I am a twenty-year-old sophomore at Utah State University.
I like doing things, but I am really, really, bad at them. I love crocheting and knitting, though everything I make comes out messy and REALLY REALLY UGLY. I have a garden at my parents house that I plant and kill every year. I like to cook for my friends and family, but I can't do it very often- I always say that I'm like Anne Shirley when she gets distracted imagining nursing Diana back to health after battling with scarlet fever and forgets to add the flour to the cake: "There's no scope for imagination in cookery...". Or the time she left the cheesecloth off the pudding sauce and the mouse got in and drowned? Like that.
Lets see... Independence Day is my favorite holiday, because everyone is each others' neighbor. I like to read and listen to music, but only the music and books I've always listened to and read; I like TV, but not movies. I'm not easily intimidated or scared, but spook worse than a horse. I've had more panic attacks induced by ghosts than anything else.
My mission here at Utah State is to get a BS in Community Services and a minor in History, so that someday when I grow up I can work with children that are wards of the state, in foster care or in refugee communities. I have a huge belief in the people of this world, with equal potential for good as evil. I am determined to live away from home soon- and not 'away from home' like my apartment an hour and a half away from my parents, but an airplane and a bus ride away from what I know.
I love my home- Utah is the best, man. It's got everything- desert rocks and cactus, world-famous landscapes, snowy mountains, meadows of wildflowers. Basically all anyone could ever need. But I feel like there is more out there... I want to see Alaska, and Maine and Texas; Amsterdam, Denmark, and Austria; South Africa, the pyramids... and live in Ireland. I want to learn to return to simplicity, to be aware of what's around me and control it. I want to have a hand in my own existence: to create, not just to consume. I want to make a difference.
I like doing things, but I am really, really, bad at them. I love crocheting and knitting, though everything I make comes out messy and REALLY REALLY UGLY. I have a garden at my parents house that I plant and kill every year. I like to cook for my friends and family, but I can't do it very often- I always say that I'm like Anne Shirley when she gets distracted imagining nursing Diana back to health after battling with scarlet fever and forgets to add the flour to the cake: "There's no scope for imagination in cookery...". Or the time she left the cheesecloth off the pudding sauce and the mouse got in and drowned? Like that.
Lets see... Independence Day is my favorite holiday, because everyone is each others' neighbor. I like to read and listen to music, but only the music and books I've always listened to and read; I like TV, but not movies. I'm not easily intimidated or scared, but spook worse than a horse. I've had more panic attacks induced by ghosts than anything else.
My mission here at Utah State is to get a BS in Community Services and a minor in History, so that someday when I grow up I can work with children that are wards of the state, in foster care or in refugee communities. I have a huge belief in the people of this world, with equal potential for good as evil. I am determined to live away from home soon- and not 'away from home' like my apartment an hour and a half away from my parents, but an airplane and a bus ride away from what I know.
I love my home- Utah is the best, man. It's got everything- desert rocks and cactus, world-famous landscapes, snowy mountains, meadows of wildflowers. Basically all anyone could ever need. But I feel like there is more out there... I want to see Alaska, and Maine and Texas; Amsterdam, Denmark, and Austria; South Africa, the pyramids... and live in Ireland. I want to learn to return to simplicity, to be aware of what's around me and control it. I want to have a hand in my own existence: to create, not just to consume. I want to make a difference.
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