I'm a college student from out of state. This blog is for my family and friends, to know all about my travels amongst the corn. College is a jungle, and I'm here to explore it.
Today I moved into my dorm. Our journey started yesterday at 6 a.m. We did make a pit stop, and that pit stop was at the Danish Immigrant Museum in Elkhorn, Iowa. (Fact: Danish people moved to Iowa, because it looks so much like Denmark!) {Extra fact: Dana College in Nebraska is actually pronounced Dan-a and is a Danish College!)
Some truck, with my name that we saw driving to Des Moines
Dana College!
Geneology chart- See we are really African Americans (sorta)
Now that we have arrived at Drake, My room is awesome! Thank God for my Dad helping and bringing stuff, it would of been a huge struggle. And It was really nice walking around with him! We set up my dorm, I will have more pictures later but I have a few now. This weekend is a lot of activities and a lot of fun.
I'm so glad I chose Drake, I know there will be a few moments where I cry or get scared. However, there is not better feeling thanknowing I'm standing on the edge just close to to see the whole world, and little bit of the secrets it holds. I'll try to write frequently!
If you by chance feel like writing, I will tell you my address.
It is my first and last name, Carpenter Hall, 2900 Forest Avenue, Des Moines IA, I can't remember the zip code (but you can look it up?)
Tomorrow (Tuesday) we leave from Parker to Des Moines at 6 a.m. We are packed to the limit, and I'm a little stressed. I'm still very excited for all the new things, but today me and Tony officially said "farewell". Our departure from our relationship was a step towards having a mature college relationship. We are still going to be friends, hopefully best friends.
I'm a bit sad, and the stress is disappearing now that I'm packed and set. I can't wait to move into me dorm, and set it up.
I know this was a short blog, but I need to sleep, because we are going to pull out of the driveway at 6 a.m.
I haven't posted a blog recently, but time has just been flying by! I have 9 days till I move in, and start being a true young adult. No more laying around instead of doing laundry, no more mom calling me in sick if I have health issues, no more being a little kid. But I can still be a big kid, I heard college kids are more immature than high school kids, probably cause being so smart makes you loopy.
I have almost everything I need for college, but I haven't started my packing yet. I have a get together with my friends to say good bye this Friday (stop working at Taco Bell this Friday). Saturday I am spending the day with Sam, and at night a mini going away with the family. Sunday and Monday packing, but I think I'm going to squeeze in a pedicure for myself. Who wants to go to college with ugly toes, plus I won't be able to afford them after this.
I know who my roommate is she seems really nice, she is a music business major. I know my job for work study, I'm doing Recreation Services. And I have a good idea of the things (activities) I'm intersted in: RHA, rowing?, Sorority, theatre?, DICEY (improv thing), and I'm sure there will be more to come.
I'm getting really excited about going to Drake, and really anxious/scared too. However, I can't think about the scared part anymore, because being scared ruins all the fun in being excited. So if you see me before I leave for Drake don't ask me what I'm scared of ask me what I'm excited for I'm sure I can name off a bazillion and one things.
Oh I also bought one too many books for college, so if anyone wants to buy "Native Gaurd Poems" by Natash Trethewey I will be selling one for under five dollars.
I know I posted yesterday. However, today we found out I won the Glen Bell Scholarship. Which means I have 2,000 dollars towards college now. And if we apply for another part to it, I can get double that.
Even though I have not always said the kindest of things about Taco Bell, such as my essay about or my stand up comedy, I am truly so thankful for that job. I feel as though I have a ton of life experience. I feel I understand hospitality and cleaning much better! And now this.
I just got off work, and I've been texting my friend to get out. Because I work everyday and you know I wan to go have some fun! Well as I sit here waiting I'm realizing there is less than 50 days till I go to college.
There is less than 50 days for me to weigh 140 pounds. There is less than 50 days till I won't see my mom everyday. There is less than 50 days till I get a hundred new best friends. I'm terrified and exciteed for the next 50 days.
We have been planning my move in stuff, and I just want to give a special thanks to Kat who gave me such a wonderful graduation gift (and more). Thank you so much for all the help.
I'll probably post a few more blogs when I get there. and then I will try to keep everyone updated from there.
Actually I'm going on vacation. But I keep thinking about that game from when I was little, and everyone sat in a circle and went one by one saying "I'm going on a picnic and I'm going to bring..." and you said an item in alphabetical order. I'm not really little anymore,and it's been years since I played that game. However, I think I play that game every day I work at Taco Bell.
"I'm going to the back and I'm going to get large lids, medium cups, kids toys, and strawberries." Not exactly alphabetical order but life doesn't happen a to z it happens a to q to c to 7. (That's right sometimes it throws in curve balls or in alphabet situations numbers.)
