i cant believe this semester is basically over. i still remember my last night at home. my two best friends and i stayed at Callan's house until 3 in the morning not wanting to say goodbye. this is the first time that we havent gone to the same school sense kindergarden. Callan is now running track at unc. Kaitlin is all the way across the country at usc. i still remember walking home still not believing that in the morning i would be on my way to app.

when i got here i had no idea what to expect. i found my roommate on facebook and it ended up that she went to church with one of my lacrosse friends. i knew she was a nice but i didnt know about the whole living with a stranger. the first day was honestly the most awkward day of my life. i didnt really didnt know anybody and it was just me and barbara walking around campus asking the typical questions like what is your major what classes are you taking etc. now barbara is my best friend. we do basically everything together and even on breaks like fall and thanksgiving we hangout.

one thing i was nerves about was the athens little curse. at my high school when you go to college you end up hanging out with just a bunch or athens kids. at state there are 100 kids from my graduating class and they all hangout. all this kids at unc still all hangout. this is also true here at app. there is a group of kids all from athens that just hangout with each other. at first i did hangout witht this group but now im so happy i stepped out of it because i have met some of the coolest and most fun people.

school wise it really hasnt been as hard as i thought it was going to be. i do have to study more then i did in high school and im in the library more then i want to be but overall its not that bad.

one thing that i love about app is all the performances that they always have going on. i think i have been to 3 plays, 4 concerts and one open mike night. i didnt start going to these until the end of the year but honestly they are all so good and fun that i think i will bump up my attendance record for them next semester.

speaking of next semester, im taking calc 3, intro to lit, world civ 2, philosophy, society and ethics and marriage and family. to me that doesnt sound like a really bad semester the only class i dont really want to be taking is intro to lit because im not a huge english fan. also i hope that my professors are better next year then some that i had this semester. i did the whole rate my professer .com thing so hopefully no one lied and all my professors can really teacher well.

next semester i also have a trip that im planning on taking. its more at the end of the year but i cant wait for it. one of my friends and i are going with the school on a trip to wales. we are going to spend a month there doing service projects, backpacking/hiking, kayaking and staying with different families. from it i get 6 hours (which is one point that i kept telling my dad for him to let me go). i just cant wait till the end of the year now i just want to go so bad.

so just to wrap up alittle college has been more then i have ever expected. i have found some of my best friends, i feel at home here and i hate leaving every break. i could have expected anything better.

i really liked the waiting room. it kind of makes you really think about all the cometic surgery that women do in today's society. i mean now its so common and not really that big of a deal. honestly i didn't have anything against it before the play. i had my views of it because of what i saw around me and in the media and society. but now after the play i see how weird and stupid it is. when americans look at foot binding we just can't believe that women do that, it sounds so stupid and dumb to us. but when you look at it we are doing the same stupid stuff. we are chopping off our noses, sucking stuff out of our body and putting in water balloons for boobs. the play made you really look at the reality of it all. also having the doctors story in it too helped a lot. the doctor did nothing to be in the hospital he just got cancer and there was no way around it. all the women in the play were in the hospital because of things that they have done to themselves. i really liked this play and it reall got me to look at cosmetic surgery in a different way!

WOMEN

The movie that we watched in class was very realistic. Women do have to face the problems stated in the film everyday. We are always judged on what we look like and have to work harder to over come the hump of being a woman. Yes, there are some situations were being a woman helps like what Corey said about his mom getting her job but the reality is that we live in a male dominated world and women only get in if they work twice as hard. After we watched the movie we looked through the magizines and i saw why women give themselves such a hard time on what they look like. there was a ad about chex mix saying that it doesnt matter your shape be yourself but our chex mix now has 50% less fat. it was kind of ironic. being a female i dont feel different in school, but i do feel different when i have to have someone walk with me to the library at night and always have to watch myself at parties and other things. im not paranoid but it is still in the back of my head of what could happen to me in different types of situations. also at my work i now have to work with a male. i work at a coffee shop and we had some bad situations with some of the regulars so now my friend meghan and i can no longer work without a male. this sticks in now i cant work with meghan anymore and i always have to now go into the back when certain customers come in. women are strong and just as good as men but it would be stupid to say that they are equal in everything and to say that they are just as safe as men in situations.

