Hi people,
2 weeks to go and I'm getting excited and terrified all at once. I still have only cried like 3 times but I'm lettin ya know now i will be a mess the next two weeks and yes you will have just have to deal with it! I know its not like im never seein yall again but dang i'm still gonna go and be with ummm no one i know and the first few weeks are gonna be rrrooouugghhh! there are 6 american students going to India we all meet in NY airport and take the same plane over. (thats what sumana told me, the director of all of us when we get to india) i think it was me and 4 girls and one guy lol he's got a lot of craziness ahead of him :-) We will be living in a hostile of international students, with common bathrooms aka sounds just like u-hall if you know what that is. I will have a roommate which as silly as you all think i am...im stoked about. its hard to live in a room by myself especially since up until 2 years ago i had always had a roommate. i mean sure they drive you nuts but it makes u appreciate your seldom alone time that much more....and sometimes its just nice to know that someone will notice when u aren't there.
I have to figure out what the hell to pack! that is killin me! I gotta figure out this money bit too! i mean they have atms and i can use a credit card and travelers checks...which am i supposed to bring? oye! umm i gotta find me a money pouch thing too so i dont loose anything which i am infamous for! oh and gotta get a converter adaptor thing so i can use my computer and my straightener ahahahahahaha gotta love bein a girl worryin about the essentials becomes a longer list then u expected hahahahaha
i got my visa in and my meds are on their way to my house! oh aaaaannnd i got new glasses!!!!!!!!!!! two new pairs one i love and one i cant decided if i like or not and a new pair of prescription sunglasses which are adddddoooorable!
ok so i am procrastinating by writing this entry, i have to clean my room do a bulletin board and write or edit 3 different papers...preferably by tomorrow night at around 10 or so that way i can enjoy the rest of my week until my final at 3pm on friday! oh and then the fam will all be here for josh's graduation and i will meet kolie my sister-in-law and oh yea i have to work all weekend since im an RA and have to check my goofy residents out. who by the way are still threatening to tie me up and take me home so i can't leave.
ooookkkk really im done now...so until i need a way to procrastinate again enjoy!
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
One Month To GOOOO!
Hey All,
So tomorrow I will have a new sister-in-law! Josh and Kolie are getting married, she's in the air force and in January she will be stationed in Norway. I'm excited for they and have no idea what to get the :-/ On the India note I have everything turned in and Malaria med's ordered. No I have to figure out what to pack and all that jazz. I cried about leaving for the first time on tuesday night starting at the staff meeting. We had a project our bosses gave us to create a clipboard for a secret person. Jackie (my floor partner and close friend from my freshman year) had me. She handed me my clipboard with pictures of all my friends and pictures of India on it and i just lost it. Later that night I lost it again in jims room and he tried really hard to make me feel better which was wonderful and my stubbornness just wasnt havin it, i just wanted to be miserable for a few hours.
I have less then a month left and it is gonna be a busy one. I have finals in 2 weeks and still have 7 papers left to write eeekk! I only have 2 finals that i have to study for tho so i'm ok with that. the week of finals shouldnt be too bad considering my 2 finals are thursday and friday. the fam is comin down including my dad's side for my brothers graduation on the 19th. I won't get to spend too much time with them since I have to close the building but I hope it wont be too bad...especially since that's when i'll get to meet my new sister-in-law!
So tomorrow I will have a new sister-in-law! Josh and Kolie are getting married, she's in the air force and in January she will be stationed in Norway. I'm excited for they and have no idea what to get the :-/ On the India note I have everything turned in and Malaria med's ordered. No I have to figure out what to pack and all that jazz. I cried about leaving for the first time on tuesday night starting at the staff meeting. We had a project our bosses gave us to create a clipboard for a secret person. Jackie (my floor partner and close friend from my freshman year) had me. She handed me my clipboard with pictures of all my friends and pictures of India on it and i just lost it. Later that night I lost it again in jims room and he tried really hard to make me feel better which was wonderful and my stubbornness just wasnt havin it, i just wanted to be miserable for a few hours.
