So I went running today. I know, kind of blows your mind doesn't it? Yeah, one of my floormates almost fainted when she found out. Okay not really, but you get the point. This is like the second time I've been to the gym since I've been here, which has been almost two weeks. Needless to say I am outttt of shaaaaaape. The other great thing about that is that in the SU Connolly Center (the gym), all of the treadmills, elipticals, bikes, etc. are facing those full body wall mirror things, so every time you exercise, you get to watch yourself and every single ounce of fat on your body move up and down and up and down and up...it's really gorgeous.
Anyway, like the title of this post, I am both singing AND getting sick. One is fun, the other not so much. Most of you probably know that I made the SU Women's Chorale group. We had our first rehearsal yesterday and the second today. I think I'm reeeeeally going to like it! As of right now we are working on two pieces, which may not seem like a lot, but actually is a lot of work. Unlike when I was in Varsity Choir at Sheldon, we have to learn all of our music ourselves. We only go practice as a group to rehearse what we already know. So basically if I never practice at home I am going to flunk hardcore, and that would be bad. The two pieces we are working on are called Regina Coeli and Gloria. And for all of you Sheldon kids reading this, no it is not the Gloria that South sang at the U of O festival last spring. It's Gloria by the same guy who put together Kyrie Eliason. Both of these pieces we have to perform during parent's weekend on October 21st I think...from memory. And conveniently enough, neither of them are in English! Yayyy! Ah well, singing in a foreign language is always more fun anyway. On another note, the choir director, Dr. Sherman, is CRAZAYYYY! But in a good way crazy, like fun crazy. She makes the most random and like subtly funny jokes which are usually followed by an awkward silence and then a wave of laughter. And she has the most AMAZING voice, seriously..it reminds me of a Disney princess. I think I'm going to have fun in choir this year!
Now, the getting sick portion of this little story goes like this. School started last Wednesday. Erin gets the beginnings of a sore throat on Thursday. Erin gets stuffy nose Friday. Erin gets full blown cold on Saturday and becomes doomed to spend the next three nights with a tissue box and plastic bag. Okay no more third person. And THEN in the midst of that, Monday at about 4:00AM I woke up covered in sweat and a 100.4 degree fever. Woooooot! But, in college, people go to school fever or no fever. So to school I went bright and early at 7:30AM. I actually didn't feel too bad, just a little shaky. But by the time I had walked up the hill and then the two flights of stairs to my classroom, I had started subtly sweating again, which actually would not have been terribly awkward if it had been about 30 degrees hotter outside. Ugh. Anyway, I'm sitting in class, and lo and behold, my fever breaks. SWEEEEEAAAATTTTTT. Yeahh it was pretty much just as gross as I made it sound there. I'm sitting there like fanning myself with my reading packet right next to the open window and, you know, it's like only 50 degrees out. Goooood times. Future lesson to teach to your kids: DON'T GO TO SCHOOL WITH A FEVER. Because the only thing that will come out of it is the sweats, awkward glares, uncomfortable situations, and then complaints on Blogspot. Just don't do it.
That is all. Guten Nacht!
~Erin :)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Weeks and weeks and weekends of college!
Hey all. Sorry I haven't been blogging much this week, when I started school last Wednesday I didn't realize that I had also signed over my life to the homework/life responsibilities devil. But I did, anddd as of now it seems as though we will have a special relationship for awhile. Yayyy!
But on that note, I STARTED COLLEGE! Ahhh! There aren't really many words to describe that except for crazy! Anyway, as you probably know, I have three classes; but last Wednesday I only had two, Humanities 150 and German 115. As of right now, I have a feeling that Humanities is going to be one of the most difficult experiences of my life. So far we have read passages by Aristotle, Plato ("Allegory of the Cave"), Confucius ("The Analects"), and Cicero, and each day we are told to analyze our reading with pretty in-depth questions. Yeah, guess what we had to do this weekend? Analyze...all of them together! And if you didn't catch on, they are NOT easy readings. I literally spent six hours on them today...it was pretty fun, if I do say so myself...ha? Anyway, I promise I will not make you endure ten weeks of me complaining over Humanities, I mean the class isn't all bad. I have a couple of friends in it, and the teacher really isn't a bad guy. We have four major papers that we will have to do over the term, each on a different topic. 1. Higher Education: Its Varieties, Its Promises, and Its Consequences. 2. Ethics: the Competing Principles as They Relate to Personal and Public Good. 3. Modes and Motives of Leadership and Its Effects upon the Common Good. 4. Competing Notions about the Eros of Beauty: Ways of Adjusting Artistic Preferences. If your brain didn't just fry reading that, then you should write these essays for me.
German on the other hand, was SO MUCH FUN. I am seriously so excited to continue learning the language and then, with any luck, study abroad with it. So far I've learned how to count to a billion (easier than it sounds), the alphabet, my name is..., i am from..., greetings, goodbyes, who, what, where, yeah you get the point. Also, the professor is fantasticccc! She is so funny and really really cute, and, what impresses me the most, is that she puts up with the creepy old guy who decided to come to college and take a class with a bunch of teenagers. That would honestly freak me out to have someone in class the same age as (or close to) me, but again that's just me. The way the system works here is that I'll be continuing German throughout the entire year, as a part of my minor (oh yeah! There's a story behind that...hold on), next quarter will be 125, then 135 in the spring. SO EXCITED. Ich liebe Deutsch! Anthropological Perspective I had on Thursday, and only have twice per week. It was pretty interesting, and the professor was pretty great. She seemed as though she's genuinely going to care about us this term, so that's a start. To be honest I thought that that class was going to be about the history of humanity for the most part, but it's actually not at all. It's more on like the human mind and behaviors and such. Oh and there's a lot on Native American culture..exhibit A my weekend reading.
This weekend was pretty exciting as well..I would say it lived up to a college girl's first weekend away's standards. On Friday after class got out I went to IKEA in Auburn with Arielle, Nyakuiy, Arielle's sister Allysa (a senior at SPU), and Allysa's roommate Julia. I only have one word to describe that place: HUGE. I literally felt like I had just walked for 5 miles after that shopping trip. But I can say now that I think that our dorm room will be set on supplies for the next 15 years. Later that night SU Residence Hall Life played a movie out on the Union Green (big lawn) on the big screen; Toy Story 3, which I thought was actually super appropriate seeming how we all just went off to college and yeah that movie can help us to reflect upon our childhoods! In all actuality though it's kind of a child's horror movie, so if you have a kid under the age of six I would strongly recommend against seeing it........On SATURDAY (I'm almost done I promise), Serve Seattle, and then 80'S DANCE! Serve Seattle was basically this huuuuge community service project that the school put together for the students. We went out to Greenpeace park outside of Seattle and saved the forest from invasive plants for six hours! Yay! No, really, it was pretty fun. First of all, they fed us Pita Pit, and second of all, finding about 16 handfuls of giant grossly disgusting spiders and then having three times that many girls squeal, including myself, (dfksbdsugbv) was kind of entertaining.
Okay, I think the 80's dance needs it's own paragraph. First of all,
Anddddd second of all,
Nichole and I
Kind of a bad picture of me, but whatever. This dance was seriously the most fun dance I have ever been to in my entire life. Aside from re-realizing my intense love for 80's music, we got to dress up!! Beforehand I got together with about eight of my floormates and really went all out, Madonna music and all. The latter picture above was the aftermath of three hours of dancing, the before was a little more flattering. Anyway, here are some more pictures for your entertainment...
Yay for candid photos!
The before
Papa Don't Preach and Like a Virgin go to a dance...
But on that note, I STARTED COLLEGE! Ahhh! There aren't really many words to describe that except for crazy! Anyway, as you probably know, I have three classes; but last Wednesday I only had two, Humanities 150 and German 115. As of right now, I have a feeling that Humanities is going to be one of the most difficult experiences of my life. So far we have read passages by Aristotle, Plato ("Allegory of the Cave"), Confucius ("The Analects"), and Cicero, and each day we are told to analyze our reading with pretty in-depth questions. Yeah, guess what we had to do this weekend? Analyze...all of them together! And if you didn't catch on, they are NOT easy readings. I literally spent six hours on them today...it was pretty fun, if I do say so myself...ha? Anyway, I promise I will not make you endure ten weeks of me complaining over Humanities, I mean the class isn't all bad. I have a couple of friends in it, and the teacher really isn't a bad guy. We have four major papers that we will have to do over the term, each on a different topic. 1. Higher Education: Its Varieties, Its Promises, and Its Consequences. 2. Ethics: the Competing Principles as They Relate to Personal and Public Good. 3. Modes and Motives of Leadership and Its Effects upon the Common Good. 4. Competing Notions about the Eros of Beauty: Ways of Adjusting Artistic Preferences. If your brain didn't just fry reading that, then you should write these essays for me.
German on the other hand, was SO MUCH FUN. I am seriously so excited to continue learning the language and then, with any luck, study abroad with it. So far I've learned how to count to a billion (easier than it sounds), the alphabet, my name is..., i am from..., greetings, goodbyes, who, what, where, yeah you get the point. Also, the professor is fantasticccc! She is so funny and really really cute, and, what impresses me the most, is that she puts up with the creepy old guy who decided to come to college and take a class with a bunch of teenagers. That would honestly freak me out to have someone in class the same age as (or close to) me, but again that's just me. The way the system works here is that I'll be continuing German throughout the entire year, as a part of my minor (oh yeah! There's a story behind that...hold on), next quarter will be 125, then 135 in the spring. SO EXCITED. Ich liebe Deutsch! Anthropological Perspective I had on Thursday, and only have twice per week. It was pretty interesting, and the professor was pretty great. She seemed as though she's genuinely going to care about us this term, so that's a start. To be honest I thought that that class was going to be about the history of humanity for the most part, but it's actually not at all. It's more on like the human mind and behaviors and such. Oh and there's a lot on Native American culture..exhibit A my weekend reading.
This weekend was pretty exciting as well..I would say it lived up to a college girl's first weekend away's standards. On Friday after class got out I went to IKEA in Auburn with Arielle, Nyakuiy, Arielle's sister Allysa (a senior at SPU), and Allysa's roommate Julia. I only have one word to describe that place: HUGE. I literally felt like I had just walked for 5 miles after that shopping trip. But I can say now that I think that our dorm room will be set on supplies for the next 15 years. Later that night SU Residence Hall Life played a movie out on the Union Green (big lawn) on the big screen; Toy Story 3, which I thought was actually super appropriate seeming how we all just went off to college and yeah that movie can help us to reflect upon our childhoods! In all actuality though it's kind of a child's horror movie, so if you have a kid under the age of six I would strongly recommend against seeing it........On SATURDAY (I'm almost done I promise), Serve Seattle, and then 80'S DANCE! Serve Seattle was basically this huuuuge community service project that the school put together for the students. We went out to Greenpeace park outside of Seattle and saved the forest from invasive plants for six hours! Yay! No, really, it was pretty fun. First of all, they fed us Pita Pit, and second of all, finding about 16 handfuls of giant grossly disgusting spiders and then having three times that many girls squeal, including myself, (dfksbdsugbv) was kind of entertaining.
Okay, I think the 80's dance needs it's own paragraph. First of all,
Anddddd second of all,
Nichole and I
Kind of a bad picture of me, but whatever. This dance was seriously the most fun dance I have ever been to in my entire life. Aside from re-realizing my intense love for 80's music, we got to dress up!! Beforehand I got together with about eight of my floormates and really went all out, Madonna music and all. The latter picture above was the aftermath of three hours of dancing, the before was a little more flattering. Anyway, here are some more pictures for your entertainment...
Yay for candid photos!
The before
Papa Don't Preach and Like a Virgin go to a dance...
Oh and one more thing, I learned the Thriller dance.
~Erin :)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
GLEEEE!!! (in more ways than one...)
