School's Out for Summer!

I just got home from my last final! Does this mean I'm a senior now?! Who let that happen?! It's a weird feeling, because if feels like it went by fast and slow at the same time. When I look back at how much I've done since I lived in the dorms as a freshman, it feels like I have been in Missouri forever! But it's also amazing to me how much I have accomplished and how much fun I've had in such a short amount of time. I have lived in the dorms for a year, I lived in the Chi O sorority house, Costa Rica, and I just finished up a year on East Campus in an apartment with my BFFs!

In about an hour, I will be driving to St. Louis to catch my flight back home to Los Angeles. Thank God! I need a little break from CoMo for sure. I get to see my family, my new cat Albus Dumbledore, and In-N-Out waiting for me at the airport. AND, the most exciting part for me is that my boyfriend is meeting me at the airport in LA! He is from Costa Rica, and we rarely get to see each other. My family is super supportive, and offered to save us money by letting him come to Los Angeles at the same time!

The story with me and Rolo is one for the books. More like a classic, study abroad love story/ romance novel book! He was my host brother in my Costa Rican family, and I had a crazy crush on him from the first moment I met him! We tried to hide it, but there was no way we could keep it a secret for long! It has been more than a year now, and I think we are even more crazy about each other than we ever were. I have gotten the opportunity to see him way more than we originally thought, and I am so thankful for that. We have both traveled internationally for each other, taking trips to Costa Rica, Arizona, Los Angeles, or Mizzou. I am so thankful that his job (he is a software developer) sends him to his main branch in Arizona to work often. 

We have done so many things, but it's never hard to think of things to keep up busy in Los Angeles. That will definitely be one of my tasks while on the plane ride home. Right now, I'm thinking: trip to Venice Beach, Dirty Dancing the Musical, picnic/ bike ride in the park, a barbecue at home, among other things! Can you tell I've been thinking about this for a while?! I just turned 21, too, so I hope we have time to check out some of those hip clubs everyone raves about ;). 

This past weekend was such a blast. I only had one final to study for, so I didn't feel to guilty going out and celebrating the end of the semester with my friends! LAST Tuesday was Cinco de Mayo ('nuff said), Thursday we all started early with the last class of the school year. We celebrated my sorority sister Hillary's 21st birthday, and ended with the classic Thursday night at Harpo's! Friday was so fabulous with the Broadcast II party. Those kids know how to work hard and play hard! I offered to host the bash at my apartment (I hosted the B2 X-Mas party, after all!). But when I heard the boys wanted to have an intense beer pong tournament, I decided to let them have the event at their own place! We spent the evening celebrating all of our hard work from this past semester, with good food, drink, and lost of friends!

A good party was well deserved by everyone in my Broadcast II Class. Looking back at the past few months, that class WAS my semester. It is a notorious class and the professor who teaches it changes your life! It was the most challenging course I have ever taken, because the work load is meant to weed out all those students who don't have a passion to be a Broadcast Journalist. I am proud to have completed all the requirements that the class asked of me, and I have learned more in the past few months than I have in my 3 years here at the University of Missouri! Finally, I have discovered the reason why this is the best journalism school in the country, and I am proud to be a die-hard Mizzou advocate when I go back to California!