Random Facts about Me

College classes are completely different from High School. It's really hard to get to know everyone in class, especially in a class of 300 people. The saddest part is that the semester is drawing to a close and I hardly know a lot about anyone. Especially in our class for English. So even though we only have a few more classes left, I thought I would share some more random facts about me with everyone!

First of all, I love to be spontaneous. Just tonight my friends decided to dye their hair, and I it sounded fun, so I did too. I also decided yesterday that I am going to drive 45 min through Austin to go to the Cheesecake factory with some friends because I have been dieing to go!

I am the world's biggest procrastinator. Here it is 1:00 in the morning and I'm typing my blog. I also have 5, one page journals and an essay to write for my University Seminar class due Tuesday, and I know I won't start it until Sunday night.

My favorite thing to do in the whole wide world is to take trips. I can't wait until spring break to go to Chicago. My dream place to travel to is London. I love the British culture.

I am an extremely shy person when I first meet people. I find it is the most awkward time when you have to go to events by yourself and not know anyone. Examples, first day of class, first day at work/orientation at a new job, or college orientation. Once I get to know people though, my shell comes off and I like to be sociable.

I love my alone time. I mean don't get me wrong I love hanging out with friends, but I love having nothing to do and just relaxing watching TV or getting on the Internet.

Pet Peeves: slow drivers, people who get on the highway going 45 mph and not speeding up, kids with no shoes on in public places (Walmart or grocery stores), people who ask a lot of question during movies or while your favorite TV show is on, and people who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom (that is just extremely gross yet people in my hall do it all the time), just to name a few.

I get along with and love my family very much. I am very close with my parents and my brother, I tell my mom everything. I also love when we have family get together like holidays and birthdays. If this makes me a dork, then so be it, but it's the truth.

This past weekend I went home to College Station. It was so great because I got to spend time with some of my friends from high school that I haven't seen since summer. It was another weekend of going to sporting events too. Friday I went to the A&M basketball game. They beat Prairie View A&M by 30 or something points. It was fun to go to a bball game again I hadn't gone to a game since last year. Saturday I went to the A&M Football game and watched coach Fran call the worst plays for the second week in a row. Who goes for a field goal when your 4th down and 2 yards. They lost by one point for the second week in a row. I was so mad, and I went with my dad, along with other family friends, but it is not fun to be around him when the Aggies are losing. He gives the silent treatment because he gets so angry. After the game though, we celebrated my brother's 24th birthday at my house. Our family friends came over and my mom made chili and we had birthday cake. Later that night I went to see Stranger than Fiction. This is a great movie. It is a strange role for Will Ferrel, but it was still an awesome film. Maggie Gyllenhaal was also really fun and Emma Thompson was hilarious. I recommend seeing it for yourself.

Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving, and cannot wait until it arrives. I love our family traditions for this holiday.

My mom side of the family is Norwegian, and we have a one Norwegian tradition we do every year for Thanksgiving. A few days before Thanksgiving my grandparents, aunt and uncle, my cousins, and my family (we all live in College Station) make lefse. It is sort of like a potato tortilla. If your interested here is a link: http://www.cybershingle.com/recipes/pages/lefse/lefse1.htm. We spend an entire evening making about six dozen lefse. It is the best when it's right off the grill with butter. We have been doing this for as long as I can remember. On Thanksgiving we go to my aunt and uncle's house along with about 40 other friends and family. It gets pretty crazy. It sort of a potluck kind of Thanksgiving (everybody brings something). There is always so much food!

For my dad's side (his side is German obviously known by my last name), we always go to our camp house close to Sealy, TX (if anyone knows where that is). We always have this massive bond fire and my brother and I always bring a lot of fireworks, and he also brings his shotgun and bee bee gun (which are always fun, I like to shoot aluminum cans with his bee bee gun). It's in the woods so there are so many deer and there is this farm next to us and they have all these weird animals, like a kangaroo and Chinese deer. All of my dad's side of the family come out, and it's just a lot of fun to spend the day out there.

Only two more weeks!

An Interesting Day

So Halloween was an interesting day! After my 8:00 University class I came back to my dorm and decided to take a shower. This was the start to my out of the ordinary, let's just say, day. I jumped into the shower and about half way into it the fire alarm goes off! I still had to wash my face and rinse the conditioner out of my hair. So I naturally finished my shower in a mere 30 seconds, barely rinsed off, then ran to my room, made a quick change, and then ran outside, without my glasses on and with sopping wet hair. We had to stay outside for 15 minutes. I never did find out what was the cause of this little drill at 9:15 a.m on a Tuesday morning. I am now so paranoid when I go to take a shower. I have shed some time off and now much faster. At 12:30 I went to my bowling class and had another embarrassing moment. I went to go bowl for the first time that day and as a went to bowl I slipped on my jeans (they were too long) and totally ate it. When I went to release the ball I had slid onto the lane and because it was so oily I fell. It was great! The greatest part of the whole thing was I actually made a strike. The rest of my day was OK. My history teacher had assigned the second midterm on Halloween, so that was fun. That evening I was kinda boring. My friends and I went to go see The Departed. This was my second time though, but it was actually much better because I was able to prepare myself before all of the graphic scenes and I was able to understand the plot a lot better. After the movie I just went back to my dorm and wrote my English rough draft. What a day!