So I'm sure like 43853485% of you who are reading this know that the Glee season premiere was tonight. Yeah, it was pretty freaking awesome...but I do have to say, Finn, what the hell were you thinking? haha. If you haven't seen it, GO WATCH. You'll die a little inside it's so good. Anyway...here at SU you'll find that we have a nice sized group of Gleeks :)
Taken by roommate Arielle's phone, the Bellarmine "fish bowl," aka. TV room, filled with Gleeks!
On another note, CLASSES START TOMORROW. Ahhhh! I am a little nervous, just because it's something completely new for me, but I think it will be okay. Oh, here's my schedule, in case you were wondering:
Humanities 150: Language and Composition, 8-8:50AM MTWThF
German 115, 9-9:50AM MTWThF
Anthropological Perspectives 120, 10:00AM-12:05PM TTh
In short, a lot of writing. I think. But yeah I will update on that tomorrow, if I'm still alive.......
Just kidding. Nighty night!
~Erin :)
Taken by roommate Arielle's phone, the Bellarmine "fish bowl," aka. TV room, filled with Gleeks!
On another note, CLASSES START TOMORROW. Ahhhh! I am a little nervous, just because it's something completely new for me, but I think it will be okay. Oh, here's my schedule, in case you were wondering:
Humanities 150: Language and Composition, 8-8:50AM MTWThF
German 115, 9-9:50AM MTWThF
Anthropological Perspectives 120, 10:00AM-12:05PM TTh
In short, a lot of writing. I think. But yeah I will update on that tomorrow, if I'm still alive.......
Just kidding. Nighty night!
~Erin :)
Monday, September 20, 2010
All moved in and ready to go!
So, as you can see from the title, I am officially all moved and settled in here in Seattle! Everything has been going great so far, we've mostly just been doing intoductory type things, but you know, that's how it goes when around a thousand people pick up their entire lives and move to a new city...I will try to be more frequent with the updates, but I can already tell my free time around here is going to be reeeally limited. Yayy!
Anyway, here are the last few days in a nutshell...
My parents and I arrived in Seattle around 9:00 AM Saturday morning, since the Bellarmine Hall (my dorm) freshmen only had from 9-2:30 PM to move in. I was almost immediately sent up to my room after I got the key to go scope it out. One of my roommates (yes, I am in a triple) Nyakuiy, had been here since last Wednesday-ish, so she was in the room when I got up. It was so nice to finally get to meet her in person! As I'm sure the world knows, technology does wonders nowadays, so we had been talking on Facebook/texting for awhile. My other roommate, Arielle, came around an hour later, and before we knew it, moving in became chaos! I never thought that it was true what they say, that teenage girls tend to pack A LOT whereever we tend to go, but uhh now I believe it. All ended well, however, and we now have managed to safely organize wall posters, printers, a TV and DVD player (thank you Arielle), a stereo, three laptops, clothes, AND food. Woooot!
Saturday in general was just a reeeeally long day it felt like. After moving in there were all these parent/student meetings to attend, and then us students had to split off into our "small groups" led by an Orientation Advisor, aka. an upperclassman. My leader's name is Rachel; she's a sophomore. Each group also has a team name, ours is the Horsey Heads...don't ask. haha. They pretty much formed these groups as a way for us to get to know one another better, because odds are your roommate(s) and/or floormates are not in the same small group as you. That's true for me. We mostly just played a lot of ice-breaker games, but no one could really escape the awkward silences....haha. Saying goodbye to the parents was weird, I must say, but I guess that's how the world works, we all have to leave sometime, and just accept the emotions we have about it.
Yesterday was a little more low key in terms of required meetings, but we did have to go on our "Urban Invasion," aka. adventure through Seattle with our small group. It was pretty fun, but again, a lot of awkward silences,..meeting new people is sometimes a new adventure in itself, I think. haha. Our group ventured from campus down to Pike Place Market, which if you count it, is about 14 blocks away, and yes we walked. There and back. My feet died. I swear it was uphill both ways. Anyway we visited the gum wall
Believe it or not, this thing is actually kind of cool...people write things on it in gum...yum?
