Aloha!

Hello there!


I'm kind of new around here, so I thought I might introduce myself.  I'm Curl Girl, for obvious reasons.  I'm from South Carolina and I am currently a second semester college freshman moving into a major of Cinema Production.  I have wonderful parents and some pretty neat brothers.  I enjoy strawberry daiquiris, yoga pants, long walks on the beach...


You, know- the good stuff, haha.


Many of you already know, college is a new world.  You're not at home anymore.  There's no one out here to tell you that everything is going to be okay when the sun rises.  If you're like me and are the only one, or one of few, from your high school, no one else knows who you are- so you have to show them.  There's no Sunday-school-teacher to remind you of your morals, no mother to tell you to clean up, and all of the sudden four (or five, or six for Grad kids) years are over and you're standing there with a piece of paper and all the memories that prepared you to be an actual participant in the real world.


Here's how I plan on surviving: The Fantastic 500.  It's a group of four girls: Erin, Daphne, my roommate Sara, and me.  We came up with the name on accident, joking that a balcony at the local yogurt shop couldn't hold us up... which would have required each of us to be over 500 pounds.  That's not too important.  What's important is that we were thankfully thrown together, and we're going to get through this whole college thing leaning on each other.  I know you've probably heard about the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants or the ladies of Sex In the City.  They were also groups of four women who needed one another to get through their hectic lives.  The difference between those girls and us is we're actually real.  We don't get the Mr. Big at the end of the day- and I sure as hell cannot fit into Sara's skinny jeans.  


The biggest difference, however, is that you got to watch those girls learn all their lessons, knowing that they are the main characters so they kind of HAVE to win in the end.  For us- it's going to be a bit different.  I want to pass our real world lessons onto you.  Whether you're in high school, college, grad school, past all of that- you've been learning lessons the hard way your whole life, because honestly, who hasn't?  So my challenge is this- in honor of the Fantastic 500, I offer you 500 lessons, one lesson every day for 500 days.  That will be over a year, to today 2012 and onward.  If you can learn from our lessons instead of your own, that's one person out there who's survival was a little bit easier that day.  I think you'll enjoy this adventure as much as we will, so I invite you to come along with real people, like yourself, and survive each day with a new tackle on life.


And so... the lessons begin.