Spring Break Plans

So I know Spring Break is forever away, but I am so excited for it to come! This week I found out we are going to Chicago for about four days. Chicago has been a place that I have wanted to go to in the United States, along with New York and L.A. My mom called me on Tuesday to ask if I had plans for spring break, and when I said I didn't, she asked if I wanted to go to Chicago! The first thing I asked though was, are we driving or flying? We have driven to pretty much every major vacation! New Mexico (once) to go skiing, Florida (twice) to go to the beach, Washington D.C (once) three days in the car, and North Dakota (three times) to visit family! Which is why when she said we would be flying I was even more excited! I have only flown twice in my life, once to Florida to go to Disney World and to Europe. I think we are just going to site see and maybe see a show! It would be incredibly awesome to go see Oprah, but I know you have to be on a waiting list for like a year or qualify for one of her shows! A Broadway show would also be amazing to see! Apart from going to Europe last year, this trip is going to be one of the greatest vacations I have taken. I love going snow skiing and to the beach, but I am not very good at skiing and I'm deathly afraid of going to far in the water at the beach because I seriously have a big phobia of sharks. So when I go to big cities I can shop, and those vacations are really my favorite vacations! Paris had amazing shopping and I have heard Chicago too has great stores! So only what six more months! Something to look forward to!

So much to do... So little time!

Is any one else feeling they have so much to do for the rest of the semester? Right now I am trying to cram for two test that I have tomorrow, Art and Math. After my tests tomorrow I need to fit the study session into my schedule for my history midterm on Tuesday. I also have to go to this presentation for my University Seminar class tomorrow evening. I have about ten pages of notes to type and about 20 pages to read for history. This weekend will be devoted to studying for my history midterm for Tuesday. Then I have the upcoming English rough draft paper, assuming along with the rest of you, on Halloween night, and then the final copy on Friday. That is just the itinerary for the next two weeks.

The rest of the semester is shaping up to look like this:

• I have a presentation on the 7th of November
• I need to go to four more events for my University Seminar class by the 21st
• Write five journal assignments for University Seminar over the five different events I will have to attend by the 21st
• two more paper for English papers; one that I will have to write the rough draft for over Thanksgiving break.
• Including tomorrow's tests, I have two tests each in art and math
• Another paper I will have to write for University Seminar
• I need to attend a cultural event for art then write a review over it by the 17th.
• Then the glorious finals, one for each class

Just when I thought the semester was drawing to a close, oh no, I realize all the work that is still ahead of me. Every time I am not studying, reading, or typing notes I feel as though there is something I have to do. I am getting really stressed out especially over my two tests tomorrow that I am still not 100% prepared for. Wish me luck, and I wish everyone else the same luck who are going through the same work load as I am!

A Weekend at Home

So I went home this weekend, first time in about a month, and I had such a good time. I caught up with some of my old friends and my brother also came home (he lives in Dallas) so I got to see him as well. My parents got back from New Port, Rhode Island and brought us back some really cool things from there, like a t-shirt, candle, and other neat souvenir items. I seemed to have gone to almost every Aggie sports event this weekend. If I wanted to hang with my old friends who now go to A&M it seemed I had to go to a sporting event. Friday night I went to the women's soccer game, Saturday my brother's girlfriend's mom (kind of confusing) had tickets to go see the Texas vs. A&M club hockey game, and today I went to the women's lacrosse championship game (because I knew someone playing). I also listened to the football game on the radio Saturday night. A&M won all their games too this weekend. The hockey game was really fun too. I had never been to a hockey game before, my brother was probably getting annoyed with all of my questions. We beat Texas 2 to 1. I missed a lot of our local restaurants in College Station. I went to one of the best burger place around called Koppe Bridge and had an amazing cheeseburger with the world's best fries. Oh and while we were there we watched the end of the Texas and Nebraska game, and being an Aggie at heart I was really upset Nebraska lost! Another wonderful thing about going home is my mom's baking. Whenever I go home she always makes something for me to take back with me. This time she made Special K bars. Finally, one of the greatest parts of going home was seeing my dog!