Catching a few minutes to blog while I am hindered from leaving my house by a large tree recently felled across my driveway. Speaking of tree felling, let's talk about Summer Orientation!
So I left with my buddy Brad Ryer the transfer student after church last Sunday for a relatively uneventful 4-hour car ride to a hotel in beautiful Gas City, Indiana, very near to the equally beautiful Upland, Indiana. Now when I say "relatively uneventful," I don't mean it wasn't fun. There was plenty of radio scanning and spontaneous singing and dancing from the passenger seat (that's me). Actually there were two events: once we took a wrong turn (fixed it right quick!), and once we got McDonald's.
Taylor Orientation was an all-day Monday deal, so you may wonder, "why did you leave Sunday afternoon, Roscoe? So early?" You are right to wonder such things. You see, buddy Brad Ryer the transfer student had placement tests to take Sunday night, so I was left to hang out in the beautiful Gas City's beautiful hotel room by myself all evening. So, naturally, I jammed. A never-failing technique to entertain or otherwise occupy myself.
Anyway, after a night's sleep Brad and I found ourselves at our future home, Taylor University, and proceeded to take Orientation by storm. I had a great time, getting to see my ridiculously large and well-situated dorm room (git jealous!), get my course schedule for first semester all set up, and (my favorite) meeting a whole bunch of my future classmates. I love the people that attend Taylor and the environment they create. I am beyond excited to live there!
Besides it being an awesome time, I don't know if I have any particularly amusing stories to tell. Brad repeatedly failed to perform our pre-orchestrated handshake in public. I met quite a few people who will surely participate in jam sessions. I got out of Medical Anthropology!
Great time, great place, great people. I had a lot of fun.
And that's what I did this week!
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Sunday, June 22, 2014
My First Experiences at the B.K. Lounge
So tomorrow I'm at my future home, Taylor University, for summer orientation. Right now, I'm sitting in a hotel room by myself for the rest of the night. I thought, "if there was EVER a time to get around to blog posting, it's now." So here I am!
So one month ago I got my first regular job, at Burger King. It was a great relief to finally get called for an interview after applying both online and in person to almost every business in my area. I had (inaccurately and pridefully, yes) thought that I'd be quite a prospect for all of these businesses to which I applied, being an Eagle Scout and all, but fast food restaurants and the like don't really care about that. I learned this when my interview at BK essentially went, "you can work this week? Good."
My first week or so was training, or as it is at my BK, "be told how to do stuff and be made to do it." It didn't take long for me to become a mostly-functional employee, by the time I got my first paycheck (120 dollars- BIG bucks!) I felt that I was a pretty productive worker there.
I have since learned quite a lot about the fast food industry, namely, what it is like to be behind the counter when people behave in certain ways. I personally have always tried my hardest to be as polite and conversational as possible to anyone behind any counter that I interact with. It really surprises me that so many people still don't. Speaking as the *incredibly* experienced fast food worker that I am, please give whoever's behind that counter a break! The voice at the other end of the drive-thru speaker is a person, too! Especially as Christians, we have a special responsibility to brighten everyone's day we can, from either side of the fast food counter.
Really my experience hasn't been all that bad, most people are pleasant, and I get paid anyway. As my dad always says, if it wasn't in some way unpleasant, they wouldn't have to pay you to do it! The job is even fun at times. I always try to be cheerful and brighten the customers' days, and sometimes I am clearly successful in such endeavors and I have a grand old time.
Anyway. I'm excited to see Taylor tomorrow and meet many of my classmates. Soon enough I'll blog about how Orientation went!
So one month ago I got my first regular job, at Burger King. It was a great relief to finally get called for an interview after applying both online and in person to almost every business in my area. I had (inaccurately and pridefully, yes) thought that I'd be quite a prospect for all of these businesses to which I applied, being an Eagle Scout and all, but fast food restaurants and the like don't really care about that. I learned this when my interview at BK essentially went, "you can work this week? Good."
My first week or so was training, or as it is at my BK, "be told how to do stuff and be made to do it." It didn't take long for me to become a mostly-functional employee, by the time I got my first paycheck (120 dollars- BIG bucks!) I felt that I was a pretty productive worker there.
