"Summer, Summer, Summer Time" – Will Smith
School is out and summer break is finally here! Children have retreated from the hallways and classrooms to pools and parks. They’ve replaced textbooks for magazines and traded school lunch for better-tasting food at Macon’s favorite cafés. As a Camp Assistant for Residence Life at Mercer University and the new summer intern for College Hill Corridor, I have had the pleasure of staying in the company of summer school students at Mercer University. So what has everybody been doing these past couple of weeks? I went out around the Corridor to find out.
This past weekend there were many barbeques at Tattnall Park. Memorial Day weekend was full of food on the grill and enjoying the NBA playoffs for me (Go Celtics!). Some of my summer plans were to read the Hunger Games Trilogy and work on my tan. What better place in the Corridor to make that happen than Plunkett Pool at Mercer University? As I walked over to this popular summer spot, I found Kei’Shawn Tention, a 21-year-old computer engineering junior who chose to spend her summer taking classes and enjoying being away from home. If she isn’t studying for her summer courses, she’s working at the Macon Mall. Not much relaxing gets done throughout her week, so she decided to go for a swim during the long weekend holiday. I asked several others at the pool how they were going to relax this summer. The top three answers were waking up late, tanning, and hanging out with friends. Others were going to spend their time in the gym, playing sports and working out.
While some are going out of the city or state to enjoy a nice vacation, I’m making the most of my time here in Macon by exploring and experiencing new stores, parks, and restaurants. More of my summer plans include visiting Washington Park and tasting the great cuisine in Barefoot Tavern. Of course, my favorite mode of transportation around the Corridor is my cruiser bicycle. I call her Roxanne.
-Morgan Robinson
