Greeting, my spicy readers! (You know, because this is Ginger Spice and Everything Nice...... anyone? Ok, let's never speak of this again.)
I believe this is the right amount of recovery time from final exams to where I can no longer make excuses that I'm so exhausted from finals... So here I am. I took my last final at LSU on Friday and moved out of my college apartment, back to living at my parents' house until the wedding.
The last few weeks have been strange because, as a lot of soon-to-be graduates do, I've been evaluating my time at LSU in movie-montage format. There were a lot of ups and downs at LSU, and I'm happy to say that I left the university on a happy note.
I won't go into the not-awesome things that happened at LSU, but I would like to give a few thanks to some people that served as good reasons to stay at LSU. This list is not of everyone, because I couldn't possibly list everyone on here, but these are a few of the people down in Baton Rouge that were huge helps at LSU:
Person #1 at LSU that I want to thank is Joyce Wakefield, one of the freshmen academic advisors. She is an absolute gem on that campus. And while I haven't been able to visit her as much as I wanted this last semester, she and I always manage to keep in touch by dropping into her office every now and then. She's answered tons of my weird LSU-bureaucracy questions and has generally just been there for me, asking me questions about the Chavo, school, the future. She's really great. I hope she knows that WAAAY back in freshman year, back when I wanted to transfer, she was on my list for "reasons not to transfer."
A group at LSU that I really want to thank is Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship. There is no possible way that I can list all of the Chi Alphans that helped me through everything that ever happened at LSU. Y'all were always there. My Lifegroup Leaders, Christine, Arielle, Tricia, and Morgan. My Lifegroup girls, y'all were amazing. I'm continually amazed at just how on fire for God that all of you are. It's refreshing and wonderful, and I love you all.
And lastly, there are going to be a lot of friends that I'm going to miss. I hate that it took me up until the last semester to make friends like Jessica, Julio, Sara, and all of my other friends from class. I'm going to miss so many of the people that I hung out with while we were supposed to be studying. Hahaha!
Like I said before, if I missed anyone, it wasn't intentional and we would both be here forever if I tried to thank everyone in Baton Rouge, and I would have to start a new blog if I wanted to add all the people in my hometown, Guatemala, and everywhere else all over the place. But this post needed to get posted.
Now, it is time to move onto the next chapter, getting married to the Chavo. It's going to be the cause of a lot of new situations, which will lead to new posts. But it will be good. And I'm sure in the month before the wedding, I will come across something blog-worthy. Maybe posting pictures of my little brother in his graduation cap and gown, or pictures of me clicking my heels with my diploma, or posting "stuff they don't warn you about when planning a wedding". But I can almost guarantee that it will be entertaining.
Thanks LSU, for the good times and the bad, I will miss the wonderful people that made you great. I hope we will still keep in touch. Of course, the last time I made the joke to someone that "I hope we keep in touch, but not like in summer camp, where we promise to write every day, but we never do," we decided to get married June 16th. I guess that happens.
