so, starting out in my first semester of college at UNA. fun, right? oh so fun. i'm not sure what to expect in any of my subjects, but they seem pretty average for core classes. that is, until i get to my honors forum. dr. vince stands at the front of the room and basically tells us: blog about the class. that's your homework for each week. so i'm thinking "sweet, i've never blogged before this'll be awesome." it is pretty awesome so far, anyways. and before you start ragging me about my lack of capital letters, let me give you my theory on those. i don't like capital letters. never have, never will. they're elitist; they think they're so special because they get to be bigger than all the other letters. well i think that all letters are equal and should be expressed equally. so do all things in all caps or no caps. i prefer no caps cus it's just easier to read. be glad i still use punctuation.
continuing on...
we're supposed to be writing about our first weeks of school, memphis trip, the honors forum, and i guess life in general. first week of school was pretty nifty; no class til wednesday so for the first half of the week we kinda wandered around like lost ducks looking for something to fill up our time with. or at least i did anyway. i mean, i had stuff to do, i just didn't have a schedule for anything and it was like "i guess i'll do this now, oh that's going on? i'll go see what that's about." now that school has officially (that's so scary sounding, dontcha think?) started, i'm pleased to report that i do in fact now have a schedule. go me.
in school for 3 days, and then we get a road trip. i love road trips, especially when i know the people i'm going on the trip with. this trip was no exception. even though i was tired and cranky, i still had lots of fun. the group i wandered around with started out with about 3 people plus me, and grew to about 7 people, which was awesome. we ate mexican, which was reallllllllllllly good (you can tell how good it was by the amount of 'l's i used), and then walked to the tennessee river. we could hear this lady talking on her phone when we were at the top of the hill and she was at the bottom, and courtney was answering all her questions it was rather funny. being the lazy bum i am, i went to bed around 11:30 pm. but that was good because i had more energy for the next day.
vince took us to the memphis brooks art museum and the memphis zoo. the art musuem was cool; i liked the temporary exhibit area best. there was this one painting it was so amazing i could've stared at it for the entire 2 hours that we spent in the musuem. it was called "birth of the blues" but i don't remember who created it *sad face*. i was really excited to see giraffes at the zoo, they're my favorite besides possums. there were possums too(!) in the night life part, but it was hiding so i couldn't see it. but it was there and i was *thissss* close to seeing it. i love possums they're so cute. most people are like "ewww possums" but i personally think they're adorable. did you know that they can't actually hang by their tails? it can't support the weight of an adult, and only temporarily support the weight of a baby, so they use it for help climbing trees or carrying things. possums are fascinating creatures. they're 8x less likely to carry rabies than a dog. betcha didn't know that.
i'm looking forward to the honors forum, i think this blogging thing will be fun. i'm having fun already just typing whatever pops into my head. and i'm sure everyone else will loveee reading it. i can't wait to blog about our guest speakers and what they have to say to us.
-aly<3 (i always put a heart after my name)
