Life lessons I have learned this week:
- Weekends are not just a regular occurrence, they are a reward for how hard you worked in class. So I will only reward myself by paying for dinners or meeting up with friends and being social if I had an accomplishing week of homework and classes, I can't just take a break anymore. My reading levels are up the walls and it's almost ridiculous.
- Even if I'm not talking to my best friends and family daily, I need to know what's going on with them all the time to feel self-sufficient. That sounds partially dependent, but it really isn't...I just love people that much that I want to know what's going on in their lives. Most of the time, when I feel deprived or like I haven't talked with someone in awhile, we usually have a general gist of what's going on, so that's always nice, but keeping in touch as a sophomore is exhilarating between home friends, people I met over the summer, and Mizzou friends I'm not always around.
- Hanging out with people one-on-one or 3-4 people TOPS is the only way to efficiently hold a productive conversation. Large groups don't cut it; if I'm with people I care about, I want to know about each and every one of them....not what the group thinks of something going on and when the end of the table is having an entirely different conversation. You'll probably see what I mean as photos from this week are all of large groups of people.
- There are more Orthodox Christian people in mid-Missouri....WHAT?!?!?! Met a huge group of new people at church today, it was really exciting. We went to lunch together and in my opinion, are a step closer to establishing OCF (Orthodox Christian Fellowship).
- It's hard to go from living with people to not living with them :(.
- Living in a sorority house has its moments of being very stereotypical. It is loud, hyper, dramatic, and fun at the same time.
- Spur of the moment plans are enthralling! Some Phi Mu girls and I were laying out on the social deck doing homework and all I wanted to do was jump in a pool. So why sit there and talk about it when you could actually DO it?! We hopped in the car, drove over to the Mark Twain pool, swam for an hour, went to YogoLuv and drove back...all in an hour and a half! Positively spent time promoting happiness and sisterhood all at the same time :)
- The art of journalism, as stressful as it can be, can just make my day. After lack of sleep, energy and motivation, I was assigned a listening post in my News class. The assignment is to learn about your community by going somewhere and observing, then writing 700 words about it. Examples included the bus station, public transit, other miscellaneous places...so I drove to the Columbia skate park. For those of you Northbrook homies (ha...I just said homies), it's like Meadowhill Park but about 10 times larger and not as landfill-looking. So I sat and watched about 20 guys on skateboards and took note of the environment, then started conversing with them and learning really interesting facts. About themselves, the Columbia Park District, how these boys became friends, and how the age range at this skate park was not 16-22 as the website advertised...more like 17 to 35. It was really cool to hop into a new atmosphere and pick up on so much of their so-called culture though.
Week in review:
Birthday dinner at Hu Hot: if you don't want to be a creepy waiter...don't take birthday cards off the table. He'll never live that one down. Haha.
The group at a 21 shots party--another thing I await having for the scrapbook/socialness....and will go out of my way to assure that everyone is having a great time and not awkwardly just hanging around and waiting to leave.
Mizzou Student Foundation "Small change makes a big difference" campaign party! We decorated piggy banks to collect donations for textbook scholarships and more, here's Katie, Jamie, Ali and I with Truman!
That's all for now! Have a great week, until Labor Day Weekend :)
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