HIP HIP HORAAAYYY

I was just recently accepted into the Student Ambassador Program here at Davidson County Community College. I must add that this is probably one of the highest honors I have ever received, besides winning the DARE essay contest in the fifth grade. There are a lot of guidelines and requirements to keep the roll as a Student Ambassador. You must keep a GPA of 3.0 or higher and complete a certain number of community service hours per semester. They also take potential students around campus and give tours and show them what Davidson County Community College is all about. I am actually going along on a tour coming up sometime this month with a Ambassador that has been in the program a little longer than I have to get a feel for what they really do and say when they are touring. I also helped out with FAFSA day that was held in the library. I was so surprised at everything I learned personally from being up there and answering other peoples questions. This was the first time that I had met any of the other Ambassadors and I really felt welcomed. I hope I can maintain all the guidelines and hold myself up to this standard

BRRR

Who likes work? I know I sure don’t. I don’t do anything at work but sit here and freeze my you know what off and watch old woman work out anyways. I am all the time doing computer work because my boss is computer illiterate, which is what I am for. But that’s not my point. I work at CURVES. It is an all woman’s health and fitness center. Instead of lifting dead weights you use hydraulic machines. It is pretty cool and it does actually work but no matter the type of workout you are supposed to work up some kind of sweat. Not in this environment. It stays sixty degrees in here at all time. My nosey is constantly running and my hands are so numb that I can barely feel the keys beneath my fingers. I used to turn up and down the heat and adjust it to wherever I was most comfortable in here which was usually like 70 but then the old ladies would complain. That’s not the major part though, my boss’s bill was $130 dollars over the normal rate. So now there is a sign above the thermostat stating to ALL staff: please do not touch.

Bumb In The Road...

More like a bump in my TIRE. Ok so my morning started off a little unusual and when I said unusual I mean it in a bad way. I was late for class this morning because eight doe about ran out in front of me on the way to school. That scared me but I must say they were beautiful. They reminded me of little Bambi’s. When I got to school, I was 10 minutes late and my teacher had already locked the door so I had to knock. I hated that because I hate when everyone stares and you and probably thinks… “I wonder why she is late”. Not to mention, I still do not have my book for this class because its so expensive and last class we were specifically told not to come if we weren’t going to bring our textbook, but I made sure to take really good notes. Then I got home from class and noticed my CD case that I haven’t picked up in forever and decided to grab it on my way to work so I could listen to some good old music. Well I was jamming my whole way up to work. I work in Winston so it is about a 35 minute drive. The more I love the music the more pumped I get and the harder my foot presses down on that gas peddle. I have a speeding problem anyway. I went around a curve and ran up on the curb. I was still just singing along in my head trying to forget it even happened but my car started driving funny. I was only like 5 minutes away from work though so I kept driving. I got to work and got out and my tire looks like it has a big zit waiting to be popped. So I called my dad and she said that I had busted a thread or tread or something in my tire and it is going to have to be replaced… GREAT, just MY luck!

Valentine's Day!

Valentine’s Day, a National holiday of LOVE… seriously? I wonder who came up with this and where it originated from. I know I probably learned this in elementary school or something but it just seems like there is no significant meaning behind it. Of course, you get good presents and a reason to be romantic but if you don’t have someone to spend it with or someone to look forward to doing something for then it is seriously pointless. I thought my Valentine’s Day was going to suck this year but I was fortunate enough to have the best Valentine’s Day I have ever had. I really learned what it was like to appreciate the small things and the importance of love. I also did my very first romantic thing EVER for someone. I was really nervous because it was really corny and I didn’t know what the reaction would be… it was beautiful. I loved seeing the smile and appreciation of what I did. It was definitely worth it and I think it earned me some brownie points. I mean extra stuff that I did isn’t the only way to show someone you love them, because it was really cliché what I did but I personalized it and made it different in it’s own little ways to make it more special.

We're on a mission!

