Georgia State University

Today I received a call saying that I have been accepted to Georgia State University! I'm really excited knowing that I have been accepted to two very different universities. I now face a hard decision, and only time will tell what I school I chose.

UPDATE: I decided to go to Georgia State University, and I believe I will be starting on January 5th! I can't wait.

Scandinavian Festival

Today, Sabrina and I volunteered at the Scandinavian Festival at Oglethorpe University! It was a lot of fun and it was great seeing the beautiful campus. I also met a few girls who attend the school and they told me a lot about it. It was also amazing hearing a lot of people speaking Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Norwegian!

From about 8:30am-12pm we helped a lady and a girl from Costa Rica, named Susan serve Swedish pea soup and knackebrod (with Finnish cheese, like Sabrina said) and then from 2-5:30pm we painted children's faces. It was awesome, but some of them couldn't stay still! This one boy who couldn't stay still wanted me to paint a Norwegian and American flag on his face. Why'd he have to chose the hard ones? Haha. :) But it was fun regardless.

Oglethorpe University

I have been accepted to Oglethorpe University! :D The weird thing is, I didn't pay for the application, nor did I write the "mandatory" essay one must submit with their application. I cannot think of the words to explain how shocked I was when I received the letter. The first thing I did was call the Oglethorpe Admissions Office to make sure that it wasn't a mistake, and sure enough, they told me I had been accepted. Crazy! I'm so excited, however, I am not sure if it would be a wise decision going there considering how much the tuition costs (about $1060 per credit hour). We'll see what happens. :)

Violence vs. Sex

I just got done watching a South Park episode called "Good Times With Weapons", in which the four boys Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny bought ninja weapons, and while "fighting" Butters, Kenny managed to throw his ninja star in Butters' eye. The boys freaked out knowing that if they brought Butters' to the hospital, their parents would find out that they bought weapons, and they'd all be in deep trouble. They happened to lose Butters, and while trying to find him, the boys came across their parents at an auction. In an attempt to sneak by them, Cartman used his "invisibility" powers (in reality he took off all his clothes), and while he was walking right in front of them, naked, Butters' showed up with the ninja star in his eye. All the boys and parents then went to a town meeting, and come to find out, the town meeting was about Cartman walking in front of everyone nude rather than Butters' being severely hurt due to the kids' violence. In the end, Stan said "I guess parents don't give a crap about violence if there are sex things to worry about". That is so unbelievably true; a recent American poll asking "What would you rather your kids see: A head being decapitated or two people having sex?" showed that parents prefer violence over sex. That's sick.

This brings me to my next topic: teenage pregnancy. Many American parents are completely against teenage sex that they don't even talk to them about it before it's too late. I would say it's a lot better to give your daughter birth control pills just in case, instead of telling her that sex is simply forbidden. Teenagers and even some of younger age do it anyway, but don't protect themselves because they either didn't learn how to, or do not have access to methods of protection, and then get pregnant. The following is a good example: My grandmother told my mother that sex was forbidden, but my mom did it anyway without access to birth control pills and ended up getting pregnant shortly thereafter. Several years later, my mother made sure I had all the methods of protection I needed, and I haven't gotten pregnant. The same thing goes for drinking: If parents teach kids how to do it right instead of saying that it's completely forbidden before they reach the age of 21, then many deaths due to alcohol poisoning, for instance, could be avoided.

3 Days.

3 days until Sabrina gets here. :) I can't wait. It's going to be amazing. She's going to be here for an entire month! So I've been cleaning & unpacking like crazy, trying to get this house cleared out before she arrives. I can't wait to meet new people and go new places. I have to figure out how to go places with the Marta busses and trains though.

I recently found out that the school I'm probably going to in the spring, Georgia State University, offers exchange student programs to Belfast & Newcastle in the UK and SWEDEN! I'm excited as I don't see why I can't go there, you know? And if Film and Video is going to be one of my majors then I might even be able to study in Italy for a while. We'll see what happens, but Sweden & the UK are at the top of my list. I lived in Sweden for years and the UK fascinates me. I'm actually almost full-blooded Irish and that explains why my hair always stays a reddish tint, no matter what color I dye it.

I want to do things that most other people don't do, so that my perspective on life, and the rest of the world, will be different. Then I might have the chance to make a difference some how. :)

Oh, and new South Park episodes start in a week! :D