Home for the Summer

What a year this has been! I've been home from Berkeley for about two weeks now and it has been so wonderful to get some quality rest and relaxation after a hectic semester. Every once in a while during the last couple of months it would occur to me that I had not blogged in a very long time, but then life would catch up with me and I never made time for it. I don't have very many regrets about my first year of college, but that is definitely one of them.

Anyways, I'm here now, and life is starting to get really exciting! I have decided to alter my career path, and I am currently pursuing archaeology as a profession! The more I think about it, the more I fall in love with it. Archaeology is simply a ram-shamble of all my favorite things. I would get to travel to far away places, study and handle objects that haven't been touched in thousands of years, and continue to learn about people and cultures that I have loved since I was a little girl. Besides, in order to become an archaeologist, I would need to get a Masters as well as a Doctorate - that means that I would be Dr. Graves. How fitting, am I right? :)

In preparation, I began taking Latin last semester as many of you know, and I will continue taking it as well as Ancient Greek and German. Next summer, I will hopefully be traveling to Nemea, Greece, to assist with a UC Berkeley excavation site with one of my favorite professors! There have even been hints that we will be excavating tombs! So exciting! I also intend to seek out volunteer positions and internships at local museums in my next few years at Berkeley.

On another note, it was hard to say goodbye to all of my friends that I made on my dorm floor since we won't be living together again, but I know that we'll still see each other in the years to come :). I'm going to be living in my sorority, Alpha Omicron Pi, next year and my room has a bay view! I will literally be able to lay on my bed and see the Golden Gate Bridge out my window. I don't know how I got to be so lucky.

This summer I'll hopefully be working and adventuring! My best friend is coming home in less than two weeks and I am so stoked to be reunited with her after spending six months apart! Other than that, I'm just going with the flow and seeing where God takes me next. I love you all and I want to thank everyone for your support and well-wishes throughout this past year! There were certainly a lot of changes but they were mostly amazing, and I'm looking forward to all of the great things yet to come!

                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     

Here are some of this year's snapshots via my Instagram. You can follow me at @oliviamgraves, if you'd like! More news to come! Thanks again for all of your love and support!

Sincerely,
Olivia