The weekend is coming...

Valborg is this Friday!!!  :)  I'm celebrating it on Saturday with a whole bunch of my friends.  I cannot wait!  It's going to be so much fun.  I will need this weekend in order to make it through finals week.  This week has been nothing but projects, tests, and papers.  I'm so over the pressure of school.  I'm glad I will be done within a week.  EKKK, I'm graduating, even scarier!  At least I have a plan though.  I will be heading for South Korea in the summer to teach English.  So I'm really excited for what lies ahead.  After that hopefully I can get a job somewhere in Europe.  We will see where I end up in the next five years.  Hard to say with my desire to country hop every year!  :)

Interview

I just had my interview for teaching English in South Korea.  I think it went well.  The only downfall was that I didn't have experience with kids.  Lets hope my abroad experience will shine through that, and they will still accept me.  I will keep everyone posted on how the results turn out.  I hope to hear within a few days on how the interview went.  I really hope I get the job.  I'm getting nervous now, more than anything.  Especially with graduation in 3 weeks.  My fingers are crossed!  :)

Ball State Ass Slapper

The Ball State Ass Slapper sure has made a name for himself.  If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's about a guy who slapped two girls on the ass, and well the funny thing was Ball State thought that needed an emergency email notification warning students about the ass slapper!  REALLY???  Emergency!!!  I don't think so!  Now the Ass Slapper is known nationwide.  CNN and ABC News ran a story on it.  Really because the fan page currently has 12,000 people within less than a week.  Pretty good for a school that is out in the cornfields!  I also just ordered my t-shirt that will say BSAS: Slappin ass on the way to class since April 7th, 2010.  Here is the BSAS song that someone has created as well.  Honestly it has gotten too be a little ridiculous but it's fun!

 BSAS song  

An anthropologists take on things

I'm currently reading a book for my Anthro 111 class called "The White Man Will Eat You!"  I just started the book, but within the first chapter 'Culture Shock' I can really relate to it.  The book goes on about how some people find that the culture shock is greater when returning to your home country.  As James Peoples and Garrick Bailey note, "deep immersion into other sociocultural systems leaves some of us unsure about our attachment to our own."  I spent 10 months in Sweden, and yes I know that is not long enough to really understand the entire culture, but I definitely feel that it had a great impact on me.  And sometimes I really do wonder if I have completely adjusted back to the American culture.  At times I still believe I'm in Europe, and that the laws are the same here.  As my good friend Jose likes to tell me a lot "You redneck, we are in America!"  =)  There isn't a day that goes by where I don't think about Sweden/Europe for just a split second...           

Some people should not be driving

Yesterday I was on McGalliard Rd. when traffic came to a sudden halt.  Why?  Because an old woman was driving down the road the wrong way!  Then she tries to back up into a street so she could turn herself around, but while doing that she almost backs her car into the ditch.  I felt bad for her, but at the same time people that old do not need to be driving!  It's dangerous to the rest of the public!