Tuesday, January 31, 2006

first day of school

Today was the first day of spring semester 06 and boy am I gonna be busy! But then again it wouldn't be me if I wasn't busy during the semester. Not that I like being busy, cause I don't, I just keep piling things on until all the sudden I don't have time to eat, except in class that is.

I'll be teaching math and science in an upper grades (3-5) classroom this semester. I'm really excited because I've only ever taught in a lower grades (K-2) classroom. It'll be interesting to see what its like. We find out our classroom placements next week, so then I'll know exactly what grade I'll be in! I can't wait!

Residence Life is another busy area. Being an RA is hard. (pout/whine) I never thought so much could happen on one floor. Its alot more than I thought it would be.
One more semester this year. Come on Danieley Center G, we can do it!

I'm not getting as many hours at Campus Rec as I would like which is sad because less hours means less money. But I don't even know if I could handle more hours on top of my schedule already. meh. Maybe if I keep playing poker with the guys I'll make enough to cover my car insurence. ;-)

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Is it hot in here, or is it just me?

Ok, so I know that Elon weather is notorious for being off the wall, but this is rediculous!! It is 68 degrees outside right now!! Thats almost 70! And is the middle of January. I was walking around in a T-shirt outside and I was actually hot at some points. Everybody keeps talking about how great the weather is and how wonderfully warm it is outside, and don't get me wrong, warm weather is great and everything, but I want my winter!! And people need to realize that you can't get a snow day if it doesn't snow!!

See, here in North Carolina, when it snows people freak out. Businesses close, school gets canceled, people board themselves in their houses until it all melts away. It doesn't take too much to get at least a delay. You just need enough. My freshman year it snowed like crazy, and then it would rain and ice over and snow somemore. We had to ice skate to class. And we actually got delays and even a few days off because of the snow. Imagine, a snow day in college! It was amazing! And the jokes you can play using snow are endless. So many good snow joke memories from that year... But before we can make snow jokes we need snow. But since my freshman year, Elon has not seen a snow like that. Nope. Its been warm and sunny damit.

On the bright side, at least the travel conditions are safer with no snow. But that doesn't make me miss it any less.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

poopy

Ok, so this class I'm taking during winter term, gender and global leadership, is depressing me. Everything we talk about is just so awful, about how the big nations exploit the poor ones, how its impossible for these poor nations to get out of debt. And then theres human trafficing for labor, sex, slavery. i don't like it. I feel bad for being born here, for having these privliges that others don't just because i was born in the US. I feel guilty, almost.
sigh.
sad.
and then i feel even worse because i call up alex sad and upset complaing about how the world sucks and people, children, are dieing that shouldn't, and then i depress him. and i don't like depressing people! i'm a happy person! i like to be happy! but i can't just dismiss these issues because they make me uncomfortable. but at the same time i don't want to walk around moping for the rest of my life. i want to help. i try to help. i just feel like its not enough. i know that its not enough. poop.

public service anouncement
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/multimedia.html

be apart of the solution
http://www.supportunicef.org/site/pp.asp?c=iuI1LdP0G&b=45523
http://www.madre.org/

i really hope that i didn't depress you, and i'm sorry if i did. but i think if more people are aware of the situation and donate a little time or money towards the cause, the world will be less depressing for everybody.

i promise to try not to mope.
heres to making the world a better place!

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Sara Smells Nice


"Sara Smells Nice": A portrait of myself drawn by Alex. The picture he drew of me prior to this one was entitled "Sara L. Stinky" and I did not look quite as flowery as I do in this one.

ladies and gentlemen....

Welcome to blog by sara!! I've started this blog because, well, because i thought i didn't already have enough distractions to keep me from doing my work in a timely fashion. So there you have it folks, another form of procrastination! huray!!

i've been back at school since the 2nd and it already feels like i've been here forever. break was fun, short but fun. actually it was extremely short. i was home for a grand total of 17 days. 17 days!! who's winter vacation is only 17 days!? it makes it harder when its so short cause you've got so much to get done and so little time to do it all. it makes it harder to actually relax like you're supposed to. but i still got to be with my family, visit with friends i havn't seen since the summer, be with my wonderful alex, and hang out with his super fun sister aileen. so break was still fun. i did however get sick. upper respitory infection (courtesy of alex). i'm on day 4 of antibiotics so i'm feeling better. still got a bunch of uck in my chest but at least i'm getting better.

winter term has been ok so far. we, here at elon, only take one class for the month of january everyday for 3 hours. i am taking gender and global leadership and boy is it alot of stuff. everyday we either have a paper due or two quizzes to take. don't ask me how you can have two quizzes in one class period because i myself am confused about it. but the stuff we're studying is pretty interesting so its not too boring. but i've got a ton to read before monday so i better get to it!