I cannot believe that my Freshman year is almost over. Let’s recap!
August: First day of school, the power was out. I thought we weren’t going to have class!
September: I… can’t remember… I guess that means it was good?
October: My birthday, and a friend dressed up as David Bowie from Labyrinth. It looked cool. Maybe next year I’ll dress up.
November: This was my first year voting… and that was when I lost all faith in the government.
December: I had never had such a long break for Christmas… we were practically gone for a month!
January: I guess it was good. We hardly got any snow… that made me a bit sad. The worse part was that we had plenty mild days! I can only imagine what the summer will be like…
February: I mentioned in my Black History Month blog that I don’t really celebrate it. Not because I’m a jerk, but because I celebrate the accomplishments of African Americans every day.
March: I did not have a fun Spring Break. Normally, my family would go to a different state for a trip, but instead we stayed home… and that’s when I started to fall behind on my projects.
April: I rushed to get my projects done, and they went surprisingly well, despite all the tears I shed over them. However, I was still swamped…
As of today, all my really hard stuff has been taken care of. Just a few art finals and one math one, nothing too complicated. I hope y’all enjoyed reading my blogs, and I hope I get to write next year. 😉
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I feel like I’ve been slacking on my environmental propaganda duties, so I’m going to take this opportunity to throw out a few reminders of some Environmental Club/Dedicated semester events we have coming up:
November 15th: America Recycles Day! For one joyous day out of every year, we get to celebrate the beauty of Americans recycling. For this momentous occasion, Environmental Club members will be handing out candy (with recyclable wrappers of course) and entering people into our raffle.
November 18th: Tony Ruebsam (lead contractor for the AB hall renovation) will be coming to Fontbonne to speak about sustainable energy choices. He has a Masters degree in environmental engineering from Wash U., so he knows his stuff. He’ll be in the Lewis Room at 10am for a short presentation.
November 19th: Rosemary Grove shopping night! The Environmental Club has a partnership with this charming Kirkwood store in which we get 10% of the proceeds from any sale made that mentions us. (Which we then donate to the Missouri Botanical Gardens.) So every once in a while they sponsor a special shopping night for us with cookies and coffee, and we encourage everyone we can to come! The event is
6-7:30pm, and if you’re interested in carpooling I can hook you up. It really is a great store – everything is Fair Trade certified and supporting a good cause – so come out and get some Christmas gifts!
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As many of you know, Fontbonne has a dedicated semester every fall. This year’s dedicated semester theme is sustainability. During the past dedicated semesters, I had not made it to many of the on campus events. Not because I didn’t want to, but because it is very difficult to make it because of class and job conflicts. This semester I am making it a point to make it to as many of the events as I can. So far I have made it to two events: the showing of the movie, Carbon Nation, and a presentation given about the ecovillage in The Central West End. I can say that I am really glad I attended both events because they really opened my eyes to the immediate threats of global warming and how our planet is rapidly changing. I would highly encourage everyone to make it to at least one dedicated semester event, even if it may be a little out of your element. You may be really surprised at what you can learn and take away from it!
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This dedicated semester is Foodology, therefore Fontbonne opened some special classes about Food.
I signed up for a cooking class to learn the common food ingredients in America. This cooking class is taught by Dr. Houston, a director in the dietetics program. She taught us many useful skills in the kitchen. Actually, I’m good at cooking Asian food, but not very familiar with American food or cooking terminology in English. So, I really like this class because I’ve learned a lot.
This class included different kinds of food, such as butternut-quinoa soup, eggplant pasta, spring rolls, and tamale pie. It was so much fun to cook together with my American classmates. Last week, we had a Bok Choy salad. It surprised me because I never used Bok Choy to make salad. In our culture, we sauté Bok Choy with meat or put it in soup. Moreover, the size of Bok Choy in America is twice as big as the one we had in Taiwan.
After we did the Bok Choy salad, I felt the flavor was so yummy. Maybe I will try to put other Asian vegetables into salad instead of cooking it next time. Putting Bok Choy in salad is healthier and still delicious.
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