Here, There and Everywhere

Hello All!
Yesterday was quite a day for me! I had a marine science lab at 9 AM, biology at 12:20, and an advising appointment at 3:00, but I actually got to start that early-allowing me out early which was great because I had to be at the house and ready to leave for Emory by 4:30. Whew. Basically, yesterday I had to go to Emory with some sisters because we are colonizing there (we sound like ants or something), and we needed to go up to meet the girls and help the people in charge of the Emory chapter answer any questions,just meet the girls, and give them a feel for what our sorority is like. That meant that I couldn't just get up and go to Marine Science lab looking cruddy. Boo.

Alright, so my advising appointment with Prof. Dowd was AWESOME. Basically, she is the best advisor in the world. We have the same birthday, so in the fall we always listen to each other's bday stories (she was at the beach, I hung out with friends at home). Then we get down to business, but somewhere in there we get to talking too, and she was asking about me and Tom and my promise ring. I promised her to come by or email her when we get engaged one day but told her it isn't happening any time soon! haha. Ok, so this is the best part- I have been wanting to study abroad in Costa Rica for a Maymester since I started thinking about it last semester. And I am definately going to pursue that. I also thought that would be a good tool to get me on track to graduate more closely to May of 2007. (Long story short, my first semester in my freshman year I was in a dif major, and I dropped a class- making my GPA and hours suffer. But she told me yesterday that I "recovered VERY nicely and no one would know if (I) didn't tell them." That made me feel better.) I asked her if I was on track to graduate in May '07. She said she didn't think so but we looked it over and found out that I am highly likely to graduate on time. Technically I am 2 hours short of being a junior, but since I am taking 17 hrs, I will be exactly in the middle of my jr year after this semester, and if I take 15 hrs next semester, I will be a senior at the end of the Spring Semester. By taking 2 classes in Costa Rica, I will actually put myself 6 hours ahead in my senior year, and that is fantastic! I am so excited about that. Even more exciting is that Alejandra is going to see if she can find a way to go on the CR Maymester with me and UGA. Sometimes schools will allow grades to transfer if you take classes on a study abroad trip with another school, so pray for that to work out- it would ROCK MY FACE OFF if she could come too! Next semester I am FINALLY going to be in upper level Spanish -Span 3010 (it is in conversation and composition..but harder than what I have been doing this semester and the last two semesters). In CR, I would be trying to get 2 more upper level Spanish classes out of the way. The downside of study abroad is that I can't take friends, Tom, and Family with me. That makes me so sad- I would be missing Jonathan's Med School graduation, Tyler's Third bday, and Me and Tom's 6-year anniversary. BOO on that. Dang it May-you are too popular of a month! No one better decide to get married this May, or I will hurt them!

Ok....So, Jessica rode to Atl with me, and that was SO MUCH FUN. We are so dorky, and I love hanging out with her. We just can talk about anything, and have a lot in common- like that we love Phantom of the Opera and Gamma Phi songs for example. She saw Phantom last Friday, and we had the soundtrack cds blaring and we were singing along. Now the notes in some of those songs are hard to hit anyway, but add to it that she is an alto and that I blew my voice out yelling at the game during parents weekend- I can't sing high notes right now. Did that stop us? NO. We were screeching out what would have been torturous sounds for anyone to have to listen to the whole way there and back, and then we would just die laughing; it really sounded that bad. At least I did- she actually wasn't so bad. Before we put in the Phantom music though, we were blaring my "Walkin' on Broken Glass" cd-basically it's a burned cd of songs that we sing in the a cappella group in Gamma Phi. The songs are for rush, for singing competitions, the national anthem for UGA athletic events (yes, we sing everywhere on campus but football games), etc. Basically, we are the only girls besides the song chair (I heart Jen Griffith!) that listen to that cd because we want to in our free time, not because we have to or need to. We also love that she is an alto and I am a soprano, because we harmonize on pretty much every song, and that is fun too. But yeah, just riding around with her and goofing off and talking meant I had a great evening.

Another thing that was fun was going to eat at Chili's with Megan, Megan, and Jess. (there are a ton of Meg(h)ans in my sorority). I didn't know Megan (Barclay,our President) or Megan (McDonald) very well, so it was fun to get to hang out with them. We went to the Kappa house at Emory because Megan B's older sister used to be one there and now works there as a chapter advisor. They have a condo where the 4 exec members live and where the chapter meets to have their chapter meetings. In August they are going to have "Sorority Village" at Emory available to all the sororities on campus- including Gamma Phi, which is awesome. Those houses will be spilt in two for housing two sororities per house, and they can hold 24 rather than 4 girls. Ok, after that we went to Chili's, and there was a guy (super overweight in his late 30s I would guess) there for a dude's bday as a singing telegraph. He was dressed in a full body leotard of light pink with fairy wings and a rainbow wig on his head. To complete the ensemble, he had a fairy wand that resembled one the kids I babysit have. Of course Jessica and I couldn't let him leave without getting a picture with him, so we caught him on the way out the door. We used her camera, so when she emails me the pics, I will try to remember to add them.

Ok that is all for now- I have a test on Friday in Spanish, in Psych 2980 on Monday, and in Marine Science on Wednesday, so I am going to be studying a lot for a bit. Pray for me!
Love,
Meghan