Time Flys!

Hey All -
Last time I posted I made a promise to myself I would post more often, and this month has just flown by! And now I only have two days of class left for the semester and then into finals I will go!

Well this month has been awesome. Since I posted last we had CRAWFEST at Tulane! Crawfest is our annual crawfish boil on campus. It was a beautiful day (about 80 and sunny) and they had a great line up of local music come and play. There were 2 huge stages and something crazy like 200,000 lbs of crawfish. They started serving the crawfish at 1130 and the lines were over 200 people long at 11 AM. Unfortunately for me, I dont eat crawfish. haha so I didn't have any, but thats fine I had a blast anyway. There were so many students there but also local New Orleanian families as well. New Orleans loves"fests" (Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest, etc) and Crawfest is starting to become one of the more popular and successful ones in New Orleans which is awesome for Tulane. I got a great tan and had a blast with my friends.


The following weekend was Easter Weekend. I flew home for the weekend to see my family. When I left New Orleans it was about 80 and sunny and when my mom picked me up at LaGuardia Airport in NY it was 45 and rainy. How I wished I was back in New Orleans immediately. But it was really nice to see my brother and my family. I spent Saturday with my mom's family and then sunday with my dad's. We left right from my grandparents house to the airport so I could get back in Sunday night. Even though we had school off that Monday, I had work and some schoolwork I wanted to get done so I came back a little earlier.

The couple weeks after Easter have been crazy. Classes have been finishing up so I have had exams, papers and final projects due. But it hasn't been ALL work! I got to go to Florida for a weekend for a fraternity formal with a friend of mine and then last night my sorority had their formal. Also, my sorority has just had our senior week to celebrate all of the graduating seniors. It just makes it even more real to me that in about two weeks I will officially be a senior in college and it literally seems unreal.



On some VERY EXCITING NEWS... I am going to BRAZIL this summer! I just applied for one of Tulane's Summer Abroad programs. I am studying intercultural communication as well as brazilian culture for a month with two Tulane professors. I am so excited!! I had such a good time during my semester Abroad in Australia, that I wanted to go abroad AGAIN! This will definetly be a different experience since I am only going to be there for a month but I have always wanted to go to Brazil and I get to take classes for my major while there which is a huge plus!

Ok I am off to study for one of my finals that is coming up! Don't be surprised if I don't post again until after finals are over, there is alot of studying to be done!

Kelly

Welcome To New Orleans!

Hey All,
SO much has been going on this past month! One really exciting thing that happened for me was that my best friend came to visit! She likes in Massachusetts but goes to school at Colby in Maine. It was a great experience for her to get to come down to New Orleans in March for some nice sunny weather when it was in the 20s at home in Maine!

So I have SO much planned for her weekend and unfortunately we didn't even get to fit it all in because there is just so much to do and such little time. But we did get to do alot of fun stuff!

She arrived on a Thursday and that night I took her out to one of my favorite Sushi resturantes in the city. It is called Rockin Sake. It is in the warehouse district and they have great bright light decorations all around and play loud awesome music so it really is ROCKIN! and their Sushi is AMAZING!!! It is such a fun atmosphere and great place to go for dinner.

On Friday, we went to Magazine Street and did a little shopping at some of my favorite boutiques. She loved them and although she came attempting not to spend any money, she found a dress she just had to buy, ha. On Friday night we went and saw Tulane Baseball play USC. It was a great game, but unfortunately they lost that day. But the next day they played again and they won big time! ROLL WAVE!

On Saturday, I had volunteering scheduled for my sorority that Morning at the Louisiana Children's Museum so she got to explore campus a little bit while I was at the Children's Museum. It was Dr. Suess Themed Day so we painted the kids faces, helped them make Cat in the Hat hats and and read them story time. It was a great day and the kids had a blast! When I got back, I picked up Brook and I took her downtown. We wandered all over the city, did a little more shopping, had her try Pralines and hung out by the River. We also watched a couple of street shows and looked at some of the local artists paintings. She loved the city and I was so glad to show it to her.

That night I took her to my favorite New Orleans resturante NOLA. NOLA is one of Emeril's resturants and has PHENOMENAL food, great service and a great atmosphere. She loved it too. We both got the redfish which is a really popular fish here in New Orleans. After dinner I took her down to Burbon Street so she could get a feel for that and see the nightlight that downtown new orleans has to offer!

Unfortunately, she had to leave early on Sunday morning to get back to Maine so she didnt miss any more classes on Monday but we had a great weekend and she is planning on coming back again next year!!
We are in the home stretch for this semester and only have 4 weeks of class left. I can't believe in only 4 weeks I will be a senior! It seems like I JUST got here! I can't believe it!

Happy Spring Time!
Kelly