The Month of September!

So, its been an entire month since i last "blogged." I know, I know...blogging...but I guess its now one of my things! haha! Anyways, a lot has gone down this past month. First off, I moved from Eugene back to Salem. The first week I roamed around the house and cleaned up the garbage I had collected throughout the last two years. My dad came and picked me up, and he has Mitsubishi Jeep kind of car... and the entire back including the backseats wear jam packed. There wasn't a pocket of breathing air or ability to move my arms or my legs. I had to watch the lamp while balancing a basket on my lap, and making sure my long board doesn't roll onto my head. Anyways, I got home sorted trash from treasure and cleaned up room. The next week I went to CAMP, not as a counselor but as a CAMPER!!!! The camp was LEADERSHAPE at Camp Collins. It was held by the UO and 60 other students attended. It was the time of my life...everyone was super chill, and genuinely interested in each other. We broke down each others barriers and became friends and compadres. Not very often do you gain 60 friends who want you to succeed as a leader, an individual and a human being. IT WAS FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!!!!!! Anyways, there is a reunion on OCTOBER 7th, MY BIRTHDAY!!!! I know its going to be pretty sweet! After that I went back home, and lulled around the house even more. But then September 22nd I boarded a mini bus with my family(Ama, Buwa and Raj) and drove up to Seattle to board a CRUISE!!!! PARTY!!! However, on the bus, my dad was trying (a little to hard in my opinion) to be the bus comic! ugh...His act is to talk super loud and make egotistical jokes the target women and my mom. They aren't so bad...some of them are genuinely funny...but he is so LOUD! Sometimes I think he forgets that there are other people who want to sleep or focus on something else. But as we boarded the Ship things got better (per say)...The cruise overall was pretty fun. We went up to the Vancouver Islands in Canada. Stopped in Nanaimo and Victoria. We did the whole tourist thing and partied on the ship! Day 4 (which was Day at Sea) I was sea sick...but also saw Killer Whales (orcas - spelling?). That was the highlight, other than hangin' with the fam. We definitely played 20 hands of cards (oti and kali budi). Anyways 5 days later the cruise ended I moved back down to Eugene for the beginning of SCHOOL! I moved into the sorority and settled my belongings. All the other girls ("sisters") moved in a week ago and were working on recruitment. I am so OUT OF THE LOOP! while other girls are working on conversation, posture, and rotation groups...I get the exciting job of holding the door open. I know I shouldn't be critical, I mean Martha the coordinator has done fabulous a job, everything is great, but holding the door is pretty mundane! oh well! Its part of being a sister! and i truly love it. The past two days being in Eugene has been very sweet...reunion with old friends and seeing old faces was the highlight in the last two days! I hung out with my girls...Rachel, Jenny, Caitlyn, Anna, and Amelie. Played frisbee, eat thai food, meet up with Kathryn, unpacked and settled in...All in all it was an eventful month. Tomorrow is the first day of a new school year...and i will be a junior. YIKES...crunch time...I gotta get my shit together! haha!

The Most Spectacular Day of My Life!

Well the day entailed:

• being hit on by this amazingly hot guy at work, who saw my art work and called me "the artist" (when I mean hot....I mean HOTTTT!)
  
• seeing him on the street 3hrs later, and still calling me "the artist"
• seeing my high school crush, who rejected me on facebook, but I didn't acknowledge him (harsh I know, but he was cold first)
• doing art - 3 portraits!
  
• reaching half way into my book - Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
• making a new friend while catching up with an old friend
• figuring out my thesis...well, not exactly but an outline idea of it!

So, its only 6:20pm and I am going to the movies...so it can't get any worse!
Did I mention the cute guy who called me an artist! AHHH I am in heaven!
Tomorrow will have high expectations! haha

This Boy...

So, this past year I've been hanging around campus...doing the usual - taking classes, being a sorority girl, and chillin' with my peeps. But lately, I have been noticing this boy! He is not my type...actual just the opposite. Anyways, I see him everywhere. I am not sure if I have a crush on him....but since I see him at every corner, and my mind can't help to think about who he is. I could just go up to him and ask his name... and be the stalker we all are on Facebook.com. It really is that simple, but I think i like the anonymity. Its this weird thing of imagining his personality and who he is. He probably is just the opposite in real life, and I don't want to be disappointed. Maybe till we official meet, I'll have to just have to enjoy the mysteriousness. haha!
But the other day I was out on a bike ride on the Fern Ridge path. I usually go out till West 11th past the target region, but as I was 20 minutes into the ride I saw him. He was on his road bike zooming off in the opposite direction onto the other side of the forked path. He didn't see me because of this big shrub..bush...tree. But I saw him. Within the possibilities of choices, my biked changed directions, following him onto the nearby street. I followed...cough cough...stalked this boy for ten minutes...completely legit - I was on a bike ride too, right? Anyways, we parted ways...alas. Actually the truth is that the light turned red when I reached the intersection. It was God and all his mighty ways of saying STOP! RED LIGHT! haha! I guess boys are still red lights. haha! anyways, it made my evening till the next time I see this boy...

Home Sweet Home?

