Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Easter

So far things have been going pretty well. Easter was two days ago, which was a nice time to visit home. I went home Sunday morning and stayed at home until about 7:00. I have not been home in a while. It was really nice to go visit my parents and relax at home. Nothing is better than some home made cooking.  I have missed my parent's cooking. At school, I either eat out, eat on campus, or cook my own food. My parents made a delicious dinner. I was stuffed after dinner and even had some food to bring back to school. 

While I was at home, I was able to get a lot of my homework done. It is so much easier to focus on schoolwork at my house. I was able to study for a quiz and wrote a paper for my English class. I brought my dog home too. Both of my parents love my dog. They always want me to bring her, when I come and visit. Since I have a fence around my whole backyard, my dog is able to run around wherever she wants. This helps me not having to worry about her wondering off somewhere she is not suppose to be. At my house at school, there is no fence and sometimes she goes off running in the woods. 

I am very excited for this upcoming weekend. This Saturday is the Salisbury game. Salisbury is a big conference rival for us. This is the biggest game for us every year. Everybody always looks forward to this game. The game atmosphere is insane. Everyone is pumped up and excited to play this game. In the past years, the games have been very close. I am very excited to play against Salisbury. We don't like them and they don't like us. This game is going to be very fun to watch. 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

summer is coming

School is slowly dwindling down. It is almost summer and I cannot wait. There is nothing wrong with school, but the amount of free time that is available during the summer is awesome. I need a nice long break from school. I do not usually do anything crazy during the summer. I usually spent my summers at home, but last year I spent the majority of the summer here in Owings Mills. I had an internship with one of my teachers and at a location in Baltimore. It was easier for me to live over here during the summer, instead of commute from home. It only would of been a 45 minute drive, but the amount of gas would of started to build up after a while.

I am going to try and spend more time at home this summer. I did not get to hang out with my friends from home as much as planned, so I want to make changes this summer. I will be participating in another internship this summer in the Baltimore area; however, I am going to spend more time at home. I am going to spend periods of time up here in Owings Mills, but then go home for a longer period of time.

I do not have any vacations planned for this summer. I am going to make a few trips down to Ocean City, MD. A lot of my friends go down there and a good amount of them live there during the summer. I would never really want to live at the beach. I don't see the point of working at the beach, just to make enough money to live there. Then after the summer, you really don't have a large portion of money left over, because you had to spend it on living costs at the beach. I would rather make trips down there and spend a whole lot less of money. This way I can still have fun, and get my priorities taken care of during the summer. Even though the end of the semester can be pretty tough, it is nice to know that summer is right around the corner.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

back to school

Spring break is over. I had an alright break. I did not go to anywhere warm or to the beach. I spent my break at school. We played three games over the course of the break. My days consisted of hanging out around my house and going to practice. Once practice was over, I would come home and find something to do with my friends. It would be pretty cool if the lacrosse team took a trip to somewhere really warm and with beaches.

This warm weather makes me what summer badly. I am ready for school to be over. Half of a semester to go and I will be onto my senior year. It is pretty crazy how time flies. I can remember my freshman and sophomore years, like it was yesterday. Soon enough, I will be a senior and will be graduating . I did very well for my midterms, so that made me feel very assured. This semester has been going very well. I have had no problems in any of my classes. The workload has not been too bad. I wrote two papers last night, but that was the most work I have had so far. I could of done some work during spring break, but I really was not trying to do homework during my free time.

 I am going to have to get ready to make a new schedule for next semester. I am not sure what courses I will be taking. I might take a heavier load in the fall, so in the spring, I can take a very light load. It would be pretty sweet to only have three classes for a semester. I would have so much more free time, but that free time would be used properly. Even though, the course load would be lighter, I am going to be very busy dealing with my plans for after college. I hope this semester continues to go by smoothly and I finish strong. 

