A Week In the Life

Since many of you reading this are still in college and are wondering what it is possibly like to be entering the real world, I want to give you an idea. Thus, I have decided to make the next seven posts somewhat of a week in the life of Allison Lum. Yes, I know, fascinating. Many of you may have odd jobs here in there in the awkward summer going from college to job, so my summer camp position plays quite a poignant role here. From contact with friends, general interaction with others and a new-found life perspective, I want to give you a real idea of things that go on each day once you realize that you only have a month and a half of freedom left.

Let's pick a random day and start last Friday. I was at the summer camp, in a journalism class all morning. This is where I am every morning usually thinking, "I thought I was done with class?" Wrong. After that the kids get picked up and I sit around with other proctors (counselors) waiting for every last one to leave. Then we can leave, usually followed by at least four hours of sleep once you arrive at home. However, Friday was different for me, I went straight from work to go home and clean out my car that I was trading in that day for a new one. How exciting! It probably would have been more so if I wasn't so tired. But anyways, I drove the 45 minutes with my mom, of course hitting traffic and finally arriving at the dealership to pick up my beautiful new vehicle.

Then, we sat in traffic some more, but at least it was in a nice car. I had promised my mom, who wants to spend as much time as possible with me before I leave, that I would go with her to a baseball game she won tickets too. Let's keep in mind that it is Friday night and one of my only two nights off per week. She guilted me into it saying she would go alone if I didn't want to go. So, obviously, I went. It actually ended up being fun but I was looking forward to just going home and getting some sleep. Then the phone calls started coming. People from high school were doing this, people from work something else, I wanted to join but sleep sounded so good. All I could think of was that I have a limited amount of time left to spend with these people before I move and that made up my mind. Out I went, sleep I did not.