Senior YEARRR!!!!

WOW!!! I can’t believe that the time has finally come! I am just beginning my senior year OF COLLEGE! O my goodness! Well I am taking 6 classes and after this semester I have 6 more left! ☺ I am having such a great time! Last weekend we had the first real meet of the season it was so fun, I can’t wait for more to come! Well this is just the first to get my feet wet again because I haven’t blogged in over a year!

The past month in a page

Therefore, it has been a very long time since I have been able to blog... so I am going to catch you up on the crazy life that I have been living the past month... Let’s start off with conference... It was a great meet overall for the team, a lot of best times and a lot of fun! For me the best was seeing my mother and grandma. I miss my mom everyday and my grandma is always a hoot. As I live away from home, I do love my life, but I miss my family and being able to come home a lot. Despite how much I miss my family if I could go back and do it again, I would not change a thing. Growing up is hard, realizing that I will never live in the same house as mom and dad kind of sends a chill down my spine. I thought it was crazy that my dad said that he left home when he was 18 and didn't come back... but essentially, I did just that. I hope that in the future I can continue to live on my own because living at home again would not be something I could do. However, moving on after conference I have had a two-week swimming filled break. I had a not so serious time with swimming and school has been ok. The girls and I made it a great time despite still having to go to the pool. We have been going out having fun and doing things that we will never forget. Right now, I am with my grandma and great-grandma in Aiken South Carolina. It is a different pace around here. Not only am I with the most critical person I have ever met, but I am in a city that is so different. Despite these things I am having fun. My grandma: o lordy as she would say... everything I do is a time to make me into a real southern belle (which I was not born to be as my room, and physique would show) But in the quest to becoming this southern lady I have been to a tea, fashion show play and I actually survived and enjoyed it! The tea was the most uncomfortable of it all... I have no table education so I had no idea how to hold a real life cucumber sandwich, or how to properly swirl my tea, but no worries I caught on quickly. Next was the fashion show, as in my favorite movie ever after I just went for the food. All the clothes were geared toward ladies in their 70's so I just ate a little of this and that and plastered a smile as I laughed about how revealing a 3/4 sleeve was... hahaha but next was a play regarding the history of aiken. It is incredible that the history of such a small town can be so large. Aiken is a town with more history then I have learned about Minnesota as a whole. There were many striking things that I learned but the item that stood out most was that the confederacy was a real thing here. I went to a museum today and there was real confederate clothes and they were actually heroes in this neck of the woods, which is in complete contrary to what we learned in school in the north. I also was impressed with how naive I am about racism there are many people here that say the poorer areas must be the "black parts of town" Which is incredible that people still associate social class with color still in 2010 when we have the first African American president. but I don't think my generation are the generation of the stereotypes. But other then this the main reason for being here is to see my great grandma. My great grandma is the most incredible lady I have ever met. She is currently 94 years old and still alive, which in itself is a feat. She has lived through her son dyeing and current has a brain tumor but she is still managing though she is very very close to the end of her life to smile. Every time I see her I want to start to cry... she is no longer competent which in its self is heart wrenching, but she cant hear so she has no idea what is happening in her life, I am so glad that I have the time although I would like to be in the tropical weather relaxing and having a great time. This will probably be the last time in my life that I see her and that also makes me upset, but I am doing what I can ... and that all I can do... well I am sure that my next post will be in a while, my grandmother does not have internet so I may just write and post later.
:) Big E

WOW!!

Yesterday was a longgggg day! I began my day at 5:00 which I didn't think would be bad the night before, but it was basically like I was getting run over by a bus. I got to practice with the masters program, it was one of the easiest practice of my life. I returned home to go to class and study for the two test I had that day... My first test, in writing for managment went amazing! I think I only got 2 pts off of 50! My next test, was not as great... i forgot to study an entire chapter so I got most of the questions wrong regarding the chapter. But good news is that I had a bounch of extra credit so it should be a C+ :) so I am happy about that. I ended my day at 10:00 got home and packed up for an adventure that will reveal its self soon. Thursday, though I have the most classes is the best day of the week. Not only is it the day befor no classes at all, but I get to see the most attractive boy of my life. :) But I am sure there will be more stories of him to come. Today during the time I should have been studying I was thinking about how this year has been. I would say over all it has been successful. I did not get hit by a car this year, so that in its self is a success. I have been doing well in swim and school. I really think that I am blessed that I have such a wonderful life. I live in a beautiful city, with the best people surrounding me. Ok that is enough with the sentimental moments. Be back with you soon hopefully today!

Yes this is real life...

Is this real life has been the question I have asked my life several times throughout the day today. The first situation was when I was sitting in my favorite class... finance.(yes that is real life, that is actually my favorite class) I was trying so hard to listen to my teacher who knows nothing about finance (his words not mine) yet he has a PHD. I don't really get how that works but I mean maybe he BSed his way through it?? Anyways I was sitting in class the next thing I knew I jolted. I had fallen asleep and drooled all over and ended up having to rewrite my notes because they had gotten soggy, not to mention I was right in front so my teacher started laughing and said a comment that /i chose not to listen to when I arose...oops! The next instance was not as humorous. Let me take you to this time in my life... Place: FAU pool! Time: 3:01 2/3/2010 Set: 30x50's two fast one easy... This set was so terrible for me I thought that I had broken both legs and tried to swim. The last and most crappy situation for me was just after practice when I went to the doctor. Lets go back in time about one month ago when I acquired the injury in question. I was in my locker room trying to get to the showers ASAP because at this time in Florida we had a polar freeze. The temp was the coldest Florida had seen in something like 30 years. I grabbed my shamp and condish and was running to the showers (it was more of a brisk walk) then I stepped on the drain wrong and instantly my foot was in pain. I walked it off, went home and the next day I had some bruising and it hurt... I went on with my days. Until the trainers found out, then I had to get an XRay and an MRI to find out that I have a fracture in my foot...cool. But I had known that before today... Today was the day that I was supposed to be off crutches! I went to the doctor to only find out that I am actually on crutches for 3 more weeks...cool Is this real life? unfortunately... Yes. I don't understand why if you can't see the fracture in an xray, only a little in an MRI why would you put your athlete through the hell of having to bruise your armpits and hands... IDK But I have studying to do for my plethora of test tomorrow to I will talk to you on a later date.

