Aleshia

ZOMG I'm BACK!Q!!!!!111one

2007-06-03T19:25:05Z

Hey guys! I'm finally making a post after 10 bagillion years!!! ZOMG! I know it's been long but now I have finally returned! REJOICE!!!! REJOICE!!!!

So, today I am having my graduation party. EJ and the awesome Jenny are here and are actually in my room. I'm not quite sure what to post but I just wanted to make mention that I exist after so long. Its been a long time coming.

Oh, I'm going away soon... by the way... annddddddddddddddd

I got a a new laptop and am going away in the fall! !!!!oneoneoen111

Ok.. I'm done.

*made by Jenny... FTW

ducttapegirl @ 2006-12-16T21:46:00

2006-12-17T02:46:58Z

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ducttapegirl sent to me...

Twelve spqrradios drumming

Eleven somersaults piping

Ten jackamaimes a-leaping

Nine kleaverjrs dancing

Eight les_o_lies a-milking

Seven proftomoes a-swimming

Six jdev0203s a-snowboarding

Five bo-o-o-okolunas

Four ruff_n_readys

Three bananas

Two group workcamps

...and a ducttape in a five iron frenzy.

Long Week

2006-01-29T20:14:07Z

Well it was a very long week. I found out I need to get a tetanus shot because it is outdated so I have to get that tomorrow morning but it should not be that bad. I had to renegotiate the contract for my CAB event which I did successfully so I was very proud of myself. On Friday I found out that I got rejected from the Australia program which is still rather annoying but oh well nothing I can do about that. Yesterday I learned that you can get a bad headache from studying too much because I got one from studying advertising for too long. I ended up going to bed around 11 and woke up at 9:30 and that part was amazing because I have not been able to get that much sleep in one night all semester. This semester is crazy busy and a lot of work but I can do it I am doing well so far except the whole fact of social life is lacking. I feel bad about this and that I am growing distant from some of my friends because of this. I have so much stuff going on that I am either at class, gym, meeting, CAB event, Shakespeare stuff, or studying and doing homework. I really need to find some time to see some of my friends that I think I am growing distant from because I need them.

I swear I'm alive

2006-01-10T03:22:42Z

Well I am alive just have not written in this thing in forever. I told Jenny I would try and update though and I figure since classes don't start until tomorrow and I have free time that I would update. I have been doing good. I got back to Houghton yesterday from break and it was a happy and very crazy reunion for my housemates and some of our other friends. I am sort of looking forward looking forward to this semester. I don't want to have to deal with all the work but it will be nice to get back into a routine and be busy so I can get my mind off some things which will be a nice break. Hopefully I will hear about Dayspring and Australia soon. I am hoping to go to Australia next year fall semester through Houghton. Well I don't know what else to write because I am really tired so hopefully I will get better at updating this.

Recap

2005-06-09T14:10:48Z

Well finals went good, Mayterm was great had an awesome time with awesome people and got an A. Being home has been quite joyous. I went to a friend's party which was awesome and I had a really good time catching up with people and just hanging out with old friends. They also made me realize how much I am going to miss this place and them over the summer. I have been pretty busy since I have been home but that is a good thing and it made being home a lot more fun. I got to see some family, most of my friends, and a bunch of people from the church so all in all it was a good 2 weeks. Today is mostly going to be filled with laundry, making sure I have everything, and much packing. I leave tomorrow to head to Houghton for a week of training then we head out to the camps after that so it should be an awesome summer. I hope everyone has a good summer and feel free to call my cell when you want to.