Anyways I keep thinking of this game as I prepare to go to Iowa, where I will attend summer orientation for Drake University. I'm hoping to meet my new best friend, and a few other people who I can hang out with immediately getting to Drake this fall. We are also going to find a bank for me, and after Iowa....FLORIDA! I'm so excited all I brought was tank tops and shorts. Actually let me put it this way: "I'm going to college orientation and I brought my work application, my immunization forms, and my FYS choices." and "I'm going to Florida and I brought my clothes, flip flops, Drake hoodie, and Make Up. Sun lotion too!"
It is the Sunday before Graduation. I celebrated with the family Angie's birthday tonight after work, and it was a blast hanging with my cousin Emily. I got done with school last Thursday.
We had Harvey Awards on Friday night. I was up for Best Comedic Actress for comedy night, and I was up for Most Important Female Tech. I won Most Important Female Tech, and got a really cool trophy. As a thespian officer I also announced two awards, and as a senior I did my last performance on stage. It was an original poem called, "Theatre Moves Me". I think my mom got some great pictures of me, and she said my poem was really great. (I'm gonna put it on here unless I can't find it).
On Saturday we had our senior barbecue. As an officer for that I created "fake" awards to all the seniors to organize the goodbyes. The awards were really just thank you cards personalized for each one of the 33 seniors. It was pretty great, and we also did senior gag gifts.
At Angie's B-Day party, I hung out with my cousin Emily and she reminded how thankful I should be that my family is helping me go to the school of my dreams this fall---
You guys probably don't know this, but Drake originally wasn't even on my list of schools I was interested in. We were visiting the University of Iowa and my mom said lets check out other schools while we are here. First was U of I, and it was HUGE. Way too big for me. And the next day, we went to Drake. I have never believed in love at first sight, but the moment I started learning about Drake and saw their campus, and took a picture with a bulldog. I knew it was the school for me. I applied officially for two schools, the third school said I didn't turn in my essay (I did though.) I got in to all three schools. I got into Drake, CU Boulder, and University of Colorado Denver. I didn't want to go to CU Boulder, because it was too BIG like U of I. UCD was really a back up plan, but it would of only cost like 6,000 dollars a semester if I lived at home with my mom. (Sorry I didn't choose there). I chose Drake. Yes, it is a private college. Yes, it is an expensive college. But I didn't choose it, because of wanting to go to an expensive college or because the name will look great on resumes. I chose Drake, because of the class sizes. I chose Drake, because of the First Year Seminar I will take that will let me meet new people. I chose Drake, because when I set the bar it has to be too high and I have to get out of my comfort zone. I chose Drake, because when I picture myself at a school I can't see myself anywhere but there.
My family is really helping me accomplish my dreams, and that means the world to me. I'm sorry that it has been a bit of a burden, and that maybe I never showed my passion for this school. However, Drake is my school. It is where I'm meant to go. So Thank You All. A Lot. I couldn't get to Drake on my own.
Graduation is this Thursday, and Honors Convocation is on Wednesday at 7 pm. I have a very busy graduation agenda, but I can't wait to see all my family. Before I post this blog I want to put my poem on here, and I also want to put a song on here that I really like.
"Theatre Moves Me"
Theatre moves me
to crawl out of my comfort zone
to say hi to strangers
to welcome others into my life with open arms
Theatre transforms me
to become an eagle and soar
makes me be a lion and roar
it sends me to make new friends
get back old ones,
and tells me to be the change in the world
that I want to see in it
Theatre moves me
to set the stage for Ghandi
to remember the words of Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream, A dream of where
sound isn't just a tech its an art
its more than just a job for some
old fart-
Sound moves me
to shout to the heavens
and thank God for all the blessings in
my life
Sound moves me
to smile when you don't show up
rather than cry
it moves me so much
that I can say I forgive you
and it allows me
to dance about the stage joyously
praising the love I have received-
Theatres moves me
to try new things,
act like a butterfly my director may say
or play a drunk
or how bout you drown tonight?
Theatre moves me
to have a passion
about fashion,
fashion setting the world on fire
like wildfires!
Japan, Haiti, Bullying, Suicide,
Poverty-
Theatre inspires me
to write a play all in slam poetry
to sing even when I can't hit the right notes
"I see a river, flowing for freedom,
I see a river just in you..."
Music moves me
it sends me in to the past
a time machine to the 1930's
or to the future where
cars hover and the water is all run out,
placing me all around the world
A mirror to the world, music
fills my heart-
Theatre is a movement
setting a movement within me
sending me far away
taking me back to the good old days,
Back to that special day-
Theatre is the Earth, wind under my feet
Acting is me coming out of my shell
Sound is keeping me close to the ground;
Theatre moves me
in so many ways.
Me performing
Me and Annie (She is a freshman, and will be on American Idol one day)
