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HoW Ep.8 Wesley's Favorite Philosopher · The Wesley Word

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Wesley World.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to Humans at Wesley.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: My name is Bailey Me, and today I'm joined by Teresa Riviro.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: Teresa, welcome to the show.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: Hi.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_01: Teresa, can you start by introducing yourself?
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: My name is Teresa Riviro.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a philosophy major from Oakden, Virginia.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: And I guess I'm a sophomore, but yeah, something like that.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and uh Oakden is in north northern Virginia outside of DC.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: What would you say your favorite museum in Washington, DC is?
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is gonna sound really bad, but I hate museums.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like with the burning fashion, I'm like the worst person to go to museums with because it's not even that I hate them.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just like a bad museum buddy because most people who like museums want to like stop and read everything and admire all the cool stuff, which is like nice and all.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm much more of a like walk as fast as possible through the museum and like look around once in a while and be like, oh, that's neat.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: And then I get to the end and like sit there and read a book or like scroll through my phone while everyone else in my family or group like actually looks at all the museum stuff.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: But um I like the spy museum, it's not a Smithsonian, but I like that.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I really like the zoo.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's different.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm obsessed with the zoo.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: I love to see all the animals.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: Speaking of animals, what's so special about armadillos?
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's a good question.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um I saw a Go Diego Go episode as a child, and it just stuck with me.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: They were having like a race of armadillos, and I learned that they could like roll up into a ball, and so I thought that was the coolest thing ever.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't know.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Ever since then I was just like obsessed, and everyone in elementary school, like whether they knew my name or not, knew that I was an armadillo girl.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: I get like random text messages or DMs of like people I haven't talked to in forever sending me like armadillo videos because they remembered that I like them.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: So it just brings me joy, like and connects me to others.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I really like them.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: So, how much time do you spend in the philosophy cave?
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've actually never been down there.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: I have never been down there.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Copeland told me about it, and I was like, There is a bottom floor to Harden Hall.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: I literally didn't even know that.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I should check it out sometime though.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I just stumbled in there one day and was like, what is this?
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh Wesley alum Kendra uh used was a philosophy minor, I guess.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: She used to talk about it a lot.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: So, Teresa, what brings you all the way to Clemson?
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, honestly, when I was doing college applications, Clemson was like my last choice.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: No hate to Clemson.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: It just like was not up there because it's far away, and I don't know, I don't I've never really visited the South before, so I was like, it would be very different, which was also something I was looking for.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to go out of state, but I was like, that just might be too much.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: But when it came down to it, I didn't get into some schools I thought I would, and I got into schools that I didn't.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, like the way things played out was kind of unexpected to me.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: And Clemson offered me a scholarship, so I was like, you know what, sign me up.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to South Carolina.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm really glad I did.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I really like it here.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so you just made a comment about wanting to go down to the south or having never been to the south.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: So do you not consider Virginia part of the South?
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um I guess parts of Southern Virginia are definitely like the southern United States.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: But I guess when I'm thinking, like, and I've had to explain this to my parents because they're like, what are you saying?
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: But like I guess when I say the south, I mean like the cultural south rather than like the southern United States.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: But Northern Virginia is neither of those things.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: If you've ever visited Northern Virginia, it's I don't know, it's just not.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: What would you say the biggest cultural difference is?
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um that's a good question.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: I would say you feel like the obvious thing would be the food, but I was just laughing the other day with Sarah because I was like, okay, the two like southern foods I guess that I've tried since I've been here are fried okra and grits.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: And my experience with those was fried okra in a dining hall and grits at the camp that I work at down here.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not sure that like camp and dining hall is really the place to experience like southern cuisine.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe like the biggest difference I actually like the way people talk, I've never met anyone with a southern accent before I came here.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and Sarah's always saying things where I'm like, okay, what are you talking about?
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like yesterday she said, and I don't know if this is a southern thing, I really am not sure, but she was like, you know, in 3K, and I was like, what are you saying?
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and she was like, you know, in elementary school.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, um, we have kindergarten, first grade, like I don't know what 3, 4, and 5k are, but apparently that's like preschool, but I have never heard that.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: I also learned that what I call a kiss and ride, and this was a big thing, is apparently only like from Northern Virginia, like very specifically, but it's where you get like picked up and dropped off for like school or like the metro.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: I've literally never heard that.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no one has.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: So when I said it, Sarah looked at me like I was crazy.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: She was like, ew, Teresa, why are you saying kiss and ride?
