Back to School

{A skype session with my Barcelona babes}

{Can't wait to visit you girls March 4th!!!}

Well, semester break is over and I'm officially back at Lehigh.  Usually I'm eager to get back to school, but for some reason I really didn't want to leave my family this time.  It was hard to say goodbye to everyone knowing they're all at home together and I'm the one away.  The only thing that made it a bit easier was knowing my sisters are moving to NYC within the next few weeks, so they won't be home too much longer.  I am SO SO excited for them.  They just found an apartment that they're interested in, so I'll be hoping that they get it!  I cannot wait to visit them as my escape from school every now and then.  You can imagine how incredibly jealous I am that they are moving into the glamorous NYC while I live in the, for lack of a better word, dull Bethlehem, PA.

This semester will be a little bit different for me being that some of my closest friends are abroad.  This post is dedicated to them, and I cannot wait for them to stumble across it (I think they are the only readers of this blog anyway haha).  It hasn't quite set in yet how different my semester will be without them, but I'm sure next week I'll be posting sob stories about how I miss them terribly.  I spoke to them just the other day, and they are having a wonderful time (the pictures above are images from our skype session and a photo of them in a club in Spain).  The fact that they are happy and having fun makes me beyond thrilled.  I will be looking forward to March 4th when I board a plane for Barcelona during my Spring break.  Special thanks to my daddy for the best 21st birthday present ever!  My first trip to Europe, WOW.

I only had one class today, so my semester started off fairly easy.  My teacher seemed brilliant, which always excites me.  I also loved her enthusiasm for the course, as that is always a contagious attitude.  I'm a nerd what can I say, but I've always loved being in school.  Tomorrow I've got three classes  back to back from 9-2, so I'm attempting to prepare myself for a longer and much more serious day.  I'm hoping that something exciting will happen throughout the course of the day so I can post about it.  In the meantime, I hope I'm not boring you too much.  I'm enrolled in a religion course, which is a new thing for me, so I'm looking forward to what it has to offer.  I've also got a Psyc course on child development to look forward to and a Communications course about media and communication.

I'm praying for not too much snow in the Lehigh Valley!  It makes getting to class the most arduous and horrible process.  Not to mention, I'll be sliding all over the mountain that my campus just happens to sit on.  Seriously, the inventor of the escalator went to Lehigh and I know he got the idea because he had to walk the mountain all day.  He should do us a favor and install some free escalators all over campus or something because this place is brutal!  Thank God I've got my new Sorel Joan of Arctic snow boots to keep my toes warm!  They're amazing if you're looking for a cute but still functional snow boot btw.