Official last class of Are You What You Eat with Salome - she even gave away books we used. It was great, we had tons of fun, and learned a ton from Michael Pollan. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect class for me! And thanks to Little Patrick, Salome’s son, for knitting me this rad hat as a get-well present!

We’re nearing the end and I’m getting more and more excited as the hours go by! I’ve actually packed most of my things already:)

Today was practically the last day of class because, even though we meet tomorrow, I highly doubt any work will be done on the last day of the program. In Are You What You Eat, we finished a couple of presentations (mine included), celebrated a birthday with cake, and then just talked until it was time to leave. Patrick, the teachers son sent me off with a hand-knit get well soon hat and Salome sent us off with the books we read in class.

In the afternoon, we wrote thank you letters to either representatives, donors, or speakers that have come to campus. I was assigned the President and General Manager of the TV Station in my hometown which I thought was very fortunate! Plus, I could talk to him about our trip as a class to Louisville’s TV Station. After letter writing, I attended my first knitting and crochet club and realized that I should have been going from the very being! And because every person needs to visit The Fuzzy Duck for a third day in a row, that’s where the club met to knit:)

Lastly, we had our final seminar in class which was perhaps the only part of the today that made me sad. We played another version of Warm and Fuzzies in which everybody wrote a paragraph about each person in class in their Talk-Back Books. It took the entire hour but it was worth it, seeing everybody’s comments really do make a person feel appreciated and cared off. Right after class, we headed to the Film Studies movie premieres and that is how we ended the night! All the movies were incredibly original and very interesting to watch - good job, scholars!

And now I can finally say, only 1 more day left!

Just, don’t forget socks! Or in my case, being only one sock instead of 2 -.- (I ended up getting 2 sizes bigger and wearing the bowling shoes with my own shoes also on my feet haha)

Today in Are You What You Eat, we finished up watching Forks over Knives which was incredible. I like to think I eat a mostly plant-based diet (I would call myself pescaterian) like the movie suggests everyone should be doing. I find it astounding how with just 5 weeks of eating such a diet, a man lowered his risk for heart disease by 48% and his cholesterol dropped by more than 125 points! We also read from Pollan’s book “Food Rules” and then went to the library to work on our projects.
Afterwards, our hall went bowling as a bonding exercise and it was crazy fun! Hopefully we do more activities like that :) it was also very fun to attempt to stop Hannah from winning ;) (although it didn’t work because she won nonetheless haha)

In Journalism, we celebrated the publication of our newspaper! Lynn took us to The Fuzzy Duck to mingle over coffee and I hit the jackpot. I FINALLY, after one and a half years, found a book I have been looking for!! It’s called “Howl” by beatnik author Allen Ginsberg and I cannot wait to devour it tonight. We did get caught in the rain on the way back though and got soaked!

Running club got cancelled because of the rain and even though there was a classic film on tonight (featuring the one and only Humphrey Bogart!!!!) I just couldn’t muster up the energy to sit still in the theatre for 2 1/2 hours. So, the rest of the night will be spent chatting in the dorm and catching up on The Walking Dead. I’m about to finish season 2 and Hannah and I just got Jessica addicted and she’s on the second episode now.

Tomorrow will be an early morning since we leave for our field trip at 8am! And, the best part is, that’s now the only field trip I will be on this week!

Also, we’re officially a published newspaper! This would be our entire newspaper crew celebrating the fact that we got published and got a review of 10/10! We also went down to The Fuzzy Duck for celebratory coffee!

Here’s the link to our website: http://kentuckyscholars.hubpages.com/hub/Kentucky-Governors-Scholar-Program-Launches-Online-Newspaper

    ((Can ya tell who the 3 show-offs of the class are?!))