January 30, 2007 9:39 AM
A Bit of an Introduction
Hello! I'm Katie, a four-year senior from Maryland, and I hope this blog can help give you an inside look to a typical student's life.
This is me...
I'm normally seen buzzing about campus for my various activites, accompainied by my camera, my AP Comparative Politics textbook, and a can of Coca-Cola.
Tuesdays generally give me a bit of trouble. After classes, I have theatre practice, and directly afterwards I have Yearbook. I have to leave early from Yearbook to meet with Peer Group, only to come back to Yearbook. Sometimes I write articles for the newspaper, and unfortunately, (i'm a terrible procrastinator) I normally have to finish an article that is due that night. Later that evening, I have Magalia practice, and then I get to work on my homework.
Tonight's a deadline for the Yearbook staff, and I spent hours this past week trying to get an adequate amount of photos together (I am the Photography Editor). In a panic, last Sunday, my roomate (the Editor in Chief of the Yearbook) told me that I needed to gather 1000 photos by Friday, if we wanted to be on time with our book. I hussled around campus snapping photos of everything, and nagging everyone I met to send me any pictures they took. By Tuesday night, I gathered 996 photos, and another 200 got to me by Wednesday. Luckily, the panic is over.
I had my last Peer Group meeting last week, and it was almost a tear-jerker. Fourteen seniors last spring, after an application process, were chosen to host a group of ninth graders every Tuesday night for one hour. The fourteen of us were split into pairs, and the ninth grade class was randomly shuffled, and this fall we began to meet. The purpose of the group for ninth graders is to form lasting bonds with classmates who you might not meet elsewhere around campus, but also to get help get adjusted to living in a boarding school and keeping up with the daily grind of high school. For me however, the process was a bit different. After participating in Peer group my ninth grade year, and coming back to lead a group myself, I realized how important daily relationships are here on campus. I learned that my small actions can greatly influence those of another, especially those of the ninth graders, and I had a lot of fun. To end the night, we held hands in a line, then twisted around each other to make one great jumble of hugs. -But Peer Group is never really over, this weekend, as I set up lights for Grease, two of my ninth graders came to find me to go over their essay's and have a chat. I was more than ready to have a talk with them.
I am trying to learn how to conduct for Magalia, our a capella group. We don't have problems with rythym, but I'd like to be able to lead the group through the dynamics of certain songs, and we would look a bit more professional if I could conduct a bit for our Pennsylvania State competition on February 17th. We had a preformance yesterday, and we tried a new song of ours, "Sign, Sealed, Delivered," by Stevie Wonder. It is such a difficult arrangement, and unfortunately, our first time through didn't go so well, in fact, it was a bit chaotic, but now we know what to work on.
Hopefully that introduction was not too dull for you, but from now on I hope to include photos in most of my entries, and keep the typing to a minimum (I know my fellow blogger, and very good friend, Chuck, will eventually tell you plenty on lengthy stories anyway).
Toodles!
Katie
Posted by at January 30, 2007 9:39 AM