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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
I absolutely love my spanish class :)
8/30/2005 01:44:00 PM Yeah, so I might have to work extra to refresh my skills (no, not my nun-chucking skills) but I just love it! (I love it, I love it, I love it!) Today it felt like we were only in there for about 20 mins. I just love being submersed in the language. Which is easy since my teacher doesn't speak any english the entire hour and 20 mins we are in there. Even if someone doesn't understand something, or know a word, she explains it to them in simpler spanish or aided by lots of hand gestures, haha. It's great. Today we even got to listen to some spanish music that was the intro to a conversation on a cd that we had to listen to. I love it as well. Love, Love, Love. Speaking of Love, Love, Love. You should go here: (or you can find Tristan Prettyman in "my friends" on my myspace) and listen to the first song in the player. I love it. It is like the soundtrack of my life right now. Just so uplifting. (Okay, so don't take the lyrics so literally, I realize it's not summer, and 'love' is a relative term, lots of which I'm grateful to have in my life). Sunday, August 21, 2005
Keep It on the Up and Up :)
8/21/2005 01:12:00 PM Lately things have been turning up, in that 'things don't seem so sucky anymore' good kinda way ;) I think it's because school is just around the corner. I don't know if it makes me a dork to admit, but I've always liked school. Of course, everyone remembers that exciting feeling that they used to have in Elementary when the time would come round to start school again. I think most of that came from the getting new clothes, shoes, the coolest folders, pens, and notebooks that were offered that season. But alas, at these years in my life I'm not surrounded by all that jazz and I still find myself excited for my classes. It's a good feeling though. I'm sure in a few months (or weeks) I'll look back on this post and think, what the heck was wrong with me? But the truth is I like learning. That's why I think I'm interested in the careers that I am, because you have to constantly be learning and keeping up with the game. I don't think I'd be able to handle going into a job where you know exactly what you'll be doing everyday, and everday is the same. While some routines are nice (like getting up and eating breakfast and playing with the ferret at designated times each day) that's not the one for me. I'm also in a particularly good mood because I got to see the KC put on another great show last night. Sold Out at the Fabulous Fox. It's amazing how the crowds can effect the mood of a show. And her crowds definitely entertain me. I always find it amusing the different groups of people that are drawn to her. To my right I had two 30-40 yr old women, who are co-workers and decided to go to the concert together, in front an Aunt and her 3 nieces (all taking pictures of themselves rather than the show, very cute)to my left a boy my age or younger and his little sister (aww!) and then in the handicapped section ahead of me (my favorite of the night) was this older (probably 60's/70's) african american gentleman. Of course there where also the Dad's who had been suckered into taking their teenage daughter and her friends, as well as the 20's crowd having a drink or two and enjoying themselves, and lastly....the row of 5-6 gay men. (I swear Kelly Clarkson is gaining some of Beyonce and Cher's male demographics) It was so awesome to see so many different people of different ages and backgrounds all enjoying the same music. The coolest thing was seeing the older dude though, (although held back from jumping up and down) rockin' out to songs like "Addicted" and swaying back and forth from the waist up, truly having a great time. So besides the audience being one of the highlights of the evening, the Graham Colton Band played "The One I Love" by R.E.M....which I LOVED. I love R.E.M. muchly...and also the KC did a cover of Annie Lennox's "Why". Beautiful. She really does have a stunning voice and is so much better live than she could ever be on a recording, with her big rich voice being contained to a little compact disc. Reminded me why I keep going to her shows whenever she's around. At this rate I'm afraid I'll turn into my Brucie teacher, having seen 43 Springsteen concerts by the age of ...what? 45? Eh, I may go deaf before then from too many live shows. Or die of roof (a.k.a shingles). My aunt has it now, apparently it runs in the family, hahaha.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
StuCo a Life-Preparation Tool?
8/16/2005 03:42:00 PM I never realized how much of an impact being in a single organization like Student Council when you're in High School can have on one's life; the experiences you experience and learn from, and just the knowledge, and confidence you gain. Today I had a presentation for a Chamber of Commerce, and the whole time I was thinking about how exactly like a StuCo function the whole thing was, with the whole gathering, eating free food, getting free stuff, and watching the event speaker. Only this time I was on the other end of it. I was the one setting things up, playing little games with people and then throwing prizes at them, and well speaking to large crowds of people and playing the networking (or mingling) game. It was kinda odd, because I was much better prepared for the whole "vibe" of the thing I guess, than my bosses. They didn't really know "how" to approach things, or the types of things they should do to get good reactions from the people attending. I found myself just instantly falling back into the flow of everything from having attended events like these countless numbers of times. It just made me realize how different I react in those situations from having made the decision to be in (at least) one major (or really any) organization during school, where you get all these opportunities. Whether you gain any skills from attending the workshops/meetings etc. you go to with that group/organization being around them definitely leaves you with something that can be SOO useful in future careers of all kinds. Just a recent realization I thought I'd share.
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