So Caitlin and I woke up at 11:00am, the earliest we have EVER woke up while staying together. We pulled back the curtains, looked outside, and everything was heavenly white. Excitement ran through us and then disappointment because we realized that while we were at Wal-Mart the night before we forgot to get stuff to eat for lunch. We were starving. She looked at me and I looked back and her and I said “let’s do it”. She has a mustang and the last time it snowed, we got stuck. Her mom’s car got stuck last time too, so it was up to my car. I have a Jetta. It is a pretty good car but definitely doesn’t have any high tech 4-wheel drive or anything like that. I can also recall speaking to my dad over the telephone saying “of course I won’t take the car out in this weather, I am more responsible than that”, but I pushed that to the back of my mind because my hunger came first! My car had no problem on the snow and ice. She was a champ. While we were out we decided that we should go look for a sled so we could have some fun. We were on a mission, determined to find one. Everywhere we went was completely sold out of sleds. This included Wal-Mart which has EVERYTHING, and the Tractor Supply. A nice old man told us about a privately owned hardware store that still had some in stock but told us to hurry. So we got in my car and scurried on down the road. We made it there in time, we got a green and an orange sled plus two pair of gloves we thought would not get wet and would keep us warm. After ringing all this up and $55 dollars later we headed back to Wal-Mart, making it like the 3rd trip in two days. We looked for snow boots, of course they were all out so we improvised and got some really ugly boots that you wear on normal occasions ( I don’t know who would actually wear them to go out). We both got a pair of long johns to go under out clothes and some other things. $60 more dollars later we were to enjoy the snow.

LET IT SNOW!!!

I was on my way up to Winston to stay with a friend on Friday afternoon. I knew they were calling for snow. I heard reports of it snowing in some of the surrounding areas but by the time I left it still wasn’t snowing in Lexington. The more I crept up on the city of Winston Salem the more and more it looked like snow. As soon as I hit a certain point on Hwy 52 the snow just started pouring down instantly. Everything was already getting covered. I looked around and all I saw was white. This was about the time I reached Winston Salem State and down town Winston but where I was going was a little further. At this point I knew I was going to be snowed in all weekend with my friend Caitlin. I was panicking because the snow was accumulating fast. I was texting her while she was at work telling her the first thing we needed to do was go to Wal-Mart to get some groceries because if I was going to be snowed in all weekend, I was going to eat! She kind of just shook it off like it wasn’t a big deal and there was no need to be in a hurry. So I asked her “HAVEN’T YOU LOOKED OUTSIDE, IT’S COVERED” she replied “it’s only tiny flakes here”. There was no possible way that it was snowing in this certain spot I was at right now and just five to ten minutes up the road it was barely doing anything. Sure enough when I got to her house, nothing was even falling from the sky. It didn’t even start snowing here until 8pm that night. We seriously thought we were getting gypped and it was going to skip up. So we took our time, went out to eat and fiddled around at Wal-Mart for while. We walked out, bags in hand, ready to leave, not expecting any snow… and the whole parking lot was covered. You could barely see an inch in front of your face because the flakes were coming down so hard. It looked like confetti at a party getting thrown out of airplanes on to everything below. The next morning we woke up to about eight inches of pure powdery snow!

Appreciate the small things...

Friday is my day off. I have no school, no work, and no nothing. However, I did wait till the last minute to do an assignment that was due on the following Monday for my Southern Culture class. I had to interview a person 65 years or older that grew up on a farm. I asked questions about their lifestyle and how things have evolved since then. I interviewed my mom’s boss. He is 73 years old and grew up on a 60 acre farm as a little boy. I thought 60 acres was a lot of land. This had to mean that he came from one of the few families that grew up wealthy back then, but he said they grew up poor. I found that surprising because anyone these days that owns that much land must have a substantial amount of money. I also found it interesting that they were completely self-sufficient. They grew their own food, did everything by hand, and made their own clothes, even their own soap. The only thing that they bought from a store was salt, sugar, and coffee. I could not imagine living back then especially being familiar with the way things work today. The last question which I thought was the most important was if he thought that the lifestyle back then was better than the one he was living in now. He said he preferred today over the old days because everything is more convenient, but he did make it a point to say that he misses the way the people came together back when he was growing up. He thinks that everyone should appreciate the privileges that we have available for us today.