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| Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 | | 11:44 am |
so my last thing EVER of undergrad is due by this friday. i just got to the computer lab and am going to whip out the most mediocre paper of all time. it's supposed to be 10 pages, i'm shooting for 6. i have an A in the class, my grade doesn't transfer back to msu, and i'm only in quito for 2 more full days. so. i just don't care! but yes, this is the last paper for my career as an undergrad!!!! although i won't have my diploma until all the grades and credits get transferred back, i'm really pretty much done. my mom wrote to me the other day when I told her about what a slacker i was being and she said, "well, what are they gonna do, fail you now? harhar!" i'm a little sad to see all the grad pictures on facebook now and know that i missed it.... but... at the same time, i was in canoa lazing on the beach on the pacific ocean for MY graduation. guess that sort of beats the breslin center. yesterday i hiked rucu pinchincha in total. really good hike and 4680 meters.... about 15,300 ft. a new altitude record for me! my only regret about this trip is not getting to do Cotopaxi... the 19er. that would have been incredible, but after having an amazingly awful walking pneumonia for over a month, there is no way my lungs would have been up for it this week. ok. rambling again to procrastinate over this paper. just gotta plug through it. | | Monday, May 14th, 2007 | | 11:11 am |
it's monday. i'm leaving on friday. kind of surreal. really i'm just procrastinating writing about art history in spanish. meh. no motivation. i've met some really interesting people this week with really amazing stories. why does that always happen when you're about to leave? | | Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 | | 4:52 pm |
well, david bisbal was everything and more. i fulfilled my deep inner diva.... and never need to go to a show like that again, haahaa! he was glorious though, and i sang my heart out to ave maria. if you've driven in the golf before, i know you would have appreciated it. i did have to tell david that i couldn't run away with him right now.... i've just got too much going on. i told him if he kept growing his curls out though, i'd reconsider. it's down to the last few weeks here in ecuador. literally about 17 days. i'm essentially done with school... have a few random things to do, but it's been the most stress free finals time EVER. i just don't even care. i keep getting emails from the honors college and different departments telling me to go pick up my free stole, or certificate, or just to come to a reception. i'm actually DONE WITH SCCCCHOOOOLLL!!! ha! my hair is still growing, but i fear that soon i'll be hitting that VERY awkward grow out stage. it's ok though because i'll be in the woods again soon. | | Thursday, April 19th, 2007 | | 7:19 pm |
so remember the gloriously silly days of bombing around in the golf and BLASTING david bisbal singing ave maria??? cuando seras mia?? si me quisieras, todo te daria... he's gonna be here, in quito, next friday. and i'm totally going to try and get one of the 25 dollar seats.... cause i can't justify paying more than that, and take myself on a hot date. cause i don't think anyone else will really understand his spanish popstar glory. i feel like a middle schooler!!!! and i'm SOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | | Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 | | 6:47 pm |
into the heart of darkness.
I spent my day of turning 22 and the weekend leading up to it in the AMAZON jungle. and it was amazing. all weekend I just couldn't stop thinking... here I am... in the jungle. this is the kind of thing i've learned about in geography classes for years... but now here i ACTUALLY AM IN IT. crazy. i saw monkeys, sweet bugs, learned about all kinds of crazy jungle medicines from an awesome guide, swam in the tiputini river KILOMETERS away from civilization, and hiked all over in the most intense, glorious humidity of my life! whew. the tiputini biodiversity research station is where we stayed... it's what it sounds like. a place to do research. so students from USFQ get to go and have fun, but there's actual hardcore research going on. national geographic type stuff. it was kind of like being at camp, but a 100 times cooler. got up for brekkie every morning at 6:30... hiked, came back for lunch, took a siesta, swam and hiked more. dinner and then cards at night. beautiful. and they even made me a chocolate cake. cake in the jungle on my birthday.... doesn't get much cooler than that :) i have 3 exams tomorrow and i can't make myself even try to care! i'm DONE WITH UNDERGRAD IN A MONTH!!!!!! sort of less than that cause spring break starts this thursday... and I'm taking extra school off afterwards. it's just crazy to think. i'm actually hiking the inka trail. peru peru, adventure adventure, here i come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! look out world! | | Saturday, March 10th, 2007 | | 5:47 pm |
