Back home again, in Muncieana!

Wow. I didn't think I would ever be saying this... but it feels great to be back at school. Last week I couldn't wait to get home, be with my family, and just spend times with the ones I love. But thats all that there is at home... is my Mom, Dad, dogs, and Best friend brent..... Outside of that little circle my home life away from school is pretty non-existent... I have a few friends here and there that I love to go see, but other than that I'm home bored with nothing to do...

Thats why when I was sick last week and couldn't go anywhere outside of my room for 3 days, I just wanted to be back here at school with my friends and "family" where I'm with the ones that I've grown close to within the last 2 months. Some of my friends here at school would do anything for me, and wouldn't think twice about it, as would I do the same for them. I dont know what it is but when I'm here at school I feel like myself and feel like I'm not being judged for what i do or say, where when I go home and hang out with my old friends from high school I feel like I need to be the same old Alex DeFreeuw that everyone fell in love with at Homestead, which was the old me. Even since the beginning of school I've already learned a lot about myself as a person and have, in my mind, changed for the better. I've realized a lot and learned from my mistakes that I made this summer and have grown because of them. I am perfectly fine with the fun, loving, cooky Alex that I am here at school and do not change for anyone! I love the family I have created here at school and wouldn't trade them for anything.

DOTW: Missing school

Being sick I had to be out of school for a week. Although that sounds like a fun and amazing thing, for the doctors to say you cant go to school for a week, its not all fun and games. I had to miss Monday and Tuesday which was all 5 of my classes... Thats 5 classes of notes that i missed that I should have had, considering I was feeling better and well enough to go to school on monday but felt that it would not be in my fellow students best interests to come to school while i'm still recovering from the sickness. BUT, so far this hasnt been as stressful as I thought it would be, and I hope it stays this way. I'll be sure to keep you posted.

Halloween in 2.5 days!!!

" Maybe surrounded by, a million people I, still feel all alone, just wanna go home. I miss you you know." -Michael Buble

Same 'Ole Same 'Ole

As you read before, my week hasn't gone the best... Basically everything that could have gone wrong went wrong, I was stressed out about my tests, and I got sick. OH! But it doesn't end there....

Wednesday afternoon rolls around and its about 1 o'clock in my english class, and for some reason i can not stop shivering.. no matter how hard i tried to stop I just couldn't, so the class gets over at 150, and my next class is at 2. So i walk to my next class and I had a few friends from the class ask if I'm feelin alright and i told them I wasn't the best and they told me to go to the health center so i did. When I arrived there was a sign on the desk that said "3 hour lobby wait". I'm thinking to myself, "You have got to be kidding me...." but decide I have nothing else that can help me at this point so I decide to wait, and since I had a cough I had to wear one of those white masks over my nose and mouth... kill me now... So I'm sitting there for about 30 minutes and tell my mom what's going on so she knows that I'm not feeling well. With fall break coming up, she asked if I wanted her to ome pick me up from school, and bring me back home where she could take me to a hospital so they could check me out. I told her I would think about it, so she called back later, and says that my dad wants her to come get me because I shouldn't be in class anyways, so I should just come home and rest up. So after 45 minutes of sitting in the health center I headed towards my dorm room to pack my clothes for the weekend.

She arrives, picks me up, and takes me to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne where they took my temperature, and recorded my symptoms. I ended up having a 103 temp, and they told me I had a positive case of Influenza, a strand of H1N1..... AWESOME! I'VE ALWAYS WANTED THAT!!.... :( oh but thats not all, I'm supposed to stay out of school for a week....

...talk about stress....

Needless to say since approximately 830 Wednesday to this current point I haven't moved from my bed in my room other than to shower and change clothes... My parents wont let me leave my room at all... I've watched two movies, spent more hours on facebook than i ever thought I would in a two day span, and have drank more fluids in this time period than i ever thought I would...

DOTW: Still tests and being sick...

"Those that live hard, fall hard..." -AJDeFreeuw

Not a fan...

When I came to BSU, I couldn't wait for the breaks from school. Fall break, Thanksgiving break, Christmas, the list goes on and on. This week is Fall break, and all classes on Friday are cancelled, so we get a 3 day weekend. I'm thinking this week is going to be awesome. Only 4 days of school and then I get to go home and see my whole family together for an entire weekend. That was not the case...

This week has been nothing but stressful, and being sick. I love having 3 tests in 2 days, and having a test on Thursday right before I leave for break... Not a fan at all... This week has been go go go, and being sick hasn't helped either. I've had a health test, a Comm mid-term, a math quiz, and  have a Poly Sci test on Thursday. Awesome.... Cant wait to go home, and be with my family again after this week... Like I said I'm a huge family man and my sister is coming up with her boyfriend from Dallas, Texas, my brother is coming down from Chicago, and My grandparents are up here from Florida. I cant wait. It will be a good end to a crappy week!

DOTW:

- Tests and being sick. 

Not only is having that many tests in a short time stressful, but having classes on top of that doesn't help either because you have to find time to study  between classes and at night. Being sick, is a bonus of the week too! Your head is all over the place and having to study and remember material for 3/4 different subjects is always fun, because you only want to sleep, but you cant! Its awesome....

Hopefully this helps make your week better, helped me! Make sure you watch all 7 of the videos! Each one is a classic!

