The end!!!!!

I really enjoyed writing the blogs this semester. I honestly don’t think that it is an experience that changed my life but it was interesting to read about my classmate’s interests and lives that would not necessarily have been shared in a class setting. I think that is brought us as a class closer together, and we are much closer because of it. This is on the account that we know so much more about each others lives and each others interest.
Our class community versus our blog community, I believe are very different. Although we as a class are very close, and usually pretty open with each other we are still in an academic community. Therefore when we get of topic we have to be brought on topic, we do not openly flat out disagree with each other out loud (most of the time), and we don’t always say our opinion to each other. In our blogs however it is much easier to be honest, it’s also much easier to disagree with each, because there is no immediate reaction. Most everyone has at some point gotten off topic in their blogs, with is also more natural, and more of our own personalities.
Our blog community compared to other online communities that I have belonged is very different. Our blog community was a much more academic then any other online community I
have belonged. Facebook the only other online community I have belonged to is much more personal, and more of a reflection of your own personality.
Carolyn

Almost Over.....

This semester is going by so fast…I can’t believe that we only have five weeks left of school. The craziest thing for me how much I don’t want to leave especially, because I really hated it here first semester. I used to count down the days till I could go home for the weekend….and would dread the day I had to come back. But now I can’t even explain to you how much I love it here. I love the freedom to do what I want…But even more I love the friends that I have met here. They are people that I have become so close to in such a short time…and people that I consider to be the best friends that I have ever had. My mom always used to tell me about her college friends, and how they were all in her wedding, they were all there for each other when their kids were born, even now that is has been around 30 years she still visits them….and I am so excited to get to experience that…and I feel so lucky and fortunate to get to of met all my friends.
-Carolyn

Ireland

Ever since I was a baby my family has been moving….not the military, my dad works for IBM, and sets up programs….but when I was nine I moved to Dublin Ireland. Hands down that is still the most difficult thing that I have ever been through. To pick up everything and move to a different country, I can remember my mom and me crying everyday after school, because we missed home so much. Everyone in our neighborhood back home in Rochester Minnesota was so close and friendly…and frankly people in our town didn’t really like Americans and therefore were very standoffish to us….Although this was very difficult for us I have become such a stronger person. This probably because I had to learn to stand up for myself, my views and my culture at a very young age. I’ so thankful now that we moved because I feel that I learned so much, and I feel that I understand our world so much better now. I’m also glad to know that there are other places in this world other than Tucson, and Rochester.
-Carolyn

Spring Break

This Spring break I went home and saw my family. It was so nice to go home and just relax…I love being at home, I love the smells and sounds of home. But Flagstaff is sort of starting to feel home now. As nice as it is to go home to Tucson it is so nice to come back to school. My friends and sisters are starting to feel like my family now. It’s so amazing how close I have become to the girls in my hall and my sorority sisters. In my four years of high school I don’t think that I have ever felt so close to people other than my family. I think this is because I have gotten to experience so many different things up here that I never got to do at home. A second thing that has bonded us together is we have all are experiencing this new found freedom together. We experience the consequences and rewards together.
-Carolyn

Little Brother

Ever since I can remember I wanted a little brother or sister. When I was a little kid I used to tell people that I had an older brother named John….which I didn’t. When my parents told me my mom was pregnant I was so excited, I told anyone and everyone. When he was born I was so excited, my Dad came and got me from school and we both went to the hospital and I got to see him. I remember being so happy and excited……..My little brother is absolutely crazy I remember my mom used to think he wasn’t going to make till to five. When he was two he shoved a metal hairclip in an electrical outlet, and electrocuted himself. When he was three he did a 360 off our brick fireplace hit his head and passed out. He has a permanent scar on his forehead from an air soft pellet, and last week he jumped of a set of stairs in Mexico and broke his arm…..But he also the sweetest person I have ever met. He leaves me messages in my phone all the time, and e-mails……And since he is only twelve it is so hard for me to be away, and not be able to watch him grow up.-Carolyn

Mom

To keep with the theme the family I’m going to write about my mom. Like most preteen and high school girls I fought with my mom probably everyday from the age of thirteen till I left for school in August. We fought about my hair, what I wore to school, who I was getting rides from, grades, and every other little thing you could think of. Sometimes I remember that I would get so mad at her…..and now that I look back on it I’m so thankful that she was not my best friend, she was my mom. Through she showed me just how much she loved me. It’s funny now to see my little brother go through it…. he is boy of course and his middle school years have been way different, but they fight about the same stuff my mom and I did, and it just seems like a unavoidable thing. Mom’s love us so much they want everything to be just right. I am also one of those girls who told my mom everything….it’s probably also because she could always tell when I lied. Even though I don’t live at home anymore she has become my best friend, although she will still put me in line on the phone.
-Carolyn

Daddy

To keep with the theme of college I suppose that I’m going to talk about what has got me here, and the most obvious thing to me would be my amazing family. First I’m going to talk about my dad……. I was an only child for seven years so naturally I’m a total daddy’s girl. When I was little I used to follow him around everywhere, one of my favorite things to do with him was going to the hardware store….but I was super girly so we would be walking around the hardware store and there would be my dad and I would be following him around in a princess dress holding a doll. Another thing about my dad is he is one of those dads that gets super involved with everything you do, like when I was really in to softball for like a year he got me the best bat the best glove, and everyday when he came home from work he would throw the ball around for with me. I was never any good and probably more focused on the flowers on the ground, but he would still some to all my games and cheer me on. He is also still a kid at heart, and he goofs around with my brother and me all the time. Through this he has always taught me to not take myself too seriously and to find the best things about everybody.