Daily Loaf

“Are you ok?” I asked my friend after realizing that she wasn’t faking and couldn’t get up. She was sitting on the volleyball court with a fearful expression on her face. Looking at her face I also realized that she was in a lot of pain even though she was trying to hide it and stay calm.

I planned to have one of the best weekends ever at El Caribe hotel on Daytona Beach Shores. I absolutely love the beach. It’s a completely different world for me—a world where my worries and daily errands cannot reach me. It’s the world with no reception, where I’m completely disconnected from my daily chaos. I love the sunshine, even though I get sunburned almost every time I go. The threat of cancer doesn’t scare me away from my addiction to tanning. The sand adds a lot to the beach experience, making the beach a perfect place for volleyball. You can dive for a ball without getting hurt most of the time. But the best part is the water. The water literally is a different world, allowing you to do all kinds of things you can’t on land like surf, skim, ski; the list goes on and on. You can even make out in the water, adding a whole new dimension to the experience… Read the rest of this entry »

Each Fall an army of eighteen-year-old “adults” floods USF, expecting to finally set foot in the long prophesized “real world.” They soon discover that college, and the real world, are whatever these freshmen make of them.  In constructing their identities, most are required to take a basic writing course. Creative Loafing has chosen four of those students to blog for the Daily Loaf.

This week, as the students know, was a test week. Just like during any other week there are so many opportunities to spend time having fun and doing anything else but study. For me, this test week carried some surprises.

I usually try to get to class no matter what. I am not really a reading person and I try to get most of my material through the lectures. The later turns out to be not so easy a task, because often the lectures are not long enough or the lecturer feels like we should really be reading instead of getting the material from him the easy way, through the lecture. At any rate, my rule is to show up to class with no exceptions. Well, this week this rule saved me twice… Read the rest of this entry »

Each Fall an army of eighteen-year-old “adults” floods USF, expecting to finally set foot in the long prophesized “real world.” They soon discover that college, and the real world, are whatever these freshmen make of them.  In constructing their identities, most are required to take a basic writing course.

Creative Loafing has chosen four of those students to blog for the Daily Loaf.

These are their rants, insights, fears and hopes….

Don’t worry, I will not really talk about ketchup, even though there are a lot of great things I can say about ketchup. I eat ketchup with everything pretty much, but that is not what I want to say. I will explain myself with a story. I have been trying to invite one of my good friends to come over to my apartment to spent the night and have a some fun, but every single time she has some excuse, like a project, essay, she’d tired, so on and so forth. As I talked to her yesterday, she started explaining that she feels like she is playing catch up all the time, there is always something due the next morning that requires immediate attention.

Her accent really made it sound like she was saying “ketchup” and not “catch up”, so we has a good laugh, and a whole discussion on ketchup and food. But on more serious note, isn’t it the way so many people especially college students feel? … Read the rest of this entry »