I have since learned quite a lot about the fast food industry, namely, what it is like to be behind the counter when people behave in certain ways. I personally have always tried my hardest to be as polite and conversational as possible to anyone behind any counter that I interact with. It really surprises me that so many people still don't. Speaking as the *incredibly* experienced fast food worker that I am, please give whoever's behind that counter a break! The voice at the other end of the drive-thru speaker is a person, too! Especially as Christians, we have a special responsibility to brighten everyone's day we can, from either side of the fast food counter.
Really my experience hasn't been all that bad, most people are pleasant, and I get paid anyway. As my dad always says, if it wasn't in some way unpleasant, they wouldn't have to pay you to do it! The job is even fun at times. I always try to be cheerful and brighten the customers' days, and sometimes I am clearly successful in such endeavors and I have a grand old time.
Anyway. I'm excited to see Taylor tomorrow and meet many of my classmates. Soon enough I'll blog about how Orientation went!
Friday, June 13, 2014
Regular Posting Approaches!
A time when I regularly post on this blog is approaching! Originally intended to chronicle my college experience (but created early), this blog should see more action in the coming months, eventually settling into some regularity. In the meantime, I've been quite busy recently (why I haven't posted much), but all of this business has given me plenty to write about tonight!
I graduated high school two weeks ago! I'm obviously very glad. This whole year in school was gruelingly difficult, it is very energizing to no longer be caught in the loop of labor school became in its last weeks. Come the actual moment when I said goodbye to them, I noticed that I'll miss some of my high school friends than I thought I would. Huh. Thankfully I still have a few months to spend with all of my CRAVE friends, the thought of leaving them is truly heartbreaking.
Unfortunately, those few months will not be completely carefree, as just before my graduation I got a job. I'll be working at Burger King 5 or 6 days a week, unfortunately not allowing for as much free time as I may have imagined, but helping me out a lot with college funding and whatnot. Work itself has been a pretty interesting experience and will probably yield a post of its own at some point.
In between the time I spend working, I've been getting super excited about going to Taylor next year! I've got music theory placement tests to study up for, summer orientation to attend next weekend, and plenty of packing to do. I have a lot more excitement bundled up inside of me for next year than I could ever write.
Also, in the "what's new?" department, I've been taking voice lessons for about a month now. Although I have had a passion for worship music for more than four years now, at least three of those were spent with no attempt to be vocally disciplined at all and I ended up singing habitually quite badly. As I paid more and more attention to singing over the past year or two, it became clear that I would benefit from some formal training. This summer I'll be whipping these vocal cords into shape! Lessons are going great so far.
Thanks for checking in and reading, everyone!
I'll have plenty more to write on in the coming weeks, whenever I get the time. A few "Roscoe's blog-worthy" events have occurred, not the least of which being THE RELEASE OF DAVID CROWDER'S SOLO ALBUM.... He-llo! Neon Steeple in the house! You can bet I'll talk about it soon enough.
Peace!
I graduated high school two weeks ago! I'm obviously very glad. This whole year in school was gruelingly difficult, it is very energizing to no longer be caught in the loop of labor school became in its last weeks. Come the actual moment when I said goodbye to them, I noticed that I'll miss some of my high school friends than I thought I would. Huh. Thankfully I still have a few months to spend with all of my CRAVE friends, the thought of leaving them is truly heartbreaking.
Unfortunately, those few months will not be completely carefree, as just before my graduation I got a job. I'll be working at Burger King 5 or 6 days a week, unfortunately not allowing for as much free time as I may have imagined, but helping me out a lot with college funding and whatnot. Work itself has been a pretty interesting experience and will probably yield a post of its own at some point.
In between the time I spend working, I've been getting super excited about going to Taylor next year! I've got music theory placement tests to study up for, summer orientation to attend next weekend, and plenty of packing to do. I have a lot more excitement bundled up inside of me for next year than I could ever write.
Also, in the "what's new?" department, I've been taking voice lessons for about a month now. Although I have had a passion for worship music for more than four years now, at least three of those were spent with no attempt to be vocally disciplined at all and I ended up singing habitually quite badly. As I paid more and more attention to singing over the past year or two, it became clear that I would benefit from some formal training. This summer I'll be whipping these vocal cords into shape! Lessons are going great so far.
Thanks for checking in and reading, everyone!
I'll have plenty more to write on in the coming weeks, whenever I get the time. A few "Roscoe's blog-worthy" events have occurred, not the least of which being THE RELEASE OF DAVID CROWDER'S SOLO ALBUM.... He-llo! Neon Steeple in the house! You can bet I'll talk about it soon enough.
Peace!
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