Paid Position and Pirate Name!

Hello Everyone,

Well I am about done with my first week of school and I have very exciting news....I am on the newspaper staff as the General Assignments Writer! This position is only open to two reporters and they are considered the main reporters! I am very excited for this, it pays about 200 dollars a month so that should cover my rent.

Another exciting bit of news is that I finally recieved a pirate name at the newspaper too. Basically, the paper has a pirate theme to it. We have some pirate flags and everyone on staff recieves a pirate name. My name is Rote. All those who speak German should know the translation of that and those who don't I will give you a hint...it is the color of my hair.


Classes are going well, but I am slowly realizing 18 credits may be too hard to do so I am going to drop my sociology class. I will take that next semester and it frees up more of my time.

Oh, and to stop all rumors about whether I am going to be coming home this weekend I am not. I want to just chill at my apartment.

Love you all,

Rote

Start Of Sophomore Year!

Hey Family and Friends!

I decided to keep a blog this year to keep in better touch with everyone. So far I haven't been done here even a week, but I am enjoying it. I am currently participating in the SUU Journal Workshop Week. The basics of this workshop is to "audition" for a staff position. I have been working on two stories one is a review on a play Candida where I actually mentioned my nephew Will. Yes, Trevor and Mayke your son is now famous. The other story I am working on with the Campus News Editor McKenzie about new faculty and staff members, we have over a 100 new employees! So, we are trying to interview as many people as we can. I have already done three interviews and all the people I talked to seem pretty cool.

As far as my apartment goes it is a little bit small, but it is nice. Currently four of us on in the apartment Amanda (my roommate), Ariel, Charly, and myself. The other two, Jessica and Natalie, are moving in this weekend. I really enjoy having a kitchen and I am slowly learning how to cook for myself. Basically my meals consist of sandwiches, pasta, and cereal. Tonight though I am going to make myself a hamburger!

Last night some of our neighbors invited my roommates and me to play night games. It was mostly freshman and it was fun. I did feel kind of old when I would mention places on campus and no one would know where it was at. My friends and I did get attacked by water ballons last night while walking by some guys in a truck. Only two of us got hit though my friend Shani and me. Shani got the most of it and was soaking wet and only my butt got wet. It was pretty intense.