I Went on a Safari

Well, my orientation sort of deal, better know as "leadership safari" is over. I am actually kind of sad, because I ended up having a lot of fun. The first day or two, I was wondering what I was doing here, but it has worked out great so far. I had a great group of people to be involved with for the week. There was some great speakers, comedians, and even some slam poets that were awesome. I had never seen anything like that, we don't get that type of entertainment in Adrian. I don't think I coiuld be a slam poet, but it was so intense and beautiful. I loved it. I would like to right that style of poem sometime, just to see if I could do it. I couldn't get up there and perform it for a ton of people, though.

Sister Hazel is going to be here this Saurday, and I guess there is another comedian tomorrow night. It is cool to have so much to do, compared to having nothing to do. Today I went to the "SAC" to work out for my first time. It felt great. I need to make it a priority in the winter to work out, because it is amazing what it does for my mood, plus it is just a nice place to work out.

I felt like I was on the phone all day today, becayse I have been so busy I lost contact with people. It was so nice to talk to people from home. I had a great 40 minute phone conversation with April. It did not feel like that long at ALL. When I hung up, I knew we had a nice little chat so I figured it was like 20 minutes...when it said 40 minutes and some seconds, I was in shock. We had this motivational speaker who gave us all blow pops. The point was to give the Charms Blow Pop to someone in our life who makes our life better. The catch was, that it couldn't be like a family member or boyfriend. It had to be someone in our life who makes our life better, but has no obligation to us. He wanted us to tell them straight forward "My life is better, because you are in it." We talked about how hard this is, because in our society it is easier to disrespect someone or just give them a small compliment, than actually be real and make their day. Today, I told April about the speaker and his message, I told her my life was better because she was in it, and that I hope she wasn't offended that I am not mailing the blow pop. She got a kick out of the blow pop comment, and she was really appreciative about it. We then had a great discussion about how we should say those things to people, but for some reason we don't, and we explored some possible reasons for that. She also helped me feel better about not knowing what I want to do, and thinking I don't want to do Physical Therapy. I think I'm placing far too much stress on things that I need to relax.

I just dowloaded the SugarHill Gang song "Apache." That somehow turned into my Sea Turtle's group's theme song, because there is a little dance everyone does to it here that is hilarious. We were constantly dancing to that song, several times a day. I am excited to have it on my ipod now. I also recently purchased "Buttons" by the pussycat dolls, because that has been a big dance song.

I am nervous about starting my classes, but everything is going well so far. I can't believe I am finally at college. I dreaded it for so long, but I'm liking it now. I hope it continues to be a good time and a growing experience. I'm jsut happy that I finally had the change to blog again. It's been too long, since I had a real blog.