2021! New Year!

Hello Concord Family,

I hope everyone is doing well and having a good new year so far.

I can’t believe it’s already 2021! I feel like I’m still in the year of 2020. It was another tough year for everyone I’m sure, but now I’m glad to say I made it to a new year. Sadly, I didn’t get to watch or see any fireworks during the count down, although I did heard a lot of fireworks that night. With that being said, new year, new semester! With the first semester over, I am now onto my second semester for this year. I will be in my fourth week of school. So far so good. Right now I am taking more credits and classes towards my major. I recently had just switched out my major so that’s exciting. I am taking a lot of Psychology courses which is interesting. I’m not sure where it will take me throughout this year, but I hope to gain a lot of experiences and knowledge.

Reflecting back last semester, I think I did better than what I expected and I am really proud of myself. I didn’t do well, but I can see that I did my very best and improved my grades more than what I had from last year. My professors so far has been really cool and chill! One of my professor humor really makes me enjoy learning in his class and I love how understanding he is. It’s almost like being a friend rather than a student.

Up until now, classes are still online, but recently our school color has moved to code yellow, which means organizations, students, and clubs can be on campus and gather for activities. Masks and social distance are still taking place, so that’s something to not be worried about. Students also get the choice to take class in person by majority votes from professors. Currently, I am taking two online courses which doesn’t need to be taken in person or meet on zoom, and the rest are highly on zoom or in person. With just the fourth week in of school, it has been really busy and hectic for me. During last week, I met up with my student organization and talked about what our plans were for this year. With the pandemic still around, it’s difficult for us to have new students on campus to participate especially if it’s online when our activities and such are held in person.

Besides school, I have been buying and reading poetry books a lot lately and writing more of my own. During my free time I’ve been finding new things to do and enjoy learning. Such as embroidery, sewing and photography. I’m at home a lot most of the time so I try to pick up things I can learn on my own and spare time.

With February coming up, I will update more on my next post. Take care Concord family and I will update you guys soon! Have a great rest of the month.

-Keng Thao