career beginnings

this semester i am interning with a program called career beginnings. they work with high school students in the hartford area through the college process. they work with students who have decided that they want to be college bound and career beginnings helps them with finding a school, writing essays and resumes, filling out applications, finical aid applications, and sending in their final transcripts and applications. the kids that i see on a daily basis are just awesome. they have great passionate stories to tell for their essays, they are very motivated to come to talk to us and find out what the next step is, and they listen so well and usually get their work done on time. i've had so much fun with this internship it's making me wonder if i should take the guidance counselor/college prep counselor route...... some of these kids really have it tough and some of them are really lacking with writing skills. they usually don't have very good SAT scores, but here they are trying to go to college, some of them are first generation going to college. but they truly are great kids with great stories to tell.

lazy river

i got to go home this weekend for the first time since school started. i wasn't homesick but i was really ready to head home and relax. i got a little sick too so being at home has been just the remedy i needed. i've seen some friends, hung out with my parents, ate great food, done some shopping, i couldn't have asked for a better weekend! today is my last day to enjoy and then it's back to school, back to the books.

also, happy belated birthday to my sister elizabeth. 10 10 10!!!!!

gleeked out for the wire!

last year my show was lost. some how i was able to get through all 6 seasons relatively quickly. this year i have two favorite shows: glee and the wire. in case you didn't know, i LOVE singing and dancing and musicals and such. so my friend was like omg why have you never seen glee?!?!! so i watched the season 2 premiere and feel in love! then i was determined to watch the entire season 1 before the next ep. i would just like to say that i successfully watched 22, hour long eps of glee in one week. pretty cool. when do i do homework? i find ways! also, there's a class here called viewing the wire and it's all about this show called the wire and deals with the urban background of the show. i wasn't able to get into the class but my roommate is in and in the spirit of things she bought all 5 seasons on dvd. so i took a little hiatus when i was watching glee but now i'm back to watching the wire again. it's a very realistic cop show dealing with the narcotics unit. very cool. so if you've never watched either, i suggest it!

going for the bakers dozen

i know it only says 11 but i swear it's 12 i just couldn't find a picture!

fun little fact about trinity: our men's squash team has won the national (national!) championship 12 years in a row! not only that, but they haven't even lost a single match in 12 years! unbelievable!! and for those of you who know about sports being divided up into divisions, trinity is a d3 college, however since there are so few squash teams in the nation, they are all at a d1 level. overall, our men's squash team is the bomb. our women's squash team also usually falls within the top three teams in the nation every year. where am i going with this? well as a senior at trinity, i've never played squash, i don't know the rules, and when i watch the matches i usually have no idea what's going on. this semester i decided to change things up, so i joined a squash class at my school (and it's for credit, how cool!). it's AWESOME! i've had three days of it so far and i love being out there. it's so different from any other sport: it's totally contained, you stand directly next to your opponent, and really it's just awesome. even when the class is over i hope i play all the time. it's a great sport to get into and as long as there are facilities around you it's a sport that you can play for a LONG time after college. anyone game?

the beginning of the end

today is the last first day at trinity i'll ever have. kinda of sad and kinda of cool. i'm not really excited about starting school work but it's nice to be around campus and see people that i haven't seen in a while. i'm living in the same apartment as i did last semester with the same people so it's nice to be really settled in now to our apartment. i have an internship this fall working with high school kids through the college process, so that will keep me busy. and softball training will start most likely the beginning of next week. so i have a lot to look forward to and a lot of time to enjoy senior year!

love means nothing in tennis

fish serving

for the first time ever my mom and i went to the us open last week. we had a GREAT day. we started early and were able to get to the open before people were even allowed in. it was a nice sunny day and EXTREMELY hot. we were sweating all day. we got to walk around the grounds, see 5 americans (fish, oudin, dent, byron, blake) play, and we even got to see sharapova practicing and jimmy connors and martina nav-i don't know how to spell her last name- were hitting balls some balls. it was a great day and we had a lot of fun! we definitely can see another us open trip in our future.

on the road again.....

august is just flying by!!! i've been on a number of vacations which is making the time super fun, i think that's why it's going by so quickly. it started with a road trip to boston to visit a few of the softball girls. lots of fun. i got to meet some of their friends from home, spend time with some of their families that i know, and i got to spend some time at one of the girls beach houses. it was awesome to see them. esp since one of the girls is now graduated. my second road trip was a little longer....this time to south carolina! quite long, about 12 hours from my house. this trip was with all people that i met abroad, two of them i haven't seen since i got back! so my friend from rochester drove 5.5 hours to get me, we drove 3 hours to dc to pick up another friend and then we drove 9 hours to mount pleasant, south carolina (it's about 15 minutes from charleston). we went on a boat, we played in the ocean, we soaked in the history of south carolina, we walked around charleston, and spent a lot of time getting to my friends family who we were staying with. it was sooooo great to see these friends as they live a little farther away. but the fun wasn't over yet. once i got back i had two days before going upstate new york with some of the family. we did the usual, went hiking, fishing, boating, rummi royale playing, quading, smore making, tons of reading, and spending quality time with my frampa. it was a great way to end my vacations for the summer. august is half way through and i only have three more weeks before i go back to school but there are still a ton of fun things to come!!