I have less then a month left and it is gonna be a busy one. I have finals in 2 weeks and still have 7 papers left to write eeekk! I only have 2 finals that i have to study for tho so i'm ok with that. the week of finals shouldnt be too bad considering my 2 finals are thursday and friday. the fam is comin down including my dad's side for my brothers graduation on the 19th. I won't get to spend too much time with them since I have to close the building but I hope it wont be too bad...especially since that's when i'll get to meet my new sister-in-law!
Monday, November 23, 2009
Counting Down the Days
Hello all so the past week has me wiped out! I have gotten financial aid figured out, visa sent in to be stamped (hopefully not rejected), things faxed into aifs. I've also packed up most of my room and brought it home to put in the garage while i'm gone. Needless to say my room at school makes me sad there isnt much in it at all :-(
I have to week off for turkey day and gonna spend it doing homework and spending time with the family and Jim. He's this really great guy, he's in the marines and is graduating in may and then is going to officer candidate school for 3 months this summer where the only way to reach him will be in letters (nostalgic huh?). Ally and i are getting our cartilage pierced on wednesday at some point and that should be fun. She's not too happy with josh and i leaving the country at the same time.
oh yea he's getting married to a girl named kolie who we are meeting at his graduation on the 19th of december. she is in the airforce and will be stationed in norway. they are planning to get married at the court house december 4th.
I leave in 33 days and i'm kinda freakin out not gonna lie. Thats the day after christmas for those of you who dont want to do the math. My girls and residents and now Jim are all telling me they are going to tie me up and take me home with them so i cant leave. They all know its gonna be a great experience but that doesnt mean they want to share me. Plus i get back the 5th and school doesn't get out till the 14th...aka I will be down the week of finals to see you all and watch you graduate, or just to see you and hang out.
I have skype, facebook, aim, yahoo messenger, and msn messanger, along with 2 emails so if you want to talk to me there will be no lack of ways to communicate. Yes i will have internet i can't guarantee that it will be the best connection ever but at least i will be in a large city with internet. if you need any of my screen names or whatever just ask i will be happy to get it to you.
I have to week off for turkey day and gonna spend it doing homework and spending time with the family and Jim. He's this really great guy, he's in the marines and is graduating in may and then is going to officer candidate school for 3 months this summer where the only way to reach him will be in letters (nostalgic huh?). Ally and i are getting our cartilage pierced on wednesday at some point and that should be fun. She's not too happy with josh and i leaving the country at the same time.
oh yea he's getting married to a girl named kolie who we are meeting at his graduation on the 19th of december. she is in the airforce and will be stationed in norway. they are planning to get married at the court house december 4th.
I leave in 33 days and i'm kinda freakin out not gonna lie. Thats the day after christmas for those of you who dont want to do the math. My girls and residents and now Jim are all telling me they are going to tie me up and take me home with them so i cant leave. They all know its gonna be a great experience but that doesnt mean they want to share me. Plus i get back the 5th and school doesn't get out till the 14th...aka I will be down the week of finals to see you all and watch you graduate, or just to see you and hang out.
I have skype, facebook, aim, yahoo messenger, and msn messanger, along with 2 emails so if you want to talk to me there will be no lack of ways to communicate. Yes i will have internet i can't guarantee that it will be the best connection ever but at least i will be in a large city with internet. if you need any of my screen names or whatever just ask i will be happy to get it to you.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
I'M GOING TO INDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok so i thought i was done for the day but............ IM GOING TO INDIA OFFICIALLY AS OF TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm super excited! I have a whole new list of things to do but it's ok cuz i'm in that part is what's been causing me to be so stressed out..... I'm going, i'm going, i'm going !!! wooo!!!!!!!!!! hooooo!!!!
My residents are gonna be really upset with me oh no!!! i think i'm carrying my pocket knife with me near the end of the semester so if they try and tie me up i can get out :-P hahahahah just kidding they wouldn't really do that. I should celebrate...but im not exactly what's befitting of being accepted to go to india HMMMMMMM!
ok gonna go do something cuz i can't sit here and just chill now im excited!!!!!!
