4-Hers!

Since my little brother just won the National Avian Bowl competition in Louisville, Kentucky this morning, I figured this would be a fitting post. :)

I went to a scholarship banquet on Tuesday to meet my donors and get free food (catered by my employers, so that's always nice). The donor wasn't there, but I've met him last year when I was granted the exact same scholarship. I ended up at a table sitting to a lot of people who grew up in Hilo, including a super nice staff woman next to me who told awesome stories and was in 4-H!

She was a little embarrassed telling me, saying that she never did livestock but did sewing instead, to which I said WELL! 4-H is more than a goat on a float! (That's a long story, and I didn't actually say that, but it was along those lines.)

One of my classmates was at the same table, and when we told her that we had been talking about 4-H, she revealed that she was also a 4-H alumni.... after which the girl on my other side whipped around with a 'I was in 4-H too!!'

It was a pretty awesome feeling. I'm sure it was just TOTAL coincidence that we were all there for scholarships...

They also had a lot of those basic speeches that you give at such events, things about opportunities and futures and all of our hardworking and deserving students, and it made me realize how lucky I am. I'll be honest, this semester has been somewhat less than spectacular, but I truly love Linguistics, and especially after talking to unhappy pre-med majors, I'm really grateful to get a scholarship for doing something I actually enjoy.

I'm trying to hold on to that feeling as I look at the class schedule for next semester and try not to scream. It's rather difficult. We'll see...

A hui hou!