Today, I woke up a little after 9 to a call from Elaine. 🙂 She was calling to tell me she was on her way over to PLU to spend the day with me. Yay! We mostly listened to music and talked about life at our respective colleges. It was so good to see her again. 😀 We decided to go see Alicia, too, and found her walking back from the bookstore. She was so excited and surprised to see Elaine! lol She’s so cute. 😛 For lunch, we went to the Pita Pit (Yummy!!) and then to Chopsticks to get bubble tea, since Alicia had never had it before. A while later, Alex came by to get something from me, so we decided to just go with him down to Pfleuger (his dorm). …More talking/music/laughing/etc…. Elaine left at around 5:30 and then I went back to Pfleuger for dinner. 🙂 Alex made fettuccine alfredo with tomatoes and broccoli and cheesecake (which we had made very late the night before…lol) with huckleberry jam. It was delicious. 🙂 Well… the broccoli in the alfredo sauce had some issues… but the rest was fantastic. 😀 After dinner, I washed the dishes, and then we played Killer Bunnies, a rather complicated card game that my friends seem kind of obsessed with. The first game wasn’t so great for me… but the second one was fun. lol. By strategic playing of cards, it ended up being me and the two guys (Alex and Chad, his RA) versus Desta and Lisa. My team had ALL the good cards, so it was fun for me… not so fun for Desta and Lisa. lol Afterwords, Desta and I went back up to my room and talked and listened to music for the rest of the night. It was definitely a fun, exciting day. 😀
It’s sunny! No, it’s raining… No, it’s snowing… No, it’s hailing… February 9, 2009
Seriously! What was with the weather today?! We didn’t actually get snow last night/this morning, like some other places in Washington did, but there were some flakes later this afternoon.
The boy in my French class wasn’t in class today… 😦 I hope he hasn’t dropped the class. That would be sad. There were only 8 of us in class today. I don’t remember how many were absent, but I wonder if some of them might have dropped the class…. I guess I’ll find out soon.
IHON today was…ok I guess. There’s a girl who sits in the back row who likes to talk a lot. I really hate that I often end up just sitting there in class listening to everyone else talk, but it’s hard when people dominate the conversation or you don’t know what to say. And it’s especially bad because our reading was about the Enlightenment and Kant was talking about how people need to think for themselves and not let other people control what they say or how they live their lives. I don’t really feel like I’m doing that, but at the same time, I’m not really contributing to the class… 😦
Today was my first day of Writing 101. It seemed ok… I don’t know, we didn’t do much. There are only 16 or so people in the class, and 4 boys. The topic is Gender and Globalization, but it’s really mostly about women. Yup. For homework I’m supposed to write 3-4 pages about my first memories of learning how to write. Unfortunately, I really don’t remember learning how to write, but I do remember having to write each day in Mrs. Parry’s class in first grade, so I think I’m going to write about that. Hopefully it will be long enough… 
Today was also our first day back in choir after about 2 months. Everyone was so excited! It was kind of crazy. But nice. I absolutely love getting new music, so not only was I excited to be in choir again, but also to get all our new music for our tour in April. Yay! There’s also a new guy in our choir, Derek, who was in India for Fall semester and has been leading Swing Club!
Oh! I finally met the girl who moved in next door yesterday. My friend Alex (cooking boy, also in choir with me) stopped by to say hi and talk a bit and I mentioned that I hadn’t met her yet and, since they’re friends, he took my hand and dragged me in there and introduced me. lol She seems really nice and fun. She’s also dating another guy who’s in choir with me and who stands next to me in our mixed formation.
Food, glorious food! February 8, 2009
So, before I start on today’s adventures, I should probably share some stuff from the past few days, since I’ve been a bad bogger and have forgotten to post. Sorry about that…
Thursday was the first day of classes for Spring Semester and, since I only have P.E. and choir on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and my choir director was out of town for family reasons, I only had one class. I don’t really know what to say about the class… I mean, it’s a P.E. class. Eww. I am greatly displeased that we have to take it. I was perfectly fine with accepting that I had to take 4 P.E. classes when I believed that they could all be dance or yoga classes. But no, we all have to take P.E. 100 (Personal Fitness… normal gym class + learning about health/fitness stuff).
