It would seem that I’ve been greatly neglecting my blog. 😦 Terribly sorry about that. Let’s try to get you caught up…
On December 16, I woke up early to make it to my my IHON final at 8. Although we weren’t actually taking a final, my professor was required to have a finals time, so we turned in an evaluation survey, talked about the course a bit, and then left. At 1 that afternoon I had my Brit. Lit. final. For that we had to write one outside essay and two in-class essays. The outisde one asked us to come up with our own course title and explain how the authors we fit in would fit into that theme. For the in-class essays, we had 8 choices total, 4 from each modernism and post-modernism, and had to choose 2 (one from each period) to write on.
December 17th was my French final. This final was cumulative with an oral section, primarily fill-in-the-blanks, and a few where you were given two possibilities and you had to choose the right one. Mom decided that, because there was so much snow, she would pick me up that night instead of the next morning, like we had planned. The roads were pretty clear that evening and we were expecting a big storm over night, so we decided not to chance it. On the way back, we decided to stop by the Supermall for dinner and a movie. 🙂 We saw The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (which mom kept mistakingly calling The Boy in the Silk Pajamas), which is about the son of a Nazi soldier who, while exploring the area around his house, comes across a concentration camp and befriends one of the Jewish boys. Like all Holocaust movies, it was very sad but also very good.
December 19th I had been planning on hanging out with my friend Elaine, but, since there was so much snow, her parents didn’t want her to drive. Sarah, however, had been home all week, and was tired of sitting around, so she braved the snow and came over and watched Get Smart. It was quite amusing. I especially liked the line “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” “I don’t know. Were you thinking ‘Holy $*#%! Holy $*#%! A swordfish almost went through my head?’ If so, then yes.” lol
December 23rd a bunch of my friends and I got together for our annual Christmas party/gift exchange. This year we decided to do gifts white elephant style, just getting one and having each person select a present in turn. Strangely, no one stole anyone else’s. lol I ended up getting Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots! Tee hee. 😛 I had played as a kid, but it really is quite fun. 😛 Tee hee. Sarah got World Monopoly, where each of the properties are cities around the world and you have credit cards instead of the normal monopoly money. It was nice to see everyone again and play games together. 🙂
Christmas this year was, for I believe the first time in my life, not at my grandparents’ cabin on Lake Roesiger! 😦 Because there was so much snow everywhere, and even more by the cabin, we decided it would be safer if we had Christmas at my grandparents’ house instead. Mom, Dad, and I opened our presents from eachother at home Christmas morning, had ebelskivers for breakfast (yay!), then headed up. Instead of having the typical massive heap of presents we normally have, my grandma decided to get a Wii for the cabin and have everyone contribute games for it. We still had a few presents to distribute to each person (especially to my younger cousins), though. My cousin Caleb didn’t really seem very excited about the idea of sharing the Wii controller with anyone else, so luckily someone got a second controller. Caleb, like many children, isn’t very good at being still and, because Wii controllers are very sensitive to movement, he seemed to be having some trouble with the games. It was fun, though. I haven’t played since August when I visited Marie and Nick in Michigan. Christmas dinner was our traditional Scandinavian dinner… Swedish meetballs, potato sausage, mashed potatos, lingonberries, beans, and, my favorite, the jello. 🙂 It’s really good. The top and bottom layers are jello with fruit mixed in, and the middle layer is sour cream. Mmmm Yummy. ^_^
Sarah’s birthday was December 27, so we all went to the ice sking rink for a couple hours. It was fun. 🙂 We were playing a poking game, though, passing a poke on to someone else when we came up to them. It made me fall twice, though… 😦 Oh well. The first time, Roxanne was trying to dodge my poke, but just as I poked her on the elbow, I ended up falling. The second time I fell was in poking Adrienne. After skating, we went back to Sarah’s house, worked on her puzzle for a bit as she opened presents, and played the new Cranium, which she got for her birthday. It has new pieces a bunch of new cards, so that was exciting. After I got home, Mom, Dad, and I went to see one of the other movies on our long list of movies to see: Slumdog Millionaire. Now, when I first heard about the movie, I was kind of confused as to why my mother would want to see a movie with that title. But it had outstanding reviews, so off we went. I really had no idea what to expect from it, but it was really good. It’s about the life of a boy, his brother, and a girl they befriend as they move from the slums of India they grew up in to adulthood, where the main character ends up on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The movie jumps between the present and the past, showing how various important events in his past led to his knowledge of the specific questions he was asked.
Yesterday, December 28, Mom, Sarah, and I went to see The Color Purple at the Paramount. It was amazing. Sometimes touring casts can be a little underwhelming, but this cast was great. Even with 3 understudies performing! The Sound of Music was on last night, too. 🙂 High On A Hill Stood A Lonely Goatherd has always been a family favorite. 😛 Tee hee. I also finished the fist CD of Rosetta Stone Italian, but the second one is at school, so I guess I’ll have to wait until I get back… 😦
Tonight I’m excited because Matt Varelia (Curly in Oklahoma this summer) and I are going to New Voices, which is a concert held a few times a year where local talent sing songs from new musicals. We went to it in August, too, so hopefully we’ll make a tradition out of it. 🙂 (As long as he’s not back in Boston when the show is).
Well, I think that’s about everything interesting that’s happened here. Might be missing a few things… <shrugs>
The show was good. The sound was much better this time. 🙂 (This was the 6th New Voices show, and the last one (which was the 1st I went to) did not have good sound…)
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