Summer Orientaion!

Hey all!

So I am an Orientation Leader this year at Augsburg, and we have been training since JANUARY! I love it quite a lot, and I realized today that Orientation is already in TWO WEEKS! I cannot wait to start Orientation! I am allowed to brag and talk up Augsburg as much as I want! Haha not really, but I am super excited to hang out with a bunch of incoming students whom are just as pumped about Augsburg as I am! Augsburg is officially my home away from home and I miss it like CRAZY! Luckily I am working at the Department of Public Safety on campus so I do get to go down about twice a week! So my summer has been CRAZY, but the moral of the story is: I cannot wait to be back at the Burg. I'll keep ya posted on Orientation!

Hope everyone's having a great Summer!
Ali

Summer Time!

Well hello everyone! Long time no see, but let me tell you life has been CRAZY! So far this summer I have started working two jobs (not including being an Orientation Leader), and I am taking two online courses. Who knew summer would bring such stress? Well, on the other hand, I am back in my home town and already COMPLETELY missing Augsburg. I miss the people, the place, the cities, and just about everything else. I already cannot wait to go back in the fall! Another thing I am doing this summer is being an Orientation leader (OL) for the incoming first years at Augsburg. I am so so so excited for SOAR (our student Orientation) and Auggie Days (The period when first years move in early). We just had our summer retreat and it was a BLAST! We did a lot of training and team bonding, and it was so much fun. I can't wait for school to start, but at the same time, I am loving being able to watch my Disney movies and relax at home with my kitty!

Hope everyone's having a great summer!

Spring Break!

Hello Everyone! I hope that everyone is having or will have a fantastic spring break! My spring break is next week starting tomorrow after classes! I am VERY excited for this! I am in the Augsburg Concert band, and we are going on a TOUR! We are taking two coach buses through both Wisconsin and Minnesota and playing for communities, churches, and high schools. I am very excited to be with all of my fellow bandees and have a blast! We are staying 2 nights in hotels and 5 nights (i think) in home stays. This is where a person or family sign up to host a few students for a night! I am sure I will get to meet a lot of interesting people, I am very excited!

Ill keep ya posted!
Ali

SultWalk 2012/W.O.W

So as I had previously mentioned, I am currently in a Women's Studies course, and I am LOVING it. I love learning about women's rights and all of the stuff that comes along with it. Also, this week at Augsburg is the "Week of Women" this week we are celebrating women and all things that go along with being women! Yesterday in Christensen Center I was able to make 2 buttons! I made one that said: "Feminist and PROUD!" and one that said: "All Women are beautiful". They are currently living on my backpack which is great cause I wear it everywhere. Also for Week Of Women (WOW) Augsburg College is having a showing (Tonight!) of "MissRepresentation" the documentary, and I am SO SO SO excited. I had planned on going to see it at another Twin Cities College earlier in the school year, but i had to work that night! So tonight we are showing it, and I am supposed to have my Women's studies class tonight and professor said that she would be easily persuaded into letting all of us go and watch it together! :) I really hope I am able to do that!

Also! I was browsing the interwebs today when i found THIS: http://www.slutwalkminneapolis.org/index.html

It is the link for SlutWalk Minneapolis in October, and I am ALREADY absolutely pumped!!!!! I can't wait! 

Scholarship Weekend/Idea

This weekend was Scholarship weekend at Augsburg, and I was able to host a super nice girl auditioning for a visual arts scholarship. We also got to go see the big show, eat in the cafeteria, and have a movie night with other participants and hosts. It was pretty fantastic. It reminded me of last year when I was the one spending the night and auditioning for my Music Scholarship. :) It was super fun to host someone, and I really hope I get to next year too! :) It would be fantastic :)

So while she was here, I talked her ear off (of course), and when we finally got ready for bed, she pulled out a little journal that she doodles in and stuff like that. SO I thought that I finally know what i am going to use my new journal for. It has been sitting on my bookshelf for months, and I am going to start putting things in it like quotes, memories, ideas, doodles, etc etc. So having her over did not only benefit me for keeping my scholarship (haha) but also because I finally know what I am going to do with my journal, which I am very excited about :D

Well, Adios amigos

Long time no see

Well, I know it has been a while since I have posted, but it has been a very busy semester so far! I am loving my classes, and most of all I am loving the music. I have started playing both Cello and Piano this semester, and while both are taking a lot of time and energy, i think it is totally worth it. I am taking Cello lessons, and my instructor is fantastic! Hopefully by next semester I will be able to join the Augsburg Orchestra. I know that I'm going to have to work my butt off, but i plan on doing exactly that! :)

Last night I went to the Augsburg play "365 Days/365 Plays" with a group of friends. It is a series of plays that Suzan-Lori Parks wrote once a day for a year. It was really a great performance, and I was very excited about seeing my friends put on their acting shoes and show me what they love to do! They did about 54 of the 365 plays, and it was a mix between both comedy and drama performaces. I thought everyone did a fantastic job, and I am very excited to see their next play when it comes out!

Also, this semester I have started a Women's Studies course, which I am highly enjoying, and I am very excited to tell you all about it! :)

Ali

Music

I feel like posting about music is silly because to some people it doesn't mean very much, and will probably skip over this post. Oh well! See, the first thing I think of when i think of music is sitting in a chair surrounded by other musicians and playing music. It is (to me) the best feeling in the world. I know a lot of people enjoy playing as soloists, but personally I love making music with an entire group of people who love and adore music just as much as I do. It kind of is one of those things that sends chills down my spine. So, I am starting Cello lessons on Monday, and quite frankly I am terrified. I have stuck to my woodwinds throughout my life, and now I am currently working on trying to read bass clef. Oh man. It is quite nerve racking. When I can look at treble clef and know the exact note and exact fingering, it makes me nervous looking at bass clef where i actually have to think about what note it is. I haven't had this problem since like.. sixth grade. But, i am pretty excited too. I mean, my first string instrument is the cello :D How awesome is that!! So yeah. Thats my life right now. Music. :) And I love it.