I’m in love with my major. :)

today i had my first day of my sophomore year of college. i mean, to most it’s like “who cares??” but yeah.. it’s a big to me. needless to say, i was freaking out about it because i hadn’t actually bought my books yet, and my tuition wasn’t paid for… and i just didn’t even know where my classes were or even my schedule. basically, i was screwed. however, it all turned out ok! yay for that! i basically just looked up my schedule yesterday and figured out where my classes were in my head.

i woke up at 8:00 this morning because i live farther away from school this year. (for those who DIDN’T know, i am living with my friend Tiffany and her family at their house in Maumee, OH which is basically only like 10-15 minutes away.. OK! sometimes 20.)  i feel terrible about getting up so early. first off, i didn’t get much sleep last night, BUT then!!! i get in the shower this morning and i didn’t even realize that Ori (Tiff’s sister) was up. i think maybe she needed to get in the bathroom to get ready.. but i’m not sure. nevertheless, i still feel terrible about getting up and disturbing everyone with my clanks and blowdrying of my hair this morning. if you read this, I’M SORRY CABACUM’S!!!

i leave around 8:50 to venture to campus. jake advised that i arrive extra early since it’s the first day of school and that i should see if my classes are still where they said they were on my schedule. luckily, they were!   but anyway! i get to campus and there were so many flipping cars there, i was so ticked. i FINALLY found a parking spot. my first class was mass communication and society. it was basically AMAZING!  i met a girl there and she’s pretty cool! i am just so excited to actually have people in my classes with my same major or interested in the things that i am. see, before i was in political science. when i would tell people about my interests being writing and communication and how we all interact, they just looked at me with a repulsed look and asked ‘WHY??’… so yeah, IT WAS NICE!!!  my teacher is hilarious. he has some sweet slides to go along with his lecture. i mean, Flava Flav was on it. oh and ALSO Jerry Springer. so i mean, COME ON, that just SCREAMS awesome. the class is way packed though. 110 students. when it’s only supposed to have 100… sucks for him. he read every single name today for role. actually, he got halfway through it and someone finally opened the door outside and a mass amount of people came flooding in the room…poor guy.  btw!!! he asked if anyone had a blog in there, and i was the ONLY person. what has happened to the world?? i mean seriously!! do these people not have any THOUGHTS?!?!  guess not..

after that, i sat in the lawn of Centennial Mall. and basically just fell asleep for a bit. i have like an hour and fifteen minute break between my first two classes on monday’s and wednesday’s… so today. i thought i would take advantage of the time for a much needed nap. YAY!

my second class as News Writing. i actually got there and didn’t think i was supposed to be in there because it was a class full of sweet Mac Desktops.. i mean, i guess i just never thought that news writing would involve the internet… or computer..or something..  i guess i’m an idiot.  we had to tell the whole class who we were and what we were all about. i think people think im the crazy Christian chick.. see, i told them that i wanted to in PR/journalism for missions orgs… and that i just wanted to bring light all the things that the media DOESN’T bring up such as homelessness and that it CAN be helped, or poverty in the world… just STUFF. and yea…  i don’t know. i just hope people can see that Jesus is cool.. who cares if they like me.

third class=SNOOZE FEST.   it’s philosophy. contemporary moral problems.. EW. i mean, it sounded cool… but then i got in there.. and jordan and i BOTH agreed that our teacher is one of those guys that is just SO smart that you cannot even talk to him…  it sucks, but i guess i will learn about the problems in the world??  who knows.  i just pray i don’t fail. haha

 

NOW, i am at Beaners ( a coffee place around here). it’s really not that busy.. which is nice. i mean, i basically go in my own world when i’m here anyways since i listen to my ipod and get on the internet and such..  but yeah. i love it.    i just don’t think it smart of me to drive alllllll the way back home to just have to come BACK in town for Zakuska ( a swwwweeet bible study i go to on Monday’s) you know??   and like, seriously. EVERYDAY i have something to do in the evenings that requires me to be back around campus.. so there is just NO point. i will either go to the library, hang at someone’s room or come to beaner’s. and today the choice was Beaner’s since Jake is working.    he’s so cute making his coffee and wearing his little orange Beaner’s t-shirt. lol. 

AMAZING NEWS!!!  today, once i arrived in my News Writing class after deciding i WAS supposed to be in there, haha, i got on the Mac (which i have TOTALLY decided i NEED a macbook…) and checked out my financial aid situation. i will only have to pay roughly $1,300.00 this semester.. and the same for next semester!! God is SO cool. i mean, this time a few weeks ago i had given up the thought of coming to UT again because my appeal hadn’t been approved. then i went to Zakuska, we prayed specifically for me to be able to go to UT and to be apart of whatever ministry God needs me in HERE at Toledo… and the next day, BAM! it was approved!!! (after much laying down the law at the Rocket Solution Central haha)

and yeah, that was my day in a very LARGE nutshell!   ugh. there is a girl her with her macbook.. just taughting me with it bc i don’t have one.. :/   i MUST get one.

well, i guess i am going to look at people’s pics on facebook. OH YEAH!! AHHHHH CONGRATS JOLIE! i am SO SO SO happy for you!

love. jo

unafraid

well, i think i am going to enjoy this blog way better. i can already feel my fingers typing with JOY and … yeah. it’s nice

thanks JOLIE. haha it’s kind of all your fault. since i saw your wordpress i was completely obsessed with it.

anyhow.. in searching for a SUPER SWEET name to have for this bad boy, i decided to look up the meaning of my name. i had never REALLY done that before. the only time anyone even told me what my name meant was when Hope kept singing ” i feeelll youuuu, joaaaannnaaa!” and asked if i was bothered by it because she totally loves that name!! haha when i said i wasnt so sure about it, she told me that it meant God is gracious.

how cool??   so, began my journey tonight! i found out that it comes from the latin for JOHN which is loannes… (which i think John is just the BOMB, so that’s sweet)… and thus loanna (the feminine for loannes) has become the name by which this blog shall be named. i didn’t want to put only Loanna though, because i was SURE someone would comment about how i can’t even spell my own name.. sue me for wanting to be grammatically correct. so i guess i am being redundant with the whole loannajoanna. but WHATEV! i happen to think it’s.. catchy! hah.

well i better get something going on in my life tonight..

write soon.

love.