My residents are gonna be really upset with me oh no!!! i think i'm carrying my pocket knife with me near the end of the semester so if they try and tie me up i can get out :-P hahahahah just kidding they wouldn't really do that. I should celebrate...but im not exactly what's befitting of being accepted to go to india HMMMMMMM!
ok gonna go do something cuz i can't sit here and just chill now im excited!!!!!!
Cheesecake!
Hi again,
So I told my residents.... they weren't too happy with me. Two of them decided they were going to tie me up and bring me home with them so that I can't leave. Nancy decided she's gonna make a big sign saying "I'm her BFF and I've gotten over it.... so should you... she isn't leaving forever!" I got a chuckle out of that.
So sidenote, it is monique's birthday and nancy and I successfully made a cheesecake and sauce for it from scratch. It was amazing we had it at midnight when Monique and Nancy were working the desk. we had a great time baking all day! the kitchen in the building is open and we had a ton of fun yesterday.
I don't have any news yet on India from AIFS. I am going to talk to Tom tomorrow and give him everything I have so he can work on my financial aid. I leave in oh 10 weeks.... oh boy! I was asked yesterday by this kid in class who came and helped me make cupcakes...ha it was random but i had to make them and he was bored.... what im gonna do after graduation and i was like "ummm well either grad school or get a job, i have no idea honestly i'm tryin to get through the rest of this year and then i'll go from there.
ok i don't have anymore other then my rambling so that's it for now i'll write more later :-)
Ash
So I told my residents.... they weren't too happy with me. Two of them decided they were going to tie me up and bring me home with them so that I can't leave. Nancy decided she's gonna make a big sign saying "I'm her BFF and I've gotten over it.... so should you... she isn't leaving forever!" I got a chuckle out of that.
So sidenote, it is monique's birthday and nancy and I successfully made a cheesecake and sauce for it from scratch. It was amazing we had it at midnight when Monique and Nancy were working the desk. we had a great time baking all day! the kitchen in the building is open and we had a ton of fun yesterday.
I don't have any news yet on India from AIFS. I am going to talk to Tom tomorrow and give him everything I have so he can work on my financial aid. I leave in oh 10 weeks.... oh boy! I was asked yesterday by this kid in class who came and helped me make cupcakes...ha it was random but i had to make them and he was bored.... what im gonna do after graduation and i was like "ummm well either grad school or get a job, i have no idea honestly i'm tryin to get through the rest of this year and then i'll go from there.
ok i don't have anymore other then my rambling so that's it for now i'll write more later :-)
Ash
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Vaccinations, Application and Rambling
Hi all!
As my papi said earlier the little red checks marks are going down the list. I have everything turned in for the application it's now just a matter of waiting to hear back. I talked to a representative for AIFS and he said that everyone is accepted as long as they reach all the requirements, aka I'm in but I'm waiting on the official yes! I am sending in a scholarship application in the morning as well to help fund this trip.
I'm getting really excited and a little scared too. I don't know anyone and that's a little overwhelming at the moment. But it will be great I know it! It's hard to realize I won't be here next semester. I keep thinking oh it's ok Jackie and I are gonna do this next semester, or Nancy and I are gonna celebrate this next semester....and then I realize I won't be here. ( speaking of celebrating I love to watch peoples faces when I tell them I'll be celebrating my 21st in India and the drinking age is 25...they usually don't know what to say to me other then DAMN UR NUTS! I always respond... "i could pass up the opportunity for one night of drinking, or I could have a semester of great experiences and celebrate my birthday the way another country celebrates birthdays! sounds like a great trade off for me, especially since I can drink the rest of my life it's not like me missing my birthday in the states changes that I am legal"....and no people I'm not an alcoholic...but try and explain this to people in Carbondale and you have to get really creative) I have to come up with a way to tell my residents I won't be here all year, they are all telling me what they wanna do for the rest of the year and how we have all year to do xyz.... it's really hard to come up with words to tell them you won't always be there for them. (By the way I love my residents! they are always doing something off the wall and cracking me up... and who doesn't enjoy a good laugh?)