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Spring break

Im pretty excited for spring break. Technically, I really don't have a spring break, because I have to stay at school for lacrosse. So instead of going somewhere warm, I have to play lacrosse everyday. It will be fun though. We play our first away game this weekend against Lynchburg. Away games are pretty fun trips, but this is going to be a pretty long drive. I think it takes somewhere between 4-5 hours to get there. We are leaving on Friday, but the game is on Saturday. Once we arrive to our destination, we have practice at the University of Virginia. Then we will most likely go eat somewhere, then go to the hotel.

It's very exciting to play at Lynchburg. I played at Lynchburg my freshman year. The atmosphere during the game is crazy. Its a big game for anyone to play against Stevenson. So many fans from Lynchburg show up to the game. They have a really sweet set up around their turf field. They have a decently nice stadium, but the sweet part is the dorms. They have a bunch of dorms literally right on the other side of the field. There are people all over just screaming and shouting. The game atmosphere is so intense. My freshman year, we were down by a lot, but came back at the end and won. Saturday's game will hopefully be just as exciting and intense. I am looking forward to playing against this team.

We are most likely going to get back home very late Saturday night. Hopefully, there will be some good movies playing on the bus. I will most likely be sleeping on the way back. The trip is way to long. The nice thing about spring break is that I can go home and visit my parents. I don't live to far away from home. It will be nice to get a nice home-cooked meal.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

a little update

So far, things have been going pretty well. My birthday was on Sunday (2/26). I recently turned 21 years old. I am very excited about finally becoming this age. I went down to Fed Hill, with a bunch of my friends, to go drink at the bars. I went Saturday night, but by the time we made it there, it was already 12:00 a.m. I had a great time. We took a shuttle down there, which costed $20 a person. This was a very good deal, because a taxi from my house to Fed Hill would cost a good sum of money. The shuttle driver must of made bank. The shuttle held around 31 passengers, so he made around $600.

Another good thing that happened during the weekend, was my team won our second game. We played against Hampden-Sydney College. We just squeezed by with a win against this team. We are going to have to play a lot better for the game this upcoming weekend. This weekend we play Western New England College. We played them last year and won, but this is a new year. As long as we have a good week of practice, we should be prepared enough for Saturday.

School has been going well. I have been keeping up with all my schoolwork. I've been enjoying all my classes. Tuesdays and Thursdays are usually my busy days, because I have three classes in a row. My Mondays and Wednesdays are pretty easy. I only have two classes on those days and my first class does not star until noon. I always look forward to sleeping in a bit. The one positive about my Tuesday and Thursday classes is that I get finished by 1:30. I am going to schedule next semester like this current semester, so I can get all my classes done earlier in the day.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

getting busy

So I have been pretty busy lately. Im starting to get a good amount of work to do in my classes. My religion class has been keeping me very busy. I had to write two papers for the class this week. I had one test this week. I haven't really had too many tests this semester.

The lacrosse season has finally started. We won our first home game last Saturday. We have another home game this Saturday. Lacrosse practice has been going well. The practices have been getting a little shorter, so its nice to get out a little earlier. This way I have more time to get my homework done, then I can relax. Today was a really nice day out. It was very warm out during my practice. I hope it stays warm all week. I enjoy playing in the warm weather over the cold. I really hope it starts getting warm soon. The weather has been so strange lately. One day its freezing cold, then the next day is nice and warm. I think a few days ago, it was suppose to snow, but it ended up being a decently nice day. Hopefully my work load lightens up, so I can go relax outside if its warm.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

so far...

This week has been pretty good so far. School has been going well. The homework load has not been too bad. For some reason, this semester seems a little easier then last semester. It could be due to the fact that I am taking easier classes, but who knows. Last semester, it seemed like I had homework all the time and tests or papers due every weekend. I hope this semester doesn't turn out like last semester. I am enjoying the light work load, especially with lacrosse practice in my schedule.

Lacrosse has been going well. The first game is this Saturday against Haverford College. I am very excited to start playing lacrosse games. Preseason is always pretty tough, due to conditioning and practice. When the season actually starts, the practices become much easier. It's going to be nice to know all the hard work paid off.

Tonight, I just saw the movie "Safe House". Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington starred in this movie. I thought the movie was very good. It was very action packed. The whole story line was good and kept me guessing what would happen. Hopefully, this week will continue to go well.