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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20. October 2008 by Sarah.

Fall Break has officially arrived! After getting on the train yesterday afternoon and a small stop in DC, I was finally able to crash at our former neighbors house from Lancaster. They live in a great neighborhood right outside Annapolis and right near the water. Today was spent in downtown Annapolis, shopping and eating. Found a great top at the White House, Black Market store and did some shopping for my former high school teacher, who is now one of Mom’s co-workers. The things I do for people! No seriously, I love shopping! Tomorrow I will hopefully get the chance to see some more of the Navel Academy and maybe meet some people…

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2. October 2008 by Sarah.

MBC was totally the college for me, but it became that even more so after I learned of Apple Day. In case you all forgot, I am an Apple Computer (MAC) geek hard core, although not as much as others I know. But still the same, having a school that celebrates Apple Day is totally cool!

MBC use to be surrounded by apple orchards. Every October for some reason or another the girls would go and pick apples and donate them to homeless shelters. Over the years Apple Day at MBC became more involved, including an official day off from classes.

Today it still has some of the tradition that it did so many years ago. Yesterday started off with piling on a bus to go to an apple orchard to glean apples. After that was the apple day brunch in the Dining Hall, everything had apples in it and it was very yummy. Then during the day is the carnival which is really fun. This year we had pony rides, mechanical bull, dunking for apples, musical chairs, cake walks, a dunk tank, and much more. This is the time for clubs to do a lot of fundraising and get the word out about the club.

The day before over the years been known as Apple Eve, a night in which students seem to think that they need to drink large amounts of alcohol and get in trouble. However this year was quite, no cops were called and all of our Judicial Board reps got some sleep. Attack the Pac is the event that is the new thing to do on Apple Eve, there are Mock-tails severed and many clubs get into some hard core dodge ball action. Yours truly was involved on some of this action, and have decided to never really play the sport. I just run around the court until I either get hit by a ball or am the only one left and just give up!

There you have it, Apple Day. Just one of the many MBC traditions that make this school so special.

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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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25. September 2008 by Sarah.

While I was doing my hair yesterday I had this song stuck in my head. It was a song that I use to sing in Sunday School as a kid and then when I was a teacher I had to sing it and teach it to others. The song was called Father Abraham. This is one of those songs that if you sing one line, it will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. At lunch Sterling told me about a song she had stuck in her head all day, Somebody’s Baby by Jackson Browne. So last night after we got in from our College Republican meeting, we found the lyrics on the Internet to that song and found it on YouTube.We were both sitting at our desks looking at the lyrics and singing. We would have recorded it, but it was late and it would have just come back to haunt us someday. Maybe we will make a recoding of it someday and let you all hear how great we sound. Until then you can settle for the lyrics, which can be found here. 

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20. September 2008 by Sarah.

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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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3. September 2008 by Sarah.

So this year is all about being “Boldly Baldwin”. I am all for it, and along with the challenge that the President has given to us, it also includes a fight song.

To view our fight song click here. See if you can pic me out of the crowd!

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8. August 2008 by Sarah.

A few weeks ago my roommate from Virginia came out to my house for a visit. We did the usual, Hollywood, beach, Disneyland. But there was something special about Monica’s visit.

When we were down at Santa Monica, Hannah Montana was there filming her moving. While we were hanging out on the pier one of the costars came out and signed autographs. Monica was a little star struck and was taking pictures like a mad women. But the real excitment was when we came home and googled the star and found some pictures of her signing autographs at the pier. Upon closer look there were three girls in the back ground of people with sunglasses on, those girls were us.

So there you have it we are almost famous.

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