Davis VS. Orange County

I just want Thomas to come home from college because I really, really miss him. It's nice having Skype to talk to him, but it's just not the same. I can't wait for him to come home because then I can drive twenty minutes to see him and we can grab lunch and spend three hours at a boba restaurant (??) talking about life and laughing at everything. The last time I saw him was in October, when he and I were having smoothies at Juice It Up and we bought window paint so we could write "UCDavis bound" on the back of his mom's car. I almost cried when he left because I knew it would be a long time before I would see him again. It's been 7 months and all I want is for him to come home. I miss Thomas.

Life updates: These happen a lot since I don't update regularly

Well the highlights of this month have included the following:

• Arrivals of both Evan and Matt who are home for the summer
• The end of my second year of college (however, this is community college and so I feel a bit different than all of my four-year friends in some small, insignificant way)
• A consistent job position working as an instructional aide at an elementary school close to home
• Maintaining good grades the whole semester 

That's about it for highlights. 

Evan and Matt are both home! It's been about five-ish months since I last saw them, and that was during Christmas/Winter break. We had Festivus in December and then a few weeks later, they both left for college. We all stayed in touch via Facebook, Snapchat and some Skype calls. Nothing beats having them in the same state though. All of my friends basically hate when I take pictures but I can always sneak a few in. I JUST LIKE CAPTURING MOMENTS, OKAY. 

My second year of college ended so quickly, in fact I feel like it went a lot faster than last semester adn that was a pretty long semester. This semester consisted of a couple of oral presentations and a lot of writing. Last semester I hardly had any homework and this semester I was neck deep in it. The nice part of it all was being able to relearn a language I once knew in high school and actually writing paragraphs/essays in Spanish. I also got an inside look into the complex world of research methods for psychology. My favorite unit was probably the ethics units, where we got to see just how messed up some people actually were and how they went out going through with these experiments. I also wrote a 17-page paper, which is a lot of writing for me. Overall the semester ended strong and I'm happy to say I finally know what I want to major in. 

I started working as a substitute instructional aide for my good friend's mother's classroom and it has been nothing but fun and work in the classroom. The environment is such a great place for learning and growth, it really touches my heart to know that someday these kids will be all grown up and hopefully they'll remember me in their small memory. 

I seem to have kept up my grades this semester, but that doesn't mean my head's in the clouds. I have to come back down to earth and make sure I keep those grades up so that I can transfer in the next year or so. Here's to saving up for the summer! 

Goals

So it's pretty clear I can't keep up with this, oh well! I'll do my best to update this as regularly as I can, whether it be with life updates or just adventures shown in the form of pictures, I'll make it happen. I have a lot of free time now and I don't see why it isn't doable. That being said, I'm about to post a long entry about how things have been going for me lately, as there have been several days filled to the brim with happiness.