life’s not a paragraph

it’s almost the end of another week. if this is a forecast for the semester, then it’s going to be May in no time. these weeks just seem to be flying by! but i haven’t gotten really deep into my classes, so there’s a chance that when i start getting more work the weeks will seem a bit longer. this week i have been filling my free time with the t.v. show Dexter. i’m addicted. haha

so far, the semester is going really well. yesterday i had my first alternative spring break meeting of this semester. we are going to start meeting every tuesday during student activities hour (an hour set aside every tuesday and thursdays when no classes are scheduled. this way clubs and other organizations have a time to meet when everyone will be free). we talked about the family that we are going to be building for and some of the history of the city of meridian. the more i hear about the trip, the more i get excited. i really can’t wait to help these people, and i really can’t wait to go down south! i have never been to the deep south, so it’s going to be so interesting learning all of these different customs and sayings that are just as american as our customs here in the northeast.

i don’t know if any of you have figured this out yet, but i am a bit of a culture hound. i love learning about other cultures. when i was a freshman in high school i did my career project on anthropology. i was positive that i wanted to be a anthropologist (specifically an egyptologist) when i got older. then i found out that i would have to go to school for basically the next ten years and i would probably end up working in a museum or university somewhere, doing research. interesting if i uncovered something new and exciting, but most likely, i would get bored real fast. long term projects, especially possible life-time projects, aren’t really my thing. at least in the graphic design field i know that i will be faced with a new challenge almost daily, even if it’s within one larger project. anthropology will just have to remain a hobby. my weird fascination with learning languages satisfies that craving of mine.