Yesterday I met with my advisor from school and switched courses from Office
Administration to General Studies. I've decided I'd like to transfer to a 4-year
college and complete my bachelor's degree. I'm still a litte torn on where I'll
go from here and what major I'll be going for at the moment, though. It can be
tricky to find something that has online courses, for one. I'm leaning towards a
private college that's rather expensive, and going for a major in journalism and
a minor in theater. There are a couple of other options I'm considering as well,
though, such as a public college about an hour and a half away that has a degree
in communication. It's not as expensive, so I wouldn't have to apply for as many
scholarships. If I keep my grades up, though, there are scholarships to many
schools through Phi Theta Kapa. There's also another public college that's not
too far away, but I'd have to take campus classes there. I guess I've got more
time to think about it, but I do need to make sure I make good choices in my
General Studies program.
I really liked my new advisor. She's also the
sponsor for Phi Theta Kappa, so I'd met her briefly before and she seemed to be
a really "together" person. When I met with her yesterday I found she was
terribly unorganized. She was twenty minutes late for the appointment and her
office was a mess! I find that disorganized people are generally pretty nice. :)
On the way back, I was traveling in the southbound lane of the 2-lane
highway. I noticed there was a wreck in the northbound lane--a couple of
firetrucks, some police cars, a car sitting off to the side with its front end
all smashed in. It didn't look very terribly serious, though. The traffic was
all merging into one lane on my side, because of construction, and the light
ahead was red so everyone was pulling up to a stop. People were a little
distracted because of the wreck and everyone was stopping pretty fast. After I
stopped, I looked in my mirror and realized the guy behind me wasn't even
slowing down. He slammed into the back of my van and pushed me forward, almost
into the car in front of me. I thought I'd hit her, but I found out later I
didn't. When he hit, I saw his air bag go off in the mirror.
I pulled
over and got out. The lady in front of me came up to make sure I was okay. I was
shaking, but otherwise I was unhurt. The back of the van was all smashed in. I
was glad that I was alone and none of the kids were with me. The man's car
looked a lot worse than my van, though. He was sitting by the side of the road.
The police officer told me later that he had broken his arm in the wreck. The
fire trucks and emergency crew had just finished up working on the other wreck
and came right over.
I was able to drive the van home, but something is
seriously wrong with it. It doesn't want to accelerate like it should, and it
makes this awful sound like a circular saw when I'm accelerating. So now we get
to go through the whole claims process all over again. I hope it doesn't take as
long as when Erick had his wreck. At least I'm not hurt. My arms are a little
sore because I braced myself for the impact, but other than that I feel fine.
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