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, that's what it's called.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: But that's been weird, just like random phrases that I didn't realize were regional.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I feel like Clemson is maybe not known for its liberal arts.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: So what made you choose a philosophy major?
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, truthfully, the philosophy major was pure luck.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: I was I'm interested in pre-law, I don't know for sure, but when I was looking for colleges, I pretty much Googled like who does the best on the LSAT, and it was physics and then philosophy.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I was definitely not gonna be a physics major, like off the bat, immediately no.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but philosophy sounded cool, and I've never done any philosophy, like my school didn't offer it.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: I really knew nothing, but I thought it sounded interesting, so I did it anyways, and it's like the perfect fit for me.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: God had a plan.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: I love like I've always really liked logic puzzles.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's this one story that's a little bit embarrassing, but that we have like this really nationally famous high school in our area, like Thomas Jefferson School of Science and Technology in Nova.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's like one of the top high schools in the whole nation.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: But, anyways, I applied for fun.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: I know I wouldn't get in, but I applied for fun because I really like taking tests.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I did the test in the first section, it was only supposed to take 15 minutes or probably like 30 minutes, and it was a section on like those logic problems where it's like if Anna has apples and like one of those things where you gotta like sort everything out.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I spent the entire test doing just that section because I enjoyed it so much and I wanted it to be perfect that I didn't even get to like the math and English sections.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: And at the end, all my friends were like, Wow, that was like a law I think I did well.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, not me, but I enjoyed it.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know, like philosophy, just like the problem-solving aspect.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: I've also was one of those kids who's like bossy my whole life and argumentative.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: So my parents are always like, You should be a lawyer, which was usually like maybe supposed to be condescending, but I took that to heart.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: Who's your favorite philosopher?
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, okay.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: I wish that I had a favorite philosopher because then I could answer this question when people ask it.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: But someone made me laugh in my philosophy class the other day.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, I don't know why people are always asking philosophy majors what's their favorite philosopher.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I never walk up to a science major and say, Who's your favorite scientist?
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: I guess recently I've been reading like Beauvoir for one of my classes, and I read Camus last year.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess I like them, but I don't know that I really have a favorite.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: They're all just like old people.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I guess that's a that's a good point.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_01: If your classes aren't about specific philosophers, then what do you do in a philosophy major?
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what do you mean?
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like when we're not talking about specific philosophers, what are we doing?
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, do you talk about specific philosophers?
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: To some like yes, mostly, but there are some classes like ethics.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't necessarily talk a bunch about philosophers, like Kant up here because like Kantian ethics is a big thing, like a few here and there names, but for the most part, it was like a lot of times we mainly study like philosophers' philosophies, but not necessarily their names sometimes.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it really depends on the class and the teacher, but things like logic classes, I would think I haven't taken it.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: You can ask Sarah Mount.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, probably not as much name-dropping of philosophers.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, so going back to your hometown a little bit, what do you miss the most about Northern Virginia or Oakden?
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: I miss the food.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: And if my family sees this, they're gonna laugh because I didn't say them, but they're gonna know that this is true because um every single time I'm like, well, dining hall food last year was just extra painful for everyone, I'm sure, because no one wants to eat dining hall food that much.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: But I miss like the variety of options.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like Nova's a pretty diverse area, like there's a lot of different like cultures, so I don't know.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: I just miss, and it's just also like a bigger area, it's closer to a city.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: There's just more options all the time.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: I miss food options.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, is there anything else you miss about being near DC?
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, honestly, I didn't visit DC very much, except that like every year, every single um, if we ever went on a field trip, you know, if you live that close to DC, every field trip is to DC.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: But no disrespect.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: I miss the cherry blossoms though.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: I went with my mom over spring break last year because they happen to fall like perfectly during our spring break, which was so fun.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I really miss the fall colors there.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: We that's like one of the biggest things I actually miss about um Northern Virginia is that we don't really get fall as much down here.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: So I feel like a lot of people in Wesley probably know you for your humor.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: I think you're very funny.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, where did that come from?
