Maria's Blog

Maria from Woodburn, Oregon and Guerrero, Mexico - (Apr. 11, 2006)

This term is finally over. I studied very hard for my finals, but I am concerned about my Political Science class. I just hope to get a good grade.

Coming back to school was nice. My first day was boring, and I already had homework. I decided not to do it because it was only the first day of school.

The second day of school was different. I went to my classes and after I was done I went to do homework because I wanted to get ahead. But, I was interrupted because in the afternoon I had to go to my meeting about the Festivalito that Kalmekak is doing. I am in charge of the soccer tournament. I used to play soccer and I was good, but I don’t play anymore. I used to have my own soccer team. I was a little behind in preparation for the Festivalito, so I showed my poster to everyone to see if I needed to make any changes. Then after the meeting I had to find the phone number of the school in my hometown because they play a lot of soccer there and I was looking for some teams.

However, my plans were delayed because I found out that I needed to ask permission of the school district to put the posters in the schools. I was waiting and waiting and it took a long time--days. While I was waiting I called the OSU Dixon Rec. Center to get a soccer field to play on.

On Thursday (my fourth day of class), I went to the Cesar Chavez memorial activity to honor him. We were in front of MU and each person lit up a candle. After that we were just listening to a person speak about Cesar Chavez’s life. Then we walked from the MU to the Cesar Chavez Cultural Center to be together and to eat pan dulce (sweet bread).

Then, on Friday I gave up and went to the schools and dropped off the posters at the schools’ offices. I told them that as soon as the school district says “yes” they could hang the posters.

This week (the second week of school) I tried not to get behind in my readings, unlike last term. I will be going to the library at least two to three hours on Mondays and Wednesdays, but the other days only one or two hours. This weekend I went to the library with my boyfriend to study. I hardly see him during the weekends, but he knows I have to study, so we study together. That is why I love him, because he understands me.