"Are You Still Doing the Blog???"

Ummmm.... Yes.
Thanks for that conviction, Katelyn. :D


I keep thinking that my daily schedule will become a bit more uniform, but I think I should learn to accept that this will never be the case. I am learning to have better time management, though. And after the grades I got on my last two midterms, I really have no other choice...

I have begun to notice this strange sense of timelessness here. As in, I feel like it has only been a few days since my last blog post, only to realize it has been three weeks. Or, I feel like I have been in college for six or seven months, but it has only actually been 10 weeks. It's like I can't fully grasp a sense of time anymore. It is kind of unnerving...


Parent's Weekend
Was wonderful!! Mom came and I got to spend time with her and she was able to see our a cappella concert! Hopefully I will be able to get videos of it soon! It was wonderful and I received my Pitch Name (every year before the first jam at Sander's theatre, the baby Pitches get nicknames): Sweet T Pitch. Because I am always sweet (to which my friend Maddie scoffed) and because I have very interesting adventures on the T (the subway), alluding to my utter FAIL at attempting to get to my first voice lesson.

I Fail at Public Transportation
Since I cannot just allude to the story without telling it, on my first experience of going on the T by myself, I failed both liberally and miserably. I like to blame it on the fact that I've grown up in places like Missouri and Oklahoma that have an unfortunate lack of public transportation, but really (and don't tell anyone I told you this), I think it's just because I lack common sense. So, I started off on the Red Line (the line that goes to Harvard) and was supposed to switch to the Green Line at the Park Street stop. So I was going and then I got all the way to Charles MGH (the stop right before Park Street) and then looked at the subway map and somehow (I still don't understand how) determined that I had missed my stop (I guess I was looking in the wrong direction). So I got off at Charles MGH, go to the other side and make my way back on the Red line. But something tells me that I might be going in the wrong direction, so I asked someone to confirm and they informed me that I was utterly wrong. So I got off at Central Station (one station AFTER Harvard, as in I as almost back at Harvard), had to get out of the station and buy a new ticket (because the two sides were not connected) and then finally get on the right way. Needless to say, I am now a pro at the subway. After that many fails, it's kind of hard not to be.

Babysitting!
So, I kind of have a job now (though not a work-study, like I need to have...)! I am babysitting for this Israeli family that lives one street over from my dorm. They had put up fliers in the dorms asking for a Harvard student interesting in babysitting, so I called, and now, here I am! They are very cute children. The girl (E) is 5 and the little boy (S) is 3. I am having E teach me Hebrew. I can already say "mother," "father," (although this one was kind of cheating, because of the Bible) "water," "yes," "no," "come here," (for both genders) and "bagel." E has tried to teach me other things but they are usually too difficult to pronounce and I forget them all... In my opinion, these are all I need! But anyway, I should be fluent in no time!