It’s hard to write this sitting in my room: I’ve amassed a small collection of toys over the past year and they sit on my desk and distract me whenever I try to do homework. For some reason people seem to find it fitting to give me toys as presents, and I now have a remote control car, a monster bank that talks, a bubble machine, a light-up bouncy ball, etc…
My roommate, Lori-Ann DeVoe, thinks the assortment of toys describes me fairly well.
“Marisa Kendall has a very young and playful personality,” she said.
Aside from playing with toys, I also write for The Eagle. I am the new Metro-National Editor, as of the beginning of the semester, and it’s been a lot of fun so far. I am also starting an internship with Fox News this Monday. It will be my first experience with broadcast journalism, and I am excited to begin to experience this other sides of the media. After graduation I hope to either go into print journalism or become a novelist, and I am double-majoring in journalism and literature so I will be prepared for either option.
My other great love is traveling. I spent a month teaching elementary school in Palampur, India last summer, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. I traveled around for a week with a group of other volunteers, mostly from England and Germany, and we went to Delhi, Jaipur, Amristar to see the Golden Temple and Agra to see the Taj Mahal.
I also spent a month in Cusco, Peru volunteering at an orphanage the summer after high school. That trip was what really sparked my interest in traveling everywhere in the world and seeing everything. I saw Machu Picchu, went bungee jumping and tried cuoy, or roasted guinea pig, which is a delicacy in Peru.
Hopefully I will be able to continue traveling and collecting interesting experiences that will give me something to write about for years to come.
