Hello, my lovely public! :*
I love everyone SO much that it’s probably not healthy for my own good. :p
I apologize for no blogging more often, it really is a therapeutic time for me. . . . I’ve just been so very busy with school and PCM and home and PCM and cooking and school and making new friends and PCM and keeping old friends and baking and school . . . :p
Something that I have rediscovered in these last few weeks is how much I love to serve others. I have been getting pretty close with a girl that is in my french classes (and will be going to Europe around the same time as me for classes in Lille, France ) and we have been planning all sorts of fun stuff that we’re going to do together in Europe! 😀
Oh my goodness!! I absolutely cannot wait! 😀 ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
I have been doing bucketloads of homework (unsurprisingly . . . . .I mean, I AM still a college student) and I’ve been going to classes and all of the things that I mentioned above. Oh my, it’s been ages since I posted last. 
I’ll be getting an A or A+ in my Languages and Cultures class, something like a high C to a low A in both/either of my French (target language) courses.
Oh my. . I don’t even know what to talk about next! Maybe I should talk about this summer )other than my studies abroad). Are you all interested? . . Haha. I’m so bored that I’m having my own conversation with people that I mostly don’t really know. :p . . . . .
This summer here are my plans (pretty much all of them); once the semester ends on Wednesday of next week (is this really happening?) I am going to hangout downtown for a bit, I’ll give my résumé to the local café that I want to eventually be employed at on a full-time basis. I hope to have my résumé done by Thursday before I go home in the evening.
The end of this semester is a little crazy because I am moving back home and I’m trying to mentally check things off of my to-do list for England/France/wherever else I visit in Europe.
My mom has a friend from High School who lives in our town that somehow managed to get my airfare for only $1,100.00! Seeing as how the trip is in just a few days (less than 30) I am SO impressed by her friend’s travel agency!
Woah. I’ll be in England in less than 30 days. 😀 .. . . Excitement alone doesn’t even begin to cover what I’m feeling right now. ❤ I can’t wait to meet new friends, visit old friends and hopefully (thought it is a bit unlikely) set up a full or part time job for after I finish my degree. Oh my goodness, the world is my oyster and I just have to decide whether I want to open it up, or stay here and wait until I pay off my debt and accumulate enough money to start ‘the rest of my life’ in a better place. Either way, life looks pretty good for me. I’m relatively well educated, I have the best family and friends available to the world and I don’t have TOO, too much debt dragging me down. Though it is true that I have been through quite a bit of struggle in my life, it is also true that I refuse to let the past ruin my present or mess up my future in any avoidable way. (See About Me/Sur Moi for more details.)
This semester, my last undergraduate spring semester, is bittersweet for me. I have sincerely loved being a college student, but I will be so happy to feel the stress of work and actual bills rather than the pressure of assignments/essays and school in general.
As my previous writings have kind of alluded, I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do with my life, I just know that I am going to spend the rest of my life loving and serving others in the name of God, my Creator, Savior and Protector. I just hope that I can do that while working at a job that I love doing.
But really, who wants a recent graduate that has a degree in French Languages and Cultures? What kind of value would that have in the real world? Since I was wondering, I looked it up on Google, and I found a list of about forty different jobs that I might be able to do in several different arenas including hospitality, communications and business. French, along with English, Spanish and Chinese (solely because of the immense population in China) is one of the most prevalent languages in the business world.
I can literally go to any inhabited continent and relatively easily find a place where my bilingual ability would be highly cherished. Of course, language has become sort of an addiction for me and I now want to learn about 20 more, but I feel that I have a ‘leg up’ on many other people because of my ability to comprehend, communicate and even speak (a little) and write in more than one language. Being able to speak more than one language is such a wonderful quality to have. The ability to speak another language actually ignites more brain cells and helps the brain to grow in capability to do more things. Like exercise, speaking/learning another language is good for your brain and improves your mental capacity to learn more languages and it actually improves ability in just about any other mental task. It improves problem solving skills, allows seamless communication with other people and cultures.
The weekend before finals, spent at my family’s house has been one of great productions. I’ve purchased tickets to England, and Brussels, I’ve gotten a brand new debit card and I’ve gotten to hangout with my parents and little siblings. 🙂 Oh, plus my family’s puppies! I love pups so much! :*
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