So as I start my blog, I just want to say that it won't really be entertaining or even informative. It will just be a place where I can release my thoughts and insights on whatever topic I choose to write about that day. While I usually can't stand grammatical errors, I don't really re-read what I write and so there may be times that my readers will be thinking, "Uh, what?" With that being said, let's begin.
My name is Kasey. I was born and raised in a small town in Nebraska. Then again, what town in Nebraska isn't small. Omaha really isn't even big in the grand scheme of things. Up until seventh grade, I attended school in a one room school house. Not too many people nowadays can say that. I also avidly rode horses when I was little. I was quit good at it and took home several trophies. I also took home a bit of money but my mom always kept that from me. Around the time I went to the city school is when I also stopped riding horses. I didn't really care to put in the time it required and I wanted to focus on other things. This is around the time that I started to play tennis. I remember watching the Williams sisters on tv one spring and so I decided to see what it was like. Naturally, I really enjoyed and to this day some people even tell me that I'm addicted to it. However, that may be an understatement.
Once I got to high school, I had a pretty solid group of friends. We did a lot of different things together, such as being water girls for the basketball team, walked home from school, went to church activities, and several other things. I played on the tennis team, where I went to state my freshman and senior years. I also was in choir, in which I was selected as an alternate for the all-state choir my senior year. Also my senior year, I was in the a capella group that we called City Singers. I made some pretty dumb decisions that year, as well, but that's neither here nor there.
Then it was time to go off to college. I had decided upon Northwest Missouri State University because it was close to my hometown but not too close. I had also gone to a couple of tennis camps there and thought that the campus was gorgeous. When I started my college adventure, I had declared my major as Social Science Education (even though they had it down as Spanish). During my sophomore year, I had decided that I didn't really care to be a teacher anymore, so I switched my major to Business Management. Later that year, I added Marketing to it as well. However, in my junior year, I decided that I wanted to spice it up a little bit more and so I changed my major, again, to International Business. I finally graduated with Bachelors in 2010, five years after I had started. Two things will always stick with me from the college times. One is being a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and the other is getting the chance of a lifetime to spend a semester abroad in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Through ADPi, I was able to create a lot of lifelong friendships and bonds. Though I no longer have any solid communication with the majority of my high school classmates, I am glad to say that is not the case with my sisters. I met both of my best friends through ADPi and do not know where I would be without them in my life right now (here's to you, Sarah and Jessie). Also during my collegiate years, I was given the opportunity to become Philanthropy Chair. While in this role, my main task was to create a community wide event in order to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House. With the help of my sisters, we came up with a successful kickball tournament. If you're in the northwest Missouri area come the end of March, enter a team! You won't regret it! Now that I am an alumna member, I have joined the Indy alumnae association, but haven't participated in much lately.
The other proud moment I have in my life is my study abroad experience. On August 23, 2009, I boarded a plan and took off to Europe. While I must say that actual teachings of my host school weren't that great, the lessons learned in general will be with me forever. Some such lessons are travel whenever possible, an inch of snow to Europeans is a snowpocolypse, and liberalism really isn't as bad as some Americans make it out to seem. While in Europe, I was able to make it to Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Berlin, Germany; Munich, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; London, England (twice); Aachen, Germany; and Rome, Italy. Out of those other places visited, my favorite would be Munich. Actually, Germany as a whole was pretty awesome. Then again, that would probably be associated with my fascination for learning about World War 2 and the Holocaust. When all is said and done, I could easily move to Europe and escape the "freedoms" of the United States.
When I graduated from college, I moved to Indiana to start my "adult life". It definitely has not been an easy life. There have been many, many road blocks, but, like they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I have not been able to find a job that I really enjoy, but I have been able to meet a guy that means the world to me. While this chapter of my life may be closing, I know that there will just be a new chapter waiting to begin.
So now you know a little bit more about me. My future blogs will probably be more random and about things like books, beanie babies, tennis, and movies, just to name a few. While this blog seems like it's been a lifetime about me, it's all happened in the wink of an eye.
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