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CHRISTINA BEU

Class of: 2009
Hometown: Bradenton, FL
Major: Theology

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January 17, 2009

Latin

Anyone who says that senior year is all fun and games is lying! lol One would think that one’s last semester would be spent enjoying time with friends that one is going to leave but in actuality, the classes one takes in his/her last semester are some of the most important. Or a least that is the case for anyone going to graduate school, like me. That’s right! I’m going to grad school! I’ve been accepted to my top two schools and now I’m only waiting to hear about scholarships. But back to my subject… the classes I’m taking now are really the last chance I have to absorb information from the professors I’ve spent the last three and a half years getting to know. I’m scared about grad school. I do not feel ready! Grad schools are asking for certain classes and I need to absorb everything I can this semester from these professors. One of our AMAZING religion professors has designed a course just for those of us planning on going to grad school. It’s a 4 week crash course in Latin! Two hours a day for 4 days a week but only for 4 weeks. We do one to two chapters every day!!! Talk about a crash course! Latin sucks too! One day we were all getting a little frustrated and someone asked why we were killing ourselves over a dead language. We have to work really hard for this class. I’m spending at least 2 hours every night on this stuff. After only two weeks, we’re already translating full sentences! It’s a good thing I’m half way through this! Below is a picture of all the books and study guides we are having to use. Ahhh!
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Latin books and study guides

January 12, 2009

Community Service Day

Every semester, Saint Leo has a Community Service Day. It’s a time for us to implement our core values of Community, Responsible Stewardship, and Personal Development. It may sound boring but it’s actually a lot of fun! We get the day off school and you get to hang out with your friends and help people too. This semester, I went with a whole bunch of my friends and some other people I didn’t know to the sheriff’s department in Dade City where we got to paint a mural on the wall. See not so bad! The sheriff’s office runs an after school program for the kids coming out of the not so nice neighborhoods. The room where these kids go was really boring, so they asked us to paint some stuff on the walls. We decided to paint an underwater seascape. We had a mermaid, a shark, a scuba diver, a crab, some starfish, rainbow fish, pebbles, the underside of a boat, lots of sea weed, and more! I’m not the best painter in the world so I stuck to the pebbles. You can see my work below in the pictures. Our sea has very colorful pebbles on its seabed. I also just want to point out to you all, that we did this in January and we were in shorts and t-shirts! Welcome to Florida!!! No snow here!
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Enjoying January in shorts!
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Please check out the pebbles!