Family Man

If you dont know me by now, one thing that I have always been since I can remember, is a family man. I'm one of the biggest momma's boy, and I'm not afraid to admit it! If she needs anything I'm there for her, and I know that if I ever need her for anything she's always there in a heartbeat to help me. Even if it is bringing something down to Muncie, she's got my back.This weekend is the Notre Dame vs. USC football game at ND, which means I'm going home to head up to South Bend with my father to go to the game along with my grandma, grandpa, brother, and his girlfriend cassie. For once I'm actually excited to go home and see everyone. The other two times have been out of my control, and I have had to come home for reasons not really in my control. But for once, I'm actually ready to go home, see my puppies, my rents, and my best friend Brent who I haven't seen in a long time. I miss him a lot though.

Then next weekend is BSU's fa

ll break, so we get Friday off of school, and my sister is traveling into Indy from Arlington, Texas! So right after my Thursday class gets over at noon, I'm heading down there to pick her and her boyfriend Shawn up and taking them up to Fort Wayne. This is an epic weekend for the DeFreeuw family because we are all going to the Notre Dame vs. Boston College football game. This is also the first time in a couple years that all 5 of my family members and my DeFreeuw grandparents have been together in the same place. Like I said earlier, I'm a huge family man and love seeing my family together. That is also why Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because my mom's 

side of the family gets together every year at a different place than the year before. She is the oldest of 8 kids, and there are around 45 people total, and the group continues to get bigger each year! I love it!

I'm gonna start doing a new section of my week called "Downfall of the week: (DOTW)" because I feel like so far every week there has been one major thing that has brought my week from a 10 down to a 7 or 8.

This weeks Downfall of the Week:

Tests/Midterms:

- This week went from the most stressful week I've had in a long time, to one of the more relaxed and fun weeks, all 

because of a thing called mid-terms. I was supposed to have a test on Friday for math, a health test on Monday, and a Comm mid-term on Sunday. Sounds fun right? NOT AT ALL. Luckily my math test got moved to Tuesday next week, and I have some friends to keep me sane, and to keep me in line to forget about stressing out. I went from staying in all night to study, and being in the library to going out with friends and not even worrying about the tests. Now that I know they are more spaced out like I wanted them to be I have no reason to worry about them. Stupid tests are gonna be the death of me... welcome to college I guess!

" You never know if something is worth fighting for or not, until you start fighting for it." -DeFreeuw

2 weeks and counting...

If you didn't know there is a sickness going around the world right now called Swine Flu. And yes, it has reached the campus of Ball State. Awesome right?! Well I haven't been feeling good for the past 2 weeks. Runny nose, sore throat, losing my voice, headaches. Dont worry though, I dont have swine, i just felt like telling you that its going around the US of A right now. I on the other hand just have a cold... One that one go away. I've had it since two weeks ago on wednesday, so over 2 weeks, and its still going strong... I do refuse to take medicine though, In a sense I like being sick, but then again it gets old after a while. I know, riddle me that one. Anyways, I've had this sore throat and coughing the whole time, my nose isn't that bad, just been trying to stay alive. Especially with the weather being crappy here it doesn't help.... Muncie is the new "Windy City", crazy winds like none other and overcast days like today and yesterday. NOT FUN.

I get to go home next weekend to see my family :) Should be a good Friday and Weekend. Then I get to go home the next weekend to see my grandma and grandpa from florida! My whole family, and them are going to the Notre Dame vs. Boston College game. Should be a good one! I love my family.

Downfall of this week.... Ebay...

I ordered cleats on Wednesday last week, and they got the size wrong, so I told them to send them anyways, see if they'd fit and if they didn't I would send them back. Well low and behold they supposedly sent them out this past Tuesday. It takes 2-3 business days. I'm thinking Thursday or Friday will be good days because I'll hopefully get my cleats that I've been waiting for for over a week. Nope. No sign of them yet.... And our campus doesnt do mailings on the weekend... Which is what I need cleats for.... Which is why I ordered them on a wednesday so that they would be there by the weekend. So much for planning ahead...

Overall Mood: Warn out, but good

Cant complain.

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

Happening All at once...

So this whole week was Ball States Homecoming week entitled "Best Week Ever!".  After living through it, they need to call it "The most stressful week ever!". From all the residence hall activities and mandatory events dealing with that, and all of the mandatory frat activities planned, along with all of the classes I take throughout the week, this whole week has been extremely fun, but stressful.

Besides SigEp winning the first ever Co-Ed Flag Football Tournament this year, winning the Bed Races today, and being able to witness the infamous AirJam on Thursday, this week has only been alright. More stressful than fun. Dont get me wrong, I love being busy constantly and always having stuff to do, but with everything piling up and one thing to do after the other, after the other can get old real quick. Its Friday night, and the Homecoming parade is Saturday morning and my residence hall has a float to put together.... can you say ALL NIGHTER?! Can you say TENSION?! So many things goin through my head right now and my body is just tired and sore and all of the above. Its 430 in the morning and I'm running on approximately 5 hours of sleep from the night before. I'll be happy once this week is over so that I'll be able to just relax and actually get some sleep. There are a lot of festivities planned for the whole day saturday, and I'm real excited to take part in them. If I can go the whole day without falling asleep that is! Should be an interesting weekend!

Hopefully everyone had a good week, and has a good and safe weekend!

-Alex "Dear god I need some sleep" DeFreeuw