I am living with my college cluster mate Audrey's family, known simply as "the Bakers." Their ranks now include me and my other college cluster mate, Jessi, as well as three sisters (including Audrey), Michael and Laurie, and Sadie, their rambunctious golden retriever. My mornings now include gazing out onto Martha Lake while sipping my tea on their dock, making whole wheat-oatmeal-banana vegan waffles that are always praised but rarely eaten by anyone but me, and dressing out of my suitcase.
I am working full time and have found that it is, indeed, something one should get used to before graduating college. I have become a full fledged barista, able to make a cappucino, latte or mocha in under 2 minutes 30 seconds, and get covered in coffee and steamed milk while doing so. My summer vacation has been deliciously full. My family and I went to Maui to celebrate my parents' wedding anniversary, and quite honestly the pictures speak for themselves. The highlight of the trip occurred while I was snorkeling in Napili Bay, a giant sea turtle emerged out of the darkness of the waters beyond and glided elegantly by me, making its way towards the opposite cove. Incredible. It was a beautiful trip.
The first thing I saw when I got to Maui.
The three girls!
A game of coconut checkers anyone?
The view from our condo
The Dragon's Teeth
A beach near the "Dragon's Teeth"
A native Hawaiian grave site
Me and Mom at "The Gazebo" for their famous macadamia-banana-pineapple pancakes
The line for those aforementioned famous pancakes!
Me and Mom and our stunner shades
Come September my friends and I will move into our new apartment on 42nd and 8th in the University District. We each have our own rooms, two bathrooms for three people, an adorable kitchen and a spacious living room. You are all invited to come and stay, just be prepared for gloomy Seattle weather from September through about April.
I will be a junior at the University and will be completing my basic journalism courses next quarter, which include a class on the art of interviewing, beginning news writing and reporting, and to fulfill my language requirement, German 101. All of the students who were accepted into journalism in the same quarter will be in classes with me, and because we've already suffered through a painfully disorganized journalism ethics class together we have become fast friends. Our study sessions for the class spiraled into political and ethical debates (if we were NBC executives during the Virginia Tech manifesto controversy what would we have done?) and the airing of vast journalistic dreams, like traveling the world for National Geographic or being a hard hitting reporter for the New York Times.
I am very excited to see those familiar faces again come mid-September and really set my sights on making my writing the best it can be. If you ever read a piece of writing that just makes you go "wow", please do send it to me.
I want to be a journalist because it seems as though the profession is stuck in a mire of celebrity arrests and political trivialities. The lure of journalism is in its unique ability to spur readers to action. It doesn't matter whether a reader decides to knit sweaters for soldiers, buy stoves for displaced peoples in Sudan, or simply walks in another's shoes for that inspiring couple of inches of article. That words in ink on a page or pixels on a screen can ignite someone's consciousness is what drew me to journalism, and I hope to throw some gasoline on that fire. Thank you for your support, your belief in me and your love, and most of all, thank you for reading. Take care and enjoy your summers.
I will be a junior at the University and will be completing my basic journalism courses next quarter, which include a class on the art of interviewing, beginning news writing and reporting, and to fulfill my language requirement, German 101. All of the students who were accepted into journalism in the same quarter will be in classes with me, and because we've already suffered through a painfully disorganized journalism ethics class together we have become fast friends. Our study sessions for the class spiraled into political and ethical debates (if we were NBC executives during the Virginia Tech manifesto controversy what would we have done?) and the airing of vast journalistic dreams, like traveling the world for National Geographic or being a hard hitting reporter for the New York Times.
I am very excited to see those familiar faces again come mid-September and really set my sights on making my writing the best it can be. If you ever read a piece of writing that just makes you go "wow", please do send it to me.
I want to be a journalist because it seems as though the profession is stuck in a mire of celebrity arrests and political trivialities. The lure of journalism is in its unique ability to spur readers to action. It doesn't matter whether a reader decides to knit sweaters for soldiers, buy stoves for displaced peoples in Sudan, or simply walks in another's shoes for that inspiring couple of inches of article. That words in ink on a page or pixels on a screen can ignite someone's consciousness is what drew me to journalism, and I hope to throw some gasoline on that fire. Thank you for your support, your belief in me and your love, and most of all, thank you for reading. Take care and enjoy your summers.
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