Being a senior is not easy. Whoever said senior is for kicking back and relaxing was lying. I have been interviewing like crazy – it’s never ending. I have interviewed at so many places and now all I can do is wait. Waiting is for patient people and I am at the opposite end of the spectrum! And it’s excruciating. I had to wait like a 3 weeks for my acceptance letter to graduate school and this new wait! “Sigh”

I am one of those people who likes to know what they are doing a few months from now! Ahh, I guess I would just have to wait it out and divert my attention to something else – like pick up a hobby or something, catch up on all the oscar movies etc.

Waiting for the World to change!

Hmmm Sadly  Spring Break is over…but man it was an awesome break. Nope, I didn’t go anywhere warm like some people I know (cough Lynlee cough) but stayed in Buffalo and just relaxed. I shacked with my boyfriend for a week and it was the longest that we have lived together – so that was pretty interesting. It was really nice to be in an actual apartment than being in a dorm room. The apartment had a kitchen and all that – fancy ain’t it? (Trust me after 4 years of dorming, a kitchen seems fancy). I discovered my love for cooking. I cooked a lot over the week and my boyfriend got to eat lots of Indian food. Rip off Indian food that is, since I cooked curry and served it over pasta!

I also took time out to hang out with my pals from freshmen year. Your freshmen year friends are forever! It was amazing to catch up and see what everyone is up to. This was the first spring break that I spent in Buffalo and it was the best one I have had. It was nice to just relax and do nothing. But now its back to go-go-go mode.

This weekend, I went on a retreat to Angola NY with a group called Unity and needless to say it was a phenomenal experience! My boyfriend has been talking about this retreat since December 2009 and the amazing experience he has had in the previous years as an attendee. This year he was one of the team leaders. Let me give you some background information about the retreat. This event is under “Always Our Children” initiative for LGBT students, their allies and parents. It basically is an educational retreat where you interact with other members of the LGBT community and learn from their experiences.

This year we had 30 retreatants and a couple of guest speakers. The speakers talked about a varied number of topics like relationships, having gay siblings, being LGBT allies etc. My favorite talk was by a same sex couple who had been together for 17 years and got married recently in Massachusetts. It was amazing to hear about how they met, their families’ reacti0n, their wedding and their journey together. The other favorite part of the weekend was my boyfriend’s talk on relationships. He highlighted the key events of his life and the people he has met through the course. Strangely enough I feel so close to him even though I already knew about the events and people he was talking about.

Going on this retreat helped me realize that even though things are not perfect, there is hope for the LGBTQ community. Even though we don’t have equal right we have come a long way from where we were a decade or two ago. This weekend has given me so much hope and so many new friends that I really do feel optimistic about the future.

A few days ago, we witnessed the best hockey game since the 1980 Olympics when the underdogs USA beat the former USSR. This year, in the Vancouver Olympics, USA hockey team beat Canada 5-3. This was one of the greatest moments in the history of US Hockey since Canada hadn’t lost to the US in Olympics hockey since 1960! Yeah, so needless to say it was a great game for the Americans. I am a Canada hockey fan, so it was a grim day for me. I was pretty enthusiastic and optimistic about Canadian victory but alas! I guess every underdog has its day. Though I am not terribly disappointed since the US is my adopted country.

I don’t know if you guys are following the Olympics or not but the US is doing pretty well (needless to say!). We always lead the medal tally – in EVERY Olympics! So why should this one be any different! Here is the website in case you want more details about (read: aboot) the Olympics – http://www.vancouver2010.com/

Spring Break is almost here, its so close I can smell it! A lot of my friends have bought their plane tickets and made hotel reservations. This spring break is a big deal for a lot of my buddies since it is going to be our last one. I don’t think I have ever done anything exciting for spring break over the past four years. One memorable spring break was when my maa was flying into Chicago from New Delhi and I surprised her at O’Hare. I had told her I won’t be able to see her since I couldn’t afford the plane tickets from Buffalo to Chicago but I already had the tickets and it was one big reunion at the airport. Yep, there were tears; we were seeing each other after a year.

So this spring break, I will be working! Yes, I will be spending my toiling away in a cubicle. Now that is going to be a blast while my friends bore themselves on a sunny beach in Ft. Lauderdale! But if you are not the beach kind, and would like to do something fruitful during your spring break consider visiting the UB Alternative Spring Break site. Here is the link

https://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/leadership/spbreak.php