It's All Too Much

Hello Humans! "When I look into your eyes, the world is there for me. And the more I go inside, the more there is to see. It's all too much for me take, the Love that shines all around you. Everywhere, it's what you make. For us to take, it's all to much. Floating down the streaming of time, from life to life with me. Makes no difference where you are, or where you'd like to be. It's all too much for me to take, the Love that shines all around here. All the world is a birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. Sail me on the silver sun, where I know I'm free. Show me that I'm everywhere, and get me home for tea. It's all too much for me to see, the Love that shines all around here. The more I learn, the less I know. But what I do is all too much. It's all too much for me to take, the Love that shines all around you. Everywhere, it's what you make. For us to take it's all too much. It's too much."

Holy cow. September has just flown by like nobody's business. It seems like just yesterday was the first day of college here! It's crazy looking back on the past month how much my mind and spirit have grown together. I've become one with myself and have learned to love my weirdness and gladly accept it as my own.

I've really lucked out on roommates. They are so amazing, and I'm so happy to say that I get to spend the next two-and-a-half months with them, and then the next 3 months after Christmas Break with them again! We have already been on quite a few adventures together. First was a hike up to this gorgeous rock on a cliff, where you could see most of our side of the island. While it was a pretty much up-hill hike, the view was so worth it. Then we ventured on a more-than-8-hour bus ride to go to the Swap Meet and Target. Man, Target, the things we college students do just to get to you! The thing that I love most about my roommates is that they've helped me come to love and show my nerdy scientist side more-often. They love and embrace it, and even encourage it a lot. I also get to help them all on their homework, because 3 out of the 6 are biology majors, and I love seeing their face light up when they get something that was hard before.

For those of you wondering (*cough* DAD), I have not been on one single date this entire month, and I am very happy with that. Seeing the drama some of my roommates have gone through, either with trying to maintain long-distance relationships, or trying to hint a guy to ask her on a date, makes me want to stay further away from boys. As I always tell people: "Boys have Cooties." I think I'll stick to that slogan for a little while longer. And, the only boy that seems to be attracted to me at this point is this one guy in my O-Chem Lab class, but he only seems to need me for my smarts. Oh, and he freaks out and throws a small fit when no one can answer his question. And he's around lots of glassware and dangerous Chemicals when this happens. Someone didn't take the Lab Safety class. Maybe I'll keep my distance from him.

My mind and spirit have really fused together at this point. I feel like almost every big science concept I learn, I end up finding lots of ties to the gospel with it. I have loved this focus on my mind and spirit. It has brought me to recognize which one is talking or thinking, although at this point, I'm pretty sure they're one and the same now.

This month I set some pretty big dates. First was my plane home, and back to the Island for Christmas Break. I'm so grateful that I found an over-night, no-layover flight for a very cheap price. I'm also very grateful to loving parents who help me through my reading the wrong date on the computer, and them helping me to fix it immediately. But we won't get too into that here. Second, I finally committed and fixed the date to start my dread journey. December 16th, for those of you who didn't get the memo. I am so excited for this new journey I will get to embark on, and the change that will occur within and without myself.

This month, I also reconnected with some old friends. From Tonyburgers, my third favorite place on Earth, besides The Island and the Temple. It has been so fun to reconnect and see how things are doing back at my favorite C-Ville TB. Man, I never thought the people I worked with at Tonyburgers would change my life and my view on somethings so drastically. I miss them and their friendships a lot. But, I'm cheering them on from the Island. One of my rolls as best manager at the C-Ville TB was Team Cheerleader. And also Hurricane Mary, but that's something entirely different.

And now, October is tomorrow! October is my favorite month, because it's my month. I also really like April, but that's just because it rains a lot, but over here on the Island, it rains year-round, so that bumps October up to number one. I think I'm going to set some goals for October, I know, GASP. Now that I've settled in, and gotten used to the campus life, and have focused so much on uniting my mind and spirit, this month, I'm going to try to bring the focus of uniting my mind and spirit, to uniting my body and chakras, and spirit. I'm going to start Meditating, at least 5 minutes every morning, and if possible, 5 minutes every night. I originally fell in love with Meditation during my Yoga class during my Jr. Year of High School. It's so nice to just have a few quiet moments to just breath and think about nothing. No emotions, no science, no friends, just nothing. A blank space. I also want to start exercising, to get my body in better shape. I mean, I'm not fat or anything, but I'm starting to feel the need to get up and move around, instead of sitting down for hours and hours on end. So to the gym I go! I'm going to go running or biking 3 times a week at the gym (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays), and do Yoga everyday. Running, even though it's one of my least favorite things in the world, is really good for burning calories. And lucky for me, our school gym has treadmills and bikes, so I don't have to buy a bike, or run out in the hot humidity. There's at least a little bit of AC in the gym. And as for Yoga. It's about time I unrolled my mat. I lugged my beloved mat all the way over here, across an ocean, literally. So I might as well make some use of it. Yoga is my favorite form of exercise. Tied with soccer, because soccer is life. But Yoga is just so calming. The themes behind it are just amazing, too. Uniting the mind, body, and spirit through moving meditation. My goal for Yoga is to be able to touch my toes, and sit comfortably in the Lotus pose by the time I fly home for Christmas Break. Luckily, as a member of the NSLS, I get access to a free online Yoga Class through instructional videos! I am also going to be eating healthier. My big thing isn't eating a bunch of junk food, but just eating too much food. Since I don't have many plates or bowls, and I don't want to do dishes, I tend to not use any. So, I'm going to start trying to portion control my food better. I also am going to try to get back up-to-date on my French. I really want to be able to say that I'm fluent in another language. Well, I already put that down on resumes, because I know enough to be able to speak well to people, but I really want to be able to speak it amazingly. My big set-back with French is remembering which way the accents go! Accent Aigu and Accent Grave are the slanted-dash accents. I know where they go, I just can't remember which way it goes.

I'm super excited to focus on myself and my body and chakras this month. I think it will be yet another great month on the Island spent finding myself. Stay wild, flower child.