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, well, I'm glad y'all think I'm funny.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't know where that came from.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: I a quote from my high school friend was that Teresa's not funny, she's just mean, and everyone doesn't realize that she's not joking, which is funny and a little offensive, I guess.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: But um, if we're talking about meanness that's a little bit humorous, that probably comes from my mom.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: She's also kind of like they used to call her mean Maria, that's her first name, because she's like a little bit, I guess, sassy, not really sassy, but like I don't know the word I'm looking for.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like she's kind of blunt, I guess.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: And my dad is always calling me snarky, and I definitely get it from him, so I don't know why he's always calling me that because it runs in the family a little bit.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: But my siblings are also funny.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm not the funny one of my family at all.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: My siblings are a lot funnier.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: So growing up you had some unique pets, right?
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I had two pet rats, which I don't think pet rats should be unique.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: I think everyone should have pet rats.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: I know it sounds gross, and this is a podcast.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: We can't show you a picture, but most people they're like, ew, pet rats.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: But then when you show them a picture, like when I show them a picture of my pet rats, they're like 50% of the time, at least people are like, oh my gosh, they're so cute! Like, I love rats.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: And my family was so scared when I was 16 years old, and I just decided like we had just lost our family dog, and I just was like, you know, missing having a pet.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I I don't know where I came across rats, to be honest.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even know where this came from.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: But for like months I begged them, like, please, can we get pet rats?
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, no, like that's literally disgusting.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: But they finally caved, I guess.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why I wasn't expecting it, but they did, and we got rats, and when they died about a year ago, my both rats were um dead.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: My family was like, I swear they miss them more than me.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like, they really miss them because we all love those rats.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: My friends were like, Teresa, if you get rats, we're not visiting your house anymore.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: But they love them too.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know, they grow on everyone.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, not to sound like creepy, but like rats are cool.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: They're so cool.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm actually gonna do a speech in my public speaking class about rat ownership next week.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: Can you like play with them?
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Rats are like incredibly smart and playful, like they're very adventurous.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I would like let them run around my room and they would like climb through all my pillows.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: And I put I have this bed that had like four posts on each corner, and I used to put like a canopy of a fitted sheet over it, and you could put the rats on top of the fitted sheet and sit under it and watch their little feet crawl above you, and it's like the cutest thing.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: And so I I um know that you're pretty big into gymnastics.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: You did club gymnastics here at Clemson.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, when did you start doing gymnastics?
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um well, when I was a kid, my parents signed me up for like little toddler gymnastics classes at like the little gym, and I had my cute little tutour or whatever, and that lasted like a few years, but then I played soccer because everyone in my family plays soccer, but I really was not very good at soccer, like at all.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty okay at soccer now, but as a kid, I was not into it.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: And my cousin did gymnastics, and I really looked up to her because she was my only like girl cousin, and I was like, I want to do that so bad.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: And my parents knew that it was because I looked up to her and they were like, You're not gonna stick with it, like I don't know.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: They they weren't convinced that I really wanted to do gymnastics, but then I kept asking and they were like, okay.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: And then from then on out I just did gymnastics.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's been like 10 plus years since then when I like was actually doing gymnastics.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: Did you like doing gymnastics here at Clemson?
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: I know club sports can be pretty intense sometimes.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I didn't love club gymnastics here, but I'm glad I did it because I don't know, now I can say like I did gymnastics at pretty much all stages of my life, like as far as most gymnasts get.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um it's not really a sport for it's weird to say old, but like not, you know, really like young people.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: But I don't know.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: I did high school, I've now done college, I did club gymnastics like at a private place at home.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: I did the little gym when I was a little toddler, so I don't know.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I've had most of the gymnastics experiences I could have.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: So I know you were also a a cheerleader in high school, which seems a little off-brand to me with uh what I know about you so far.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: So um, did you do cheerleading because you liked the gymnastics part of it, or did you also like the cheer part?
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's definitely my off-brand trait.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: I initially joined because my freshman year of high school I didn't do any sports, I just did um like chorus, but I was like, I'm kind of bored, I need more activities.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: But they do gymnastics in the fall and then um sorry, cheerleading in the fall and gymnastics in the winter.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I was there was gonna be a season where I was doing nothing.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, you know what, I'll just sign up for cheerleading because it's close enough.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know, it'll be fine.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I initially did it because I wanted to just tumble and like be cool or whatever and amaze all the cheerleaders, but I really love the cheerleading part of cheerleading, like not not not so much like the spiriting like sideline stuff.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: I really wasn't into that, but I love stunting.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I actually really miss stunting.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: I almost even like tried out for the cheer team here just because I really miss stunting.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's really cool.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: I was never like the person in the air, obviously, but like it was like cool to like feel strong and like lift other people up to do like cool tricks.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: The athleticism of cheerleading is like underrated coming from a gymnast.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's also really dangerous too, right?