ok back to the India related stuff and not me rambling about anything and everything
I got vaccinations today and my arm is burning from them but at least I will be healthy while in India. I got a tetanus booster, a polio booster, and hepatitis A. I am also starting the oral vaccination for Typhoid tomorrow. I'm starting to feel really tired but that's to be expected with three vaccinations, I mean my body is trying really hard to recognize these foreign diseases. I will be getting the flu once the school gets another shipment, and I'm also going to get the H1N1. I wouldn't get the flu ones probably if i was staying in the states but Kim highly suggested I get them... so I will be a good student and listen. Dad is gonna help me out and call the insurance company to figure out if the medicine for malaria is covered under the insurance or not. If it's not I'll be taking the cheaper of the two medicines given for milaria and the side effects for the second one is like half a page.... but unlike most medicines this one's side effects aren't actually worse then what you would have so I would take it regardless. ( you all know what I'm talking about for things like allergy medicine... the side effects are like bulging eyes, pregnancy, swollen feet, and naseua, migraines (ok i'm being ridiculous but i think the side effects list usually list some of the funniest symptoms, which sometimes are worse then what you already have.))
I am still working on financial aid, I had to wait for the Study Abroad Fair to be over so that Tom would have time to sit down and work through the numbers.
Oh and dates if I haven't already stated them for ya'll
I leave December 26th
A 6 day tourist trip and then I'll be in Hyderabad
Then I come home May 5th
I hope to make a trip to Carbondale the week of the 10th or sometime during that week.
I dont think I can handle my friends graduating and me not being here for it! Sorry Fam!
you have the rest of the summer with me, you can spare me for a week I have faith you'll
live.
Disclaimer: from here on out I's probably won't be capitalized and beginning of sentences may not be either, i have a hard time remembering and it just makes more sense for me to apologize to those of you it may bother... i can't help it... at least i'm spelling words out... and correctly thanks to spell check :-) Oh and if i swear i'm not trying to offend you i just do it sometimes, and i think there are times where a swear shows the intensity of how you are feeling and other words don't do that feeling justice (sorry dad i know you disagree)
As my papi said earlier the little red checks marks are going down the list. I have everything turned in for the application it's now just a matter of waiting to hear back. I talked to a representative for AIFS and he said that everyone is accepted as long as they reach all the requirements, aka I'm in but I'm waiting on the official yes! I am sending in a scholarship application in the morning as well to help fund this trip.
I'm getting really excited and a little scared too. I don't know anyone and that's a little overwhelming at the moment. But it will be great I know it! It's hard to realize I won't be here next semester. I keep thinking oh it's ok Jackie and I are gonna do this next semester, or Nancy and I are gonna celebrate this next semester....and then I realize I won't be here. ( speaking of celebrating I love to watch peoples faces when I tell them I'll be celebrating my 21st in India and the drinking age is 25...they usually don't know what to say to me other then DAMN UR NUTS! I always respond... "i could pass up the opportunity for one night of drinking, or I could have a semester of great experiences and celebrate my birthday the way another country celebrates birthdays! sounds like a great trade off for me, especially since I can drink the rest of my life it's not like me missing my birthday in the states changes that I am legal"....and no people I'm not an alcoholic...but try and explain this to people in Carbondale and you have to get really creative) I have to come up with a way to tell my residents I won't be here all year, they are all telling me what they wanna do for the rest of the year and how we have all year to do xyz.... it's really hard to come up with words to tell them you won't always be there for them. (By the way I love my residents! they are always doing something off the wall and cracking me up... and who doesn't enjoy a good laugh?)
ok back to the India related stuff and not me rambling about anything and everything
I got vaccinations today and my arm is burning from them but at least I will be healthy while in India. I got a tetanus booster, a polio booster, and hepatitis A. I am also starting the oral vaccination for Typhoid tomorrow. I'm starting to feel really tired but that's to be expected with three vaccinations, I mean my body is trying really hard to recognize these foreign diseases. I will be getting the flu once the school gets another shipment, and I'm also going to get the H1N1. I wouldn't get the flu ones probably if i was staying in the states but Kim highly suggested I get them... so I will be a good student and listen. Dad is gonna help me out and call the insurance company to figure out if the medicine for malaria is covered under the insurance or not. If it's not I'll be taking the cheaper of the two medicines given for milaria and the side effects for the second one is like half a page.... but unlike most medicines this one's side effects aren't actually worse then what you would have so I would take it regardless. ( you all know what I'm talking about for things like allergy medicine... the side effects are like bulging eyes, pregnancy, swollen feet, and naseua, migraines (ok i'm being ridiculous but i think the side effects list usually list some of the funniest symptoms, which sometimes are worse then what you already have.))
