I have been crazy busy with school lately. Pretty much just all the time school. School. School. School.
Which is good! That's what I'm here for. However it has left my brain drained and my time gone, therefore there hasn't been much time to update the blog.
Nut shell of activity:
-I have my last day of class on Monday!! Then I have two exams on Wednesday and two exams the following Monday!
-Next weekend Francel is going to New York City for his Mum's graduation from culinary school - it's awesome!
-The weekend after that I turn 24 years old!! ahh!!
-That same weekend we leave on the Sunday for Miami because...
-Monday is our cruise!!!
Between myself and the cruise however, is a 15-20 page English paper and presentation of my findings, an english portfolio of all my work and assignments, a 4 page hand written essay on the Gap theory in service, four chapters of review and an exam in lodging! This past week I had two presentations and an extra class for my summer internship.
I am very excited to finally be done my english courses. You have to take two classes/one year of english as part of the general eduation requirements for graduation, and I'm almost done! My professor was actually really great, very kind and helpful, but it's just not my favourite thing. Also I chose to write about media sensationalism this semester because I thought it was a broad topic with lots of information, and it is, but it is also draining because it's very sad and hard to read sometimes. I'm a pretty positive person, I find it hard to focus for a long time on unhappy situations.
Wednesday was a pretty stressful day, after a very stressful week, so it was exciting to just take a day and enjoy ourselves yesterday! Francel made us breakfast before we headed to Universal Studios!!! It was super busy, but such a blast! We were able to get on most rides within 10-15 minutes, and went to both parks. I'd been craving a ride on ET lately, so we definitely did that. We have been watching the Back to the Future Trilogy lately so it was fun to come across Doc Brown, the dolorian and the train engine!! I have so much fun with Francel no matter what we do, it's just so relaxing and we laugh so much. It was the best destressor and now I'm ready to study and work my butt off all weekend!!
Speaking of which, I have to get to work!! We're setting up for buybacks and graduation next week!
Once this rush is over I'll have lots more updates! I've been reading a bit about concierge lately and I'm so excited to share what I've learned!!
Showing posts with label stress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stress. Show all posts
Friday, April 19, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Fear
This week has been very hard.
On Monday there was a suicide in the dorms at my university's main campus. It was in actuality a planned school shooting. It is said in the news that the student pulled the fire alarm as he was planning to shoot students as they left the building. The student's roommate heard the fire alarm and came out of his room where he came eye to eye with the gun, ran back into his room and called 911. The student went into his own room and killed himself.
They found multiple guns, over 200 bullets and self made bombs in his room. They also reportedly found a bomb in the parking garage next to the apartment tower.
This could have been horrible. It is horrible, it's a life that's been loss that didn't need to be. But thinking about what could have happened, what almost happened, so close to home? It's frightening.
I'm writing a paper in english right now about media sensationalism. It's focused around school shootings and the werther effect that surrounds it, how much the media runs the story and how they always dig into the killer's life and make their names extremely well known. As this activity unfolded I watched the exact thing I've been researching and writing about come to life. The Orlando Sentinel was running a story "Who is _______?" digging into the student's past. The news spread far and fast, where so that I got phone calls and texts from Canada making sure I was okay. As I sat at work the story was followed hour by hour as new news was released about it. In the end, it's a tragic suicide, but the effect of the could have been school shooting was everywhere. It was too close to home.
My campus ran as usual, with some students from main campus missing morning classes due to cancelled shuttles (all of main campus was closed in the morning). There was discussion of the events everywhere in the halls and study rooms, and to be honest, I couldn't help but look at the door each time it opened. Death in general makes me feel uneasy. The fact that is happened at my university, or almost happened at my university, while I was studying it, it all felt a little too close and left me a little uncomfortable.
Today we had an amazing guest speaker in my lodging class discussing Loss Prevention, Security and Safety. The presenter was scheduled at the beginning of the semester and just so happened to fall two days after the previous mentioned events. He discussed how he set up the security for all of universal studios then for Rosen Shingle Creek as well as Rosen College. (Our school has some pretty cool security features!) He did mention some of the bad things on the job though, how you react to scam artists, burns, cuts, and yes, suicides that happened at resorts he worked. Again, it was a little too close to home.
