From the Midwest and Around the World

     I promised you all that I would show you my room today. So, below are some pictures! The entrance to my room. This year, the floor's theme is baby animals. So cute! My room looking in from the door. The top bed is my sleeping bed and the one on the bottom is a couch/guest bed. This is my desk area. My "living room" with the "couch" on the left, a little side table on the middle, and a cute chair on the right.      The next post will probably be a report on my first day and my initial reactions to my profs and classes! Have a great Labor Day!

     This is the first of (hopefully) many entries that I will post throughout this year and beyond. I am now entering my Sophomore year at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. This year I will be pursuing my double major in International Relations (IR) and Japanese by taking three IR classes in the fall and then traveling across the world to Japan in the Spring Semester. Hopefully this blog will follow that journey.      While this blog is mostly for family and friends, I welcome any readers that do not know me personally and I hope that you will enjoy my musings, rants, and narratives about my life. Please feel free to comment or email me ( elizmarfos6@gmail.com ) with any questions.      Generally, I will post narratives about my life. However, I will often post political opinions and thoughtful musings about pop culture, Christianity, etc. If that is not your thing, then this may not be the right blog for you...but I always enjoy a civi...