All done 😟☺️ – What’s next?

Hello, beautiful people. 💋💋💋

I’m laying here, all packed up, waiting until it’s time to go to the farewell dinner with the rest of the group. 

I don’t want to go to the dinner because I am having a really hard time accepting that tonight is my last night in France. 😥

Well, last night in France on THIS trip. I sincerely intend to move to Ireland as soon as I can, and I’m positive that I will be traveling all around Europe and the rest of the world once I’m a citizen of the lovely land of my favorite type of people in the world, the Irish. 😘☘

When I tell people that, the first question I get is “What kind of job do you think you’ll get in Ireland?” So, I’ll cut the conversation short and answer it in this post. 😉

Well, the answer is that I don’t care. I think I’ll get the kind of job that pays my rent/mortgage and utilities with enough extra to save up for a yearly voyage to another place in Europe/the world. I am very passionate about helping others, providing for others, cooking and/or baking healthy-ish foods for others, and just caring for all of Creation in general. 💜

I am definitely a lover. I will fight if I must, but I prefer to be a lover of all. 😘

I might start out in Ireland at a some sort of Librarian-esque job and get myself comfortable before I really settle into life in Ireland. 😘📚 I really hope that it just works itself out. 💜 

I find that life does that, whether I try super hard for it to work, or not. . . .

I mean, I do work really hard at school and I am finding that the hard work I put into school is becoming a wonderful habit to be used to preforming in the adult world. Working tirelessly and nonstop  for a degree is turning out to make my instructors and other authority figures in my life leave wonderful reviews of me when they are contacted by potential employers. I feel as though school does help to create some good practices for the adult world even if it does not really teach that much and make everyone bereft of any money. 

Ah well, I’ve made some priceless connections because of my sometimes pathetic seeking of any collegiate degree. 

As you may have seen from recent posts, I’ve been betting my entire life on getting a job in my hometown. Well, I didn’t get the position in the library, so now I’m just a student with too much free time and I’m going to drive myself crazy, or maybe I’ll actually study a bunch, I’m not sure yet. We’ll see how it turns out. Stay tuned in, I’ll let you know. 😉

Now my dream will take a little more work than I had anticipated, even though I was not hired for the job. . . . There’s a riddle for you. 😜

Now I’ve changed my ‘plans’ and I’ll live at home, write my book and work a full time job all as I take an online series of courses to attain my Master’s in Library and Information Science. Not much different than before, but now I have to get my degree before I can work in an actual library. 😒 

The good news is that I still love books (and the power of books) more than I can properly articulate. 😘📚

I’ll just have to work my butt off and try to pay off my undergraduate debt as I write a book and hopelessly try to pay for my master’s degree. 

Oh, wish me luck. . . Better yet, pray for me to be able to do it all without exploding! Why do I always sign myself up for SO MUCH WORK?! Am I crazy? 

Haha! I know that answer. I’m just hopeful that I can make it through to Ireland where I am DETERMINED to live as soon s I finish my degrees. I’m looking at moving there in or just before 2019 at this point. Maybe I should settle for something else (other than librarianship) and move there for that something else. 😜

Oh, but what could it be? What could I possibly do? Maybe I should try to save up enough to buy a house that I can live in, but rent out to other people. That’s not such a bad idea . . . I could probably even get some of my writing done at that point, if I haven’t finished my book before then . . . 

Yeah. That sounds like a great plan! I can still read a lot of books, learn more languages if I find the resources and time  and probably even start my own collection (library) of books in my spare time once I’ve attained financial stability.  

But until then, I just need to work on my (first intended publication) recovery from TBI book. 😘✝☺️ 

Wow!! I should always think up plans as I write! I come up with some pretty good ideas this way! ☺️

But, I’m tired of talking about my unlikely, but possible, plans. It maybe I’m just tired, I’m not really sure. 😜

Regardless, I’m out for the day. 

All of my love 😘🌎💜

~Alexandra Mae

Shout-out

Hey folks!

Today . . . Well, yesterday and part of today, I was at home . . . with no power. It’s going to be about 90 degrees today, and my whole family is going to die of heat exhaustion. 😜

My dear mother once again forgot to pay the electricity bill for too long and we have no water or air conditioning. Fortunately, we have a pool. The pool just doesn’t feel as good to be in without the possibility of getting a shower, or drinking cold water before or after we jump into the water. 

But, the point of this post isn’t to be pitiful and say “woe is me”, the point is to give a shoutout to an English professor at my university that encouraged (forced or required is probably more accurate ) me and the rest of my claasmates to create an online blog . . . that blog just happens to be the one that I’m typing on right now! ☺️  

This post is a shoutout to him, my former advisor, for giving me an outlet to release my frustrations, excitements, fears, feelings and all of my other bottled up emotions out to create more room for dreams and plans to realize or accomplish those dreams. 

This is a shoutout to my former advisor, my friend,  for providing me with a method of making all of my hard work shine through my very being for the rest of the world to see. He has helped me in a myriad of ways, only one of which is getting my work published on a worldwide/ universal forum. 

This post is a big fat thank you to him, though I doubt that he will ever even see it.                                                                       This professor, who was once my advisor, was always a friend and a leader to me in all that we ever talked about. This professor/friend of mine was a very interesting fellow. He used to be a Lutheran minister, after he was in the Marine Corps. after (before? while?) he completed his collegiate education all while he dealt a complicated series of life difficulties including moderately severe medical conditions that he still handles expertly and several family complications.  He also knows and is fluent in over five languages, which boggles my mind seeing as how I’m barely fluent in two! 😜

This marine turned minister turned professor is a rough and tumbly guy, he loves to ride around on his Harley Davidson, plus the whole Marine Corps. thing, but I could see right through it to the sweet teddy bear of a guy that he is. 

