ok, its been about 2 months since i've used this at all...a lot has happened.

i'm back at school and in full force. rowing is great? haha. we're finally racing this weekend and i can't wait :)

but on a more serious note, i've really noticed how lucky i am to have certain things lately. today, alyssa and i went into detroit. like not nice downtown, comerica park detroit, but ghetto trashy, falling apart building's detroit. it was dark and i was scared to death. BUT i realize just how good i have it. getting off the highway, on a stretch of road about a mile to two miles there were probably only 3 houses that didnt have bars, boards or fire damage. it's a total wakeup call. i was terrified to be in a locked car in that area, let alone actually being out there.

also, on the way into detroit, we saw and AWFUL accident. i have never seen anything so awful in my life. there was only one car...that i could see. it was completely smashed in, no front in left at all and a sheet was covering the side of the car. and it was about 100 feet off the highway in some trees. obviously someone had died. the scariest thing, alyssa and i hadnt missed this accident by much. the cops had arrived not much earlier and traffic was barely backed up. thank God right before we left campus we had to turn around and go back to our place and get her license that she forgot otherwise we probably would have been there right around the time it happened. that is so scary, i cannot imagine having to see something like that. it seems that they spun out of control and hit a cement pole along the highway. it was horrible.

i just need to remember how lucky i am, even to just be alive.