning halls and other things on our own, and that has really been an experience for the both of us. Neither one of us has really talked to anyone other then the people in our service cluster and even then we haven't' really talked. Upon arriving to campus i have really noticed that it will be harder to get to know each other and become friends with people then i thought because everyone is either into drinking or drugs or hookah. I am not into any of that nor do i want to be associated with any of that for many reasons, especially the drugs and drinking....under age spark anything? but yeah.....and i have also noticed there are A LOT of clicks and it is getting really annoying and a pain in the butt to get around and actually get to know someone because they are always with crowds of people they have known for years. It will take some time, but i am hoping i can get to know a few more people through out the year. I have met 2 people, but that is really it.
The school weeks have been very intense with a lot of reading, none of my classes really have homework except for my logic and critical thinking class, but that is because the teacher sucks at teaching and he isn't even a teacher! He is a teachers aid and is a graduate student. He always contradicts himself and we are all getting really annoyed and have stopped paying attention because when he teaches something, two sentences later he changes what he just said and says he "made a mistake" yeah, no! We are all getting annoyed, especially when he assigns us homework and says he is going to collect it but changes his mind the day we are suppose to turn it in just because he has his own homework to do and doesnt' feel like grading it! No! Not fair, if we have to spend our time doing the stupid homework even though we have other assignments due, it should be graded or at least collected and looked over. He is not a good teacher which is going to hurt the students in the long run because he doesn't care if you know it, he said that if he teaches it then we should get it and it will be on the test no matter what, but if students don't understand it, then there is obviously a problem with him teaching! But ooh well, i only have about 9 more weeks left and it is going by so fast!
My other classes are going really well especially biology and biology lab. I have met a guy named Nathan in my biology class who just happens to be in my biology lab class also (which is very rare) and so that has been great! He is a great guy and we really get a long well which is a good thing for multiple reasons. He is in Angela's service cluster so that means he lives in braiden hall (where I am living). We have a study group for biology set up for Sunday the 14th which will be not so exciting since our test is coming up! Other then that classes are really good and I sign up for spring classes next month and I am so ready to do that! I already have a list of classes that i will be signing up for and just cannot wait to actually do that and that just means this year is even closer to coming to an end then i thought! These last three weeks have gone by sooooo fast it is absolutely crazy to think about.
Even now, as I think about this and write this blog, i cannot believe i am 18 years old and in college already! These last 18 years went by so fast! It is so scary to think that I will be living totally on my own next school year. I am getting an apartment and will be getting a part time job. I have a job now, but it is just work study and it is fabulous, but only working 8 hours a week won't support me next year. This year will go by extremely fast and I already know that I am going to regret not doing things, but it is hard to be motivated to do stuff, when no one will do it with you! I haven't even gone downtown which is a while 10 minute from campus because i do not like walking in unknown places by myself, but i cannot get Angela to go with me, but that is okay....i will be going on a hike with nathan soon and I am so excited to do that!
So, i have brought up Nathan a few times now, and I know you are wondering who he is, and if he means anything. He is a guy i met in biology lab. He was in my lab group and we got to talking at which point he said he was in Angela's service cluster and so i asked Angela for his last name and she looked it up on her list of people and i contacted him on facebook. A few days later in biology i approached him and we sat next to each other and began to talk and get to know each other. Our biology lecture class has 380 students registrared so we have to get to class like 30 minutes early to get a good seat where you can still see things and hear the teacher. Nathan and I both save each other and another guy a seat and we pretty much arrived around the same time which is about 7:35 am and class starts at 8am! It is so crazy! Well, this past week Nathan and I have gotten to talk a lot more and he bought me a bagel after biology lab on Tuesday! it was so nice of him, i protested but he insisted and did it anyway. We are going to try to make it a weekly thing, i mean he already goes to get a bagel after our biology lecture every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but I am going to start joining him on Tuesday after lab, if we get out early enough. We can leave whenever we want after we finish our lab which we have 3 hours to do! I have a class at 11am every tuesday so yeah. He is a fabulous guy, he is going to major in zoology and is really enthusiastic about it. He is prepared and knows what he wants and doesnt' want in life. We have connected really well for not talking much until this past week. He makes it so easy to be around and doesnt' make things awkward which is great. We watched a movie in his room after we got our bagels and before i left for my class and that was another opportunity for us to get to know each other. He has agreed to go on some hikes with me as long as there is water so that he can go water hopping or something like that, which is fine with me. He does band and choir and used to do football but has chosen to drop that because of the time constraint. He wants me to join choir but i have to work during the hours of choir. I will keep you updated on friendships that form and of course this.
My mum is coming up this weekend to visit with Loyal and so we are going to go out into the town (which isn't big....haha) which pretty much means just off campus and go downtown and walk around. I am ready to get off campus and do something instead of walking around and looking at the same stuff everyday! I will not be going back to the springs until November for Thanksgiving break so I am really getting excited to be leaving town and just staying here in Ft. Collins which is now my home at least for the next 4 years.
Angela has a friend coming from denver next weekend so we are ready for that and glad that we have something planned out and will not be hanging out in the dorm by ourselves again! We are getting tired of that! So, yeah. It will also help the week go by fast knowing there is something exciting coming up.
The last weekend of this month we have cluster challenges were each service group that we are in does a challenge or two with another group and we just see who is the "best" of all 9 groups. WE are sort of excited but not really because neither of us are really into being competitive and everyone here is already competitive so that is another weekend we have stuff planned for! That is like 3 weekends in a row that we have stuff planned for and we are really excited!
Angela is headed home on the 3rd of October for her sisters birthday, I am going to Alamosa for that weekend to meet up with a friend named Zachary. I am unsure if i still want to go because we have had some problems and we aren't sure what we want anymore, but I still have 3 weeks to decide what I want and what is possible to do. Mum has agreed to let me go although she does want someone to go with me, but i cannot find anyone to go with, so I might be taking the 5 hour drive down there by myself through the mountains and unknown areas but I believe i can handle it because i will leave on friday at 2pm as soon as i get out of my class, i will not even go back to the room except to use the restroom. My stuff will already be in the car, so i should get there around 7pm which is before it gets too dark and stuff so that is a really good plus. I will be leaving that sunday around noon which will be me back to ft. collins around 5pm which gives me time to do some lovely homework and that stuff. I don't know, i might not go, but i would rather do it now before it begins to snow because i refuse to do it then. I will keep you updated on what i choose to do with that situation too.
I am sorry for this being so long and rambling, but that is what has been happening since i last posted something. I wish i had photos to show you, but i do not. :( I need to get on that and start taking photos of people and things around here. I will be sure to do that tomorrow and will post some photos of downtown and maybe some of campus too.
I hope to hear from you all soon and i hope you are all doing well!
I miss you and kisses for everyone!
Love,
Jennifer
1 comment:
woo hoo! love updates! sounds like everything is going pretty well! when you come down in november, we'll have to go shopping on black friday!!! sound good to you??? and breakfast of course!
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