The Begining of Larissa's College Experience!

As I'm sure many of you already know...this past weekend I had the opportunity to travel to Buena Vista, VA with mom and visit Southern Virginia University, the campus that will become my home for next Fall! I just thought I would tell a little bit more from my perspective about this experience and such :)

I had talked to some of you about possibly attending BYU-Idaho and I thought that was what I was gonna do but SVU sent me a letter a few months ago and I found out about the scholarship opportunity I had because of my GPA and ACT score (not perfect but good). I started researching what other activities I could be a part of on campus and found that they had BASKETBALL! (a part of BYU-I that was a downfall is they only have intramurals....) and got together a package to send to Coach Harmon. It took awhile for us to finally talk but he showed interest in me and expressed he thought I would fit in well with the team. In the middle of all this, my admissions counselor Chelsea found out that I played volleyball and told me that as an assistant volleyball coach, she would love to see tapes of me playing volleyball! At this time I was planning on attending this past Open House and let her know that I would be willing to at least try out while I was out there.

I was slowly falling in love with this college the more and more I found out about it. They have a very small enrolment, less than 1,000 students, meaning small class sizes which is what I'm used to so that was comforting. I also talked with Abby Baxter, the Student Government VP and she told me how much she has loved her experience out there and it seemed that almost every person I visited with about this college has absolutely loved it there. The atmosphere out there and what the people I hung out with said, I believe my experience is going to be the same :)

In other news with Larissa, I got highlights!!! :D haha I have to say I've had mixed opinions about them in my house but I love them so it's whatever! You can kinda see them in the picture but yeah....also, Prom is this weekend! The theme is amazing! *drum roll* STAR WARS! Haha my date is awesome and he has a Chewbacca mask that he is gonna wear and I have a metallic bronze dress I'm gonna wear a C3PO mask with! Should be epic! I promise pictures next week! Also track is in full swing and I hope to make it to State :) Hope all is well with everyone!

Love You All! <3