COBBlog

Wow! Well, it was a whirl-wind of a summer, and now its back into the swing of things at Concordia. I must admit that I neglected my dear blog for the whole summer and even these first two weeks that I’ve been back. But never fear, I’ll be here - for the rest of the year! I think its about time to let everyone in on my summer.

First of all, I started working at a restaurant as a waitress, hostess, and busser. About a month into it I couldn’t take the ridiculously long and tiring hours - so I quite. However, I landed an amazing job at Baskin Robbins as a cake decorator and assistant manager, which was a ton of fun. In addition to my amazing cake fun, I got to spend a lot of time with my boyfriend (he lives in Colorado), and was suprised half-way through the summer with a marraige proposal - and I did say yes! Then come mid-August it was time to hit the books again and head back up to Cobberville for my senior year.

This academic year has been rockin’ so far - and I literally mean rockin’. (more…)

The start of a new year is always so eventful!

My year started with orientation. I have to say I had an amazing time. I sure was tired at the end of the week and ready for yet another vacation but getting to know fifteen freshmen who are outgoing and crazy definitely means some good times. I loved hanging out with new people for four days and not having to worry about any homework.

I’ve been keeping myself busy this year. I figured I had to try out new things this year or else it would be the ‘now or never situation’. So I decided to take organic chemistry and I like to call “OH CHEM”!!!! It’s a hard class but I like the stuff we’re learning. Sometimes I wonder if I’m crazy to put myself through all of that pressure but then I kinda need the class to get into medical school . I took my first test yesterday and I’m not even sure how I feel about it. Hopefully it went well.

I joined the Campus Service Commission- CSC and I am the program director for Churches United for the Homeless. It’s a good feeling when you know that you have helped someone by doing something as simple as sorting through clothes or helping to keep the facility clean! (more…)

When I was in elementary school, I was afraid to go to bed because of the monsters under my bed. When I was in high school, I was afraid to go to bed because I did not know if my outfit the next day would be trendy enough.

Now that I am in college, I am afraid to go to bed because I know that when I wake up I will only have gotten about four hours of sleep and I am uncertain that I will have enough coffee to make it through the day. But in the end I would not have it any other way.

Being in my senior year, there are a lot of decisions that I am having to make and there are a lot of practicum hours that I am needing to complete and it honestly is really, really tiring. It is hard. But if I was not tired, and if it was not hard, I also feel that I would be wasting my time and not making the most of the opportunities that God has given me.

As the school year is really starting to get into full swing and assignments are coming out, I am trying to balance classes while also taking a practicum with Pre-school age children. I was kind of nervous before hand, just as all new situations can make one apprehensive, for you might not know what to expect.

But today I realized that all of the 140 hours that I am going to do this semester, I know I am going to enjoy every second that I am given with those little bundles of joy. There is something so sweet about a young child who just wants to be loved. (more…)

When I finished summer school the last week in June, I was so excited to go home and do absolutely nothing academic for an extended period of time. I know this is going to sound odd, but I grew bored of doing nothing intellectually stimulating.

To sum up the last two months of my life, I watched lots of the E! Entertainment network and I worked at Subway while I house sat for my parents.

A sidenote about how to treat fast food workers, we have feelings too. If you wouldn’t saw it to or in front of your conservative, little, old, Lutheran granny, don’t say it to us.

Come late August, I was more than ready to move back to Concordia for classes and also to be an Orientation Leader. Being an Orientation Leader (OL) was truly one of the most awesome things I have ever done.

As an OL, I underwent an intensive three day training session which included learning how to positively interact with a new group of people who are in a new setting, a rocking dance routine, and many things about who I am.

Besides the awesome-tastic OL dance (one move is pictured above with my co-leader Kera Halvorson), I met so many wonderful new people that I might not have ever met. CLUB 21, I LOVE YOU MORE THAN I CAN EXPRESS IN THIS SHORT BLOG! (more…)