At the beginning of my sophomore year, I told myself that I would make an effort to go out and see South Bend more. Most students hardly leave campus at all, except for parties. I started volunteering at the South Bend Center for the Homeless once a week with a class on nonviolence, and in the spring semester, I interned at the Special Victims Unit of the St. Joseph County Prosecutor. Having a set schedule and people who relied on me to show up for work at a designated time each week was perfect for actually forcing me to haul myself out to the bus stop at the far end of campus and ride it out to the terminal downtown.
I would have never convinced myself to go off campus nearly as much had I just wanted to go for fun; I needed something concrete to do. So when, at the very end of the year, my parents came to move me out from my dorm, it was still exciting to get to go out to eat in Downtown South Bend. For business inquiries, shoot me an email at lensembledujour gmail.
This coat has slowly become one of my favorite pieces in my wardrobe. When I first bought it, I assumed it would only be worn for fashion and not really for warmth, but in the frozen cornfields of Northern Indiana, suddenly everything has to be worn for warmth. Camel, as it turns out, is a very versatile color and one that I like to wear a lot.
When it came time to select classes for this semester, I purposefully avoided classes that met on Fridays β and lo and behold, it worked! I got off from class every week by Thursday afternoon. What ended up happening was that I was so excited about my whole day off from class each week, that I decided to pick up a weekly shift again at the tutoring center of the homeless shelter on my day off.
Then , on top of that, I heard about the internships that the Political Science Department offers, and I thought that might also be a good way to spend my Fridays off. So in the end, my Fridays were never really off days at all β they were very busy days. I had to leave campus at to catch the bus to get to my internship by 1, then I worked there until 4 in the afternoon. I then walked to catch a different bus to get to the homeless shelter by , where I stayed until at night.
