WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD
"Ramble on baby, settle down easy."
-Grateful Dead
#1: He is risen!
Hallelujah! Interesting fact: I was
recently told that during Holy Week, or Semana Santa, the city with the biggest
religious celebration is Sevilla, Spain.
I would like to submit an official “bs” request as I find it hard to
believe that they aren’t having a bigger throw down in the Vatican City during
this very important celebration…
#2: Where did I
learn this (^) you might wonder? Why
study abroad advising of course!! As you may know, I am very seriously considering
going to Spain for an entire semester next Spring. Here are some things I learned during my
appointment:
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academic
advisors wear polka dots…lots of polka dots…all at once
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when
in Spain, “religious” means Catholic (my lady kept referencing “being religious”
and all of these sites you ABSOLUTELY MUST CHECK OUT AND WEAR POLKA DOTS TO
WHILE YOU’RE IN SPAIN and in my head I’m thinking, alright she means catholic.)
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Spain
> Latin America. Now since I’ve never
been to either place, this is a personally unjustifiable statement but I’ll
present you with the conversation I had with my advising lady and let you make
your own decisions about good ol’ LA
- “You
sure you don’t want to consider Latin America?” –polka dot lady
- “Um,
I was really thinking Spain so I could travel in Europe.” –me
- “Really? Well you might want to consider Chile! They
haven’t had a civil war in like 30 years which is great for Latin America!”
–pdl
- “Mmk
yeah that’s a ringing endorsement and all but I love me some red wine and
war-free zones…” –a very scared me
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Europe
is terribly expensive. That is all.
#3: Beach breeze and velveeta cheese = cure to
college blues. I got Good Friday off
last week and my friend Maddie and I headed East to Carolina Beach to spend
some much welcomed relaxation time with the rents, the dogs, and the terrible
one. The weather was fairly pleasant and
we even snuck in a quick (cold) ride on the boat and a few rounds of “Cards
Against Humanity”, the greatest game to hit the fam in awhile. It was all in all a great interruption from
the real world.
The terrible one:
The best one:
#4: Water damage
is detrimental to Chapel Hill apartments.
So Monday morning, I’m walking to my Spanish class and I get a frantic
text from my roommate, Kate, saying that the maintenance in our building came
to check our fire detectors and accidentally set off our sprinkler system…for
two minutes. All I could think about was
my damask rug, my TV, the pictures covering my walls (unframed no less!!!), the
shoes out on my floor, my couch, my bedding, my textbooks, my whole life in my
tiny lovely room all ruined. So in my
frenzied attempt to stave off the onset of tears that I knew was bound to come
(as some of you may know, I have a very low emotional threshold and anything
past normal excitement/fear/anger/joy results in tears) I called my mom and
told her what happened. “That’s why we
have insurance honey,” was her reassurance.
Mmk that’s lovely and all and I’m glad you’re not freaking out but my
stuff is DESTROYED!!!!!!!! Do I skip my next class? Can I get a couch dry-cleaned?
How do you unplug a wet TV cable without getting electrocuted?!?! (Talk about
insult to injury!!) When all of a
sudden: call from Kate. APRILLLLLLLLLLLL
FOOOOOOOOLS. You’re funny, Kate. Sleep with one eye open.
#5: Real World (sorority edition): ok so sometimes people ask me what being in a sorority will teach me and this week I've discovered a whole new lesson! So during rush week, we have very specific uniforms/outfits that we wear during rounds. On the first day, the theme is "Fly Delta" and we dress up as flight attendants and jump up and down and dance for...wait for it...TEN HOURS. For this glorious event, we wear black pencil skirts and black pointed toe pumps...while we are jumping...and singing...and sweating...and trying to get people to like us :) Anyway who knew that jumping up and down in heels and a pencil skirt could be so useful? I submit that I did not. But, when I travelled to Raleigh this week, as I do every week to interviews jerks Senators and Representatives at the General Assembly for my reporting class, I wore my Fly Delta pencil skirt and black pumps to look professional, ya know? Anyway crowds at the Legislative Building this week were atrocious with the expectation of the revised Voter ID bill and protestors against a recently proposed bill that, opposition is claiming, will establish a state religion. Too much nonsense for me. Anyway, parking was brutal and I had to park about a mile away and book it to the building in heels. Lucky for me I've had some experience maneuvering in my outfit and I spent most of my trek be thankful to be a Tri Delt :)
To make ya laugh:
And some extras from the week:
Me and my freshman year roommate at formal:
Me and paulina:
That’s all for
now. Love ya. Miss ya. Mean it.
Kane
