Students’ Views

After the last two weeks, I am unimaginably pumped up for this year. I’ve seen so many exciting things and I know amazing stuff is going to happen on campus soon. The new class of first years is so active and I’m inspired by their energy, to say the least.

We had 53 people at our first SEAK meeting of the year and 55 at the second! WHAT!? I know, it’s awesome. I’m still a little bit in shock. As one attendee of the meeting said, that’s about 4% of campus (crazy, I know). This is amazing for so many reasons. We’re going to have the numbers to get SO many things done this year: really educating the student body, outreach to the Georgetown community, various green projects around campus, and - MOST IMPORTANTLY - getting the Presidents Climate Commitment signed. This first semester, we’re going to be part of a national campaign called Power Vote that aims at encouraging America’s youth to vote on the issue of climate change and then, after the elections, to hold our government accountable. It’s time for our youth to take action on global warming because it’s our future at stake- and the crazy attendance at the last two SEAK meetings and the energy at each of them means that the movement is materializing on the SU campus!

APO had its inductions for this semester’s pledge class on Monday; more reason for my current excitement. We added almost 30 new members! To see that many people excited about doing service and willing to commit to doing it is so great.

Also, I’ve decided fairly officially that this summer I’ll be heading to Argentina with a Southwestern program to get some upper-level Spanish credits. I could not be more excited! Is it May 21 yet? Please!? I’m still not sure if I’ll spend a semester somewhere else in Latin America (maybe Chile or Ecuador?) next year but knowing for sure about this trip is muy emocionante!

On another note, I’ve currently got a fair amount of patio furniture, potted plants, and citronella candles in the middle of my living room. After the disappointing (errr, is that the correct term?) presence of Hurricane Ike in Georgetown (we didn’t get a drop of rain), I seem to be too lazy to put them back on the porch.

I actually wasn’t in town for the storm, though. I was in San Antonio for the weekend at my cousin’s wedding. I went down a day early in order to avoid driving in the middle of the “storm of the century” but then woke up the next morning to dry streets and sunny skies. But that’s all fine and dandy; I got to spend some quality time with my brothers, both of whom live in San Antonio. The wedding of course was lovely. It rained for about ten minutes, though, but fortunately while everyone was safely inside eating their dinner.

(My super cute family)

Now that I’m back in Georgetown, though, I’m hitting the ground running. I have a pretty intense work load this year and club responsibilities out the whazoo so each minute is valuable. Thus, I guess I better get back to the books…