October in a nutshell

Alright. I realize that it has been almost an entire month since I have blogged and for that I apologize profusely. This month (semester for that matter) has been super busy! I have been studying like crazy for almost all of my classes trying to pull good grades because this is the "important" year. Mmhm...so here is a list of a few things that have been going on.

First of all, midterms are finally finished! And I didn't do too bad on them either. Now it's time for an exam every week until Thanksgiving which means that...finals are coming up. Actually classes have been going really well this semester. My psychology class is super interesting even though it is very biology based and it's probably not a field that I will be going into. My Spanish grammar class is giving me fits all the time, but that has more to do with the instructor than the subject matter. I still love Spanish which brings me to...

Meeting with my advisers last week. My meeting with my psychology adviser was actually really great! I am looking forward to next semester, only one required psych class and the rest are up to me. Yay! My Spanish advising appointment was iffy. The study abroad programs at Purdue are awesome but EXPENSIVE mostly because the Spanish department doesn't have any direct exchange programs. Right now it looks like I will try to do a May-mester abroad next school year.

Along with all this Spanish stuff, there is a strong possibility that I will be going on a mission trip to Guatemala this summer. My church (Christian Campus House at Purdue) here on campus is teaming up with Literary Evangelism International to teach English as a second language and Spanish Literacy!!! I have always wanted to be involved in a program like this and I feel like it's something God is calling me to do. It's just an 11 day program in May but I think it will be a great experience. Plus it will be great getting to know more people from my church here.

Lastly, it's Halloween weekend! Friday night I went to a party with some friends of mine from the Wesley Foundation. I dressed up as a poker chip...hee hee! It was a lot of good safe fun. Last night we had some trick or treaters come from the area. Okay, there were only 8 kids but they  were so cute! And it was fun to be able to pass out candy to them.

Today my parents came down to visit since I haven't seen them in forever! We went out to lunch and did some shopping at Super Target :) Since dinner isn't served on Sunday nights we made a stop at Bruno's. Oh my goodness. Bruno's dough is positively fantastic! It was nice to hang out with them and hear what is going on in the hometown. I can't wait to go home for Thanksgiving and see my brother, sister, and not as fat cat.

Time to study some Spanish....but more frequent blog posts from here on out!

Stars, Leaves, etc.

I've been told that people are tired of logging on to my blog and constantly seeing the post "bad days." My apologies. I realize that I haven't blogged in a while and that seeing a depressing blog post may bring down your day. I am attempting to remedy the situation.

Sunday night I was laying outside looking at the stars. Now, stars are pretty cool in of themselves. And I do enjoy stargazing when I get a chance (which can be difficult with all of the light pollution and such). But even cooler than stars is meteors! How can one not appreciate them? They are so unexpected and so beautiful. If you blink, you will miss it. So that was pretty neat.

Second, it is really starting to become fall weather around here. The leaves are finally falling and they are such beautiful colors! I love walking across leaves and hearing them crunch. And the cooler weather is definitely a nice change from this summer's heat.

Exams start back up next week...woo hoo!