Woot for stress

2005-04-30T04:44:15Z

Yeah it has been really stressfull recently for many reasons and suprisingly finals is not one of them. My finals have not been bad so far and I really only worried about one which I attended a review session for tonight. I am also trying to pack up a bunch of stuff and figure out what is going in storage and what is going home. Well I am the genius who has really nothing left here to pack anything in so it ahs proven difficult. Now I am just coming up with piles and I hvae to wait until Lori and Zack get here on Monday to pack most of the stuff going home. We are packing most of the stuff in their jeep on Monday night and then I leave Tuesday right after my final hopefully, which is from 8 to 10 and will probably take the whole two hours becuase it is Philosophy. One of the big things that has been stressing me out though is the situation with CAB. I applied to be on next year and I got rejected which I found pretty strange and so did everyone else becuase of how much I volunteered and helped them this year. Well I found out the reason I did not get on was because I volunteered so much and they wanted to keep me as a volunteer. When I found this out I was not happy at all and neither were most people. Today I checked my CPO box and I had a rejection letter from CAB but at the bottom there was a note from the CAB director next year offering me an oppurtunity to head up a new position helping coordinate volunteers and all that stuff. I e mailed him tonight and I am going to talk to him about it and then decide whether I am going to take him up on the offer or not. Anyways so I am excited to get home except I get home Tuesday and leave again on Sunday so it is a short break but it's something... so I guess i'll take it.

Soooo Close

2005-04-18T04:12:57Z

I have a week and two days left of classes and then finals and I could not be happier about that. It is a little scary though because after that I will be half way done with college and I have a lot of friends that are seniors and leaving this year which makes me sad. I was talking about this with a friend earlier and we agreed that nobody will be able to replace some of the friends I have that are graduating. Also I am trying not to think about all the work I have to do before the end of the semester and all the finals I have to study for. I am very busy for the rest of the semester though so I am hoping it goes by rather quickly. Anyways I was requested to put dates in here of my schedule for the summer and when I would be home. So here it goes.
May 3rd- Last final and come home.
May 9th- Return to Houghton for Mayterm
May 27th- Mayterm ends and come home
June 10th- Return to Houghton for Dayspring
August 14th- Return to Houghton and either come home this day or the 15th.
I also might have to come back to Houghton early for CAB training if I get on which could mean the last time I come home could be for a week or maybe longer depending on CAB. Anyways I have been doing fairly well just really busy and trying to hang out with people becuase I wont see them for a while especially my senior buds who I will only see when they come to visit next year. Everything for next year is figured out to our housing is all set up and my classes are all picked out. I got my first sunburn today to since the weather has gotten nicer. Today it was in the 60's and is going to stay that way which makes a very happy Aleshia.

Almost break

2005-03-17T15:40:19Z

Well I have about a week until Easter break and I should be home for about 10 days which makes me really happy. Lately I hvae had a lot of projects and papers due and currently working on a project and paper that are due before break. Stuff with Dayspring is going well we signed our contracts, found out official day that training starts and when we are done for the summer, we almost have an official schedule and we have started brainstorming ideas for skits and stuff. It is going to be a fun summer and a learning experience to. I can not wait to get home for break though. I love Houghton but it is nice to go home and get away from all the drama and just be able to relax and hang out with people back home. Also I figured out a lot of scheduling stuff. I come home for about a week between finals and Mayterm, 2 weeks betweem mayterm and dayspring and I think a week or so between dayspring and when I have to come back for Houghton.

Feb "Break"

2005-03-01T03:48:59Z

Well I got back today from our February "break." This just means we have the weekend plus Monday off. I went to one of my friend's house right outside of Philly with some other people. We went to the Philadelphia museum of art and got a driving tour of Philly by my friend's father which was fun. We had a good time though most of the weekend was just us being stupid but that is the norm around us. Last night we went line dancing which was a lot of fun and I caught on to some of the dances pretty quick. I come home in three weeks or so and I found a girl here that lives in W. Bridgewater that is willing to give me a ride home for Easter break. Also this break is a little over a week I think which will be nice. It will be good to get home and see everyone and just relax. Also hopefully by this time I will know a rough estimate of the dates and stuff when dayspring starts and ends but who knows. It is midterm here now and I don't have any midterms and I am definitely not complaining about that. There is about eight weeks left of school which makes me happy because this year has been really stressful and I am really looking forward to my summer. On a final note real Philly Cheese Steaks are good.