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, this one time the girl who is my flyer, you're not supposed to have long nails in cheerleading because like obviously you're gonna scratch people, but this one girl like wouldn't listen to us and we gave like multiple reminders, people like, hey, like remember to take off your big old acrylic nails before competition.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: But she like didn't or she forgot, I don't really know, but she had enough times to figure it out.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: But anyways, we're stunting, like doing a whole routine one time, and in the middle of it, she came down from a stunt and her nail scratched my neck, and I could like feel it and it hurt really bad.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: But I was like, Oh, we in the middle of a routine, I gotta keep going.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: We get through the like the whole routine, and everyone's like, Oh my gosh, Teresa, you're dying, you're dying.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: But I don't know, she just got me in like my neck and it was just like bleeding.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: I guess a lot.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, she must have hit a vein or something, but it was going crazy and everyone was freaking out, and then they were yelling at her.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: They were like, This is why you don't I don't know.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: It was really chaotic for no reason.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: I was completely fine.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm glad you were fine.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: This past summer you worked at a camp, right?
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: And it's uh a little unique because unlike most Wesley people, it was not as fairy.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: What camp did you work at?
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I worked at Camp Crisland.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's a camp in central Pennsylvania, and it's where my mom went as a kid and her siblings went as a kid, back in the good old days and where I went uh to camp as a kid.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I like pretty much like uh I don't know how old I was the first time I went there.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: Probably like 11 years old when I first went, and I went every single year except the COVID year until I worked for two summers, and then this is probably my last year.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a little bittersweet, but I don't know.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's a cool place and it has my heart.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: I love that place.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: Do you like working with kids?
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: I really like working with kids.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's something that I want like so initially I was a babysitter, so I worked with a lot of really little kids, and I liked that, but I wasn't totally like set on it.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: But then when I worked at camp for the first time, not this past summer, but the summer before that, I was hired to work with the youngest group of campers, but then last minute they switched me to middle school, and I was like a little nervous because middle schoolers get a bad rap.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: But I actually really loved working with like middle to older um kids.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know, they're very smart and interesting, but they still have like the goofiness and fun and like adventure of kids.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I really enjoyed that.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: And my plan, I don't know what career I'm going into.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mentioned like maybe law, maybe education, but whatever I do, I know that I want to work with kids.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: So, what brought you to Wesley?
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Sara Mount.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um I grew up Catholic, so I like went to church stuff, but I wasn't super involved.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then camp is mostly what like I felt more connected to as a Christian.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that's where I learned a lot of stuff and I met other Christians and like fellowship at camp was like a big part of my journey to coming here.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I knew Sarah was coming here, but I was a little like not really sure about it.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't planning on joining any campus ministry or really anything related to Christianity in college, but Sarah was going to get free pop schools outside of core last year, like as a tabling event they were doing, and I was like, heck yeah, I want a pop school.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I went with her and turns out they were out of pop schools, so devastating.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: But when we got there, um, like people were still at the event, and I remember meeting a bunch of like Wesley people and thinking that they reminded me of camp.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, I think I should give them a try.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like, this feels like like home to me.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know, I felt very connected to the people that I met that first time.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so here at Wesley, you are our local missions director.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um, what led you to want to lead our local missions?
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I didn't do a ton of the local mission stuff last year, which I wish that I had, but I went to the beginning of the Habitat House and I went to foster care night, which was really fun for me because again, I like working with kids, and I thought that that was a really cool um like volunteering event that uh Nicole came up with, but I just thought that it would like we so many people showed up for that foster care event that I was like, dang, like people in Wesley really want to help.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like we could do more events.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, I just felt like I could be good at it because it's a lot of organization, which is something I'm pretty good at.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know, I think that Wesley like like we should volunteer and help others, like that's an important part of um living like Jesus.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, so unfortunately I'm a little uh behind on this episode, so I I think it will already have happened by the time I get this episode uploaded.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: But you have a upcoming uh service event, right?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, this weekend.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: Well, let's see, what day is it?
