Break, Holidays, The Move, Broken Car

Even though I'm no longer in Australia, I still think my life is interesting enough to warrant a blog. I'm just starting to get my life back in order at UIS. This semester is going to be so good for me. I'm taking 18 credit hours, working 15-20 hours at the paper each week and hopefully putting in some time at WUIS. So, after my least semester in Australia, where I had class two days a week, lived 20 minutes from the beach and didn't have a job, this semester is going to be...challenging.

Break went well. Spent most of it sleeping or on the verge of sleeping. Adjusting back to life in the United States wasn't very difficult. The only problem was the outside temperature which went from about 80 degrees in Sydney to about 20 when I landed in Chicago. Spending time with the fam and home friends was good though. I feel like I've changed a lot but I still fit back in perfectly to my home life.

After spending a week up in the suburbs of Chicago with friends for my 21st birthday and New Years I was ready to move back to Springfield. Apparently I was a little too excited because I rear-ended someone on the trip back. I was behind a guy at a stop sign at the corner of Hazel Dell and 11th Street just near campus. I thought the guy moved, turns out he didn't, I ran into the back of his truck and totally messed up my car.

So that's my life as of right now. I have my first Journal meeting tomorrow and then classes start on Tuesday. Not to mention, Obama inauguration, YAY.