It didn't help that we watched 3 Bones the other night that were about sexual harassment, murder and child soldiers.
So my heart has been pretty heavy this week. And it's reinvoked fears that I've been trying to get over. When I lived in Vancouver I used to not only walk home a couple miles in the dark at night, I used to go for 5+ mile runs at night. I just tried to step out the door to run, and I was scared. Of what? I don't know. We live in a regular neighbourhood, with nice houses. But I couldn't make myself go. I don't want fear to run my life, and it usually doesn't, but perhaps this is just a week to be okay with things like that. To run in the morning, to appreciate life and to just accept things that aren't up to us. Sometimes being a little irrational is okay, as long as you don't let it take over. It won today, it won't win tomorrow.
It's been a rough week. People don't always understand why I'm so affected by things that have nothing to do with me. I don't know if it's my compassion, my ability to relate, or my happy world disposition. I find harming others such a horrifying thought, maybe it's my inability to understand that makes it so hard to deal with. So I deal with it the best way I can, to write a little about it, get it out of me and onto a page, and somehow that cleanses it away. I don't forget, but it's not held as closely to my heart.
It's been a tough week. One that makes you want to reach out and love a little harder, enjoy everything a little more and make sure each day means something.
On Monday there was a suicide in the dorms at my university's main campus. It was in actuality a planned school shooting. It is said in the news that the student pulled the fire alarm as he was planning to shoot students as they left the building. The student's roommate heard the fire alarm and came out of his room where he came eye to eye with the gun, ran back into his room and called 911. The student went into his own room and killed himself.
They found multiple guns, over 200 bullets and self made bombs in his room. They also reportedly found a bomb in the parking garage next to the apartment tower.
This could have been horrible. It is horrible, it's a life that's been loss that didn't need to be. But thinking about what could have happened, what almost happened, so close to home? It's frightening.
I'm writing a paper in english right now about media sensationalism. It's focused around school shootings and the werther effect that surrounds it, how much the media runs the story and how they always dig into the killer's life and make their names extremely well known. As this activity unfolded I watched the exact thing I've been researching and writing about come to life. The Orlando Sentinel was running a story "Who is _______?" digging into the student's past. The news spread far and fast, where so that I got phone calls and texts from Canada making sure I was okay. As I sat at work the story was followed hour by hour as new news was released about it. In the end, it's a tragic suicide, but the effect of the could have been school shooting was everywhere. It was too close to home.
My campus ran as usual, with some students from main campus missing morning classes due to cancelled shuttles (all of main campus was closed in the morning). There was discussion of the events everywhere in the halls and study rooms, and to be honest, I couldn't help but look at the door each time it opened. Death in general makes me feel uneasy. The fact that is happened at my university, or almost happened at my university, while I was studying it, it all felt a little too close and left me a little uncomfortable.
Today we had an amazing guest speaker in my lodging class discussing Loss Prevention, Security and Safety. The presenter was scheduled at the beginning of the semester and just so happened to fall two days after the previous mentioned events. He discussed how he set up the security for all of universal studios then for Rosen Shingle Creek as well as Rosen College. (Our school has some pretty cool security features!) He did mention some of the bad things on the job though, how you react to scam artists, burns, cuts, and yes, suicides that happened at resorts he worked. Again, it was a little too close to home.
It didn't help that we watched 3 Bones the other night that were about sexual harassment, murder and child soldiers.
So my heart has been pretty heavy this week. And it's reinvoked fears that I've been trying to get over. When I lived in Vancouver I used to not only walk home a couple miles in the dark at night, I used to go for 5+ mile runs at night. I just tried to step out the door to run, and I was scared. Of what? I don't know. We live in a regular neighbourhood, with nice houses. But I couldn't make myself go. I don't want fear to run my life, and it usually doesn't, but perhaps this is just a week to be okay with things like that. To run in the morning, to appreciate life and to just accept things that aren't up to us. Sometimes being a little irrational is okay, as long as you don't let it take over. It won today, it won't win tomorrow.