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's Wednesday.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: It might be too late to register, and it certainly will be well by the time this comes out, but we're not me.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: I unfortunately have to work.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm really upset about it.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: But a bunch of people, hopefully, are volunteering at Camp Spearhead to uh help like facilitate their movie night event, movie day event, which will be cool.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: And then on October 21st, which is right before homecoming, we're doing our annual Habitat House Night Guarding.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: So please sign up.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be really fun, and it's something we do every year, and people have told me like how much they liked it in years past.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I have some high motivation to hopefully make this really fun, and I hope that it is.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: So I think it will be fun to like, even though we can't be in the house, but to like camp out in tents under the stars on Bowman, like it sounds like oh, I don't like to camp, but I think it'll actually be really sweet.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like, not a lot of people get the chance to like sit under the stars at their university and like just hang out with a bunch of their friends and volunteer while doing that.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's a cool time.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's a great Wesley tradition.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have any other ideas of things you want to do with local missions this year?
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um Megan Brown's mom, well, Megan Brown told me about about her mom runs a nonprofit called um All for the Kids, and they have like a program where they like underserve kids to get Christmas presents and stuff like that.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: So I've been emailing and calling with um Miss Brown to talk about that.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: So that's in the works.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then also I need to get back to Cameron Boyce about this actually, but she's part of the period project at Clemson, and we did that last year, which is actually an event I did go to.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: I forgot to mention that, but I thought that was really cool and fun.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um so we're gonna hopefully do that again too.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: So aside from mission work, what's been your favorite thing that you've gotten to do with Wesley so far?
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um hmm.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: My favorite thing.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't get to go to fall retreat last year, and I can't go this year again because my job, but I did go to winter retreat and I really liked that.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: It was out of camp, so I was already like, this is fun because I I'm I love camp.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, not my camp, but still.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um that was really cool.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't freshman year is hard, like you're already in a new place and meeting a bunch of people who already all knew each other.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like as much as we do for like outreach and stuff, it's still obviously hard to like come in as a new freshman.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: So it was a good opportunity for me to meet people.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: I really felt like that was one of the first times that I felt like I truly met people on my own because me and Sarah being roommates, like we got to split up and do our own thing for fall or for winter retreat, and so we both got to make like our own connections.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: I think it was good for that was that was good for me.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: I enjoyed that.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: So, what is this job that keeps preventing you from doing wrestling activities?
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: I work for Clemson Seacats.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure a lot of you have heard that before because it's always my excuse, like, oh, I can't go have Cats, and I swear it's not made up, it's a real thing.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um but it's called Clemson's Challenge for Academically Talented Students.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're from North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia, you might know about it because it's kids from those states, and they come to Clemson for the weekend at a camp nearby, and then we come take a tour of campus, but basically it's to recruit um high achieving middle and high schoolers from the surrounding states.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: So, what do you do for that program?
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: Basically, I'm just camp counselor for the weekend again, which is really fun.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: I get to facilitate adventure activities like a climbing wall, a leap of faith, um, stuff like that, and then we play silly games.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's just really fun.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: I love to bring like the fun and excitement of Clemson to young kids.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's like all of my fun things around here combined.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: So, Teresa, do you have any questions for me?
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, well, who's your favorite scientist?
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: Who is my favorite scientist?
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: I think it probably has to be uh Charles Towns.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: So he was a professor at um Columbia University in New York, um, who invented the Mazer, which is kind of the like proto version of a laser.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but notably he is from Greenville, South Carolina, um, and grew up here and went to Furman University.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and of course, my whole life slash job, whatever, is lasers and stuff now.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um he won a Nobel Prize for it.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um I have his patent on the wall over there.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: So dang, I feel like I should have thought out my philosopher answer better now.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: That's really good.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: The lab I work in is named after him.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's cool.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: He's on the top of my head, I guess.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: Easy to think about.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: Anything else you want to talk about?
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's pretty much it.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Sign up for the Habitat House.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: If it hasn't happened before this, I'm really hyped for it, and I hope you are too.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be fun.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: So if anyone listening to this really wants to be your friend, how can they find you?
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: Show up to the Habitat House.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just kidding.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm at most Wesley events.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I'm worried that I come off as like scary.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: I know I got like a resting face that's not like as smiley as some people, but I like to think I'm pretty like, for the most part, friendly, like not too crazy scary, but I don't know.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: I would love to meet some new people.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone I've met thus far at Wesley is awesome.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
• 23:34
  unknown: Great.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Teresa, for joining me.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for having me.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: The Wesley Word is a production of the Clemson Wesley Foundation.
• 23:41
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• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: Until next time, get out there and love your neighbor.