Pi Kappa Alpha's Dream Girl Philanthropy Competition

Founder Littleton Waller Tazewell...
Evening wear with fishbowl questions...
Coming up with a talent????....

What had I gotten myself into? These are all sections from the Pike Dream Girl Philanthropy event on April 9th. I decided to help out and participate to support the Pi Kappa Alpha Chapter at DePaul University. The competition comprised of a Pike Knowledge section having both questions about their National fraternity and the chapter here at DePaul University. Then there was a talent portion and evening wear with questions section. It was pretty neat getting to know about Pike facts more and learning their founders names was a studious task! The 6 founders of Pi Kappa Alpha all had unique names. Coming up with a talent was the most complicated section to me; I hadn’t played the piano or sang in years in front of people. What was going to be my talent, I just had sarcasm and a whistle….oh wait lifeguarding, I can teach people the basics of how to save lives.

Lauren, Me, Christine, Jessie, Jaidaly & Johanna at DreamGirl.

The day of the event, I woke up a nervous wreck; I was running around all day trying to get ready for the event. Luckily I had the amazing help of some great sisters who were able to help out with my make up and hair and to actually get to the event. (Thank you Christine and Mindy) It was great to get to the event and see some familiar faces of other members from the fraternity and sorority life community and also at the same time to meet some new ones. I was going to be participating in the event with 7 other girls, from 4 different chapters. The ladies that I met that night and “competed” against were amazing women, so talented and friendly. We had a great time getting ready and just hanging out behind the scenes. As I was getting ready for the first event I looked over the balcony of the second floor and saw the smiling faces of friends and my sisters, my nerves disappeared. The event was meant to be fun, and for a good cause. I had a blast! I am so glad that I decided to step up to the plate and run for Pike Dream Girl. I will have memories and friends from this event which is the greatest prize I could ask for.

wow, it's been a long while. so lots of things have changed. new school. new friends. new life changes. still having some of the same stresses though. that's always fun and exciting. :( well just a short few lines for today. tomorrow, maybe more.

Lately I’ve been writing like non-stop which is interesting since as of two weeks ago, I was suffuring from a bad case of writers block. Not such a good thing when your major heavily depends on paper writing. I’ve been reflecting upon my Fall Quarter at DePaul and all that has gone on with my life during this time. And like I usually always do, it’s about time I write my thoughts out.

City mouse vs. Country mouse: I’m still definitely a country mouse. I really do love rural just not as built up commercialized towns and cities. Granted I learned to adapt this quarter, I’ve been bringing my computer on the train and I seem to get a lot done that way. But come this December I might be faced with huge decisions that might just change everything drastically.

School: I’m starting to really like school. And in the past recent days, I’ve worked my butt off like no other. I really have been pushing myself hard. But come with pushing myself hard is not having great sleeping habits. Thus right now I’m up til 5 a.m. yet again. For as high as the tuition is at DePaul they do have the best teachers there and I really have enjoyed my classes. I’m trying to be more open now or trying to figure out how to fit myself in with my peers. I realize that in some classes I will be able to find common ground and work well with others. And then there might be other classes where I will just simply not understand why they don’t seem to care…and then I realize that age wise I’m probably about five years older than them and there are times where I’m going to feel old and annoyed.

Work: to say the least I’ve really fallen down the ladder of how much I love and care about my work. There’s one job I just jumped on board with, and I can’t think of something else I would rather do. And then there’s the job that I work the most at…and I find myself wanting to quit there because of several reasons. I have had so much dedication to that place but in terms of the lack of credit is giving to people who do a great job…it’s getting ridiculous. And it saddens me because if anything I was one of those people who really believed in what my workplace stood for. And now…I am not sure.

Religion: I’m really trying to just have faith that there's a higher being out there that's making sure I’m doing okay and hopefully somewhat on the right track. Slowly my faith in what’s good is being restored. And hopefully I’ll be able to find my way towards religion again.

