Kawledge and Knowledge

(I count this as a post for yesterday because it was finished but I forgot to click publish...fail)

So internet as been a little sketchy and getting on and posting has not been the easiest so I'm sorry for my fail of the last couple of days.

8/26/2011
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FAIL.  I don't have a picture for today! :(
Today was orientation stuff which I mostly didn't have to go to, but then they had a giant freshman dance outside at the end of the day. Which was fun ;)


8/25/2011
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MOVE IN AND ORIENTATION = cray cray chaoticness - except not as bad as I expected.
And I was already moved in - extra win.
Day consists of: Free stuff and lots of people. Convocation (PARK/MUDD PIRATES REPRESENT)

Everyone in their ResCollege T-shirts, finally sitting down after cheering like crazy for our respective ResColleges!

8/24/2011
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At City Museum, being completely terrified, but also having SO MUCH FUN. Do you see how high up we are? Do you? DO you see what we are climbing though?

As well as having a ridiculously crazy time at City Museum we also did another service project which was fun.


8/23/2011
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The whole picture thing kind of FAILed today. We did a lot of interesting things but I just never got out my camera or phone, which was stupid, because today was pretty eventful.
I can however, give you a blurry representation of how we all felt after the day's work.

Everyone, meet Declan. Also meet blurry bus pictures.

Some of the days activities: community service talks/discussions, scraping/cleaning/painting the longest outdoor wall you have ever seen, eat at a random Thai restaurant, a big international grocery store, and hanging out in a cool park playing Egyptian ratscrew, and a poverty simulation

8/22/2011
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We had some incredible speakers today and learned all about what goes on outside the WashU bubble. It was intense and amazing, I couldn't even begin to fully describe.

Looking on at a memorial for one of the many kids who has died as either a direct or indirect result of the poverty/ drugs/violence/neglect  in certain areas

Hands prints of his classmates

Bo-bo-BODACIOUS!

8/21/2011
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I guess I will be writing a little about each photo for now as well, like a mini diary about my days. I'm writing from my phone now however because I'm not sure how the internet works so this should be interesting...

Anyway. Today LTS (leadership through service) started and apparently the theme this year is Kool Aid so there are different color groups all named after Kool Aid flavors. Me, being blue am on the "bodacious blueberry" team. Wh00t! We have a count off where at the end, being as loud as possible we shout (getting progressively louder) "Bo-Bo-BODACIOUS!!!" It's a little competition between the groups to see who can be most obnoxious :P

So today we just did intro stuff and each group went to a different restaurant for dinner. Our group went to "Blueberry Hill" which rocked because it coordinated with our color and no other group had that! The food twas yummy too.

Outside of the restaurant

And we're off!

8/20/2011
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Ok, well I'm breaking the rules, it's going to be 3 pictures. But that's because they aren't super interesting and rather stereotypical. But that was kind of the point.

See? I told you. The classic - look! My car is really full of all my crap! shot.

However I felt I needed at least 2 pictures to kind of portray this idea. Although no picture I took from any angle seemed to exactly capture it :/

 Then I was playing with my doggies for one last time (ahhh I miss them!!) and got this surprisingly good shot of Lily. Usually Pringles is the photogenic one. Awwww isn't she adorable?

I'm going to miss you sooooo much Samantha! Don't leave meee

Did you know stressed backwards spells desserts?

Well it certainly is a terrible oxymoron of sorts. I'm sure the person who made this happen is silently laughing at the rest of the world's pain as they realize dessert and stress have no similar associations and all the stressed out people in the world actually want is dessert. Chocolate. Rich, dark, fudgey, delicious, chocolate. AND THEY CAN'T HAVE IT BECAUSE THEY HAVE TOO MUCH DAMN STUFF TO DO. Ok, maybe that's just me.
Maybe the realization of this was meant to calm the normal human being. To give them something light in a dark and stressed out world. Then again, I'm not a normal human being.

If you can't tell I'm a bit stressed out. That's what being an incoming college freshman does to you. Especially when you is me. And you are driving down to your college with literally EVERYTHING. TOMORROW. Big things down to little hair clips and pencils and paperclips and all of that crap. You also have a skating test tomorrow morning. You hate testing. It scares the bajeebers out of you. This past week you have been running around like a monkey with a screwdriver freaking out and hitting everything in your way. You've probably scared a lot of young children. You've lost so much of your mind that half the time you don't even know who you are, or who you're freaking out at now. Oops.

Anyway, I'm not going to go much further, this has already become a bit of a diary entry and I don't want to scare away the crowd of no one actually reading this. But I just thought I'd let you into a bit of the mindset of a girl, 18, leaving for college the very next day. Combined with lots of other fun stressful things happening in her life that very same week and even day. Introduce you to what is to hopefully become a slightly kept up photo blog. Oh isn't life just joyous?