9th Week: Success

It is hard to believe that I am halfway through fall semester of my sophomore year. I am capping off the successful week by skipping class tomorrow and going to the zoo with my friend, Serengeti. I have had two midterms this week and I have two more next week. My exam in the lab portion of my anatomy class went (I would like to think) well and the exam in the lab portion of my microbiology class did not go as well, but still pretty decent. Last night, Wednesday the 28th, I went with 3 friends to the opening night for the Portland Trailblazers’ 2015-16 season and they started the season off with a win! Their 15th consecutive winning home opener, longest streak in NBA history. (Can you tell that I like basketball? Especially the Blazers. I pride myself in knowing facts that are pretty much pointless but interesting to me none the less).

Friday’s trip to the zoo kicks off Halloweekend! At the zoo, we get to watch elephants squish giant(!!) pumpkins (check out the Oregon Zoo’s Facebook for cool pics). Then there will be a party that one of the fraternities on campus is holding along with some hanging out with my sorority fam. Then on Saturday, a group of us are going down to Monmouth for a Halloween scavenger hunt and then off to Oregon State in Corvallis for the real fun that night. It is going to be nice to get away for the weekend and have a little bit of fun.

Have a fun (and maybe a little spooky) Halloween 🙂

Let’s Try This Again

Well, my first attempt at blogging went miserably. I made 3 posts and abandoned my blog. Hopefully I can stick with this a bit more and actually make something of it. I am not a very great writer, nor am I very succinct, so my life is filled with statements that I give up on because I cannot reach my point; sort of like what happened to this blog. But I am going to try again.

I have no photo to post for today because I am mentally and physically exhausted after studying and taking 2 exams today. Today was definitely not a day that I enjoyed. I do not feel like I did as well as I wold have liked on my exams and on top of that there was another mass shooting, this time about 4-5 hours south of where I live at a community college. It was very difficult to focus on my studies today, knowing that at least 10 people died and 20 others were injured while attending class. Those students that died will never get to accomplish what they were actually at school for and I find that extremely unsettling. With all of the debate about gun control and the so-called war on Christianity that were revisited today, I truly hope that things will begin to change (mainly about gun control; the whole “war on Christianity” thing on the other hand… no comment). How many more people need to die in order for our country to wake up, get our shit together, and work together on this topic to make something happen?