Pictures

2005-02-01T04:44:30Z

Well yesterday was a really random day and a even more random night. I got my hair cut and that is all I am going to say. I have pictures of my new hair cut in my Webshots page under the Houghton Part. http://community.webshots.com/user/ducttapegirl

Another Update

2005-01-28T04:14:15Z

Well amazingly enough I am updating again possibly because I actually have something worthwhile to update about. So I got rejected from CAB and that did put me in a sort of bummed out mood for a day or so but everything is ok now. Today I was heading back to East and I hear my name being called from the Info Center so I went in and Ryan was working the desk. He told me that he did not know that I was interested in Dayspring and I said yeah I was and then he asked if I had checked my e mail and I told him I hadn't. So after that he proceded to tell me who got into it. Well I got into Dayspring. This was very good news for me but there is also some parts that some people such as my parents and friends probably will not be too fond of such as the fact that I am not going to home all summer. Dayspring is the drama ministry group at my college and during the summer they travel all over the East coast going to camps and helping the camps out with whatever they need and performing dramas. So the plan right now is I will be home the week between finals and Mayterm and then I come here for Mayterm and depending on when Dayspring training starts depends on whether I come home between Mayterm and Dayspring training. Dayspring goes until the 2nd or 3rd week in August and if I get on CAB next year I am probably going to have to go straight from Dayspring back to Houghton for CAB training. Needless to say I am not really going to be home this summer. No offense to my friends back home I just want to try something different and start experiencing some new things and this is my shot.

It's been a long time

2005-01-24T00:49:55Z

Yeah so it has been a long time since I have updated so yeah sorry. School is going ok not really motivated at the current time to do my Comm paper but I will finish it eventually. Currently I am watching the Pats game and they are winning which is a good thing. I talked to my father today and got to hear about all the snow MA got which I thought was amazing and I also found out my mother has been at work since 3 yesterday afternoon but has not been relieved yet because no replacements can get in because of all the snow. We got a bunch of snow here to and we were out playing in it last night but compared to what I have heard MA got this is nothing. Lately I have been going interview/audition crazy. I had my CAB interview, Dyaspring interview, tried out for Shakespeare and got rejected and tried out for SPOT and got rejected. I will find out about CAB on Tuesday at 5:30 and I will find out about Dyaspring in a couple of weeks. I hope everyone back home is ok especially the people I know that live near the beach.

Home at last

2004-11-24T05:28:42Z

So I am home and I could not be happier about it. It took us about 9 hours to get here because of traffic but tonight alone was well worth it. Tonight three of my friends came over and we went to Friendly's and got ice cream and just talked about a bunch of memories and stuff that has been going on and we had a lot of laughs. It also awesome to see my mom and dad and I showed them pictures and stuff and told them what classes I am taking next semester. that I e mailed all the professors and asked what books I need and I broke don adn told them my expected grades for this semester and they seemed quite pleased. Another thing I think tehy are happy about is that I have declared my major and know what my minors are going to be. It makes me feel good hen my parents are proud of me so right now I am really happy. I get to see my grandmother tomorrow and then time for Wal Mart. Thursday I might be going to the Thanksgiving day football game but not to sure. Friday we are having Thanksgiving dinner because my mother works on Thanksgiving and I do get to see my sister because she is not leaving until Saturday which is another contribution to my happiness. And finally Saturday I am going to a party at one of my friend's house so it will be good to see all of them. The only downside of this break is that my friend is giving the sermon in church on Sunday and I don't get to hear it but oh well he will do fine. Ok time for bed maybe not to sure about that one.

