I've been having such a good week or however long I've been here. It feels like eternity. Right now it doesn't feel like college yet, just more like summer camp. There's been a lot of stuff going on for orientation and like a welcome back to campus sort of thing.
Today there was a huge tie dying party with free pizza, starbucks, soda, and all these other things that were just plain neat. I went over to this group of people and started talking to them (turns out they were upperclas
smen, too!) and they invited me to come with them to a
rootbeer kegger that's apparently going on later in one of the park places.
It seems like there's always something going on, its so much fun!
This morning I went to this extremely wonderful farmer's market with my RA and a few girls. I really like the RA. She's doing this "challege" where she only eats locally grown food for a month which is really cool. I've somewhat befriended a lot of the people from my hall so far but I think the one I have the most in common with is a girl
named Casey from Minnesota.
She is from Minnesota too but she moved here from Scotland when she was 10 or so so she has a really awesome accent.
We met on Friday standing in line for a free picnic like thing.
Friday was also amazing.
We had meetings first with our all freshman class and then within our major's department. Since I'm majoring in psychology, I was obviously with all the psych kids and professors.
They talked about a lot of stuff and one of the things that came up was this opportunity to work with Autistic kids through a behavior analysis emphasis. In order to be chosen for the internship, there are a lot of prerequisites and you have to basically ace all the classes and have a really good GPA and be on really good terms with all the professors. I want to work with that program so badly. I can't even begin how to imagine how amazing that work would be. The unversity runs a progra
m where parents of Autistic kids ages ranging from 1.5-4 to come in and learn things like communication and coloring and things like that.
I really want to be in that program. It would be such a wonderful experience, I'm sure of it.
I know if I work really really hard I can do it. I'm passionate enough about it to do the work and get it done.
I feel like this is something I have to do in order to be fully happy or whatnot. I don't really know how to explain it, but I want it so bad. I have a lot of plans for after college and even though that's in what see
ms like a long time, I know working with this program will only help me get where I want to be and do what I want to do.
I'm so in love with this town as well. There's a local theater putting on an actual stage production of Rocky Horror, callbacks and thing-throwing and all. I'm going. There's also a really big bohemian part of town and a store that has henna parties every new moon.
These next years are
going to be wonderful.
At the farmer's market this morning I bought some beautiful flowers and put them in cut up water bottles in my dorm.
I love it.
1 comment:
it makes me really happy to hear that you're having a good time in Eau Claire.
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