highlights of the weekend so far: mom and dad swinging down glider cables with me over huge ravines! laughing in the face of dangerrrrrrr! trekking to glorious waterfalls.... also with my hardcore parents. seeing my parents IN ECUADOR! LOCO! having a typical ecuadorian lunch last week with ALL mis padres. and sadly i think i saw the man i'm supposed to marry today on the way home from mindo..... but alas, we only shared a smile and he is out of my life just as quickly as he came! sigh. craziness. tomorrow we go to otavalo to see the biggest, baddest indigenous market in all of ecaudor. hachacha. | | Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 | | 8:53 am |
If I don't get a chance to write one of my famous poems.......Happy Valenstine Day. Roses es roja, violets es azul, yadda yadda Yo love tu. Dad the romantic verse writer | | Thursday, February 8th, 2007 | | 8:19 am |
El sabado de noches pasado de Spartans de los muchachos basketball ver be de lucha de perro con Ohio State, rango numero cinco de las Ustados Unidos. This is too hard; any ways the Spartans were down by viente points in the primero half, but came back and had a chance to win in the last trenta secondes. final score sesenta y seis a seisenta y cuatro. Ay carumba! Abrazos y besos El padre Thanks. Sounds like you're having too much fun and now you like soccer. Definitely after we finalize the dates get tickets to a game and we'll go. 19,000 ft. I'm scared. Your nose will start bleeding and your head will explode at that altitude. It takes a worried dad to sing a worried song. my parents are coming to ecuador in march and my dad is trying to learn spanish through the free lessons at shrine.... exciting, but scary at the same time, haahaa :) | | Thursday, January 25th, 2007 | | 7:30 pm |
so when you make friends with cute ecuadorian boys at the bar who like reggae and have long curly hair, you totally want to shoot yourself for cutting off your dreads. no joke. it was seriously distressing. oh but that aside :) Ecuador is absolutely amazing! I'm settled and am loving the lifestyle in south america. Not much else to say other than everyday is an adventure!!! I started a photo page: www.jennyinecuador.shutterfly.com. it should be periodically updated. | | Thursday, January 4th, 2007 | | 5:57 pm |
I leave for ecuador tomorrow night at 9pm! fly to miami, then i have to hang out in the airport from midnight to 7am, eesh. finally get into ecuador on the 6th around 11:40am. i didn't do much for my last full day "in the states." my parents and i went downtown to john king books, ate in corktown and then drove by tiger stadium. the real tiger stadium. although they keep saying it's going to get blown and it still never happens, with not knowing the next time i'll return to the detroit area for very long, i sort of thought it would be nice to see one last time. i took a few pictures, but it just looks sad now. the entrance area is all overgrown with weeds, the sky was all gray, and there was a person sleeping in front of the park. i can remember sitting on the cement there and eating pizza with aunt marty before the games. we lost her keys there once and had a crazy night trying to find them at a lost and found. what a cool place though. it's funny how vividly i remember it. soooo many games there every summer with her. through all those terrrrrrible seasons. the season where we missed being the worst team in all of history by one game!?!? and i remember seeing the last season with lou whitiker and alan trammel. we saw whitiker hit a home run one of those games and i remember my dad looking at me and telling me to make sure that i remembered that moment because i was seeing a part of history. oh jeez, it's just a great place with so many great memories. i still wish we hadn't left it there to just rot. comerica park will never really hold the same nostalgia. anyways, it was a nice afternoon. i don't know where the day went. tonight = packing! i'm not as anxious as i usually get about big life changing adventures such as this. i find that when i actually think about leaving, i'm much calmer. it's being here in royal oak that seems to be making me more anxious. i'm really really ready to leave. | | Saturday, December 23rd, 2006 | | 10:26 am |
be still, I am WFR!
