I voted!

Quick note to say: I voted yesterday! Printed off my absentee ballot and it is headed to the U.S. Consulate/ Embassy in Marseille tomorrow - wheeeeee!

I'm registered to vote in Colorado (uhh, should I be saying this on the internet? oh well, whatever, it's public record anyway) because it's more of a swing state than New York (hello blue!), so my ballot should be in Denver by next week.

EVERYONE MUST VOTE! I AM IN ANOTHER COUNTRY AND I DID IT, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.
(unless you're like my Uncle T: "I don't vote and I don't complain." well, that's one way of looking at it)

Happy election season :)
xxo, S

Happy October 3rd!

Today is important for several reasons:

1) It's officially been one whole month since I arrived in France! The time has absolutely flown by and I can't believe everything that's happened already. From making new friends to seeing new places, the past month has been fantastic (albeit, with some ups and downs). I can't wait for everything that's left to come... but also don't want it to go by too quickly!

2) Today is Debate Day. That's right - the first Presidential Debate of the 2012 election year. And do you where it's being held?! THE UNIVERSITY OF DEVER! That's right - my school is hosting it :)

Facebook is blowing up with updates from people who were picked in the lottery to get a ticket to the actual debate and with photos from the madness that is campus right now. Think lots of media, security, and apparently lots of fences, too. Classes are all cancelled for the day (lucky) and I won't get to watch the debate live since it would be at 3am France time (8 hour time difference). Anyway, so proud to be a DU student today and I can't wait to hear about how the debate goes.

3) And of course, the reason of highest importance is Mean Girls:

xxo, S

2012 Breakdown

California Christmas!

New skis for the 2012 season!
Atomic Access

Reunited with ∆Z juniors who got back from abroad!

 patriots vs. broncos game - pats pats pats!

∆Z girls go to BΘΠ formal:

Making cookies for K∑ with Betty Crocker:

Note to all sorority girls: frat kitchens are a scary scary place!

Some skiing adventures:

Skiing this year wasn't as good as other years. In fact, it was pretty sucky. When it did snow, it wasn't much and didn't last long. Sometimes you had to wait all day for it to even get soft enough to shred. And the few times we got powder, it was gone in a flash. Me and Steeze had a good day at Copper (below) and quaffed the fresh on the back bowls :)

 with steezy at Copper Mtn.

Went to Aspen for the weekend (Feb. 9-12):

We stayed with Oley's family - they are such awesome, nice, cool people! - and skiied fo' free one day and hiked a nearby mountain the other day.

me, stu, oley, and doug on top of Aspen Mtn.

Performed "Wannabe" at Gamma Phi-Oke with other ∆Zs:

We pulled it together at the last second. Good effort ladies :)

Discovered the magic of the song "Call Me Maybe" with Stu:

Finals week was just full of this song. And now it's in constant rotation in my playlists.

And that's basically my winter quarter! Spring has just started and I can't wait for all the fun times that are about to come...

xxo, S

Autumn Sunday

Last Sunday, Doug and I went for a little bike ride around our Denver neighbourhood. We rented bikes from the Denver B-Cycle system and rode to the S. Gaylord St. shop street and Washington Park. However, this was before that lovely snowstorm we had on Wednesday, so there were still bright fall leaves on the trees and it was shorts/dresses weather...

riding down s. gaylord street

doug on her bike

we stopped at whole food to grab some picnic food - so green!

our "picnic"

eating in wash park

me and doug :)

Afterwards, we headed back to campus and my dad picked me up for dinner at Uncle T's. Dad was going back to NY in the morning, so it was a fun dinner and the last time I'll see him before Thanksgiving! Also last weekend, I got NEW SKIS & GEAR!!! Pictures to come soon, but be warned: everything is freakin' awesome!

xxo, S

First snow

You'd think that by now I'd be used to unpredictable weather in Denver. Nope! On Monday, it was about 80 degrees at the warmest.... and last night, it dropped to 30 and SNOWED!!!!

Woke up to these beautiful sights on my way to class at 8am

I hope it warms up a bit for this weekend (Halloween!) and cute costume-wearing, hehehe

xxo, S

Foo fighters!

Last night, me and my suitemate, Betty Crocker, went to see the Foo Fighters in concert! And it was the greatest show ever!!!
We got there just in time to see the second opener, Cage the Elephant, and settle in our scary seats. They were waaaaaay up there. I'd never sat so high up in an arena setting before (the show was at the Pepsi Center) and climbing up to our seats I had a touch of vertigo.
But it was so worth it!!! Of all the (very few) concerts that I've seen, this was one of the most intense, passionate, lively, engaging shows. The band was so into it and the lights were phenomenal. And they sounded so loud and awesome and fun! Pardon all the exclamation points everywhere, but I loved it!!!

 us at the concert

 walking through the crowd

 on a high-up, rising, stage thing

 acoustic encore

 my t-shirt!

We were really lucky to be able to go to this show because I won the tickets and almost sold them away because I didn't have anyone to go with... but then Betty was like, "I really want to go!" so we went together! YAY!

Can't wait for more concerts :)
xxo, S