Harvey and crazyiness

2004-11-11T03:25:02Z

Well yes it has been a while and i'm sorry. Well the stuff that has been going on recently lets see. Last weekend was the play which was Harvey. So last week I was busy every night doing that but we had a lot of fun doing all the stuff and me and Joe had some good times goofing off and actually the whole cast and crew has good times when we were all being stupid. Since I was so busy doing all the Harvey stuff last week all the work ahs been piling up so tonight I wrote my report on Singleness and started my poster, wrote my Bible study observation paper and studied some for Intro to Christ I should probably study some more though becuase it would be a good idea. So now I just have to finish the poster before Friday, write a paper in Spanish on the massacre in Hispaniola which is due Monday I believe and found out a bunch of information for my Intro to Christ project on Fundamentalism which I should do that asap. So yeah it has been crazy and it is about to get even more crazy oh the joy. Tomorrow at noon I have to go over to the chapel because I am meeting Jeremy Camp and I have to help load all of his equipment and stuff into the chapel and I am going to the concert tomorrow night with some friends. This weekend is going to be insane because there is going to be massive amounts of prospectives and we are hosting three which should be interesting but oh well so the campus is going to be uber crowded this weekend which is always so much fun. Also on Monday I am co hosting my friend Becky's radio show with my friend Joe which should be rather interesting because when me and Joe are together we tend to be quite crazy and add Becky into the mix and it will make for a very entertaining radio show. Ok well I am off to go study more or sleep not sure which one yet.

WE WON

2004-10-28T17:18:31Z

WE WON THE WORLD SERIES. I am very happy for the Red Sox and really wish I was in Boston right now but oh well. I called my parents last night around midnight because I thought they would not sleep through this and they didn't and I was very proud of my dad for staying awake. However I do not agree with Manny being the MVP but I can not do anything about that. One thing that annoyed me was that is was not a very entertaining World Series because it was a shut out I think if they had not won all 4 games in a row then it would have been a little bit more exciting when they won.
School is going ok and classes are not to bad. Social life is busy as it always is and guess what. I am going to be a security person at the FFH concert on Campus Saturday night how funny is that. I found it hilarious but it should be fun and quite entertaining and I get to go to the concert for free so its all good.

PROUD TO BE FROM BOSTON

2004-10-21T04:52:06Z

WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON. Ok so yeah the RED SOX WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was soooooo awesome we were up at Shen watching it up at the ARD Nick's apartment and we had so much fun and it was all Red Sox fans in there and the Yankee's fans were in the lounge and they were quiet becuase they were losing which was better for them being there because Emerson was trying to sleep. I AM SO PROUD TO BE FROM BOSTON. Yeah and after they won Nick got a phone call form Emerson which he was expecting and apparently one of the floors was playing victory music. Tonight was sweet I saw the Red Sox win and I got to meet some cool people. I am feeling a bit better now to just my throat was sore even though teh game probably did not do to much good for that but who cares WE WON.

Wow

2004-10-18T04:10:02Z

I had an awesome break at Leslie's. There was a lot of us that went and some of her friends came over. We played games, watched movies, talked a lot, and of course caught up on some much needed sleep. This weekend was very good and relaxing and I really needed it. I got back today and my dad called me. He proceeded to tell me that my sister was in a car accident Friday night. She totaled the car and a telephone pole. She is ok physically but emotionally she is messed up. They took her to the hospital and she gave them two numbers to call and this happened about 3 and they did not call my house untill 7:30 when my sister gave them the phone number in the ambulance. Isn't there something wrong with that. My mother heard about the accident on the police radio so she was expecting a phone call and it did not come untill about 4 hours later after my dad had checked all the tow yards, her house, and the place she works. They went to south shore to get her and she was just emotionally shook up. Anyways my parents had a rough weekend and I am very thankfull right now that my sister is still alive because she could have died in the crash.

Cwazy night

2004-09-30T02:56:01Z

Today was not to bad. Classes were fairly decent and ot was a pretty good day. Today i got real mail which was extremly awesome. I saw the extremly awesome red slip in my mailbox and jumped for joy because that means I had a package and I thought it was my duck tape that someone borrowed but it was an actual package. It was from the church and it had a bunch of letters in it written by the youth groups. This made me so extremly happy that it was not even funny. I saw Leslie's mommy today to which is always awesome. Then tonight me and Tom studied for out Intro to Christ test which was fun and helped. We always make studying fun and we still learn a lot and we are writing a song and are going to sign it to Dr Brittain at the end of the semester. After the studyage we went up to 6th and had a good time and were being crazy and random but it was so much fun and we got some good pictures to. Then I came back to the dorm and I went into Mia and Jenn's room and me and Jenn did the chicken dance and the Macarena and it was hilarious and I talked to Dustin tonight and he is going to send me pictures of Australia once he gets off break and I can not wait.

