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| My drive to School |
To start my day off, I woke up in a panic. I had
slept through my alarm. I live my life
on a routine, I do the same things every morning, and if my morning schedule is
thrown off, my entire day is shot. It so happened that I was not able to shower. That right there was enough to ruin
my day. I wasn’t able to wash off the
stank from the day before. I was forced to set out on my day feeling like a pile of
garbage, and probably looked that way too.
It also made me nervous that I was going to be the stinky person in
class, and no one likes the stinky person.
On my way into school, I got stuck in a traffic jam due to a
car accident. This made me late for
class, which added to my already panic mode of the morning. The instructor of the class is awesome, but I
have never had her as a teacher. I was
nervous because I didn’t really know what to expect of her as a teacher, and was
scared of making a negative first impression as a student for being late.
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| My RTA Passes |
Once I had made it to school, we were to work on our travel
guides. The travel guides is just a blog
that we partnered up and worked on a specific subtopic related to our
trip. My partner (school partner not
life partner) and I had decided to do history.
We thought history would be a great idea because to understand the city
you need to know its history to really appreciate it. In retrospect, this topic was the worse choice
for me personally. I can rock science
classes like no other, but working on this, I realize why I wasn’t a history major. It gets me SO confused and a little frustrated.
Which once again is funny because its pretty strait foreword. While researching I would find information,
and then find other information that contradicted the information I had just previously
wrote about, all the while both sources should have been considered reliable. Then there was the whole setting up and designing
of the blog. That was another nightmare
all on its own. While there are multiple
you tube video’s explaining how to do certain tasks, I still couldn’t get it to
work out like I was wanting. I also
still am trying to figure out the difference between a post and a page. This brings me to the actual presentation. I fear that all my irritation, and my anxiety
kicked in and got the best of me. I
usually can rock it out and do awesome.
That was not the case yesterday.
I personally feel that I gave the WORSTE presentation of my life. When I got up in front of the
class, I completely froze, and was overwhelmed with fear and started sweating profusely. I instantly got an overwhelming feeling of
defeat, and then extremely embarrassed because I feel that I let myself
down.
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| Ali welcoming me |
After class my anxieties continued to build. Now it wasn’t because I was trying to make it
to school on time or presenting. It was an overall feeling of fear of the unknown. This kind of lead to me having a minor panic
attack on the way to the train. I could almost feel my throat closing from the fear. Then once
at the train station we waited for hours for our train to arrive. Luckily Ali was there to keep me entertained
and ease my anxieties!
Flash forward to this moment in time, we are about nine hours
into our trip with only eight to go. My
anxieties about leaving home have died down, and have been replaced with
excitement. I am ready to see the magical
city of New Orleans!
