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By MARGARET REIST / Lincoln Journal Star
When I came to Arts and Humanities, immediately I could just feel the creativity kind of pulsing through the students and the teachers. I mean there’s only four teachers and they’re some of my dearest friends. So I’ve just really been fortunate to have that school.
Right now I’m taking world religions. We have these grand discussions about Christianity and Islam and life and death and the afterlife and it’s really incredible. They bring in speakers. We got to go do yoga last week and incorporate that into our study of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Through Arts and Humanities, I’ve been able to get really involved with Sheldon Art Gallery. Five of us would go down to Sheldon on Friday afternoons and they were the most beloved Fridays ever. We focused on the sculpture garden and we would give presentations and learn how to give tours. There’s a lot of amazing women who are part of the docent program and it’s been an honor to have been allowed to be a part of it.
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I’m going back to Peru this summer. I’m getting giddy just talking about it because I get to go back in three months. A group of like 20 of us went last summer for 10 or 11 days and we stayed with this really amazing ministry. They work with these … young boys (whose) parents just don’t have enough money to keep them and they think the boys can fend for themselves more on the street so they’re put on the street.
I’d like to go back this year with a much stronger base in Spanish. I think eventually for me to become fluent I’ll have to live there.
It’s so easy to become wrapped up with life in Lincoln and to not think about (how) there’s a whole world and there’s so many places you could be.
I really want to go to Macalester. It’s a really good liberal arts school in St. Paul, Minn. It’s by no means just about getting in, it’s about it being realistic about making it happen. So we’ll see.
Half of my time I just think about leaving for another country and just going somewhere else. I know I need to continue going to school but it’s like thinking about school for another six or eight years is kind of nauseating.
Can I talk about something I’m proud of? My friends and I threw a benefit this fall … for an alumni of ours, Alex Svoboda. We had a fashion show and a bake sale. We worked really hard all fall break to kind of redo the school as far as creating a new aesthetic. All the students made all the clothing. All our art was on the walls.
Her family actually came and spoke at it. It was just beautiful and wonderful and the whole evening was dazzling.
Now we’re working on another one. We’re doing a spring festival. I think we’re going to do it for the community garden project. They’re run entirely off donations and we thought that it would be in keeping with spring and being environmentally friendly and green and natural.
(Amy) Rauch (a teacher at Arts and Humanities) and my mom and myself … were given (a grant) to buy some plants. At the beginning of the year we spent like a week … digging. The terrain in front of arts and humanities is awful. It’s like rock, rock, rock, rock, rock. Not even clay, just rock. I mean it’s horrible. I guess it was kind of worth it, but now it’s winter and the plants don’t look that happy.
We planted a tree. Its name is Francis. It’s a really naughty, kind of awful stumpy looking tree. But apparently it’s a really strong tree and it will hopefully grow into something magnificent one day. We had a ceremony for the planting of Francis and all the students came out with a shovel and each student got their own piece of dirt for the tree that was our tree. It was great.
My parents are wonderful. I’ve been really lucky. They’re great and kind of quirky and just, you know, supportive.
We have a really wonderful house. I always thought it was a big stone house, but it’s just a two-story stone house. We have a wonderful yard because my mom is always in the garden in the spring and summer.
We have two really overweight cats. They’re really fat and happy, very pleasant. Ginger and Woody. Sweet Woodruff is her formal name. We were supposed to name them after spices. Every morning I wake up with Woody purring in my face.
I love my room. It’s either incredibly orderly or a terror zone.
My dad is really wonderful and bizarre. He wants for me to have an appreciation for the old movies, so if I’m home usually he and I will watch a movie together. He introduced me to “Annie Hall,” which I adore.
I really enjoy my mom’s company, too. We started doing Pilates, and I mean, it’s kind of hell. But we have so much fun because afterwards we just burst out laughing.
I’m trying to convince myself that eventually I’ll just wake up and be this toned, muscular goddess, but I don’t think so.
My parents killed our cable awhile ago just because they thought we were wasting our minds, and they were right. I love “Project Runway” though.
I started working out at the Y just because I really feel that I need to develop these positive habits.
They have television on the ellipticals so I plan working out around when there’s good things on cable because I know I can’t watch them at home.
(My car) is, like, a 1990 Bonneville. It’s called The Bonnet. It’s just kind of a large couch. It’s like baby blue. It’s pretty heinous, but it’s great.
I love Thai food. I love Indian food as well. Probably those two partially because they seem nutritious. I mean who doesn’t like a huge plate of French Fries and ketchup?
Oh, I like Amigos, too. A cheesy from there is probably the most delicious thing ever. I mean it’s kind of disgusting, but it’s so good.
I think that I can be charming when I need to be, and I feel like I’m able to be professional when I need to be and to be eloquent, but I’m also very capable of being crude and goofy and a young person. Which is nice.
I can’t imagine being thoughtful all of the time, and eloquent all of the time. I just think that I would go crazy.
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