Finally Updating

2004-09-29T02:16:11Z

I know it has been a while so I figured I would update before I get yelled at by Spoo again next time she comes to visit. Anyways I have been quite busy with a lot of things. I am on Yearbook and a volunteer for CAB. Working with CAB is a heck of a lot of fun and we have had some good times. Classes are going good for once well rxcept for Spanish. I am actually not doing so bad academic wise this semester which will make my parents extremly happy if I can keep this up. I believe I am going to keep them in the dark about how I am doing untill grades come out after Christmas then hopefully make them very happy and show them that their money is not going to waste. I have changed my mind on what I am going to major in. I am going to declare Communications as my major and then minor in Theater and Missions. I am not in the Shakespeare play this semester but I figured I should probably focus on doing good academic wise this semester and with the other commitments it was probably a good thing. One bad thing is I am definetly suffering from sleep deprivation I just can not seem to get to bed early enough and then I either wake up at 6:30 or 8 every morning depending on the day. Well I am hopefully going to try and get some sleep, maybe i'll update more in the future. I probably should or else I will face the wrath of the Spoo.

Houghton

2004-08-30T03:40:08Z

Yeah so I got back to Houghton yesterday. We got here about 5 and I started unpacking and let me tell you unpacking is extremly stressful. Once I saw Katie last night I got destressed though.I am mostly unpacked and somewhat organized now. It is awesome seeing all my friends again and I tackled so many people today it was hilarious because I caught a lot of them off guard. I also got my birthday present from Tom it is a hat that says Duck Tape pro its really cool. After Koinonia tonight Katie, Tom and I went down to biggies and talked about our summers and stuff for a couple of hours which was a lot of fun. Then I was heading back to East and two of the basketball players walked me back. Also as I was walking back one of the kids I have met ran up to me and said you didn't see me because I am playing capture the flag. So it has been an interesting couple of days.

Yeah

2004-08-27T03:31:01Z

So I figured I mgiht as well update this. I have been working the Workcamp booth at the fair since it started and it has been ok. When I am by myself it is pretty boring but whatever, I made friends with a seucrity guard there to adn his name is Dave. I leave for Houghton Saturday and I am pretty excited and I am mostly packed. I will officially be 19 in about 9 hours. And I am proud to say Jenny was the first person to say Happy Birthday to me. Normally it is my aunt becuase she calls early. But since my birthday is not until tomorrow my aunt will be calling about 6 am tomorrow morning to wakle me up. But anyways Jenny still has her title. I'll probably start writing more in this once I get to Houghton and hopefully then entries will be more entertaining.