It's been a rough week. People don't always understand why I'm so affected by things that have nothing to do with me. I don't know if it's my compassion, my ability to relate, or my happy world disposition. I find harming others such a horrifying thought, maybe it's my inability to understand that makes it so hard to deal with. So I deal with it the best way I can, to write a little about it, get it out of me and onto a page, and somehow that cleanses it away. I don't forget, but it's not held as closely to my heart.
It's been a tough week. One that makes you want to reach out and love a little harder, enjoy everything a little more and make sure each day means something.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
We interupt regular programming to bring you this...
That is where I am currently residing. I was fine with having an assignment, a class presentation, 2 two hour final exams and a meeting with a visa advisor tomorrow all before studying for another final exam the following morning, but it's the incorrect submission of a group project leading to me currently having no marks for it (even though I finished my part 4 days early) that is making me teeter on the edge.
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| Me in my Fun and Fancy Free days of joyous stress free living :D |
So following my 14 year old self's very wise advise, I first made myself a steamy cup of Chai Tea (which is also nice because air conditioning is INSANE in Florida) and then I sat down, took a deep breath and organized everything in order of importance/things I can fix now. I can't make my teacher mark our assignment, or email me back, so I just have to give it a bit more time. I can however study my little life away and ace my finals tomorrow. I have to give up a little control on our presentation and believe my group can do the tasks laid out for them, and I pretty much know exactly what I need to tell the visa advisor. I can do the final assignment (he only told us about it yesterday, it's extra credit and not due until Thursday at 2pm) on Thursday after my 8am exam. See....stress level back down to a 52 :D
Stress isn't what you all want to read about...and I have to get back to analyzing financial statements and figuring out the purpose of cash flow statements per each group of interested investors and creditors, but here are so great links that I love to check out, oh you know, daily:
Peanut Butter Fingers: Julie Fagon is a realistic healthy food blogger, Orlando-ite, and writes my favourite blog!!
Oh She Glows: Angela Liddon makes the most incredible vegan cooking/baking and I want to make every recipe!
Disney Things: If you have Disney friends on facebook, you've probably seen one of these pictures. They are all the 'simple' things about Disney we love
The Wonderful World Of Disney: Louisa was on her second UK pavilion contract when I went on my first contract. She has done a J1 program (as a Jungle Cruise Skipper!), 2 CRPs and currently works on the Disney Cruise Line. Pretty much she knows everything!
Another Amazing Summer at Disney: Devon works at the Magic Kingdom turnstiles and the Town Square Theater where you can meet Mickey (and Co) & the Princesses! I don't know him, but I like his blog and if I ever spot him will going in MK I'll probably tell him I read his blog and he'll be either creeped out or shocked :) (If someone who reads my blog ever comes up and tells me I'll be the happiest person in the world, and then maybe we could have a Dole Whip together ;) )
The Disney Food Blog: I feel like this blogger and I are kindred souls. Especially when I saw together was a round the (Disney) world trip of Margaritas!! Soooo yummy!
The Disney Parks Blog: Oh course the official blog of Disney, they had a really good read about father/son Imagineers Rolly and Chris Crump.
Hope something in there keeps you a little entertained, of course there are also my favourite to read all the time Disney blogs featured in the "Check-check-check it out!' roll to the right of this post!! They are even listed for most recently updated on (I'm kind like that!! Okay..it does it itself), but Ariella just started her Canadian Cultural Representative Program over at My Year At Disney, Lisa at Disney ICP Summer 2011 just finished training in Tomorrowland (Congrats!), and Vicky is letting you all know about her cultural representative application process over at Another Disney Cultural Rep Blog (Vicky and I share an arrival date!).
If you want your blog featured on here let me know and I'll pass on the good word about your exciting blog! Or if you have any good ones that you know I'd love, please let me know!!
Enjoy the rest of your days! Remember:
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
-Hans Selye
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| This has nothing to do with anything really...but I watched Star Wars this week and realized that Anakin Skywalker slaughters all of these guys! Plus their wives and children! Now instead of being totally creeped out by them, I'm both creeped out and feel like telling them not to kidnap his Mother and they could have saved the whole galaxy a huge mess. |
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