after traveling 11 hours both ways through wind and rain and glorious NC sunshine, i am a certified wilderness first responder! if we happen to be backpacking together and you have a traumatic injury such as open pneumothorax commonly known as a "sucking chest wound", well, have no fear, i'll be able to treat that with an occlusive bandage. i know all sorts of weird medical acronyms like AVPU, LOC, and MOI. i can write a SOAPnote, clear you of a spinal injury, and also make some badass splints out of thermarests and sticks. i feel pretty hardcore, i have to say. it's nice to be home again, but it doesn't feel like christmas! it's been more of a summer vacation down in Cullowhee where it got up to 70 degrees during the day. time to get my life together! i leave for ecuador in about 2 weeks!!!!! | | Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 | | 11:43 pm |
well, I'm essentially done with my years at msu. packed up most everything from the montie house, gave everyone quick hugs so i wouldn't cry in front of them, and drove off in the rain. it was a good last few days (other than insane monday), but i didn't feel too dramatic and sad about leaving until the last few hours of packing up my room. i guess i always felt like leaving college would be something more dramatic, with more closure or something. but i guess it doesn't have to be. i finally felt moved to write something on my wall. i love how you can just write something anywhere, anyplace in the montie, but i just never had anything good to say. but last night i did. so i left my mark in good old room 32. the one with the cheshire cat on the door. god i really like that house. for all of it's insanity, and random days of driving me crazy, i really met some awesome people there this semester. and it's a shame i don't have more time to get to know a lot of them better. but that's life. if it's important we'll stay in touch. so anyways, here's what i left behind. once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. -leonardo da vinci i really feel like i'm embarking on some crazy part of my life where i'm never going to be home anymore. but it's not like royal oak feels like home either. i don't know. it's exciting, but i still feel empty after leaving the house tonight. gotta go pack. | | Monday, December 11th, 2006 | | 7:23 am |
Here they come - electricity to help you on your tests. Really you know this power i have to teletransport intellectual brain waves gives you an un fair test advantage over all your fellow classmates. So what. I'll see you tomorrow night. there's a Newcastle cooling in the fridge with your name on it. we'll have spuds and suds for dinner. Love Dad. | | Sunday, December 10th, 2006 | | 10:47 pm |
just keep swimming! just keep swimming!
Jenny, It's hard to believe. Your last day of classes on the campus of Michigan State. It seems like yesterday we were driving you up to the dorm for your first year and even not that long ago we took you to your first day of kindergarten at jane Addams. As they say in the cigarette ad - You've come a long way baby! You should be very proud of all that you have accomplished. I am so proud to be your father. I know you have made me a better person. Excuse my nostalgia but I was recording our family tapes to DVD last night and Mom and I were watching the first video we shot of you at almost 6 months old. Believe me - we have all changed a lot. It was fun to watch and we got some good laughs and it brought back great memories. Brain waves will be on the way randomly over the next few days so don't be alarmed if you feel slight brain surges and momentary drooling. It's not the wine. Love Dad the sentimental Hey look out the window. Its snowing to beat the band. Must be Christmas time, buddy. Current Mood:  stressed | | Sunday, December 3rd, 2006 | | 11:05 pm |
i have a really weird rash all over. i hope it's an allergic reaction just to the wine and cheese from last night? i have no idea. it was a really, really fun weekend. the best way to go out with a bang! now it's time to write papers all week unfortunately. but it's ok. i made this semester count goddammit! life is good! | | Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 | | 5:15 pm |
springtime in november!
I just realized that from today I have exactly 2 weeks left of living in east lansing. 2 weeks! I don't even really know how to process that! | | Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 | | 7:53 pm |
my mom purchased "the information" and loves it. i told her i was very impressed. and i lucked out because i have a great cd to listen to while at home without my computer full of music. she's pretty hip. i gotta say. we also have cable now. for this first time in 21 years. hello x-files on the sci-fi channel! feels good to see my parents again! bring on the holidays! | | Thursday, November 16th, 2006 | | 1:14 pm |
Tonight I am going to see snakes on a plane. Just the silly mindlessness that I neeeeeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have the visa stuff out of my life *crossed fingers, knock on wood* until I finally leave the country. holy cow. what a mess. one nightmare after the next. that's why I'm still waiting for all that crazy hard work to just come crashing down around me. just what I'd need.... I could totally see them denying my visa because I only have a reservation and not an actual eticket yet. anyways, it's out of my hands now! I got EVERY damn document. even through all the bureaucratic hoops and loops and bells and whistles!!!!! I want a hug from my Mom, I want to go home for a few days and sleep in my bed and be away from some of the people in my house, and I want to leave for Ecuador and have this semester beee doooneeee!!!!! Current Mood: burnt OUT! | | Sunday, November 5th, 2006 | | 2:23 am |
making good decisions. going to bed. looking forward to the coming week, even though there's a LOT to do. liking my short hair a little bit more each day! breathe owl breathe and the whole earthworks label is hot as all get out! | | Friday, October 27th, 2006 | | 9:19 am |
no joy in mudville.
Mrs. Magglio Ordonez, At least you had pumpkin beer to make the night congenial. We pulled out a few of their feathers last night but at the end we were left without a good anthropomorphic analogy. Pray for a rainout out tonight. Dad who is gently weeping even though I don't play guitar |
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