Opening week and the inner wall

This week has been pretty exciting. Took my last Italian midterm before the final, turned in one of the last Spanish essays of the semester, started planning my schedule for next semester, and last but not least, I got to watch my hometown win the NCAA tournament. The last piece of news is a bit bitter sweet because I couldn’t be home to celebrate, but it feels good knowing UK got their 8th.

So here we are at the end of the week (almost. I still have a couple classes and some work standing between me and the weekend) and I find myself in the Jewett MPR (multi purpose room: a large room with sofas and chairs and a flat screen tv!) watching the second day of the opening week for the major league baseball season with my friends. One of them is a die hard Mets fan while the other is a Red Sox fan, so I’m splitting my time between the two TVs in the building, each with a different game playing. I grew up in a college basketball town– not MLB– so I’ve had a good time getting “educated” about this culture. It’s easy to get caught up in the thick of it as my friend next to me yells expletives at her beloved team when she feels they’ve let her down.

Side note, I just found out I’ll be leading an outing club trip to the inner wall in New Paltz in a week. That’s not true, I knew I was going to do it; I just wasn’t sure how many people would want to go. Turns out I’ve got more people than I have transportation, so we’ll have to work that out somehow. But it’s going to be a great time– I haven’t been rock climbing in a couple years since the place I used to go back home got shut down. I guess I have no excuse though since I live near one of the most beautiful national and state parks ever AND I go to school in the equally lovely Hudson Valley area. Plus, the outing club subsidizes half of our entry fees. It’ll be a good week.