A new season

Tomorrow is the Cubs first spring training game!  This is always my favorite time of the year, ever since I can remember, my family spends lots of time together every summer watching games.  Since high school, it has pretty much become a tradition that one of my brothers and I will go to Wrigley every summer with a few friends.  It's such a fun experience to be in Wrigleyville on a game day.  These are some of my favorite pictures from games over the years.

Traveling memories

Here at Bradley, I am a student worker for the music department.  One of my jobs is to do lighting and recording for concerts and recitals.  Today there was a concert which triggered some of my very vivid memories of a trip I was on during freshman year of high school.

We took a trip to Washington D.C. with the band that I was in, and one of the places we played a concert was at a veterans home.  This was such a great experience and we got to spend an afternoon talking with them and hearing their stories before the concert happened later that night.  During the concert, we played "Armed Forces Salute" when veterans can stand and be recognized during their song.  Many of them were very emotional as their memories were brought back to times of serving our country.  It was a very moving and powerful experience for us as visitors to spend a day getting to know this group of veterans.  The same thing happened at today's concert, and it just reminded me of my time spent in Washington D.C.  It is wonderful to hear people's stories about what they have done for us in their past.

Almost the End...

This past week really made me think a lot about how we will all be graduating in only three short months, and how fast the past four years have gone by!  It really hit me when I was at the job fair, it is so strange to think about moving into the real world and seeing everyone our age spread out and leave the area for new jobs.  Also, after the skype presentation in class the other day, it really made me realize that even though you may have plans for yourself in the future, you never know where you will end up until you get there.  Definitely learned a lot from the presentation and was motivated to do some of the same things myself.

Red Rock Country

All of this cold, snowy weather has been making me think of traveling somewhere warm.  I really like to travel and experience lots of different places, my favorite place I have ever been is probably Arizona.  The cities we visited were Sedona, Flagstaff, Phoenix, and Mesa (for Cubs spring training :) )  The red rocks that are in Arizona are absolutely beautiful!  We took a jeep through, and got to climb in certain areas which was pretty cool.  Everything I saw was just so different from anything else I've ever experienced which is why it was so memorable.  For anyone who likes to travel, would definitely recommend going here!!