My summer classes just finished...hoorah! I procrastinated to the last minute...I turned in my research paper five minutes before the deadline...phew! But now that I am free, free as a bird to fly high, I am just busying myself with friends and books. I probably should clean the apartment though. My roommate, Alison, moved out without even letting me know. I mean her stuff is still here, I am sleeping on her futon since my mattress in back breaking, but she hasn't set foot in the apartment in over a week and half. She's back home and Portland...hope all is well, really!
But last week was average... stress from my own procrastination, and work! I went to the beach- Florence,OR and it was beautiful. There were these sand dunes that were fun to jump around in. Later my friends and I made a sand castle...well, we attempted to make a sand castle. We ended up digging a massive hole in sand to get access to water, and then tripping in the hole non stop!haha! Good 'Ole Mo's is where we picked up some grub and headed back to E-Town! Its was beautiful day all in all. This week...has been stressful, as mentioned earlier due to my expertise in procrastination. But this past Thursday, I was relieved from my academic work. Now, all I have is work, and the hopes to finish two books - Shantaram by Gregory Roberts and Tirstan by Gottfried Von Strassburg. i just think the author's name of the latter book is amazing. I wish people still had names like that - Gottfried Von Straussburg...sounds very important and educated. People are now Chris and James...what happened to to the Thaddeus, Theodores, and Bartholomews of our generation. SAD!!! Anyways, the book is the epic age old story of Tristan and Isolde...Romance!
This past Wednesday, there was an HC photo shoot for new brochures and pamphlets. Students in the area came together and poised in awkward situation with professor's pretending to carry on a dialogs. I was in a few scenarios, but the best was with the new science prof. Sam. She had this massive horse femur in her hands, and we had to pretend to be intrigued by this massive calcified structure. Anyways, I was trying to help by asking question, so it didn't seem out interaction was to contrived. My question was - When horses break their legs, why is it such a big mishap, why do they have to put the horse "down"? Well, she answered the question, and then said, "Does anyone else have stupid questions?" CAN YOU BELIEVE THE PROFESSOR SAID -STUPID QUESTION...ugh! I am never taking a class from her.
Anyways, I have two weeks of nothing but work. Babysitting and my front desk position. I think they'll be fun and relaxing. After that, I will be going home for the month of September, to spends so quality time with my folks. I am a little worried...I tend to get bored in that town and can become quite cranky...But I guess I'll make the best of it! Towards the end of the month, I am going on a cruise...so stoked about that! It will be the perfect refresher before college starts all over again!

California Bound

So...life has been exquisite lately! Friends, fun and San Fran! Even though I am sitting in my overheated apartment sweating off marbles...I still am having a blast. I am behind on my school work...but yet, I have had such an amazing time this past week! Everything seems so enjoyable! It began with the random book club admires of Twilight I met randomly. We just read the series cover to cover and devoured every romantic moment, and wished the Edward Cullen was real. UHH!! if only! But then after nights of debates over Twilight (which I have to admit can be embarrassing) I was invited to go to SAN FRANCISCO the next day. An impromptu road trip...I am in! It was a blast! Even though gas was the main expense I still enjoyed the bay area and the perfect weather. The agenda was filled with the normal tourist spots, but SAN FRAN is a city to remember... HAIGHT & ASHBURY, FISHERMAN'S WHARF, PIER 39, THE CHOCOLATE SQUARE, THE GORGEOUS ARCHITECTURE + GIRLFRIENDS = A freakin' awesome time! We just explored, people watched and took a $5 boat ride! I managed to moon the other tourists with my Marylin Monroe move, when my skirt blew up! YIKES! and was accosted by a drug dealer...sketch. But that just added to the hype of being in a big city....as bella would put- DAZZLING! haha...inside joke! The nights were filled with yummy feasts provided mr and mrs Godfrey....yumm...mohitos...amazing too!
Lately I have been procrastinating! Well, in all honestly I always procrastinate...but now its the point where I have to get the work done...ughh! Damn...so comes the end of the blissful week and a few days in the library...oh i should make an ode to college!
Anyways, I cashed a few checks lately...so I no longer have five bucks to my name, and I found a new favorite movie...Dangerous Beauty...from the same producers as my other fav movie - Legend of the Fall. Romance...Scandal...Drama...True Love...tickles me funny! haha

This is for Anna!

Chapter 30...thats right!

"Oh. My. God...Oh My God You Guys"

So, life in the good ole' Eug is pretty sweet so far....even though I have been spending too much money...its taken a toll on bank account, and even my parents have gotten on my case. YIKES! So, I am trying, but not really succeeding at conserving money. But all in all life has been pretty chill... My daily routine just consists of me competing with Anna on how far we've read in to Shantaram, and chillin', maxin' and relaxin' with her. The daily grind continues with school and work. I got an "A" in both of my classes the last session. woo-hoo! My GPA shall rise! yeah baby! My course this session (INTL 431) is taught by this really gregarious dude from Santa Monica, so its super cool...we talk about what is the American culture! I think that is a very very lengthy subject. Anyways, my days go by pretty fast, nothing to strenuous but nothing to dull...but last night I watched the season finale of The Search for the Next Elle woods for the Legally Blond Musical on Broadway...it makes me wish that i was blond, blue eyed lady, with amazing pipes to burst out into a song...But that role would also require me to be white...so thats out the window...I'll settle for playing Jasmine in Aladdin. haha as if! in any case, I am in love w/ musicals now! "Oh my god. Oh my god you guys..." has to be my favorite line at the moment.
Other happenings include - loving the screening Batman : A Dark Knight, and enjoying Cafe Yumm. Plus, I have an interview there, and I might get a second job...just to make up for my crazy spending. I am also planning a picnic for the Pi Phi ladies...but lets see who shows up...doubt many ladies will show up...since they are mostly out town, state and country. Pi phizzle!! My folks are out at Tahoe for a little R& R - and an interview. I hope my dad gets the job there...It would be so much fun down in TAHOE. The slopes, the lake,me, a cup of cocoa, the view...now thats what i call a life! haha! Don't get me wrong - I still love SALEM! So till next time - laters child!

Ps- I have pretty much got the official word -I am going to Ethiopia for winter term! Adios Eugene!