Cold Weather

Living in Oklahoma I have grown to hate the cold weather. It is hard to predict the weather accurately in Oklahoma because it can be very random at times. One day it will be in the mid-60's and then the next it will be in the teens. It is not hard to plan on this weather on a day to day basis but it would be nice for the weather to make up its mind and stick with a consistent pattern. The weather lately has been about the same, really cold. I think the primary reason I hate the cold is that their is nothing related to the cold in Oklahoma that you can do. In places like Colorado or New Mexico to name a few, they are more likely to look forward to cold weather because they have activities involving cold weather such as skiing and most mountain related activities. Living on flat land means we have the wind sweeping down the plains at 5 degrees to look forward to. The only way I can imagine enjoying the weather would be have something to correlate with it but until then I am looking forward to the summer, 143 days and counting.

Another week, another blog post.
This year I gave myself goals to accomplish by the end of the year to really try to figure out my potential and better myself while doing it. These included volunteering more, learning Italian and how to play the piano being among the many things. The first goal I started was learning how to speak Italian. I have always wanted to speak another language and I even took French 1 my second semester of college but unfortunately I took it in the Spring and by the time the Summer was over I had not retained enough to even take a French 2 course. There was no one to blame but myself for the lack of knowing how to speak French. This time I wanted to start completely over with a whole new language and everything. I am not sure how I ended up with Italian being my choice but I think the love of mafia movies had a hand in it. I want to be completely self taught more or less because it was cheaper than taking a class or purchasing Rosetta Stone. I figure that the easiest way to learn is to mimic the way I initially learned English as a child and that is to start from the basics of pronunciation to starting with the simplest of words and building up. Once I have the basics down I will really dive into it through watching movies in Italian and working with more difficult Italian books or anything that would improve on top of the skills I will already have learned. My knowledge of the language is still very limited but by the time my course is over I hope to be much deeper in it so I will inform whomever may read this later on down the road of my progress because I would probably embarrass myself at this point.
Ciao.

Hello to whomever may read this. My name is Jeremy Brennan Kinsey and I currently reside in Edmond, Oklahoma so I can attend the University of Oklahoma and hopefully obtain my English Education degree. I am originally from Oklahoma City and grew up in a town within the city called Bethany. Most of my time spent in Bethany involved playing sports with the aspirations of playing in college one day. Without any athletic offers worth following up on I ended up at U.C.O. and decided to take my chances in the academic world. So far it has gone well thanks to the people I have met along the way and the people who I already knew. That and the sweet sound of music help me get through my everyday life. If you manage to stumble across this blog and then stumble across me, please say hello and being willing to talk because I love meeting new people. Everybody has a story.