I am still working on financial aid, I had to wait for the Study Abroad Fair to be over so that Tom would have time to sit down and work through the numbers.
Oh and dates if I haven't already stated them for ya'll
I leave December 26th
A 6 day tourist trip and then I'll be in Hyderabad
Then I come home May 5th
I hope to make a trip to Carbondale the week of the 10th or sometime during that week.
I dont think I can handle my friends graduating and me not being here for it! Sorry Fam!
you have the rest of the summer with me, you can spare me for a week I have faith you'll
live.
Disclaimer: from here on out I's probably won't be capitalized and beginning of sentences may not be either, i have a hard time remembering and it just makes more sense for me to apologize to those of you it may bother... i can't help it... at least i'm spelling words out... and correctly thanks to spell check :-) Oh and if i swear i'm not trying to offend you i just do it sometimes, and i think there are times where a swear shows the intensity of how you are feeling and other words don't do that feeling justice (sorry dad i know you disagree)
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Hey all,
Workin slowly but surely on this application. It's near completion and I'm working on the SIU side of everything..aka trying to weasel answers out of bursar and financial aid offices. I have an apointment on the 14th or September with the travel nurse in the health center so she can tell me what they need to stick me with.
I think I am gonna get the H1N1 vaccine before then cuz I'd rather not get that, from experience me and viruses don't get along and I'd rather not mess with that again. All my classes are a ton of reading, come to find out the reason behind that is the oink oinks (aka swine flu) so that if the school has to go on lock down classes can be run through the internet. I'm workin a ton too we have a new programing model and it's killin me I'm always workin on somethin and my friends all think I'm avoiding them, which I'm not people so don't be offended if I can't chill.
I am on the search for scholarships so if you have an ideas on that I'd appreciate the ideas. I did take a few days off this weekend my friend Marrissa was in town and i hung out with her. Sunday I took a day trip with Amanda to meet Shannon and we went apple picking and to see All About Steve, great movie you should all see! and Monday I read way way way too much for classes.
I also meet a few new people this weekend and a some of them are cool and I hope will be great new friends and then some of them can hit the road cuz I dont put up with jerks or extremely racist people...they get on my nerves and make me want to punch them...and I would prefer not to get arrested. I just think its probably a good idea lol
Ok now as you see my brain has gotten to ramble mode and is goin absolutly nowhere productive so I'm gonna be done for now and write when I have more to say
Workin slowly but surely on this application. It's near completion and I'm working on the SIU side of everything..aka trying to weasel answers out of bursar and financial aid offices. I have an apointment on the 14th or September with the travel nurse in the health center so she can tell me what they need to stick me with.
I think I am gonna get the H1N1 vaccine before then cuz I'd rather not get that, from experience me and viruses don't get along and I'd rather not mess with that again. All my classes are a ton of reading, come to find out the reason behind that is the oink oinks (aka swine flu) so that if the school has to go on lock down classes can be run through the internet. I'm workin a ton too we have a new programing model and it's killin me I'm always workin on somethin and my friends all think I'm avoiding them, which I'm not people so don't be offended if I can't chill.
I am on the search for scholarships so if you have an ideas on that I'd appreciate the ideas. I did take a few days off this weekend my friend Marrissa was in town and i hung out with her. Sunday I took a day trip with Amanda to meet Shannon and we went apple picking and to see All About Steve, great movie you should all see! and Monday I read way way way too much for classes.
I also meet a few new people this weekend and a some of them are cool and I hope will be great new friends and then some of them can hit the road cuz I dont put up with jerks or extremely racist people...they get on my nerves and make me want to punch them...and I would prefer not to get arrested. I just think its probably a good idea lol
Ok now as you see my brain has gotten to ramble mode and is goin absolutly nowhere productive so I'm gonna be done for now and write when I have more to say
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