I am graduating in December of this calendar year and I would love the ability to stick around my college town to spend more time with my friend/ former advisor. But, I need to get myself to Ireland. So, all of my efforts will be in that until I get there. 😘🇨🇮☘

Alright, this post was intended to be entirely about my friend/ former advisor and it’s becoming too much about me, so I’ll leave it at this; he’s an amazing guy and a good challenging professor. 😊 

Too Good to be True?

Hello, everyone, I’m back for my second helping of WordPress for the night. ❤

I don’t really have anything else to write about, but I feel like I’m not done telling of my thoughts and feelings about my current situation. 🙂

My life, after my ‘J-term’ online Chemistry course ends, is going to be so much easier than I had planned. I feel relief beyond words. 🙂

My Momma is worried because she doesn’t think I will be able to find a job. I have to be honest, that does worry me a little bit as well. Without a degree in Education, I have no idea what kinds of jobs I might get after college.

But, when I become perfectly fluent in French, I will be able to be a translator anywhere that I can find a job open. However, Europeans are too smart for me to depend on teaching English in France as a career, and I will have to figure something else out. :p

Ah, well. C’est la vie. ❤ 😉

I might have to continue learning more languages until I find something that works for me. 🙂

That will be too bad for me to do. ;p Hahah. Okay, not really. It’s my life goal to learn Aramaic eventually, so I will be very happy to just have to learn a half-dozen (or a dozen) other languages before I finally get to it.

I was messing around with my schedule and I’ve added a Latin class!! I ditched choir because it wasn’t going to give me any credits. :p Now my schedule is as follows:

Sunday;

Church and study all day

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Monday;

Study

3:00 PM Languages and Cultures  – 4:15 PM

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Tuesday;

9:30 AM French 206 Structure of French Language – 10:45 AM

11:00 AM French 401 Advanced French Language – 12:15 PM

12:30 PM Latin – 1:45 PM

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Wednesday;

Study

3:00 PM Languages and Cultures  – 4:15 PM

Protestant Campus Ministry ❤

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Thursday;

9:30 AM French 206 Structure of French Language – 10:45 AM

11:00 AM French 401 Advanced French Language – 12:15 PM

12:30 PM Latin – 1:45 PM

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Friday;

Study all day and all night.

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Saturday;

Sleep, Read, Work out and Study ❤

I am seriously BEYOND excited about this! The only course(s) that I truly feel might give me a hard time are Latin and maybe Languages and Cultures, depending on how much work is required of me in those classes. :p

It breaks my heart to say this, but these linguistic courses are all so much easier for me than English was.   </3

My days aren’t completely free on Monday and Wednesdays any longer, but I still get Fridays off. 😉

All of these things make feel as though French may be too easy of a major for me to take up. I wonder if I will pay for this seemingly easy decision when I begin searching for jobs. Of course, I pray that I don’t have to regret this choice at all, but I’m sure that it is bound to happen at one point or another in my life. :p Well, I’m not worried about looking for jobs right now, I’m worried about getting my degree and ‘high-tailing’ it outta this place, as my English advisor used to say . . .  I think. 😉

Regardless of whether or not this blissful new major of mine is too good to be true or not, I am happy in it. 🙂 ❤

I am very sorry, to my English advisor, that I bailed on Literature, whom I greatly admire still, and hope that he is able to do brunch or lunch with me next semester on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday in the late morning.
I will certainly be asking him for a letter of recommendation or two after I graduate from college and enter the big scary professional world.  😉

I really need to get to some of my homework now. However, it doesn’t seem so intimidating now that I am not an English major. I don’t really understand why that is, but I’m not very worried about it. I just need to read some books and write a few more pages for both of my Literature courses. On top of that, I really need to finish up my research on North African French and practice some phonetics of French and do some more French 3 Homework. :p

Well, I’m off to mon devoirs!

Au revoir!

Ma tout Coeur!

Dieus Benisse

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~Alexandra

Today is my day . . Or is it tomorrow?

Hello, beautiful friends. 😘

Today I am nervous as all . . you know what. . . and I don’t want to go to either of my summer classes anymore this summer. I have two days left, each day is an exam day, and I really dislike tests. :p Tomorrow, Wednesday, is when I have my Exercise & You exam,

I am nervous because tomorrow is my written final exam for  my gym class (Exercise & You) . That just doesn’t sound right, does it? written exams and gym feel like they shouldn’t go together.

The class started out as easy, as a ‘piece of cake’, in fact. But then our nice professor had a medical accident, and he could not teach the rest of the summer semester. So, my eleven classmates and I were placed under direction of the wrestling coach and another very nice gym teacher.

The wrestling coach is very rough on all of us students, and one might have expected. . . as his sport is a very rough sport.

I like do quite him as a person, but not necessarily as an instructor.

We had two parts of our three part final assesment (sit ups and push ups) this morning before I went to give my presentation on the relatedness of math to music. 😏

We run tomorrow, I guess, on top of our written final exam.  😔

I love running, I genuinely do!! 😃😃

I just do not at all look forward to the written exam.  😒

I do not like exams, you see. . . . Ever.

I have three days of exams this week. Then, I have two weeks entirely to myself, to do whatever I please in them. 😃 I think that I will finish reading Pride & Prejudice and exercise my butt ‘on’ in those fourteen days. 💜 🙂

All I really wanted out of this class  was a GPA boost and a new way to track my fitness levels.  I’m not sure about the GPA boost yet, but I did  actually find a new way to track my fitness levels. 😉

I really reeeally dislike exams. A lot. . . . Ugh.  Why can’t the administrative people just believe that we took something from our classes? Why are we forced to take exams? 😦

Well, I guess that I’m just not into posting big huge long blogs this week.

Se y’all next time!

God Bless

XoXo

~Alexandra