New Direction

Little did you know when you happened upon "adventures of a jayhawk" that this was going to be more than your average, run-of-the-mill blog. You see friends, I am an English Lit major. The thing about being an English major is that you read thousands of pages a semester and you take on thoughts, ideas, images, ideals... which would never have crossed your mind in ordinary day to day life. The beauty of this is that you experience LIFE as others live it. The darker side to this, is that you are exposed to many, many sad ways of life and there is little or nothing you can do about it. I'm speaking most specifically about my South African Fiction, Politics, and Culture class. We read works by authors who have experienced indescribable nightmares and who have chosen to share those nightmares with the rest of us who are sharing their world. The horror that any humans could push down any other group of humans so violently, so cruelly, is almost unbelievable to this Suburban American, and yet, it is still going on and we choose to turn the other way... Ok, so my excitement has put me up on a soap box and I've just preached at you. My apologies. All of this little soliloquy leads to my point. In order to make sense of what I've read and experienced and in an effort to improve my grades(!) I am choosing to share my experiences with literature with you. Prepare yourself. What we read is real, heart-breaking, LIFE. It is not pretty, but it is true and if we are willing, it can change us.

Well Here we Are

I said that I was finished blogging, but apparently it's a little addictive and also, I'm sitting here in my beautiful room feeling more than a little bit lonely and sad so I've decided to just accept my fate as a random blogger and write to you. It is my first day in a new surrounding. Exactly a week ago I was traveling home from Colorado and exactly a week before that I was hanging out with all of my GSP family. Now tell me that your brain would be reeling a little bit if this didn't happen to you. I have to preface this by saying that I am loving my room, my house, the city of Lawrence, and of course, the University of Kansas. It will be nice to be a Jayhawk, and as a bonus, it only takes eight minutes to get from my house to the parking lot at Memorial Stadium. Now THAT'S fast. Still, I'm feeling just a bit homesick, and even more than that, kind of like "now what?" I haven't had an ounce of spare time in over two months and here I sit with free time coming out my ears. I don't like it. I don't like it one little bit. But I'm not going to dwell on that. Tomorrow begins a new day and this adventure promises to be an exciting one. Let's go for it!

Ann