Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Happy Holidays!

I can’t believe how long it has been since I have written a blog. I don’t think I have ever gone this long without writing something. Between work keeping me busy, trying to stay calm during the holiday season, avoiding traffic on the roads and keeping in touch with people it’s been very hard to manage my time. A lot of things happening all at once can keep you on your toes but I sure hope that you can dance on your toes at the same time to keep everything moving smoothly!

Something funny happened last week. I was doing some work and I decided to take a small break. I picked up the newspaper and I was reading it just like any other day. I got to the Local section of The Record, I flip the page and there is my face! Right in the middle of the page, about quarter of the page was my face on a Berkeley College ad. First I stared at it for a while with a shocked look on my face and then I busted out laughing. This was so unexpected that I couldn’t hold in the laughter and surprise. The ad was for an Open House that Berkeley was holding at the Garret Mountain campus on the 13th of December. I didn’t expect this because the picture they took was a totally different picture and it was pasted into the ad. Lucky for me it was a good picture!

I was going through my Facebook the other day and I noticed that Amy Young, the Student Development Director added some new pictures to the Berkeley Facebook on her page. The pictures were of her and Amisha donating hair to Locks of Love! I was so shocked and proud that they cut off the beautiful long hair for such a good cause. Even thought I cannot donate my hair because I dye it, I don’t think I would have the guts to cut off so much of my hair all at once. It’s too drastic of a change for me all at once. I am so proud of them for doing it though!

Every time I come back to the Berkeley website I see something new, or some type of change that was made to the website. It’s great how much the college is upgrading things. If you are an Alumni you have different Blackboard capabilities that are much more restricting than a student’s Blackboard. You can only basically use Career Services, E-mail, Community, and view your personal information. I wish I could view the announcement page so that I could see what is going on at the campus, what events are running and other things. I always like to keep in touch but without seeing the announcements I can’t really see what’s going on. Many times they have plays or BBQ’s that I don’t know happen because I can’t see it anymore. I hope that’s an update that can be made one day. I know some other Alumni who would like to still keep in touch with what’s going on at the campus.