A change of plans.

Well, blog... the regular update thing was nice while it lasted, though it didn't last long.

In all fairness, the whole purpose of this blog is a little bit irrelevant now. As an English major, I originally planned to use blogging as a way to keep myself writing in hopes possibly pursuing a career in writing. However, in my last months of my freshman year, I changed my major. I am now an Elementary Education major, so I guess this blog is purely for entertainment purposes now...? Sweet.

Sidenote: I thought changing my major would be a little bit more work or take longer than it did, but after doing it, I felt like I needed one of Office Max's Easy Buttons. Seriously. I went to the Education building, talked to the secretary for about a minute, filled out the top of a form with easy stuff like my name, address, current major, and student ID number, and then left. Like, really? It's that easy to make a life-altering change.

Majoring in Elementary Ed. is something I had been considering since the tail end of my senior year of high school when I helped out with a program called Read Across America. For this event, high schoolers in the FEA (Future Educators of America) and the Book Club (which I was in) went to the elementary school and ran various stations and helped the elementary students celebrate Dr. Seuss day. It was during this event that everything just kind of clicked for me. I felt that teaching elementary school was what I was MEANT to do, and I don't know why it took me so long to figure it out. I'd always enjoyed working with children, and I'd been doing so ever since I was old enough to not be considered a little kid myself. With the encouragement of my friends and family, I was firm in my decision. (And even better, while my friends and I at the Art station talked with the teachers of the class, they informed us that we were the best and most organized station they'd been to all day. They hoped we were actually pursuing a career in education. :D)

Unfortunately, I had this realization after already being accepted to my college as an English/Literature major, so I had to wait to make the change. But it's pretty much official now, and I'm very excited about it!

I'll still keep track of the books I've completed as I still have a strong love for books and literature. And I hope to continue writing the occasional blog, just for my own benefit. Writing is definitely something I enjoy and I don't get to do it much, outside of writing papers for class. However, I will be deprived (if we want to call it that) of even that responsibility as I'm now on summer break! YAY!

(A brief update on my summer activities: My best friend is getting married and asked me to be her maid of honor. It's a position I took on with pleasure, but it's been keeping me busy, for sure. My summer's been full of wedding planning, job searching, reading, and spending time with friends... so far, it's been a rather successful summer. Minus the job searching. :()

Currently Reading: I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb. (I don't know if I'll complete this book, though. A lot of the characters are irritating...  plus, it's roughly 900 pages.)
Number of books completed: 7.

A book that I read during my lack of blogging - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It is INCREDIBLY good... definitely became one of my favorites. Of course, it appealed to several of my interests, but I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who, for whatever reason, happens to read this. :)