22. October 2008 by Sarah.

Tonight was the last night of my vacation in Annapolis. I love school and doing all of the work, but I have to remember to take a break here and there and give my head a rest. So tonight Mary made wonderful tacos and I made margaritas. We also had some people from Germany join us for dinner which made it very interesting. It is so fascinating to learn and hear about other countries then my own.

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30. September 2008 by Sarah.

The East Coast cannot make Mexican food to save its life. There is only place that I enjoy eating Mexican at and that is Don Tequilas in Lexington. This past weekend was spent hanging out with Monica in Lexington. Saturday we went to said restaurant and filled up on beans and rice (I could totally live in Mexico). We of course had to have Margaritas. I normally only like strawberry flavored Margaritas, but the lady who took our order apparently didn’t know what I was talking about (downside of being at a Mexican place, the people can’t talk English). So I went with the regular, which was fantastic by the way.

After there we went to the Palms, had a ginger ale and a few sips of the drinks that Monica ordered. I have come to realize that your closest friends are the ones you go to the bathroom with when it is a one person stall. Good times, good times.

Thinking we were done, we went to Applebees and joined some friends of Monica and Kevin’s there. Again, I had a sip of beer and thought that was going to make me sick (I tell you I am a classy drinker) and then had a dessert shooter, chocolate moose.

Sunday came the bridal show. Once we got up and ready we headed to W&L campus to go to the show and be inspired. Let tell y’all, the best thing about it was the free food. Not only did you get to try little snacks, but you got pieces of wedding cake. An entire piece of wedding cake! In fact I had two! Seriously I would go just for the food. Then there was a fashion show of wedding dresses. I have come to realize that once you have seen 10 dresses, they all start to look the same, however there are exceptions. Monica won the grand prize, a $700 pearl necklace along with a limo rental, a free night at the Hummingbird Inn, and 20% off tux rental.

Now it is Tuesday, with a chance of showers in my forecast, but I don’t have classes tomorrow which is exciting. For all of you who don’t know, it is Apple Day. Yes I realize that irony that my school has Apple Day, but what can I say it is just another reason why MBC is the place for me!

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27. September 2008 by Sarah.

Have you ever been to a drive in before? Well last night I went to the drive in to watch The House Bunny. The movie was okay, it was the experience that I liked even more. It wasn’t really hot and it was raining just slightly. We folded down the back seats and hand blanket and pillows. The speaker sat right on the window, just like in the movies!

It was so much fun and I would HIGHLY recommend that if you even get the chance to go to a drive in, take it, because they really are going out of style!

All blogs this weekend, if there are anymore, are coming from the great house of Monica who lives in Lexington, who is getting married on June 6th. I am the Maid of Honor and it is going be so wonderful!

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20. September 2008 by Sarah.

My cousin Ty, who my sister and I consider to be more like a brother, has just recently become engaged to Tiana.

Ty and Tiana I wish you the best of luck with everything!

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17. September 2008 by Sarah.

I have been busy, busy, busy. This list here will give some detail about what I have been busy with. A more exciting blog is sure to come soon!

1. Media Law Reading

2. Research Methods reading & Paper (Got an A!)

3. STARs

4. EC stuff

5. Sleeping

6. Eating

7. Online Shopping (Bad habit)

8. Going out for drinks

9. Teaching a class

10. Ballet class

11. Getting a head start on projects/papers

12. Planning a mini vacation to Annapolis

13. Planning a visit to DC to see Congressman

14. Trying to figure out what time zone my father is in

15. Supporting Hannah 3000 miles away as she moves to Davis

16. Trying to get Skype to work

17. Running

18. Submitting my application for graduation (eeek!!!)

See busy, and it is only the 3rd week of school! Happy Constitution Day!

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14. September 2008 by Sarah.

As most of you probably know this summer my Daddy accepted a new job in Alaska, very exciting, but at the same time a little un-nerving. While he is up there, Mom is at home in Lancaster, Hannah (in a few days) will be up in Davis, and I am here on the East Coast.

The past week Dad has been on the island, Adak. Which is about a 4 hour plane ride from Anchorage.He will be there for another 2 weeks getting the communication system for cell service back up and running. He has a house to stay in while he is there and plenty of food.

This morning when I checked  my e-mail he had sent an update, so I thought that I would share that with you, in case you were at all curous about his new adventure!

