Camp is also next week! Soooo stoked! I love little freshies. And Ashley, Cakelin and S-rod. Hopefully my shoulder continues to do better. My new PT is AHHHMAZING. I thought she was one of those really awkward types at first, which I think she is a bit, but once you getting her talking about physical therapy, she just can't stop! It's really evident why my last PT didn't work out; she had NO idea what she was doing. Michelle told me that bands are not going to help my injury at all. No wonder I got so frustrated!
I am having a really good summer, much better than I ever could have hoped but I cannot help but be excited out of my mind for school!!!! I got all my classes, FINALLY.
Intro to Com Studies
I decided on German so that hopefully I can do the full year in Austria next year. It's super intense that it would be so soon and for a whole year but it's so amazing I just can't pass it up! I'm also incredibly stoked on the Honors Colloquim. The more I hear about it, the more excited I get. The Food Sustainibility course is actually for that first week that we're all there before everyon else gets there and from what I've been given so far it's a lot like Food Fast as far as the awareness aspect. We're going to go to farmer's markets and grocery stores and museums and really look into diet and buget for food around the world. I'm a little worried about the summer assignment, tracking everything you eat and how much it costs down to the teaspoon of sugar in your tea because my parents aren't the best cooks nor the most cooperative and I have to give a presentation on it the day I move into the dorms. Nothing like diving head first. I really love the text that goes with the course so far though and I may look a little more into Wendell Barry and some other background resources just to be a little more well versed.It all just feels so right. This is where I belong. I felt it when I was there. The social justice, the service, the people, EVERYTHING. I'm so glad I didn't let me convince myself into Santa Clara. I would have regretted it and I have no tolerance for regret. It is a wasted emotion; time moves on and it does absolutely no good to wish to change something that cannot be changed and I never want to look back and say "I wish" or "if only". You only get one shot at life, one time to go to high school, one time to go to college, one chance to do everything you every dreamed and you're never gaurunteed any moment past the present so you have to do your absolute best in the here and now and when the time comes you won't regret it. I know I don't. Yes, some unfortunate things happened, but they followed naturally from previous events and seemed the best that could be done at the time and therefore I don't regret them. This attitude has payed me the greatest dividends, well evidenced by the fact that I was chosen as valedictorian even though I didn't have the highest GPA. People recognize that I am passionate and it has earned me respect. I almost laugh to think that the person who most opposed my push-the-envelope attitude was Helen. I know there will be more people like her, people who want to settle for the ordinary and accomplish to get done, yet I know who I am and where I'm going and I'm grateful that it is nothing like the way the rest are going. I've got more waiting and I plan to milk it for everything it's worth.
Here's to life. And to love.