Workcamp

2004-08-02T03:56:31Z

Well its late but i'll try to explain how awesome Workcamp was.
Last SUNDAY- We left at 3 am and drove to Lubec, ME and got there about 11:30 and got checked in and ate lunch and stuff. At three we had a general meeting. At 6 we had Band practice and I loved the music leader this year he was the coolest guy. Then we thought the meeting was at 7:30 so we went to teh gym turns out they were having computer problems and printing out the crew lists so they changed the time so we Talked with Mike- Music Leader, Drew- Program Manager, and Jeff. Then we left for a little bit then went to the meeting to meet our crews.
MONDAY- Had a meeting at 8 in the morning and then went to the worsite and because of my knee injury a couple of months ago I was grounded so I could not climb on any ladders. So pretty much I just scraped paint all day with the other girl on my crew and one of my leaders and the guys were on the roof. We got back to the school probably around 4 ish then shower time, dinner, band rehearsal, evening program, devo, and bed.
TUESDAY- left for the worksite about 8 ish and same as the day before scraped paint all day. Our guy leader also poured water off the roof onto me and the other girl in my crew. Again same format after getting back to the school as the day before.
WEDNESDAY- Today was our half day of work and it was raining pretty hard. We got to the site and we all scraped today and some of us we were hooded sweatshirts, some were wearing ponchos, and to top it off one of my leaders was wearing a Home Depot bag on his head to keep dry. We got pictures taken. We got some hilarious ones and I held a snake in one of tehm and we found out the music guy was afraid of the snakes but oh well everyone is scared of something. We got back to the school around noon ish and my youth group left around 2 and we went to Canada because it was only about a 5 minute drive. We went to FDR's house and a lighthouse. The lighthouse was interesting we ran into some of the STAFF members from the camp including the music guy who liked to grr at me. Then we went out to dinner and took a bunch of pictures. We got back to the school around 6 and we had band at 6:30 and because very few people were there we had an impromptu rehearsal in the bleachers and the music guy kept trying to make me laugh. Then we had evening program, devo, then bed.
THURSDAY- The guys finished the roof and we almost finished all the scraping. We went back to the school a little later today so we could get more work done. This was the emotional night to and I thought the program this year was very good and definetly made me think about some things.
FRIDAY- We finished scraping and we finished priming the house about 12:30. Then we sat down and ate lunch and did devo and we did not really have very high hopes of finishing the house. At this point it was very hot and we were all very tired. During devo we prayed for clouds to come wind and a miracle. As soon as we finished devo clouds covered the sky the wind picked up and a van pulled into the driveway and said they were Crew 30 and they were here to help us. We did end up finishing the house and we got in a paint fight to.
SATURDAY- We woke up about 7 and ate and packed up and we left about 9. We ere the last group to leave the school and it was extremly sad to leave. From the school we headed to Bar Harbor and let me tell you there is some pretty comfy grass there. Then we to Belfast, ME and stayed at a YMCA there. We went out to dinner then went back to the Y and did Devo and went to bed.
That was the week in a nutshell if you want details just ask. This was a amazing week and I learned a lot and I loved my crew and we got along from day one.

NO MORE FINALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2004-05-01T03:17:46Z

Yep that's right no more finals i am done and i could not be happier about that. Even though i am not coming home until tuesday or wednesday its all good. Today i had two finals and after i played ultimate frisbee for about 2 hours which was so much fun considering i had not done anything like that in about a month and a half. My knee does not hurt to much either which sort of suprises me. Lately it has been quite hectic trying to study for finals and having a social life is quite time consuming. The play last weekend was awesome and the cast party was great. I have to start packing and cleaning tomorrow i hvae been putting that off for so long that my side of the room is a disaster but after tommorow the disaster will be clean.

Not a Typical Girl

2004-04-18T03:51:03Z

Lately it has been really nice out which is good because i love the nice weather and everyone is outside and it makes the campus more lively. The past couple of weeks all i have been doing is work and the play. I got out of the imobolizer though and i now have a smaller brace type thing. I also got a 95 on my Bib Lit paper which is good because i needed that. Today was very eventful. I left the dorm around 10:45 and went outside and did some work untill 12 and then i went inside for lunch. After lunch i hung around for a couple of minutes and then around 1 i went to rehearsal. Rehearsals are hilarious and they can be a whole lot of fun. Rehearsal ended about 6 and so i found people and we went outside for a little bit then came over to Lambein and watched Ghost Ship which was a pretty good movie. Around 9 i headed over to Biggies and got some food and hung around with Eric, Greg and Alan for a while and they were talking about girls and they were saying some things and i agreed with what they were saying and did not argue with them about it so they said i was not a typical girl and that was a good thing. Then they left and i walked around a little bit and headed back to thr dorm around 11ish.

Vent

2004-04-03T23:32:24Z

This week was ok. Since the paper was done it was somewhat relaxing but i still was running everywhere to get things done. This week i have also realized the some of my friends here are changing. They are not the happy fun to talk to people i once knew and loved to hang out with. They have their reasons but they are changing for the worst and i do not want to loose the friendships we have because I loved the way things used to be between us because one person imparticular we could talk about anything but now we rarely talk and its killing me. One friendship here has been going better we talk alot online normally quite late but we help each other out and we both have someone to vent to so it works. One problem I have been having is that some of my friends are having problems and i want to help them but i can't so i let them vent to me but i still wish i could do more for them because i hate to see them in pain.