Fall semester 2012

Ok, So after spending my summer working hard I was glad to head back down to Cedar City. Being on the Executive Council of Ambassadors required  me to come down a day earlier and we basically hung out with some great people. The retreat consisted mostly of tour training since we had a lot of new ambassadors that had not given a tour to people. We did a lot of it on campus so they could get a feel for what was going on and how to make it even better. We spent the next two days up at SUU's cabin basically getting away from the world. No internet, cell phone service. Just each other and our voices. It was so fun.

On the last day of the retreat we got whomever was left at the cabin to release balloons. On these balloons each person wrote their personal goals. As we let them go, 70 balloons floated in the sky showing how we are not alone in this! It was awesome.

I then moved into my apartment. Spending 3 days living out of the bed of a truck in the rain is not my idea of fun. I literally moved everything into my bedroom. I had a pathway to my bed where i crashed for 5 hours. So long. So intense. It was really great to get some rest. Oi vay.

With the start of a new semester it means new classes. With majoring in Sociology I am taking the only two required classes to get the degree. Social Theory and Research Methods and Statistics. Let me just tell you how I feel about those in 2 words. WOOF, and AWESOME. It is a lot of work. Reading about a lot of theorists is hard. I have to re read paragraphs 2 sometimes 4 times to understand it. Research Methods is reading about how to do research. Woof. Long and horrible. But the teachers understand it is difficult to read, so they make it easier. Theory we just have a 2 page paper on each theorist. Methods we are just doing a proposal for a project. I will take that to the bank and cash it any day!

Being the Task Force Coordinator in ambassadors this year has been interesting. I sometimes feel like I do nothing. I don't work in the Welcome Center with the rest of the EC, I am just there. So I try and find things to do to be busy. Well, that is a quick run-down of what I am doing this semester. I was talking with one of my friends earlier today and I did not realize how intense my week is. Weekend manager, homecoming, ambassador reunion, papers to write. It is going to make me crazy before the end of the semester if I am not there yet! Till next time, adieu.