Hello World!!!

Hello World! So, I know its been awhile but I have decided to get blogging again and update everyone on my life. Where to begin!?

Lets start with the ending on the Spring semester. I passed my classes with flying colors. (It was slightly shocking for some classes because I really thought I would barely pass but I happily surprised myself!) I had the honor of receiving the Phoenician Scholarship and I also began working full time at Big Surf Water Park for my 4th season in a row, but this time as the Aquatics Manager! I have to say it has been an exciting semester and summer is looking as busy as ever.

In other exciting news, I moved out of my parents’ house for a month and moved in with my Sweetie Andy. This gave us the opportunity to spend as much time with each other before he left for the Army. Andy is in the Army Reserves and left for Basic Training on July 13th. After two months of Basic he will go on to AIT which is his training for his specific job. He chose Military Police. Unfortunately he will be gone for about 20 weeks. I miss him terribly and can only hope that the next few months fly by. For the first 9 weeks Andy will not be able to use the phone that often. Usually just on Sundays and phone calls can only be about 3-5 minutes. Not a lot of time to get to talk to the one you love, but I’ll take what I can get. We mainly communicate through letters for his Boot camp training. When he gets to AIT he will have more privileges and be able to use the phone more often. Until then, I’ll be writing him a ton of letters!

For some reason this summer seems to be the summer to study abroad. I have my Best Friend Reyna studying Spain, my close friend Danny got to study in England and travel around Europe as well, and another friend of mine is doing some sort of special Army training in Germany. I have to admit, I was a little bit jealous of everyone’s fun and exciting travels so I decided to come up with my own trip/study abroad plan. This winter I want to travel to New Zealand! I have always wanted to visit this wonderful country and now that I’m approaching graduation (3 more semesters!) I would really like to travel while I still can. So I have decided that I am going to spend 2 weeks in New Zealand just for myself. I won’t be doing anything for school or getting any sort of college credit but just traveling for my own enjoyment. I am so serious about this that I have actually started looking up airfares and hotel costs. So far it is looking around the range of $2100 to $2800 to go there for two weeks. This is just airfare and the hotel. This does not include the cost of food and all the fun activities I plan to do. If I don’t get to go this winter then it’ll be my graduation present to myself next December.

This summer has been flying by and school is fast approaching! This semester is looking pretty challenging. I am taking my first Graduate course (REC 500- Research Methods) to get a jump start on my Masters program. I’ll probably be one of VERY few undergraduates in that class and not going to lie, I feel a little intimidated. I’m really hoping I don’t make a fool of myself in there, but I guess I just have to go in with positive thinking! I am also taking Tourism Planning and Tourism Transportation Systems with Professor Teye. I heard these are difficult classes but I am looking forward to learning as much as I can about the Tourism industry. The class I am most excited for is Jazz I. I have not taken a dance class since my Freshman year and I cannot wait to get back to it! The only problem is that this class is at 8 in the morning. This is actually the earliest class I have ever had in my entire college career. I am not a morning person so this is really going to be interesting waking up super early for one class.

This has kind of been my summer in a nutshell. I am trying to make more time for blogging so hopefully life won’t bog me down too much and I can get at least one a two blogs in a week. Till next time, have a Fantastic week!



Lonni Summers