Back at Concordia!
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!
My clubbies were such a cool, dynamic group. I can safely say, my club would beat everyone else’s… hands down! For old time’s sake, AHHH KELLY CLARKSON! Sorry, that was tangential.
There are so many other great people I met, but the one I have to highlight most is my club co-leader Kera Halvorson! This girl is seriously amazing. She took a year off after high school to study art in Norway. She is bilingual! I love it! We also have the same uncomfortably awkward and devious sense of humor. By the end of Orientation, we didn’t need to use words to communicate; all we needed were fleeting glances. These glances packed a powerful blow of either approval or “What’s that crazy kid doing? No really, is that necessary?” It was creepy but in a brilliant way, phenomenal to say the least!