Build Schools, Not Bombs

Well, it's been awhile since I've posted something. Something relevant, at least. So, now it's a new year. I'm pretty excited to leave 2008 behind, idk about anyone else. I learned some great lessons, had some intense moments, ate lots of delicious food and now I'm having trouble doing up the button on my jeans. :)
The first real post of the new year...not much has happened in my life in the past 18 days. Okay, that's a lie, lots of things have happened, but I'm not about to update the entire month of January. I've been having major anxiety lately, over college mostly. Here's my spiel:

I want to go to Westminster. You probably already know this. I've been accepted, I just have to come up with another 10K so I can actually attend there this fall. Currently, I'm listed as wanting to major in English with a minor in Political Science. Yesterday, I decided I want to change to a dual major between English and Political Studies. I know. On top of that, I want to apply to the Honors Program, and do Honors while at Westminster. I'm hoping this will help me get to graduate school somewhere on the East Coast -- I miss New York! I'm also toying with the idea of obtaining licensure to teach Secondary Education while at Westminster. Then I can have a "marketable skill" of some sort. Eventually, I want to become certified to teach English as a second language...this may require me to become fluent in a language other than English, first. After all this lovely, I want to go to graduate school. Somewhere in there, either during undergrad or in grad school, I want to study abroad. Most especially in Prague. Ah, Prague. But anywhere in Europe would be amazing. And somehow, I want to become a political advisor. Yes, I know. How on earth does one become a political advisor. In all honesty, I don't really know.

The point of that last paragraph was mostly to prologue this next part:

So, I have this motto. Today, I finally put it into an intelligible phrase: "Build Schools, Not Bombs." My hopes in becoming a political advisor are that I can promote causes like that. Ways to impact the world for the better. I'm a HUGE advocate of education, and what having that available can do to a person, a community, a country. I'm a pacifist, and 9.9 times out of 10 I don't think that violence really solves anything; it either creates more problems or just puts a band-aid on the current situation. But education? I've been wanting to become a teacher, because I think that in a school is a place where I can do a lot of good. But now, I'm starting to think that as a political advisor I'd have more power to spread my cause, whereas teaching is concentrated. But, idk. I want to do both. Somehow. I know, I'm kinda crazy. Sigh. Anywho. There's my spiel. Build Schools, Not Bombs.