myers-briggs

for the myers-briggs test my type came out to be esfp. i think that i have most of the characteristics of an extravert. i definitely like to communicate by talking more than writing and i like it much better with I'm doing something to learn not just reading and research, like the book says. when in comes to the S for sensing on how i take in information i think that I'm more in between sensing and intuitive. i am good at memorizing and i do like concrete facts, which are all characteristics of sensing, but i will write a term paper and then finish the required outline and i do most of the time not read a question all the way through before answering, which are characteristics of intuitive. i think when i took this test my senior year in high school i tired between these two. the next part of it is F which stands for feeling, in how i make decisions. i think i fit in this category better then the last two. i hate confrontation and i do have a difficulty in saying no to people because i am a people pleaser. P for perceiveing could decribe me more perfectly. i am the queen of procrastination. i like to do things in my own time and i need to work under pressure for me to get something done, otherwise i will just leave it to do later. for the most part i think that this test decribed me pretty well. i would really like to go see what i got on it when i took it in high school and see if i changed at all.

GATTACA

Gattaca is a sci fi movie about enhancing humans in a futuristic. The main character, Vincent, is different from the rest of the his world. Unlike everyone else he was born "in love" or how we are born today. Everyone else's parents picked how smart they would be, what they would look like etc. Vincent has to hide the way be was unborn and his imprefections by using the identity of Jerome. With Jerome's identity he is able to escape the world that he is unfit for and go to a moon of saturn. In the movie it shows how a child born the natural way could be just as good as the "perfect person" and that will and determination can also effect how "perfect" you are. One thing that i would like to point out thought is that with all the technology that they did have how could they not fix the really Jerome's legs.

Sam Spady

I thought the lecture was really good. Though the mother wasn't the best speaker she definitly got her message across. What I liked best about her lecture was that she wasn't telling us to never drink like most people do. She was more just telling us to be safe and think before we act and most importantly what to do in a situation like Sam's. I also think that it's really good that the parents don't point any fingers at anyone and instead work to help other's through Sam's death, to bring some meaning to it. The one thing that I don't understand though is how everyone just left her in a frat house by herself. I just don't understand how everyone thought that that would be ok. I was really moved by the movie and I really learned a lot from it.

This is a picture from my first ever app state game. GO APP!

As I posted before, my friend burned what she was cooking making the alarm go off. Well when we got back into the building Becca and I ran to the 2nd floor to retreive Brookes pan. Well as you can see the pan is not in the best shape so ultimately we made in into the amazing shrine.

This is a picture of me and all the girls on my hall. I love all of them and we all have so much fun doing random stuff. This is a picture of us before we all went out to dinner one night.

FIRE ALARM!

Tonight the fire alarm in cone went off for the second time this week. The first time it was the lovely Fredonna who was cooking her pizza according to popular rumour. Tonight the culprit was Becca Horn, another lovely girl that rooms next to me. She was craving the ever delicious cinnamon buns and decided to make a few to cure her craving. Unfortunatly for the residence in cone Becca is not the best cook. Cinnamon buns only need to be cooked for about umm 10 minutes. Becca thought it might be a good idea to put them in there for a few extra, setting the timer for a total of 20 minutes. Well it only took 9 minutes for the smoke so start and the alarm to sound. So thank you Becca for letting us all experience to cold night air of Boone, NC.

expository writing

ok so this is a free writing blog and i can't think of anything to write about. gosh i feel like i'm in english class right now. if i never have to do another free writing for the rest of my life i think i will be ok. ok so i guess the topic right now is my english class. well basically i think that class is a waste of my money. i can go buy a diary and write in that every three days and i would be doing exactly what i'm doing there only i have to wake up earlier then i want to and go to a class where the teacher talks about putting paper bags over peoples heads. honestly. i'm glad i will have these diary skills for when i get a job and have to write a formal report on how i cured cancer.

Michael Buble

So I won't say that Michael Buble is my favorite artist but he's up there. He has that kind of voice that is good to listen to when you are in a bad mood and need some cheering up or like right when you are about to go to sleep. His voice is very soothing and his lyrics are cute and and easy to sing along to. My favorite songs of his are Everything and Home.

To his website

immigration

A home on the field was the summer reading this year for Appalachian. It's main topic was on immigration and people coming in legally and illegally. I interviewed my roommate on what she would did if she was kicked out of the USA. Her family is originally from England and when i asked her if she would leave she said she wouldn't like it because she its a different culture there that she doesn't know and she wouldn't feel like she was at home. When i asked where she would live in England she said in a bigger city area she so would feel more at home, though overall she said she would be very upset about the situation. Lastly i asked her on her views on the kids that have come illegally to America because of their parents or family. She believes that the that the way they are treated is wrong and that we are all immigrants in our own ways and that we should have the judgement that there is on immigrants. Lastly she said if the Mexican immigrants are forced to leave then we all should and only the Native Americans should stay.