Friday I had my French class first, then IHON, and also my voice lesson. French was…ok. Towards the end of Fall Semester I began to realize that I don’t love French as much as I would hope that I would, partially because Italian is so much prettier, partially because I feel like I should know/remember more than I do and get frustrated when I don’t know how to say things. Anyway, Friday I was feeling ok about French… kinda indifferent. There are about the same number of people in my class this semester as there were in the fall. But! There’s a boy! It’s very exciting. lol. Lucky him… 1 boy, 15 or so girls… Anyway… we just went over the syllabus, asked eachother some get-to-know-you type questions, and then watched a French music video on YouTube. After French, I have a 2 hour break, so I got some food and then went back to my room and started on homework because I couldn’t think of anything else to do… My IHON class….hmm. My teacher is a very, very, very tall man. His hands seem to be about the size of plates…. And his head seemed too small for his body, but that might just be because his jacket had shoulder pads in…. I don’t know. I definitely don’t feel as excited about his teaching as I did Dr. Ihssen’s (who, as it turns out, teaches in the same room right before my class). He didn’t really seem that “fun” and didn’t really get me excited about coming to the class… 😦 There are several people I know/like in the class, though… Alicia, one of the two other people from Kentwood, is in it, as is Jordan Beck, who graciously played one of the roles in our Old Testament movie (and was BRILLIANT!), one of my roommate’s good friends, a guy from choir who’s friends with some of my friends, and some people from my IHON class Fall Semester. My voice lesson went well, but it was mostly just warming up my voice and then picking out music. 🙂 I have a song in Italian (YAY!), one in French, and one in English. I’ve only been able to find one of the songs so far, though, so I’ll probably have to ask her to make copies of the other pieces for me…
Yesterday (Friday still), all of the highschoolers who were given the President’s scholarship were here trying to go for the Regent’s scholarship (full tuition for 3 years, I believe?). One of the people here was Erin, one of my good friends who I’ve known since elementary school. Because they had their interviews this morning, they spent the night, so Erin stayed in my room, and my roommate actually ended up hosting a student as well, so we had two prospective students in our room! That night, I met up with Erin after she had a dinner with verious speakerst talking about the scholarship and PLU and brought her stuff up to the room. Then I showed her around a bit and we went over to the music building because COW (Choir of the West) was having a concert. It was very good. Some of their songs were rather odd, but good. After that we went over to Ordal and played Apples to Apples and Mafia with some of my rommate’s friends and their prospective students. It was fun. We had to go to bed rather early by our standards, though, since the president’s scholars had to wake up at around 6:45 to be ready for the next day’s plans. Eww…
So today (Saturday), I woke up early (because of the above reasons), but then went back to sleep after they left. Yay sleep! After that I got some food, did some homework, and watched figure skating on the Canadian channel. Around the time that was over, my friend Alex called and we headed over to Albertsons to buy Honey Crisp apples, then headed back to his dorm and started cooking. Every Saturday, he makes food for his friends for dinner (they pay him for it, but Saturday is the only night we don’t have all-you-can-eat dinner at the UC), but tonight was the first time I came. And, since I’m not so skilled in the kitchen, I decided to help so that I could learn to actually make something. Tonight’s dinner was spaghetti and meatballs (which didn’t really need much preparing, since they had that last week, too) and we decided to make apple pie, too. It was delicious. 🙂 I think there were 14 of us having the dinner tonight, which is rather a lot… But yeah. It was was fun. And delicious. Afterwords, some of us decided to go watch a movie. None of us really knew what to watch, but we finally decided on Catch Me If You Can, which I thought was good and rather interesting. I don’t think it’s what I was really in the mood for, but it was a good movie… After it was over, we went over to the UC for some food and talked some more… And somehow it went from being 10:50 to being past midnight… Don’t know how that happened…. But yeah. It was an exciting day. 🙂
Doubt February 4, 2009
After a very relaxing and restful break at home with parents and beagles, I had to return to school today in order to get ready for Spring Semester, which begins tomorrow. When I got back, my roommate and I went to lunch to catch up on how eachother’s breaks had been. For lunch, I had some sort of wrap… not really sure what it was… chicken with mixed greens, grapes, dried cranberries, feta, and nuts with some sort of dressing… It was really good. Especially since I had been planning on getting a chicken caesar wrap (my favorite), but they were serving the other wrap instead. This afternoon, my roommate, some friends, and I decided to go to see Doubt at The Grand, a small, independent, non-profit theater in Tacoma. The movie was really good. There were a lot of intricate themes and symbols in the movie that I think I would need to watch it again to catch entirely. I also liked that one of the guys we went with really likes discussing movies after watching them, so it was cool to hear everyone else’s opinions on the film, symbolism, etc. and to better understand some of the ideas I didn’t catch while watching the movie. Anyway… it’s really good. I would definitely recommend it. 🙂 (Mom- sorry I went to see it without you…. but… you’re in Hawaii eating fresh, delicious pineapple and riding horses on the beach, so we’re slightly more even now… 😛 ) After the movie, we went to this little hole-in-the-wall soup place that was just down the street. It was really good. I had a chowder of some sort… and tried many of the others. Delicious! 🙂 And home-made! And cheap! Yay!
Tomorrow is the first day of Spring Semester classes. My only classes on Thursdays are P.E. and choir. However, since my choir director has a funeral to attend, I only have P.E. tomorrow. 😦 I’m really not a fan of P.E….
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