Horsey Heads!
Later today we are to go to our Academic Convocation, you know, the thing we go to to see all of the professors and listen to about two hours of speeches. Yep. And then after that I have a dinner I have to go to with my learning community, Faith and Great Ideas. I would explain that to you, but in fear of being boring, it's basically something I'm in for my core classes; I take special classes with a certain group of people, and in this case special classes means ones that focus a lot on 19 and 20th century thinkers and how their ideas pertain to our lives today. It's pretty interesting if you're a history/philosophy buff...just saying.
Well, that's about it for now! Oh wait, here...
This would be the process/result of a very intense Bellarmine 5th floor Apples to Apples game that went on last night, and then about a sixth of my floormates. Bell 5 is pretty much the best :)
<3
~Erin :)
Anyway, here are the last few days in a nutshell...
My parents and I arrived in Seattle around 9:00 AM Saturday morning, since the Bellarmine Hall (my dorm) freshmen only had from 9-2:30 PM to move in. I was almost immediately sent up to my room after I got the key to go scope it out. One of my roommates (yes, I am in a triple) Nyakuiy, had been here since last Wednesday-ish, so she was in the room when I got up. It was so nice to finally get to meet her in person! As I'm sure the world knows, technology does wonders nowadays, so we had been talking on Facebook/texting for awhile. My other roommate, Arielle, came around an hour later, and before we knew it, moving in became chaos! I never thought that it was true what they say, that teenage girls tend to pack A LOT whereever we tend to go, but uhh now I believe it. All ended well, however, and we now have managed to safely organize wall posters, printers, a TV and DVD player (thank you Arielle), a stereo, three laptops, clothes, AND food. Woooot!
Saturday in general was just a reeeeally long day it felt like. After moving in there were all these parent/student meetings to attend, and then us students had to split off into our "small groups" led by an Orientation Advisor, aka. an upperclassman. My leader's name is Rachel; she's a sophomore. Each group also has a team name, ours is the Horsey Heads...don't ask. haha. They pretty much formed these groups as a way for us to get to know one another better, because odds are your roommate(s) and/or floormates are not in the same small group as you. That's true for me. We mostly just played a lot of ice-breaker games, but no one could really escape the awkward silences....haha. Saying goodbye to the parents was weird, I must say, but I guess that's how the world works, we all have to leave sometime, and just accept the emotions we have about it.
Yesterday was a little more low key in terms of required meetings, but we did have to go on our "Urban Invasion," aka. adventure through Seattle with our small group. It was pretty fun, but again, a lot of awkward silences,..meeting new people is sometimes a new adventure in itself, I think. haha. Our group ventured from campus down to Pike Place Market, which if you count it, is about 14 blocks away, and yes we walked. There and back. My feet died. I swear it was uphill both ways. Anyway we visited the gum wall
Later today we are to go to our Academic Convocation, you know, the thing we go to to see all of the professors and listen to about two hours of speeches. Yep. And then after that I have a dinner I have to go to with my learning community, Faith and Great Ideas. I would explain that to you, but in fear of being boring, it's basically something I'm in for my core classes; I take special classes with a certain group of people, and in this case special classes means ones that focus a lot on 19 and 20th century thinkers and how their ideas pertain to our lives today. It's pretty interesting if you're a history/philosophy buff...just saying.
Well, that's about it for now! Oh wait, here...
This would be the process/result of a very intense Bellarmine 5th floor Apples to Apples game that went on last night, and then about a sixth of my floormates. Bell 5 is pretty much the best :)
<3
~Erin :)
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Hello everybody!
Hey all! So I've decided since I will be leaving for college at Seattle University soon, that I should start a blog. I figure it'll be the easiest way to keep up with me, for those of you who may want to! Hopefully this next year will be filled with many new adventures (hence the name of my site...:]); I'm really excited, as am I excited to share them with you!
I hope you enjoy reading!
~Erin :]
I hope you enjoy reading!
~Erin :]
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