Discovered.

So in the last couple days as I've been searching the internet for interesting things that tickle my fancy ( blogs, twitter, pictures, music, art ect.) I realized that the best posts, are short posts.

Nobody reads the long ones, no matter how captivating they claim to be.

So today I'm posting short.

Your welcome.

When doing must be done

There comes a time when there is nothing left to do other than what you should be doing. When all conflicting options are exhausted and productiveness must overcome the desire to do what is wasteful or unwise.

My goal... is not to let myself get to that point

To skip or not to skip....

Just so you know... I should be in class right now 

I can feel it coming!

Summer is just around the corner

Four more weeks!!!!

I can do it!

Ramen Noodles!

Everyone knows that Ramen Noodles are a college student's staple. But by Junior/Senior year, they're gettin' a bit old. Here's some ways to Spice um up!

Let there be a flood of justice....

Ecuador:The story (part one)

I'm not sure how my story telling skills are, I haven't got much feedback besides the fact that I tend to make things seem like they're really really exciting, then my endings are (in the words [or word rather] of my best friend) anticlimactic.  Let's hope that in this story the ending is the best part!

It was Tuesday night, and here I was back in my dorm, all packed up and ready to go! I had my headphones, my sunglasses and my trusty bag (which is basically all you need in life) and most of all I head heart my friends. I was ready to embark on this adventure with my fellow nursing students to the land of spiders and monkeys and big flying bugs. It was totally on! I wish I had a picture to mark this moment in history but alas my broken and incomplete explanation of the event will be the only momentum to this joyous occasion. 

Then after that, I went to bed. (sometimes life just isn't exciting folks, that's just the way it is)

 After waking up bright and early Wednesday morning we left. Way early. Like 4 hours before our plan was going to leave. Apparently our professors wanted to be extra prepared much to the dismay of all 18 of us loitering in the terminal four hours on end (pun intended). However, on a side note, I was super excited to get a call from my good friend Kali who had just gotten engaged! 

Kali and Matt

Waiting in O'hare

Finally on the plane!

After eating breakfast (and lunch) and calling everyone in my phone contact list, we finally boarded the plane! I was tired and I knew we were scheduled to get into Quito late so I decided to sleep as much as I could. There was a layover in Miami which was pretty uneventful. Well, we did eat at this Mexican restaurant with horrible service that I highly discourage anyone who finds themselves in Miami airport to go to. But other than that, nothing. After more waiting we boarded again and after a few hours, finally landed in Quito. 

Eating at the Mexican Restaurant 

It took some time to get all our luggage sorted and get the group through customs, some of us even broke out  our 'gracious' and 'por favors.' Excitement and expectation was in the air as we wondered about our accommodations, what we would be doing, and whether or not the bugs were really as big as they looked on Google.

Bug from Google

We met some of our group leaders for the first time and then headed outside, expecting the warm air to embrace our skin with all the love that summer had taken with it some long months ago. Instead, however, we were greeted with torrential rain fall. Apparently it was the rainy season. Forgot to mention that huh, Google! Oh well, nothing could get these brave hearts down! We were in Ecuador! We grabbed our bags and our determination and headed outside the comfort of the airport into the wet, black night.

To be continued....