it's all about the journey...
looking forward to some quality downtime over the span of the next month. there will be quite a bit of time spent doing not much of anything both on the beach and in airplanes. any suggestions for some good books (read: not textbooks) to stash in my carry-on?
dreaming of sunny skies...
anna and i went in to talk to our latin american studies prof this afternoon to let him know that we would be missing 2 classes while we were at the conference. we felt a little bad about it considering that the class only meets once a week, but it turns out that we didn't need to worry at all. his response: "that will be such an awesome experience. you could probably base your entire research paper for this semester on things you learn while you are down there and the conversations you have with people from different backgrounds. i can't wait to hear all about it when you get back."
yessssssssssssss. :)
counting down to spring break and the sunny beaches of jamaica with some of the best friends in the world. the past week or so has been kinda rough. i'm hoping that this much needed break will help me reenergize for the rest of the semester until *gasp* graduation...
Quieres ir conmigo?
AXLDS 2006: COLOMBIAIt's official. The email was waiting for me when I woke up for work this morning.Hi Sarah, your name is in the second list of delegates sent by AI, I´m sending the list with the aprooved delegates names today, but you are aprooved. There are some logistic info missing, but we can sort this out later. So see you in Colombia!
cheers
EliasWhy isn't anyone else awake at this ridiculously early hour for me to celebrate?! Even my roommates are still sleeping! I guess I can wait a few hours, there should be more than enough celebrating at ROKS this weekend to make up for it :) My passport has been collecting too much dust sitting on the shelf. This is a good feeling.off to Barriques...
snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes...
My away message last night read something along the lines of: wishing I was still a little kid and could look forward to the possibility of waking up to a snow day tomorrow... sigh. To be a kid again and have nothing more important to worry about than who had the biggest snowfort.
Woke up early this morning and went to Espresso Royale Cafe, determined to catch up with some reading that I've been putting off, considering that this weekend will be anything but study time. Of course I ended up spending half the time studying and half the time staring out the window, daydreaming, watching the huge snowflakes cover Madison in a blanket of whiteness...
Finally treked through the unshoveled sidewalks of State Street and half-slid up Bascom all the way over to Van Hise, cold, soaked with snow, only to reach my classroom with a note on the door saying that class had been cancelled due to the weather. Upset that I walked all the way here for nothing? Nah. If this is a big kid's version of a snow day, I'll take it :)
stuck in the middle...
Over the past year, AIESEC has turned my life in a completely new and unexpected direction. People had told me that it would open up new opportunities like never before and that I would make some of the best friends of my life. This couldn't be more true. The more I put into it, the more I get out. CLICHE? yes. but still true. Our group has become the people that I turn first to, to go out with, to study with, to hang out with, to talk serious life stuff with. And I'm so grateful for it all. However.Out of nowhere tonight, I found myself in the middle of a situation that I am completely clueless about what to do. My friends mean the world to me, and I would do anything for them. Which is why it stung that much more when I realized that I may have let down some very important people in my life. I need to make a pretty big decision, which either way, will mean a big sacrifice. Where do I draw the line between following my heart, grabbing an opportunity of a lifetime, which is what I am inches away from doing, and being there for friends who need me?24 hours ago, AXLDS was 100% go. Now I'm not so sure.
bon chance...
This is a shoutout to someone I met while studying in Paris 2 years ago, who has been there for me through so much, who has since become one of my closest friends, and who is a big reason I am where I am in my life today. I just called her at the airport, where she is getting ready to head out to New York in a few hours. She will start her new job on Wednesday as the 50th Anniversary of AIESEC event coordinator.Betsy Corey, @Madison loves you and misses you tons. Congratulations and good luck!
senioritis...
Procrastination has shifted...
...from checking AIM away messages...
...to reading facebook profiles....
...to nomadlife.org....
A picture is worth a thousand words...
Gonna need some serious caffine tomorrow morning...
Working at 5:30 am sucks any day of the week. But Thursdays are probably the worst day of all...usually because that means I have to cut my evening at Brats short in order to wake up at 4:30 the next day. I am usually up for any excuse to go out in the middle of the week...today was Drews' 21st bday and Betsy was in town for the evening, but I missed out on both so I could come home and go to bed early. I have so much on my mind at the moment that I can't even sleep anyway. lame.
AIESEC has been intense lately. My roommate and I have gotten to the point of emailing each other to make plans to hang out because even though we share a room, we never see each other. But intense in a good way, in that I like that I am pushing myself to make more and more time for it. The past couple days I have been in the complete opposite role of where I was just a few months ago...semester turnover from being a newbie to interviewing newbies. It was an interesting experience, a completely different perspective, which I enjoyed much more than I had anticipated. When all was said and done, after some difficult "post-interview" discussion with the rest of the EB, I was happy with how everything played out. One guy that we interviewed asked us if AIESEC turned out to be what we had expected when we had first interviewed. My instant response was: not at all. My initial interest was like many people who don't join until later in their college career, I wanted to do a traineeship once I graduated. I never would have guessed that I would get as hooked as I have....
Mini-road trip to Sunburst ski hill on Friday. After getting slightly stressed...ok, Tanja and Ryan will attest, I may have been a little more than "slightly" stressed...transportation finally came through and everything should work out. Advice from Sarah W: don't break any bones, guys! hmmm. We'll work on that.
Next mission: anyone have a house that want to let us borrow for our newbie social next week Friday??
