Dinner with my Cousin

Korrin B.

September 28, 2010 - 11:50 PM

I am proud to say that one of my cousins is a fellow Duck. She is in her sophomore year now and majoring in Journalism. She just moved into her first apartment post-dorms and invited me over for dinner this week. I thought it was such a great idea for the start of a term.

Her new place is close to campus, an experience I never really had post-dorms. It was actually quite cute and looked recently remodeled. It is set up in a quad-style, so that everyone has their own private entrance to their own bedroom and half bath and then the full bathroom and kitchen is shared by all four residents. I think that is a great way to do it. She did say that the area gets a bit noisy at night with all of the students around, but it is very convenient that she can just walk right to campus in about five minutes.

She made a delicious chicken stir-fry and we got to enjoy it over some great conversation. We got to discuss our very different, but very interesting summers and get caught up on what each of us are doing this term. It is neat to see what she is up to and to think about what I was doing at her age and year in college.

Overall, it was nice to see her again and I am hoping to set up a time to have her come over to my place for some dinner. I also invited her to stop by our tailgate at this weekend's football game against Stanford. Go Ducks!

I think it is so important to be able to keep in touch with your family members and it is pretty neat that I have one here in Eugene now.