The secret is out!

Tonight is the night in which I will reveal my secret... my blog address! I am a little nervous because I have already been told of some spelling errors, but I am real bad at spelling so I don't really care that much. Today was a rough day... I was holding my eyelids (seriously holding)open so that I didn't look like I was trying to sleep. My teacher thought I was nuts ... but what are you gunna do? Because of my deathly sleepy state today I was unproductive with everything! Practice was insanely boring and now at 6:30 after I am done with this short blog I am going to bed... yes a college student is actually going to bed at 6:30! I hope you all enjoy my blog, I am not going to lie...I have spent way to much time trying to figure out the tricks of the blogging trade so be nice!
:)
Big E

Dear Blog,

Because I have only recently started my blog, I have come across many questions...Why are you starting a blog? What is a blog? and many more from my fellow inhabitants of lane 6 at the FAU pool. So ladies I am now going to attack those questions on this post :) I am starting this blog so that my family can have a little look into my life on day to day activities, I am also starting this to be able to look back at it in.... well when ever I want and rem anise on ummm... well life! What is a blog? Well the one I am doing is basically like an online diary... but I am sharing it with people. There will be no obsessing over boys, like many of our first grade diaries went. (I am not promising no mention of guys :p) but there you go my little bit of reasoning to this craziness in my life!
When you are thinking about things to blog about in a day you realize that the day gets to be pretty adventurous! My day went from the average Monday, to one of the best Mondays I have ever had. It began as usual waking up at 5:40 to go take my tri-weekly morning dip, then I had to get hopefully the last of the xrays of my fractured foot taken... and the results were great!! :) The day seemed to be going good, then I went to dunkin doughnuts to reward myself for being attentive in my finance class, and actually understanding! After waiting in line for 15 min... this old lady with the worst makeup I have ever seen in my like... I am talking eyeliner halfway down her cheek and bright fuchsia lipstick that was on her teeth, and hair that was sticking up to the ceiling (obviously in need of her daily coffee) decided that it was OK to cut in line directly in front of me... NOT OK!! I got into an argument(maybe because I was so hungry from practice/a stimulating finance class or maybe because she was the most rude lady I have ever met) this argument escalated into me mentally putting my fingers in my ears and thinking lalalala. After a traumatizing experience at the coffee shop I decided to come home and do a little light packing and a LOT of heavy cleaning. The efforts were actually a success, but I still have a wanted sign out on my purple shirt that I love, but I found everything else that had seemed to find its way to the bottom of the heaps that were on my floor! That adventure of the jungle room came to a close as the practice chapter of my life opened yet again for the day. It seemed as though it was going to be one of those average boring Monday practices, but it turned out to be really fun! All I could talk about at practice today was this little blog, I have yet to reveal the address to everyone but my mom (mostly because I am afraid that people will think its dorky when I love it) but my amigas are all really excited to read it :p tomorrow is the big day so I am going to have to have a really eventful account of tomorrow so it can fulfill every ones expectations. Well my homework is calling...
:)
Big E

Ufta!

Ufta is the only word that I can think of to describe the day! My day started out a little later than usual 635! The entire team packed on the bus and away we went to Daytona Beach! I would say about 100% of the 3.5-hour drive I was passed out drool everywhere leaning on my seat partner Doug. I could not believe that the trip went so fast. Once we arrived I realized that Daytona is quite an interesting city… 100% of the city revolves around racing. We stopped for a nutritional breakfast of champions Burger King, which was directly adjacent to the SPEEDWAY! The only time I had ever watched a car race was when I was accidently watching it when I was hanging out with my dad, before I saw the track I never truly appreciated the large size of the stadium. After a few minutes of gazing at the racetrack, we were shuffled on the bus like cattle and off we went. We arrived at the pool with excitement in the air (at least for me there was). Warm-up was a little out of control, with the three teams in 7 lanes (the 8th lane was only for the daring, who got a little close to the divers) the pool looked like we were all sardines just chilling in one really really small can! The meet was fun I got two best times…, which was needed and was really exciting. We drove a long three hours home to try to make it to an exciting FAU basketball game but despite our best efforts, we of course did not make the end of the game. Overall, it was a jam-packed day full of travels and fun! Ufta!
:)
Big E

My first experience...

I have never really considered blogging before, but I think its time in my life where I try a few new things. Blogging was the only thing that didn't seem to drastic for now. I really have no idea where to start!... Today I was reminiscing about how time has flown. I was recently looking at photos from my high school days (o way back when) and it got me thinking about just how fast time really goes. I never fully appreciated it until now for some reason.
Well my creativity is running dry, and i have a swim meet tomorrow bright and early so I will get back at ya then
:)
Big E