Classic Bev

So the past few weeks have been so crazy, I feel the need to update. IS kind of consumed my life for about a week until my full draft was due but then I got to sit around and relax. Well, maybe not relax, but certainly focus on a bit that wasn’t class-related. Last Friday President Bill Clinton was speaking here in Wooster along with John Glenn and so I went to see him with some of my coworkers. I asked my advisor to go as well (and to bring her cute kids, because there’s nothing like using kids to get a good photo op with someone, haha) so that she could see if my argument in my IS about his rhetoric is correct. And it is! I was so excited, it was definitely a relief, especially after working so hard to get my draft in. That night, I went to the Jazz Ensemble concert to watch my friend Karl rock the sax and I have to say that it is the most fun I have had in a long time. I made my friend Gump go with me and we were dancing in our seats, it was ridiculous. The theme was “A Night in Havana: Three Generations of Afro-Cuban Jaxx” and the featured performer was a Cuban musician named Chuchito Valdes, who is possibly the funniest man I’ve ever seen. Not only was he amazingly talented, but he found a way to connect to the audience despite his poor English. I used to go to all of the band concerts in high school because my friends were in band, but I haven’t been to one since I graduated and I’m so glad I did.

Now it’s Spring Break and I’m still in Wooster, as are a lot of seniors. Spring Break is two weeks long, specifically so that seniors have time to finish IS without classes distracting them. The sports teams travel, as do the band and the chorus. I’ve been working during the day and spending some quality time with my friends (and my IS) at night. It’s been very surreal, because I got my graduation announcements this morning and it’s my future in a bag! Or at least, that’s what I’ve been yelling at people at work.