Hooville

Can I just say how much I love Charlottesville/UVA ?? I went up to Charlottesville last Friday to meet my roommates next year, Heather and Molly, for lunch. We walked around the campus and ate @ Bodo's Bagels, which if you don't already know is kind of a big deal in Cville. The campus is just so pretty and old and I love it. I am applying to the education school there and just being there on the campus made me want it even more. My roommate Heather is also applying to the law school there, so we kept seeing stuff and saying "oh when we go here" haha. Poor Molly is a year younger so she was like "What about me!?!?!" haha. Well hopefully everything will work out for us.

I really didn't explain but UVA has been a dream of mine ever since I was little. My Dad was a big UVA fan and rubbed that off onto me. I didn't get in after high school which was a very big disappointment because I had all these big plans of managing football and doing the 5 Year Bachelors to Masters in Teaching program there. I guess that was not God's plan for me because two years later here I am about to enter Junior year at CNU, and even my plan at CNU changed. I wanted to do the 5 year program here, but it became too big a load so I decided to apply to grad schools. Maybe I was supposed to end up at UVA, but this way. I just have to work really really hard for the next two years and study for my GREs and kick butt, and maybe things will fall into place. Did I mention that I bought like 3 study books and flashcards for the GRE? I have already started studying vocab, which is a good thing because when I cracked the book open there were some words I had no idea even know where to guess.

I leave on Friday for Windy Gap on Friday and I am soooo excited!!

Eat, Pray, Love

So I am reading this new book called Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It is a book she wrote about a year she spent abroad. She lived in Italy, India and Indonesia for 4 months each. I am almost done with the section about Italy and this woman has me convinced that living in Rome sounds like it is just about the most fun ever, I can't wait to see what she has to say about her time in the other two countries. She also has me wanting to learn Italian because it really is such a beautiful language.

I first went overseas in 2004 to London and Wales and the travel bug bit me big time. I went again in 2005 to Italy and Greece and just really love the antiquity of it all, everything was so dated and that's what I love about Europe, there are things that are centuries old, as opposed to America where things are just a few hundred years old. I went again my senior year of high school during Spring Break to France, Norway, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Denmark. It was an amazing trip. I do however feel like because I was in a tour group, I didn't really have time to soak in the culture and the cities.

My graduation present from college and 22nd birthday present (2 years off I know, where is the element of surprise?!) is going to be a trip to London with my mom in 2012 for two weeks and we will be going to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London :) Michael Phelps here I come! I have always been in love with the Olympics ever since I was little, and especially the Summer Games. I remember last summer watching the Beijing Games while at work at the RAC while Phelps was racing and screaming at the TV. Also, my favorite part is that we will be staying in not a hotel, but a studio apartment so we will actually have to opportunity to take in the city.

Also today, I got my straps for my Eagle's Nest Outfitters Hammock so I set it up in the back yard for a test run. Let me tell yall, if you go camping and don't like sleeping on the ground I recommend this hammock highly. It sways side to side while your lying in it so it kinda rocks you to sleep. Heaven I tell you, and you can put it practically anywhere you can find two sturdy poles, trees, etc.

That is all I have for today. :)