My Biggest Fear

About 10 minutes ago I saw one of the biggest spiders I have ever seen in my life!! Let me just say I am TERRIFIED of spiders! This one was alive and in my bed I almost had a heart attack! Oh the glories of living on a porch! Not really I am just kidding! My room is a porch that was converted into a room, so it has a brick wall and brick tile floor. Apparently, this is a perfect place for spiders to live according to the Orkin man!! GREAT!! There is no way I am sleeping in there tonight. I don't even want to go in there in the morning to pack up my stuff! I don't know where my fear stems from, but I do know that it is very intense! AGGHHH...

My Last Day as an Undergraduate

Tomorrow will be last official day of class as an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia. I have very mixed emotions about this time in my life. Of course I am very excited to be done with school, but at the same time it is extremely terrifying! I am getting very sad about leaving the friends that I have grown closest to during my college career. In less than 13 days I will be able to walk through the Arch on North Campus and become part of the legend!! Again, it is a bittersweet time for me! I can honestly say that I don't have any regrets from college, and my last two years (both senior years!) have been especially incredible!! I would go back to the beginning and do every year over in a second! In class, my teachers keep reminding us how we will never get this time back, so we better live it to the fullest now! I intend to do just that for the next two weeks! My roommates and I have a full week planned the week of graduation.

1) Show off our karaoke skills
2) Eat at Allen's
3) Float down the Broad River
4) Spend an afternoon at Agua Linda
5) Braves Game
6) UGA Baseball Game
7) Get shirts printed at the print shop downtown
8) Find all the Bulldogs in Athens and take pictures

College has come to an end, and now we must all make decisions that lead us to the next path of our lives. For some of us, letting go is not going to be easy. I think the thing that I am having the hardest time with is knowing that when I wake up in a few weeks I will not be able to walk in my best friends' rooms when I need advice or just want to hang out! It is a feeling similar to moving out of the dorms freshman year, but with a little less relief and a little more grief. This time we know that we aren't coming back together in 3 months because realistically, each of us will be going our separate ways hours apart. For some people this is very hard to relate to because they are not close to their roommates at all. For me, I have been lucky enough to live with my 3 best friends and we have actually remained close and probably grown even closer! In a little over a week we will all walk through the Arch and take our last pictures together as students as we enter the "real world."

Athens Twilight

This past weekend I attended Twilight in downtown Athens. Saturday morning we walked downtown to eat at Five Guys Burgers and Fries, which was really good by the way! Once we got downtown we saw vendors everywhere as well as cyclists doing tricks in several different locations. We stopped to watch a few of the guys, and they were pretty awesome!!! Later that night we went to the actual Twilight bicycle race. I have been to Twilight before, but I have never actually gotten to watch the race! We watched the last 45 minutes from right behind the pit crews. While we were standing there, we saw so many guys quit the race and several more had to stop to get tires changed. If you have never gone, Athens Twilight should definitely go onto your "To Do" list! On Twilight, downtown Athens is a very cool place to be; everyone is just in the mood to have fun. There is something for everyone from families who are ready for a day out of the house to college students who are ready to party the night away! If you didn't make it this year, mark your calendars for next spring!

Skiing Adventure

A few days ago, one of my roommates found a video from a ski trip that we took during spring break. We all had a hard time picking skiing back up, but for Jade this task was undeniably difficult. For most of the first day, we just had to meet her at the bottom, which sounds very mean I know, but it was almost impossible to ski with her. The one time that we decided to stay with her on the entire run, 50 yards from the bottom she decided she needed a break. When we told her we were almost at the bottom, she said she needed a break right that second and just fell so that she could "have her break!!" Keep in mind this wasn't the first time or the second!! The next day she went to ski school!! This is just a glimpse into Jade's skiing escapade!

Lily Springs and Naked Ed

As I said last weekend I went canoeing down the Santa Fe River. Halfway through the trip we saw a sign that said "Lily Springs" and the spring was back in a little cove, so we wanted to go see what it was. As we were going we saw signs saying home of Naked Ed and different sayings that he had made, but I didn't think anything of it. I just thought it was probably some guy's nickname. When we got there, we saw a guy sitting behind a dock, so the guys went to talk to him. We noticed that they talked for a second, walked to this little hut, and then walked back to talk to him again. When Mallory and I walked over to talk to everyone, we soon found out why it was the home of Naked Ed!!! He was completely naked!! For the second time on this trip, I almost had a heart attack!! He was very nice and talked to us for several minutes, but I couldn't hardly say anything because I was still too shocked!

Canoeing on the Santa Fe River

This past weekend I went on my first camping trip! It was actually really fun! I honestly didn't know how I would handle the whole experience because I am sort of a wimp when it comes to creepy crawly things and bugs! The first night I did refuse to take a shower at the campground because there was a huge shower in the bathroom, but the next night after being on the river all day I felt gross enough to suck it up! I was very proud of myself!!
On Saturday I went on my first canoeing trip, and I must say it was quite an adventure!! We canoed for 6 hours down the Santa Fe River, but surprisingly it wasn't as tiring as I thought it would be. About 30 minutes into the trip we saw a 5 feet alligator up on the bank! Of course the guys with us wanted to get closer and try to see it move, so needless to say we went closer! Instead of going up the bank like the guys thought it would, the alligator jumped into the water 5 feet away from our canoe!!! I almost had a heart attack!!! This was just the beginning of the events that were to unfold.

This was getting a little too close for comfort!

My reaction when the alligator jumped into the water!

Spring Break Revelations

So while I was sitting at home over Spring Break doing absolutely nothing I realized several things!

1) I am having a major case of senioritis and I am becoming a very bad procastinator!
2) I only have 30 days of class left at UGA!
3) I am going home and will no longer be living with my closest friends in 55 days!

These realizations brought me to several conclusions! The first of which is that I still have a little further to go and there is no point in messing up my grades this late in the game, so I better just deal with it. Secondly, there are still a lot of things that I want to do before I leave Athens. For this reason, I started a "Before Graduation" to-do-lists for my roommates and me. Right now it is relatively short, but it growing daily and I can't wait to start marking things off!!!