Well I just updated flickr with some more pix so I thought I would explain what I have seen. This is an old naval base that was used from WW2 through the 90’s  and was abandoned and pretty much left to rot and be looted by the locals. There are huge buildings all over just falling apart; the odd part is a lot of this stuff was just put in before it was abandoned!

There are streams with salmon all over the place but they are done spawing so they are just dying and getting eaten by the birds. The most common bird here is the eagle both bald and a japanese brown that is bigger by alomost half!

All over the island is remnents from the cold war as they stored nukes here and so there are bomb shelters all over the place.There are teams of people that come here looking for unexploded bombs as a full time job as they have been using this place for target practice as well as storing bombs here and then dumping them anywhere.

I am staying here at Larrys house, as he has one that he stays up with juice from a generator so we don’t freeze and can cook. The islanders are freindly but a bit rough around the edges as might be expected. I cooked pasta for my team the first night and then tacos last night and the tacos where a hit; as to be expected!

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28. August 2008 by Sarah.

So this morning the alarm went off at 5:15am, I hit the snooze and physically got out of bed at 5:30am. That left me about twenty minutes to wash my face, eat something, get dressed and throw my hair in a pony tail. Not to mention that it was raining outside.

It was 6:30am when the first student arrived, then some more, one from CA even! Basically, what the student leaders do when the car arrives is scream and clap “Welcome” to the freshman. Personally I loved it when it was done to me, but some of them think we are WAY to perky for that hour of the morning and some just eat it up, especially the parents. Moving to college is a very exciting time in a persons’ life, totally different from just moving to an apartment to something like that. You are moving in with a whole new family, these are the people that you will see ALL THE TIME and you come to rely on them for everything.

After we have shocked them with a welcome we swarm their car and start taking everything out and putting it in their room for them. (Silently thinking the whole time, this is the only time you will ever get help unpacking all of this crap). Some of stuff that the girls bring is just crazy. I had to pick and choose what went to school from my room, not that much. The majority of items that were unpacked this time 3 years ago were bought in PA before my drive down here. But some of them must bring the entire room and then some.

It was great memories, which I actually got the chance to talk about when I was interviewed by the local paper today, and had several pictures taken on numerous occasions. It was also nice to see most of the student leaders out there pumped up and excited in our little ponchos since it did drizzle  us literally all day long!

I only wish that I could be there when my little sister moves in to her dorm in a few weeks. I am sure many the picture will be taken!

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20. August 2008 by Sarah.

Currently I am sitting in a plane 2,900 miles in the air. As I was reading my book I decided that I would rather write out some stuff. The other day I read my sister’s blog. Her latest post is about her faith. I realized that I have never written about my faith and it is such a major part of my life I thought that it was about time.
I am Lutheran, born and raised and will probably not ever change. I may switch different synods, but I am pretty sure that I will always remain a Lutheran. So as I sit here on this plane, heading back east to go to school, it is my faith that will get me through this day and the days the lay ahead of me. When I had to make the choice of which college to go to I did more praying then I ever had in my life. It wasn’t really which college, it was more the fact: do I stay in CA or take one major leap of faith and go to Mary Baldwin. As I am sure most of the readers out there in Internet land know, I choose MBC. I knew that God had a plan for me and that whatever choice was made would be the right one.
My faith has now brought another curve to the path that God has in store for me. My Daddy accepted a job in Alaska about two weeks ago. He has moved into an apartment and has started work. For him getting out of Lancaster was so important and he needed to do this. It is extremely difficult knowing that in a few months, every person in my household will be living somewhere new. The only way that I can get that thought through my head is to know that God isn’t going to throw anything at us that we can’t handle.
Some of my friends aren’t into the religion thing that much. That is fine, I completely and utterly understand. If it wasn’t for my parents taking me to church every Sunday morning, how do I know that I wouldn’t have the faith that I do today? So the people that aren’t sure on religion need to have it shown to them, maybe that is why I am in their life, to show them my religion. Setting the example and willing talk about my faith, that is something that I strongly believe in and practice. If I didn’t have the faith that I have, I am pretty sure that there would be an emptiness inside of me that would need to be filled.
When I was confirmed in 8th grade we had to give a statement of our faith. I remember writing a poem with the help of my 8th grade English teacher. I am sure I still have it, and I am sure some of it remains the same. But my guess is if someone asked me today to give a statement of my faith, it would be much longer, more in depth and more meaningful.

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