Wow. I haven't seen this page in a long time. I guess it was time for me to revisit my Xanga home. This was pretty much where it all started. Facebook wasn't even on our minds. Haha. Ummm.....I'm not used to this blogging thing anymore. I'm in college now! That's pretty weird. It's ok. It's hard. I'm in the Honors College, which is a completely different setting than the main campus. I still take some normal classes on the main campus, but I take my gen ed classes with the HC. The classes are capped at about 15, and it's a really comfortable setting. There's no test, but in place of the tests we have papers. And during the classes we discuss the material we have. It's a pretty cool setting, but it's definitely a lot of work. I live on campus. I have suitemates, but my own room, which is nice. That's basically the only reason I'm living here. No bunk beds for me, thanks.

Wow, I used to be able to make quite the long entry, but I'm a little rusty. Maybe if I keep this up I'll get better again. We'll see.

I just saw that my last post was three days away from a year ago. Man.

Finally, semester 2 has begun! I'm now taking Health and Eng. 4. Health has a lot of annoying Freshman. I guess I'll deal. It's nice to have a really easy class.

So today at school I had to give the announcements over the P.A. system. Not cool. It's part of the Journalism 2 job, we make the paper and do the announcements. Mrs. Brave gave me the announcements she had, I typed them up with everything I needed to say and how to say it, so I would only have one sheet of paper to read. Well, I walked into the office later that day and the secretary handed me about 6 sheets of paper with all these other announcements written on them in handwriting I couldn't read. I had about 2.5 seconds to look them over and organize them before I had to read them to 2,400 people. Needless to say, it wasn't exactly smooth sailing. Luckily I'm the quiet kid who nobody knows.

In other news: I got into the Pierre Laclede Honors College at UMSL! I had an interview for it last week, which I wasn't sure how well it went. Apparently better than I thought. All members of the college get a merit scholarship, plus an additional amount if you live in the dorms there. That helps a lot. At the Honors College I will be taking one extra course a semester besides my major requirements. Only in the honors college, the class sizes are 12-15 people and there aren't any written tests. Your grades are determined by your discussion and presentations. So it will be nice to have the typical university setting, along with a small college setting. I can't wait for college.

Have a great Friday!

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope everyone's was great.

Last week Jamie, Aaron and I made a pretty magnificent gingerbread house:

Saturday I made a second one, which we didn't have time to do Thursday, due to the fact that they had to set for a total of about 4 hours.:

Everyone liked their presents:

(There were $15 dollars locked in that case and you had to send a ball through a maze to unlock it)

Dad got the full James Bond collection.

Mom got pictures of Bradley and I together. I don't know why she was excited about that. lol

I'm leaving for Florida tomorrow. I'll be there until the 2nd. So everyone have an awesome New Year!

I'm going to miss my puppy: