"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do."

Its finally over and I'm back in my dorm room completely exhausted. 185 miles...wow...who's crazy idea was it for us to bike that far. Such an experience, though I have never thrown up so much in an entire weekend. The entire bike ride everyone asked themselves "why are we doing this" and "this is ridiculous" plus lots and lots of swear words ( Read more... )

As I was walking back from the union today with Molly and Tif, we walked past fraternity row. It absolutely made my day to walk past the Phi Delta Theta House and see the guys put speakers on their roof, absolutely blaring Irish Bag-Pipe music. Plus its so nice out all the different fraternity boys were playing football in their field while all ( Read more... )

"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."

-A. C. Benson

I thought this weekend would never come, to tell ya the truth. Tomorrow at 4:45 I catch my bus to Cincinnatti. We're expected to arrive around 8 when they will serve us dinner and give us an overview of the bike course. Then bright and early on Friday morning, I will be awakening at the glorious time of 6am and begin the 185 mile bike marathon; I' ( Read more... )

"We don't see things as they are.
We see them as we are."

-Anais Nin

Completely overwhelmed right now its almost ridiculous. Here's a little taste of my upcoming week ( Read more... )

Spring Break has finally come to a close and I am now back in lovely Ohio. I got back here around 5 or so, unpacked, grabbed a bite to eat and then was all around the dorms just catching up with everyone. I was so excited to see everyone, especially Kaitlin, Erin, and the boys. I felt like I hadn't seen them in forever! And by being back at school ( Read more... )

Just got the most fantastic news from Balint...he's moving home on Saturday from British Colombia! I'm so excited, he wasn't suppose to be home for another 3 weeks.

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

-Frederick Douglas

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson