Across The State

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Welcome to the Don't You Worry Podcast. We're
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your hosts, Briley and Britton Caldwell. And
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we're here to say, don't you worry, through stories,
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encouragement, and joy. Be sure to like and subscribe
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so you don't miss an episode. So sit back, relax,
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and enjoy today's conversation. What is up, you
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guys? We are back with the Don't You Worry Podcast.
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It's your favorite hosts, Briley and Britton,
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coming to you across the state from each other
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Might as well. We have all the episodes that
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have come out recently have been pre -recorded
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before Riley left for college and this one is
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live to you from Union University and also from
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me. So I'm so excited because I've not really
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heard like a ton of college updates from you
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anyway. I've heard some because you know like
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might as well because I'm your sister I should
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be able to hear some but I'm gonna just ask you
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like You've been in college for a month now.
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So what is like, how has that been? How is the
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transition for you? Are you like completely settled?
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Are you loving it? Are you hating it? What is
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your take on college so far? So far, I'm absolutely
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loving it. Hello, everybody from Jackson, Tennessee.
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I'm really excited for this episode. Like she
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said, we haven't really chatted a whole lot other
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than here and there in passing. So it's definitely
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been an adjustment because I feel like there's
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so many things I want to do all the time. But
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there's also like never a moment to slow down.
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So that's been a little bit of an adjustment.
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I have my own room now. I've always shared with
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Britton, actually, which has been so fun because
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we've always been roomies. But yeah, you don't
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want to see my room right now. There is kind
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of a mess in here because I have like. all my
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laundry going and like all, there's a lot of
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different things going on, but it's been such
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a fun adjustment thinking through. It's literally
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been one month since move in, like at the time
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that we're recording this. And I don't know,
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like move -in day, I can tell you these crazy
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different emotions I was having. It was the weirdest
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experience. And I cannot believe everything that's
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happened this month was just like, I didn't know
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these people a month ago. You know what I mean?
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Like I've gotten so connected already and it's
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been such an exciting experience. So yeah, it's
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been good. Yay, that's so exciting. So what are
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like, how are your classes? Okay, so they're
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pretty good overall. I do have quite a lot of
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studying to do that I should be doing instead
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of doing this, but that's okay because this is
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more important. I love my professors and the
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classes are a little bit on the smaller side
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for the most part. So it's very like intentional
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about, hey, I don't know what I'm doing here.
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And the professors are so easy about helping
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out in those ways. And also it's just so cool
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being in a variety of different classes, getting
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to connect with different people. Like I have
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this one principles of public relations class
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that I get. to do with there's like a couple
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seniors in there who I would not really ever
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hang out with if it weren't for that class so
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it's cool to just get to see a variety of different
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people and not just stick with your sorority
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or your roommate so the people you hung out with
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orientation week it's really it's a cool thing
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to just branch out I guess in different classes
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and do different things like there's one this
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one girl in one of my classes that like I wouldn't
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really be friends with her if she wasn't in this
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class which is so fun because then we talk all
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the time now but yeah so they're good What about
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you? You've been junior year. Yeah, it's been
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kind of crazy. I really enjoy it a lot. I only
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take a couple classes actually in person. They're
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just kind of elective classes, just free blocks,
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whatever. You know, obviously still working a
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lot in those classes and I've got some different
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things, but more on the fun side of those. And
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then I'm taking a couple college classes actually
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with Union. I'm taking Old Testament and comp,
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which has been... Kind of a difference with the
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workload because I've not really taken a college
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class before. I took one over the summer, but
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it's a lot. But honestly, it's kind of fun to
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like get a little taste of it. And just to, I'm
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doing the Old Testament one. And so I'm going
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through the entire Old Testament, you know, reading
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in numbers currently, which is a lot more difficult
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than one might think. But it's like, it's really
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good to have that. This is going to make it very
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easy for you to come to Union with me. If you
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would continue doing those classes, perhaps.
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You never know. They're not ready for you. No,
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for sure not. They're not ready for the both
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of us together. Like, I've already been unhinged.
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Yeah. So they're not even ready for that. And
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actually, a lot of people haven't seen the unhinged
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side of me. There's so many stories. I have a
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note written down of stories that I needed to
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tell you on this episode because I wanted people
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to know how crazy adulting has been. Yeah. So
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yeah. Go for it. Oh, okay. So first of all, move
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in day, move in day, right? All of these like
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different team of people, they are bringing my
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stuff up so fast in my dorm, moved it all in
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for me. I was like, this is so wonderful. Like,
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thank you guys so much. And then you unpack everything
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in here, of course, but they carry everything
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up for you. I was convinced this box of hangers
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was lost. permanently. I was like, I don't know
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where it's at. It's in someone else's dorm. And
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they were like, we got everything out of your
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car. I was like, okay, if you really say so,
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like, I don't know where it could be. Asked my
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new roommates a ton of times, asked so many people.
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Turns out in the back of my trunk, you can like
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lift up this part of the trunk that had kind
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of like sunken in because there were so many
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things in my car. So then when I lifted it up,
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there are the long lost hangers. But Dan Griffin,
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one of the admissions, I actually, I can't remember
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exactly what his title is, but he's like into
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missions and over a lot of different things.
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He's been so helpful, like reached out to us
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when he saw this podcast years ago that we made
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a couple of years ago when I was first like,
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I don't know if I want to go to union. So anyway,
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I've connected with him some, he had told me,
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he was like, listen, I've got plenty of hangers
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for you. Like, don't worry about it. I can bring
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you some hangers. I was like, Dan, you don't
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have my pink hangers. I was like, my hangers
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for pink. And I need them to stay pink to match
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my entire pink room. Like, no. But also, like,
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I already bought them. Like, I'm going to keep
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them. And speaking of pink, I did dye my laundry
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already. I put, they gave us this new shirt for
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Welcome Week. And I was like, oh, it's like a,
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just a t -shirt. I'll throw it in my old pajamas.
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Some of those old pajamas. And also one of our
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Don't You Worry sweatshirts was in there. The
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yellow one. And I put it in there with a red
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shirt. I take that thing out, and the yellow
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now has pink tie -dye all on the sleeves. So
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it could just be, like, a branding thing, a new
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and exciting trend. But if you see me wearing
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that one, yeah, it was something else. What else
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do I have on my list here? Oh, I've been getting
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so many steps, just so everyone's aware, because
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if anyone has heard me talk about, like, all
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the food we've been eating and all the things,
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I'm most definitely burning it off because I've
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gotten so many steps in college every day. Freshman
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15 cannot actually exist. But one of my, we call
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her our fifth roommate, Molly. So we have, there's
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four of us that technically room together. And
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then Molly comes over all the time. She's told
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me last night, she was like, I never see you.
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Like I never come over here one night and you're
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not eating Dots pretzels. I was like, close.
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clocked which mom told me she was like there's
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been a dots pretzels bag at home that no one's
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had it for like two weeks we've had i was like
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two weeks i was like so briley's the reason that
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we never have dots so apparently i always eat
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pretzels which has been a thing like since i
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was younger like papa always stocks the pretzel
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crisps at his house because he's like briley's
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always a pretzel girl um so anyway i just thought
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that was funny And you guys would enjoy that.
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And my new favorite snack, by the way, and my
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new favorite breakfast food is something I had
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never eaten at home, but you know, those protein
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waffles that I would buy for a while at the store
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that like kind of tastes like cardboard. If you
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eat it by themselves, I put peanut butter on
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them. So good. Like actually so good. You have
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to try it. Okay. But yeah, that's basically.
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Those are my snack updates. One morning, so I've
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been drinking black coffee, which has been so
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fun because I feel so adult and grown up. I'm
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like, no, I don't want creamer on that. Okay,
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and hot take, I saw this video that was like,
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oh, hot take, you don't actually like coffee?
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If you don't like the taste of it black, you
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just like whatever's in the coffee that's making
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it not taste like black coffee. I was like, real.
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So when people are like, I love coffee because
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I put like 15 different creamers in and it's
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extra stuff. I'm like, you don't like coffee
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then. You really don't. And I didn't like black
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coffee for a while, but now I love it. Unfortunately,
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I did spill it. all down my shirt and my backpack
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and my purse and like my jeans this one morning
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on my way to I don't one of my classes and then
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I'm like as this was like syllabus week too meaning
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we would get acclimated to each individual class
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so bro was going over all of these notes in class
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and I'm over here with like my shout wipes and
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I'm like trying to listen to him as I'm actively
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trying to like hide all the coffee I've got on
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me you best believe I ran back to my dorm after
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that class because I was like no no but that's
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the new woman I have become um also I did get
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the frat flu everyone so there were like a couple
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of frat parties that are like chill by the way
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if anyone's watching this and they're like oh
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my gosh party girl No, this is literally like,
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it's not that deep, but anyway, it was like fun,
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but there were so many people like hanging out
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in a tight space. So everyone was joking. It's
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like, Oh, you'll get the frat flu. Um, it's a
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real thing. I literally, I went to one, I went
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to health services on campus and I was like,
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Hey, woke up kind of feeling like I have a fever.
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Like, I don't really know what to do about that.
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And she literally tested me. It was like COVID.
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I was like, Oh, got it. Got it. So that was highly
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unexciting because it was pumpkin spice latte
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day at Starbucks. And what was I getting? An
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orange citrus tea, like a honey citrus tea. While
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all my friends are taking these like cute aesthetic
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photos outside of Starbucks and they're like,
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PSL day. I'm like, oh, I'm watching Gilmore Girls
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in bed, actually. That's a game. Yeah. I think
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that's, those are my main like crazy updates.
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Yeah. So you were talking about how, you know
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we did that union episode a couple years ago
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on the podcast so what has changed like what
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being at college for a month what is different
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from what you expected before you picked college
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what is different from like what you expected
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of whenever you did pick union like what what's
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been something that's unexpected or just like
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new and different and exciting for you definitely
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the relationships because even up to like welcome
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week which is like our orientation week the first
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first week we're here, it's constantly over and
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over again, which I know they do this at every
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school. It's like, what's your major? Where are
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you from? What are you doing? And that was like
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kind of what I'd already experienced from preview
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days, which is so exciting. I love meeting tons
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of people because then anywhere I go, I'll wave
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and see somebody that I know. But at the same
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time, I was like craving deeper relationships.
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I was like, I just cannot do this overly social
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over and over and over again. And especially
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like the first Sunday here, I was really homesick
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because I woke up in the morning and I was like,
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wait, I'm usually like on my way to church with
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dad while he's preparing for his sermon and I'm
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getting ready to lead worship. It was just a
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different experience. So I was like, oh, like
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I've definitely not really felt lonely in a sense,
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but I've just felt like, oh, this is so different.
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a lot of ways but after we got kind of acclimated
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and welcome week was over and we met a bunch
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of people then my favorite moments that make
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it make it really feel like college and not just
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like you're previewing the college was the deeper
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connections we've gotten to make and it's just
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been like the smallest thing so if me and all
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my roommates go to dinner one night or if we
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literally just drive over to target and we're
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like getting essentials for our dorm trying to
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decorate um Or like game nights in other people's
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dorms. I'm really good at the game Secret Hitler
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now, if you don't know. I'm really good. But
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anyway, like just things like that where I've
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gotten to actually connect with people on deeper
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levels. especially the conversations I've gotten
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to have because there's so many people here that
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are like, hey, come grab lunch with me in the
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dining hall one day or we'll go get coffee or
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something. And those individual things have been
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insanely awesome. One of the girls that I went
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through, so I went through Recruitment Rush Week,
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which is very different here than other schools.
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I can't speak to how any other school does it,
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but I was highly impressed with the way Union
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has done it. And I know there's a lot of instant
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connections you make with girls from the sorority
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side of it. So if anyone's interested in coming
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to Union, I highly recommend it. and getting
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involved with it. Little Miss Dana now. Yes,
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I am. Maybe you can be too. But anyway, it's
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been really cool because like through the week
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of recruitment, there were a couple of people
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that are disaffiliated from a sorority, meaning
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they don't show you which one they're in because
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they want to help you figure out which one is
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right for you based on the values of each sorority
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and how it works. And one of the girls actually
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that I went to get coffee with that was disaffiliated.
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I didn't really even think of her like being
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in one. I was just having a conversation with
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her, telling her about this podcast, telling
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her about all these different things. And she
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was like, actually, I roomed in your specific
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room my freshman year. And the girl, I prayed
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over the room when the next girl came in. And
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then like we prayed together over the next girl.
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And now this girl is a senior. And she was like,
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this is the last girl that will live here while
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I'm still on campus. I was like, oh my gosh,
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that's insane. So I got to connect with her so
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deeply because everyone like, I guess not everybody,
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but the majority of the people that I have met,
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they all really want to know who you are. Like,
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I have talked so much in the last month about
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all kinds of different things of my life, life
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back home. mentioned this podcast a million times
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um but and just kind of share so many stories
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of like what is important to me what trips have
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shaped me over the summer that I got to go on
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like I got to share a lot about my Honduras mission
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trip this bracelet that I got in Honduras so
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many people ask me where it's from even the one
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of the lunch ladies one day was like I always
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recognize you by your bracelet because it's just
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so cute she's like where'd you get it I was like
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oh actually a mission trip um so just things
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like that have been special because people have
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been again, just asking me genuine questions
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to the point where I'm like, this is like what
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I do on my podcast. I want to know who you are.
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And it's been very clear that people really care
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about who I am. Yeah. Does it really feel like
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home there? Like whenever you, at the end of
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the day, like, are you just thinking about crashing
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in your dorm or do you ever like think it's temporary?
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no so this is the softest bed I've ever slept
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on um this bed is comfier than my bed at home
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I'm not gonna lie and we're just so tired by
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the end of every day that like it's never really
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hard for me to fall asleep I'm not like anxious
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at night or anything but it's definitely just
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weird like I'm here and I'm thinking like what?
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I've only been here a month, but it also feels
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like a lot longer than that. So I guess it doesn't
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feel like home, but it's like, it does kind of
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already feel like a home away from home. And
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we've already made plans thinking about like
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what we're going to do on breaks and stuff with
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me and my roommates. And we're like, wait, we're
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going to miss each other when we like go home
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and see our families and stuff, which is such
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a weird balance. Cause like, I so want to just
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talk to everybody back home all the time and
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update them and everything, which I know I've
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done like in group things I've sent out. some
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group texts and I try to FaceTime people here
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and now. But at the same time, like every time
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I want to update people back home, I just have
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to prioritize like how I'm doing that. Because
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even though, yes, I want to update you guys and
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mom and dad. and my best friends like all my
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closest people I also want so badly to not miss
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out here and I want to be so present where I'm
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at so like if my roommates are all just hanging
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out in the in the living room I don't really
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want to just resort to my dorm room and not and
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miss out on that bonding time because even the
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small moments I've realized can have such a big
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impact on the relationships I'm making here so
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I definitely like it's weird because it's it's
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such a balance I'm like when I'm here I want
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to be here and when I'm home I want to be home
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and just when I get the free time then yes I
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want to prioritize well and like while I'm doing
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my laundry usually I'll call mom and update her
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on things I'll be like how do I not get this
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to dye pink again like what's the right setting
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so like I don't know I don't know if that answered
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your question or not but yeah it's kind of it's
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back and forth yeah for sure so what are like
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funny updates that you have what's been funny
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in the past couple weeks yeah yikes um i don't
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even know i'm trying to think through like what
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all has even happened in the last few weeks but
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the funniest updates sorry i'm trying to think
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i shared a bunch of the ones at the beginning
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but um i really love getting little gifts from
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you guys which is so fun because like you guys
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sent me, I don't know where she's at. You guys
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sent me a little jelly cat one day. Mom in Britain
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sent me a jelly cat, which was so sweet. Dad
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has been sending me letters, which is also so
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sweet. I have bawled my eyes out a couple of
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times reading him. But yeah, so I guess just
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like, there's this Amazon locker that you guys
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will sometimes send stuff to and you basically
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scan the code and then you never know which one
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it is. And one of them just flies open. So it's,
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It's like kind of a game just standing there
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ready to watch like which one comes open. But
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yeah, I guess the funniest moments have just
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been seeing other people's personalities shine
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through like little things. I'm not going to
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expose her, but one of my friends, Molly says
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the most unhinged things that I literally have
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started a notes app in my phone. So like those
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kinds of things have been funny. All of my roommates
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have really funny personalities, which is hysterical.
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And we'll just, like, the things we get into
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and, like, just all of us trying to figure out
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how to live together. Because, like, it's been
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so chill. We're all really respectful of each
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other and everything. But just figuring out,
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like, how to live and do things that we're like,
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wait, how do you learn how to clean the shower
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drain? Or, like, how do you learn how to turn
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the stove off while it's doing? I don't know.
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Like, there's just the small things that are
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funny. And we also realize none of us cook. So
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it's kind of like, why did we buy all these cooking
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utensils and none of us can cook? Because you
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will be catching us getting fast food like half
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the week. That's hysterical. Also, I keep getting
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lost everywhere. There is a church five minutes
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from campus we've been going to. And it took
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me a week to figure out the right way to go there.
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And I was like. I literally, you could probably
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walk to the church if I'm being so for real.
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And I went, like, it's not that I didn't get
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there, but I went the longest possible way around.
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Oh, my gosh. And I was like, um, but, yeah, it's
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been fine. Yeah. Honestly, it was really funny
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because I think one Sunday I was, like, I was
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tracking you just to see because I was like,
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oh, she's probably getting out of church at this
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time. And I was watching you and I was like,
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well, that's kind of a long way to go around.
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Yes. And then, like, also you get out of your
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car and, like, walk to your dorm room. I'm like,
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oh, there she is. It's so funny to just like
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see you living life down there. It's so weird.
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Genuinely. And it's been a roller coaster of
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emotions because I have been up and down like
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some days. I'm like, this is the greatest thing.
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ever i love it so much wouldn't trade it for
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anything but there have definitely been some
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like homesick moments especially the first couple
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days here was just rough trying to figure out
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the adjustment to everything and like seeing
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mom and dad drive away and go back to knoxville
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i was like okay great um but overall like It's
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just the good things are so outweighing those
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small moments that makes it so worth it here.
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I don't want to go back home right now. You know
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what I mean? I miss you. I wish I could jump
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through the camera and give you a big hug. But
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at the same time, I have really enjoyed being
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here. And my schedule is just always so busy
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all the time that I don't really have enough
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time to think about what would I be doing if
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I were at home. Probably not anything as exciting
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as I'm doing here. I would just be... chilling
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like not not in high school like this is such
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an exciting thing that I'm a part of so yeah
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it's definitely I'm already excited for things
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in the future which is something that I've definitely
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had to like slow down and be like be so present
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where you're at because we got a big sister in
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our sorority and I'm like wait I want to be a
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big sister and I'm like wait no calm down like
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be where you're at right now soak in this time
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that like you get to be the little sister and
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get to be the one that people are learning from
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and so it's definitely been hard but like adjusting
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to everything and just realizing this is your
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time to be so intentional with where you're at
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yeah honestly have you like found all of the
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small habits that you've built like back at home
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over the summer or for your senior year like
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habits with like your walk with god or journaling
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or whatever it may be that's like helping you
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in like your personal life how have you still
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kept up with those or have you kept up with those
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like working out or whatever it is there with
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your busy schedule because like obviously college
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changes so many things and there's a lot of things
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that are not always like just there for you like
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if mom's cooking dinner you have to figure out
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dinner for yourself so like how have you still
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implemented things with also having to think
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about everything Yeah, I was doing Pilates in
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my dorm last night. I was like, you know what,
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we're just going to roll the yoga mat out, do
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some pushups. I probably looked crazy. But so
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like the workout schedule has been interesting
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because it's like, oh, I get to make my entire
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routine. There's a gym on campus. So like I get
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to see when I want to walk across campus, work
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out and then come back. If I want to do a long
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walk around the entire campus, that's been a
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really cool thing because I feel like I have
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so many opportunities and I wasn't just like
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stuck at home. I don't really have to drive anywhere.
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Like I can just be on campus and they have everything
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I need here. So that's been a cool thing. The
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walk with God, we actually talked about this
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a little bit in church this morning about intentionally
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your daily disciplines and how you're, are you
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loving the Lord more today than you did yesterday?
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And I was like, wow, that's a good question because
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there's been a lot of busyness that it just kind
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of gets swept under the rug. And I try, one of
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my verses for the year has still been, like since
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January, has still been seek first the kingdom
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from Matthew 6, 33. Seek first the kingdom and
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its treasures and everything else will be added.
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But it's been, so like in the mornings, I try
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to do this daily devotional. As soon as I wake
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up or like before I eat breakfast, before I get
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on Instagram, before I do a bunch of stuff, I
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try my best before I leave the dorm to do that
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little devotional. Because then it's like, if
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anything, I've done that to start my morning
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like that. And then I'll do is I'll do more later.
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I'll do a longer study later, which is good.
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But also I wish like I need to figure out a better
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system because I like that morning devotional
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time. But that's also just kind of like setting
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my mindset for the day and my prayer. like going
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to the Lord in prayer first thing in the morning
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as just a quick little thing. And it's been great.
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Like it definitely does set the mode for my day.
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But at the same time, I really want a deeper
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connection, which is what we were talking about
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again in church this morning. That was just like,
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I want to grow so much in my faith right now
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that like I'm unrecognizable when I do come back
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home in a way that's like everyone that sees
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me on campus, whether it's like a bunch of my
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close friends people i haven't met like my professors
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then coming back home like all the people all
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my friends and family i want people to see her
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and be like wow she has truly been growing her
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faith in college because i don't want to just
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come in as this like yeah like i'm a decent christian
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like i i read my bible i do my things i love
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leading worship like these things that's great
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but Am I actually going to grow on a deeper level,
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which is something, again, we talked about in
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church this morning that I really want to do.
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So I don't really know what that looks like yet,
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but I want it to be something really special
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because in reality, like I say, I have so much
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homework or I have so many things on my schedule
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and I do. But at the same time, there are spots
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that I can add that in and it may look different
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every day. Like maybe I go on a one hour run
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and then that's like the time that I get to pray.
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Or maybe I am in my dorm for like 30 minutes
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doing a completely undistracted Bible study.
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It definitely looks different a lot. But also,
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I think another thing I want to grow in is just
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vulnerability with people and being open to like.
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Just since we're doing life with all these people
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on campus, I just want to grow together in our
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relationships with the Lord and me intentionally
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impact the people around me. And those people
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intentionally impact me too. Because in one of
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the letters dad sent me, he said, don't think
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of it as like you're called to Union University
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or you're called to Zeta, your sorority, or you're
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called to this class. He said, think about it
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as you're called to these people. these roommates
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that you're with, these friends that you've made,
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you are called to be in their lives right now.
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What are you doing with that? Are you lifting
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them up? Are you encouraging them? Or are you
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somebody that they like just see and they're
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like, yeah, I mean, she didn't really change
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my day much. Like, how are you impacting those
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around you? So yeah, I, again, I don't know if
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that answered your question. I'm just kind of
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rambling. No, yeah, I totally agree with that.
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Like something that's been difficult for me with
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this Old Testament class is like, it's, it's
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a lot of reading every single day like i'm having
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to read through the entire old testament in the
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semester and like i don't think i really prepared
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myself for that and so now it's kind of a shock
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just having to have that discipline and reading
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that every day because i've been doing a devotion
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every day and it's more so getting something
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out of it to change my life and i think the more
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that i'm reading it I am so all in with reading
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like five or six chapters in a book every day,
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even more than that sometimes just because it's
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what's required for the class. And I think whenever
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I'm reading that, then I don't have as much time
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to do a separate devotion. But honestly, I'm
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not saying that it's ever enough because like
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I feel like I never have that feeling like, oh,
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I've read enough today. I always think that I
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can do more. But it is. the more that I look
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back on it, I am learning more about God's character
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throughout reading all of this. And it's whatever,
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you know, God more than it impacts your life.
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Like it's, you're getting changed by that. And
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I think that's been, it's a different kind of
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devotion that I've been doing, but it's still
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working because that's how the Bible is. And
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I think, you know, whenever I've like, I've got.
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a lot of psalms to read and so whenever i have
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like five minutes here and there i'll read a
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psalm and i think that's really important lesson
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for me to learn is that even past this class
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like whenever i have time literally just read
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a psalm just read something just like having
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that oh instead of getting on instagram for five
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minutes i'm gonna get on my bible app for five
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minutes and read this and let that transform
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my life or literally just hear truth because
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there's so much negativity and there's so much
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like distractions that i experience at school
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i experience everywhere i go and so just having
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that moment to just like stop for a minute is
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so important i think that really is yeah and
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something that I have, I'm kind of working through
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right now, actually, that I haven't, I can't
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say that I've implemented very well. It's just
00:27:39.730 --> 00:27:41.849
being so laser focused on what you're doing,
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like, and not, not just block out everything
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else in the world, but like, even with my homework
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assignments, don't also be watching TV or have
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Instagram open or like trying to focus on, oh,
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well, like, let me get all my work done. So then
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I can do other things like you're, it's. If the
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way you're looking at things is doing it wholeheartedly
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for Christ, I feel like that's also going to
00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:08.079
grow your relationship with the Lord. Like the
00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:10.259
ways that you grow your relationship with the
00:28:10.259 --> 00:28:12.880
Lord, obviously, is like through scripture, through
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prayer. But you can also grow in other aspects
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and in fruitful ways, like implementing what
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you are learning and who God wants you to be
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like. And I guess because of the faith and learning
00:28:25.940 --> 00:28:28.819
integration here, it's a really cool thing to
00:28:28.819 --> 00:28:31.700
see. while you're in a classroom you're also
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connecting things to how we as Christians should
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be doing things or how we should be in certain
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roles or certain careers or whatever it may be
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so I guess what I'm trying to say is like even
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if it's a reading assignment that I'm doing if
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I just wholeheartedly and focus on that reading
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and are trying to learn something from it not
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just like check things off a box that's like
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training my brain in a way that I should also
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be using when reading the bible you know so I
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think even the small things that aren't really
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like disciplines, I guess, or things that you
00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:05.099
would think are advancing your relationship with
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God, it's training my brain to be a better Christian,
00:29:09.299 --> 00:29:11.960
to be a better friend, and to be a more intentional
00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:15.519
person. Yeah. Okay, I want to hear your perspective,
00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:17.799
though, in honesty. Like, how have you been doing
00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:20.380
adjusting to being an only child now? Not actually
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an only child, but like... Basically, you're
00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:26.460
just out of the picture now. No. It's weird.
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It really is weird. Like, there's some moments
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when it feels natural which i think is like i
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think because i'm adjusting no listen no listen
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no listen i think it's because like i'm adjusting
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to driving now and i'm just driving myself everywhere
00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:44.700
and it it feels natural like sometimes when i'm
00:29:44.700 --> 00:29:46.680
driving in the car i'm like have i not been doing
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this for the past five years of my life like
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what do you mean like this feels weird this feels
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forever but also then there's moments where it's
00:29:54.269 --> 00:29:57.990
like okay um let me just actually text you instead
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of just talk to you like that's weird there's
00:30:01.309 --> 00:30:04.109
definitely been a good like balance of that it's
00:30:04.109 --> 00:30:09.509
an i don't know like being so all in with my
00:30:09.509 --> 00:30:11.829
friends and like having this new school year
00:30:11.829 --> 00:30:13.970
in junior year is so fun because like all of
00:30:13.970 --> 00:30:16.089
your friends are driving and you can kind of
00:30:16.089 --> 00:30:18.660
just like you can do all of the things and some
00:30:18.660 --> 00:30:20.640
of my friends are the kind of people who like
00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:22.859
see any opportunity and they're like okay so
00:30:22.859 --> 00:30:24.359
we're doing this I'll pick you up at eight I'm
00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:26.980
like oh okay so let's go so just having that
00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:30.059
opportunity to you know go I'm gonna go I think
00:30:30.059 --> 00:30:31.920
I'm gonna go to the UT game next Saturday with
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one of my friends and just like just experiencing
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I've gone to football games on Friday nights
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and going to away games with friends and just
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experiencing like birthday lunches and shopping
00:30:42.700 --> 00:30:45.460
trips and ho -co shopping me and my friends went
00:30:45.460 --> 00:30:47.839
dress shopping a couple days ago and like just
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:50.099
getting to experience all that and being so present
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is so fun and like junior year has been amazing
00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:57.440
and it's kind of part of it is like oh well I'm
00:30:57.440 --> 00:30:59.579
I'm an upperclassman now like my sister shouldn't
00:30:59.579 --> 00:31:02.359
be here but another part of me it's like I'll
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:04.799
walk in to classes that we've had together and
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.319
then I'll be like oh I can't talk to Briley actually
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:10.579
right now oh oh that's weird that's weird it
00:31:10.579 --> 00:31:12.700
like hits me at random times sometimes because
00:31:12.700 --> 00:31:15.779
then like some people will be like so how's Briley
00:31:15.779 --> 00:31:18.319
I'm like not the day not the day to talk about
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:20.460
this I will start crying but then other days
00:31:20.460 --> 00:31:23.000
I'm like this is all updates that I've heard
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:25.539
like whatever and like I think that's I think
00:31:25.539 --> 00:31:27.859
that's part of what's been so healthy for me
00:31:27.859 --> 00:31:30.500
is like my friends are so locked into hearing
00:31:30.500 --> 00:31:33.400
updates about you. And I think that's really
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:39.859
special for me because it's not like I'm annoying
00:31:39.859 --> 00:31:42.240
them just talking about you all the time because
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:44.559
you're not the center of all my conversations.
00:31:44.700 --> 00:31:48.380
But it is fun like getting to have that outlet
00:31:48.380 --> 00:31:51.549
of literally just sharing with them. And I think
00:31:51.549 --> 00:31:55.250
that's what's been helpful in not just sitting
00:31:55.250 --> 00:31:57.250
around sulking all the time because it's like,
00:31:57.309 --> 00:32:00.990
I'm celebrating what you're experiencing. And
00:32:00.990 --> 00:32:03.269
then it's like, oh my gosh, like your sister's
00:32:03.269 --> 00:32:05.650
in a sorority. How's that life? Like, how was
00:32:05.650 --> 00:32:07.289
her rush week? And like, I can tell them whatever
00:32:07.289 --> 00:32:09.470
I've heard and then just be like, yeah, so she's
00:32:09.470 --> 00:32:11.890
got like, she's got new sisters now. Like, that's
00:32:11.890 --> 00:32:14.849
weird. Some days I'm like, she's got new sisters.
00:32:15.109 --> 00:32:17.549
But other days I'm like, basically they're my
00:32:17.549 --> 00:32:21.099
sisters too then. So it's definitely been weird,
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:27.059
but also it's good. Like, it feels good to be
00:32:27.059 --> 00:32:29.880
an upperclassman now. I was talking to this one
00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:31.640
girl last night and she was like, how's your
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:34.259
sister doing with it? I was like, honestly, it's
00:32:34.259 --> 00:32:36.359
her junior year. Like junior year is when I feel
00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:39.240
like my friendships really took off. And I, because
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:41.700
you're all driving now, like you're, you can
00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:43.660
do things without having to have like a parent,
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:46.039
you know what I mean? Like you feel more independent
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:48.619
and it just is a way for you to connect with
00:32:48.619 --> 00:32:50.160
people. So I was like, I think she's actually
00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:52.680
kind of thriving. And like, I hope she is because
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.940
just, we have the sibling relationship that like.
00:32:55.450 --> 00:32:57.990
we literally could not talk all day. And then
00:32:57.990 --> 00:33:00.710
I don't start a conversation with like, hey girl,
00:33:00.829 --> 00:33:02.589
how's it going? I'll just be like, you're never
00:33:02.589 --> 00:33:05.230
going to believe what happened. And then like
00:33:05.230 --> 00:33:08.069
these random updates or like, oh my gosh, guess
00:33:08.069 --> 00:33:11.029
who did this or this? Like just funny things
00:33:11.029 --> 00:33:13.970
that you have no context for. Like literally.
00:33:14.190 --> 00:33:17.049
Yeah. Exactly. I'm like, oh, this kid did something
00:33:17.049 --> 00:33:19.190
so stupid in chapel. And you're like, who is
00:33:19.190 --> 00:33:21.329
that? I don't even know. Exactly. And then I'm
00:33:21.329 --> 00:33:23.630
like, oh my gosh, this kid, this is whatever.
00:33:23.910 --> 00:33:27.410
This guy cut me off on the road. Yeah. So like,
00:33:27.430 --> 00:33:29.509
we'll just do those random things, which is so
00:33:29.509 --> 00:33:31.329
fun because I don't ever feel the pressure that's
00:33:31.329 --> 00:33:33.349
like, oh, I haven't been talking to Britton enough.
00:33:33.509 --> 00:33:35.910
Like she's probably, I did feel really bad actually.
00:33:35.930 --> 00:33:37.809
The other day we were supposed to record like
00:33:37.809 --> 00:33:40.559
a couple nights ago. I almost sobbed because
00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:43.220
we actually, we did our big sister reveal the
00:33:43.220 --> 00:33:45.259
night that we were supposed to do the podcast.
00:33:45.619 --> 00:33:49.480
And I had planned out after we go to this sisterhood
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.799
thing we were doing, then we would go, I would
00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:54.900
do a podcast with you. And then I would go to
00:33:54.900 --> 00:33:57.460
Olive Garden with all my roommates. And as soon
00:33:57.460 --> 00:33:59.619
as we did the big sister reveal, then they were
00:33:59.619 --> 00:34:01.240
like, all right, now all the big sisters are
00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:03.799
surprising you and taking you out for like treats.
00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:05.500
And then we're doing bracelet making. We're doing
00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:07.259
this whole event with like all of us. And I was
00:34:07.259 --> 00:34:10.360
like, I'm going to have to bail on my sister
00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:12.880
and my closest roommates. I was like, and everyone's
00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:14.159
going to hate me. Basically, that's what that
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:17.019
is. But it's been hard because like you really
00:34:17.019 --> 00:34:18.619
have to figure out what to say yes and no to.
00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:20.840
So for that, I was like, okay, but I'll have
00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:22.820
a chance to record with Britton in a couple days.
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:24.960
She will understand. And then like my roommates
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:28.420
will go out for lunch Sunday. Like they'll understand
00:34:28.420 --> 00:34:31.460
too. So definitely taking, I guess that's one
00:34:31.460 --> 00:34:34.199
of the things is like, what can you not get back?
00:34:34.460 --> 00:34:37.039
What are the like really special moments that
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:39.730
you just have? have to dive straight into and
00:34:39.730 --> 00:34:41.949
we have both been so understanding with like
00:34:41.949 --> 00:34:43.929
each other's schedules so that's been an easy
00:34:43.929 --> 00:34:46.010
easy thing to do but I do wish I could talk to
00:34:46.010 --> 00:34:48.250
you more I know it was so hysterical because
00:34:48.250 --> 00:34:50.610
one day so me and my best friend both have like
00:34:50.610 --> 00:34:52.769
kind of a free class period that we just work
00:34:52.769 --> 00:34:56.530
on our online college classes for and sometimes
00:34:56.530 --> 00:34:58.590
like we'll just talk throughout that whole class
00:34:58.590 --> 00:35:00.449
and get no work done because that's how we do
00:35:00.449 --> 00:35:03.010
but other days we actually walk in but one day
00:35:03.010 --> 00:35:05.650
I walked in and I was like tell me why I'm having
00:35:05.650 --> 00:35:08.309
to be like hey Briley can you do this 6 30 eastern
00:35:08.309 --> 00:35:12.690
time I was like why the heck am I trying to specify
00:35:12.690 --> 00:35:17.230
time zones I was like no I send you stuff here
00:35:17.230 --> 00:35:19.630
and I'm like, oh, it's already one in the morning
00:35:19.630 --> 00:35:23.010
there. It's like just an hour difference is a
00:35:23.010 --> 00:35:25.969
lot. Like, so I'm like, oh, she's already like
00:35:25.969 --> 00:35:28.409
one night we were about to go to church and you
00:35:28.409 --> 00:35:30.250
guys were getting out of church. I'm like, hey,
00:35:30.349 --> 00:35:31.989
we got to get ready to leave. And you're like,
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oh, my gosh, guess what happened? Like this person
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at church won this game and did this thing. I
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was like, that's actually crazy. Like just being
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in different worlds is insane. Yeah. And it's
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so funny because like. And I'll, like, I'll wake
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up in the morning and I'll text you good morning
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and I'm like, oh, why is she still on do not
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serve? Like, she needs to get her lazy butt up.
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She has an 8 a .m. class. I'm like, oh, it's
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actually not 7 a .m. there. Never mind. Exactly.
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Yeah, it's definitely weird. Well, this has been
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so fun. Yeah, I literally love this. I've loved
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hearing just, like, random updates, just, like,
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fun stuff and actually how, like, the meaningful
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stuff, you know. Yeah, maybe we should poll people.
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Be like, what do you want to know? Yeah, literally.
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My few weeks at college. We basically have. free
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reign to do whatever we want. I mean, nothing
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too crazy. It's super exciting, but also like,
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it's still me. We're still, don't you worry.
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I'm really excited to see what we get to do with
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it because we need to do some fun stuff, like
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long distance. It'll be funny. Heck yeah. So
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yeah, this was such a great conversation and
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I've loved hearing little college updates from
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you and we will see you guys back next week for
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another wonderful conversation. Bye!