My future: *sigh* where to start. Well I might not be Illinois come the end of December. Hopefully I will, but there are situations coming up that I am not sure if I’m going to be able to control. I hope I have a hand in making my destiny or life…horrible sounding isn’t it. naw I mean I just really would like to make some decisions and live my life the way I want. Pondering my life lately, and I guess it’s because my birthday is coming up. Everything lately just seem so scary to me. sometimes I just wish I could freeze time for just moments to figure things out before everything goes flying by me.

Friends: I miss them. Just simply that. There’s been some changes good and bad…but all in all I just miss my friends.

Love and relationship: At the end of summer if someone were to tell me that there’s someone out there for me or I’ll find that perfect person for me soon or eventually. I would not have believed them. Until the night I was walking out of work completely dejected, down, and just sad, and then my phone beeped saying I had gotten a text message. And it just so happened to be this shy guy who decided to instant message my phone. Since then the lock on my heart slowly opened up again. Before I even thought of dating this boy, he had shared his remarkable faith in love with me, something I had lost for a long while. And simply by sharing his honest thoughts with me I starting falling for him. I didn’t want to rush or push, I wanted something that would last. I had always loved the idea of love and the feeling and I wanted so much to have a bit of anything my parents have for each other. (my parents are soulmates, I’ve often heard of people who don’t believe that everyone has one, but I do because of my parents’ love for each other) I wanted just a bit of what they have, I think perhaps I just might have found that. I know I’ve found love again and that’s important too. I just having feelings for this guy that I haven’t had for a long time. I cannot ask for a better guy, he has given me so much. restoring my faith in love, caring about me, supporting me and just making me smile. I only hope that I have been able to give him back everything he’s given me. I am so grateful and thankful to have him in my life.

Many times when an author writes a story some of the plot comes from what the author has actually experienced in their lives or is a shadow of their lives. The book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen falls into this category. “Pride and Prejudice can be seen as a palimpsest, with Jane Austen’s real life engraved roughtly, enigmatically, beneath its surface.”(Shields, 69) Some of the parallels between Jane Austen’s life and Pride and Prejudice are found in characters, family, social status, sisterly bond, and the love life. The lapse of time between writing First Impressions and the completed final version of Pride and Prejudice provided Austen with greater insights into the subject of courtship and it’s danger, difficulties, pains, and foolishness, as well as its joy. All are displayed in this novel.



currently that's my intro to my paper, i wrote the paper and then intro last since i'm just horrible at writing intros. grrr. frustration.
we had a good informal talk about papers today in class. so sad that it's the last week of classes. :(

Friday....had an student conference for english. there's a possibility that i can get an A in the class. i want that A. so i am going to work my butt off like crazy. I really want to redeem myself from last quater...and how i didn't do as well as i would have liked. i got a ton of ideas by talking to professor snart at the conference. Now i just need to put those ideas into paper form. too bad though that i have had severe writer's block for the past oh...two weeks or so. very bad timing for writer's block too if you ask me, it couldn't have come at a more horrible time.

Connection between Jane Austen's life and Pride and Prejudice....
-Family
-Social Status
-Society Views
-Love and Relationships

Joy! I think i figured out my English topic. I really got into Jane Austen again. So an idea I have is connecting Jane Austen's life to Pride and Prejudice. Really it's quite amazing that what she wrote about...like not loving the person you marry or not being able to marry the person you love because of social status. well that just really kind of sucks. The other idea I had is to link the idea of society and how the people back then viewed women and how women were suppose to behave and act then. And it's quite amazing how hmmmm a lot of Jane Austen's characters either fit the sterotypical woman exactly or the complete opposite.

I'm not very good at making outlines on a side note, so we will see how good this one will be for my conference on friday.

it was really hard for me to think of an english topic. at first i was really set on the idea of writing something about hamlet. or even a yellor wallpaper. something we studied in class. but now i just don't want to do that. I want to write something new, or about something new. So i'll will have to continue thinking about some other literature.