Newman Ambassadors

Many people believe that one’s senior year of college is similar to one’s senior year of high school. You rule the campus, go to class whenever you want, leisurely do your school work, stay out late and often and essentially throw all caution to the wind. For many seniors and my fellow classmates this is true….except for me! I decided to fill my freshman year with ‘gen eds’ and other nonsense course that would not fill my major requirements or my graduation requirements and on top of that I decided to change my major mid-summer of my sophomore year from Business to Biology. So here I am my last semester of my senior year taking 20 credit hours and holding down 3 jobs! So one can say that I’m a little jealous of some of my fellow classmates but as the say in Rome “what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger”. I actually I doubt that phrase came from Rome or has any Roman origin. So Ill just keep trucking along and keep telling myself  ‘14 more weeks, 14 more weeks’

I tried to start writing a blog for about 20 min ago, but for once I had nothing to say!? So my cure against silence was to browse the Swedish newspaper SvD. Today they had an article about a Muslim man who refused to shake hands with a female representative due to religious customs.

The man himself was given a trial period to work for a company by the “Swedish Work Agency,” but refused to shake hands, and here we come to the real problem… He is suing the Swedish Work Agency for discrimination, and was declared right by the “Stockholm’s Court,” who gave him the right to SEK60 000.

There is a swedish saying: “You follow the customs of where you are.”  If there is someone who should have been sued, it was him. It is as much of discrimination directed towards her, if not more. The rest of us have to shake hands with everyone walking this planet, not selectively. A comment to this article said: “To refuse to shake hands with women is equivalent to refuse to serve black people at restaurants in the civilized world.” I think that I agree. The same person also said: “What if it had been a jew?” Where should we draw the line here?

I know for sure that I am very upset by this matter. I cannot believe the court let him get away with discrimination towards women, and he is receiving money for this. Crazy. Please comment, I want to hear your thoughts on this.

http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/ville-inte-skaka-hand-far-ratt-i-domstol_4227973.svd

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It’s my first blog!  This semester has brought about lots of changes, all for the better!  Here I am, the newest Student Ambassador.  Before Christmas I had no idea I would come back in January and start two new jobs.  I also had no idea I would be going to Guatemala in May for the Newman University study and serve program.  Lots of change, but the important things always stay the same.

I guess I fit in well around the Admissions Office.  I happen to have a twin here, Louise from Sweden.  We’re basically living the same life at the moment (which is cool and weird at the same time).  GOLF GOLF GOLF.  Last semester we began spending hours a day together due to our Women’s Golf team.  Now we are both Student Ambassadors, have an interest in business communication, are enrolled in a class on the history of coffee (which ironically meets this afternoon), and never get enough sleep.

Louise isn’t the only reason I fit into the office!  When I moved to Newman last August, I met a freshman boy with five names.  It took me several weeks to figure out what they all were, and he would kill me if I published them on the internet.  Still, Raymond Apollo Williams has been a very close friend for several months now.  So I suppose I was destined to end up here?

I have class in 10 minutes.  We have a shortened schedule today because of the annual Ecumenical Prayer Service. After some investigation, I learned that the name simply means a prayer service of all faiths.  I plan on attending and love how my school is Catholic based!

That’s all I have time for this morning.  Have a wonderful day!

Today I have my favorite class of the week, coffe talk. It is exactly what it sounds like. We talk about coffee. And drink it. Amazing. In class this afternoon, we will be over at Scooter’s coffehouse listening to how different brewing processes work, and the procedure of how the bean becomes coffee!

Awesome class. If it is offered next year, I highly recommed taking it!

As I might have mentioned, us golfers (or let me correct that, newman’s women’s golf team) do not have a life. Just earlier this morning one of my teammates (and student ambassador) Rachel came into work telling me that she thought it was night after coming back from our morning workout. Our scheduele is a little bit crazy at the moment… I really hope it gets better when our tournaments start, because I am going as crazy as our schedule…

It was quiet interesting that I met Vic Trilli in the hallway of Sacred Heart this morning, and he asked: “How is golf going?” I answered: “Good I guess…” (Thinking: If I/we can survive without being burned out to the regionals we will be fine). But yes, it is going awesome except for that… My swing is better than for a long time, and so is my putting. So, yeeey!

Time right at this moment is 9:44 a.m. but it feel more like 9:44 p.m. to me. What do you say Rachel?

So this past Friday I was in Denver, CO for an interview into Regis University’s DPT or doctorate of physical therapy. It was my first interview of hopefully 3. It was one of the most nerve racking experiences of my life! I have 30 minutes to tell the head of the program why they should admit me into their program out of 216 other interviewees. Hardly enough time don’t you think! But it’s ok and I think it went well. Now it’s the waiting game….

I have for the past 6 days been living without my laptop that broke. It is now safe (?) and warm trying to get rid of its cold at Best Buy here in Wichita. Holy crap how I miss you… I feel completely handicaped without my precious laptop. One good thing that has come out of this tradgedy is that my reading capacity (of books) have went up quiet a lot. Maybe I do not want my laptop back?

Yes I do. Because over the weekend I have had to adapt to the hours in the library or up in SHH, which is not what I want. I want to work when I want to… Therefore I hope I get my laptop back soon! Best Buy says that if it breaks again, I get a new one for free.

Louise

As some of you might know, we (the golf team) have morning workouts at 6am everyday. This causes some friction between me and my roommates. For me to function, I need at least 8 hours of sleep, so I went to be at nine. Everything should be fine right? Nope. My roommates had some sort of gathering including guitarr playing and stuff, so I could not sleep until 11.47. Even the people on the 3rd floor had heard. It was that loud.

As a result, I am feeling a little irritated today. If I  don’t come across smile and happy you all know why. And sorry for complaining, I needed to get it out of my system.

I hope for a better day tomorrow – more sleep. + The charity ball for Haiti tomorrow. Should be fun!

Louise

Unfortunately, my dear swedish/german colleague  Alex Bengtsson had to quit his Ambassadors position due to other obligations. But, my golf teammate Rachel Stanley is here to fill his shoes! Great choice I must say. She is a fun person to be around and she always has a smile on her face.

I am not entirely sure, but I think we still are looking for new ambassadors?

The only thing missing right now, is a large cafe latte or cappuccino. I have not had my share of caffein today… I still feel asleep.

Keep following my blog y’all!

So, this weekend has been pretty good. I got a lot of sleep, went shopping, saw a really weird movie that Irving picked out (Annie thought it was weird too, so I’m not alone here), and I read some. I mostly read actually. I don’t know if you have heard about the Millenium Triology written by Stieg Larsson (Swedish author yeey!). Anyways, I started to read the 3rd book (in swedish, it is not out in the U.S. yet, so you have to wait ), and it is absolutely amazing. I will not tell you what it is about – google it! There are already 3 films out too, and hollywood bought the rights to make english versions of the books. Also, Larsson was the nr. 2 international bestseller last year. I am telling you, you need to read these books. I heard from Karen Austin that she and her husband Dr. Austin have read the first two and loved them – so what does this tell you? READ THEM!

Oh, and now it is Monday… Back to life again I guess For some reason though, I really like my Bus. Calc. class. So I guess Mondays aren’t too bad. Plus, I get to work in the Admissions office, so yeey!

/Louise