My first week of classes is almost over. And my Spanish book still has not arrived >.<
But anyway, it's been a good week. I think I'm going to have some good classes. I'm taking Intro to Financial Accounting, Intro to Statistics, Elementary Linear Algebra (which apparently isn't going to be very elementary - I call false advertising), Spanish level 5 and orchestra. So, basically 3 math courses, a language and music. Perfect for me :D
And I'm really excited for the music we're playing forthe Halloween concert. For this concert, we all dress up in costumes and so do the little kids that come to the concert and they get to have a costume parade during some of our songs. It's a lot of fun :] I still need to think of a costume though. But anyway, we're playing:
+Jupiter from Holst's Planets Suite (one of my favourite classical pieces - you should go look it up)
+the March from Superman
+Adventures on Earth from E.T. (which I still haven't seen that movie, though Andy told us a funny story - apparently when he saw it as a kid the cops making a barricade had all these large machine guns and when they re-released it recently they all suddenly had these really big walkie talkies)
+Some music from Up (basically when the house takes off and then some other parts - it's like a medley)
So yeah, some fun music. E.T. and Jupiter are kinda hard, but we have till the 30th of October. I'm excited :D
Last night was the first night of badminton and I definitely haven't played since May. Oh well, it was nice to get playing again. I'd forgotten how bloody hot it gets in there O.o Although, apparently they were closed for like a week and a half over the summer because it was too hot outside. I think they're still in a heat advisory now.
And I'm the oficial Treasurer now. We held elections in December so that the new officers could learn from the current ones, and then Vina (las year's treasurer) tore her ACL so she stopped coming quite as often (understandably) and I kinda took over for her then. But she still had to be the one to sign all the forms and stuff.
Speaking of ACLs, I swear that there's something in the West Lafayette air that makes people's ACLs turn to paper. Apparently now Rob Henry (our starting quarterback) tore his now too. I swore rather loudly when I read the link my dad sent me - good thing no one else was in the house :] He's joining quite the club though - Robert Marve (last year's starter) tore his last year along with Keith Smith (really good wide reciever, I still can't believe the NCAA didn't give him an extra year of eligibility - he only played like a game and a half last season!), Robbie Hummel (really good basketball player who actually tore his twice - once in the 2009-2010 season and then again in the first practice for last season) and a few others, including a running back, a women's volleyball and a women's basketball player.
There was an article in The Exponent (Purdue student paper) about it today - this is the fourth time the football team has had an injury in 2 seasons. Maybe it's the athletes' special food court...
But that's enough complaining from Carly. Back to last night, I parked in the wrong parking lot (there's the one that's right next to the TREC and one that's a few minutes' walk) and there's only one path going back and forth. Well, as I was leaving badminton last night, there was a skunk on the path. I saw it early enough that I didn't get too close, but it's a small path so I could really walk around it. After somewhere between 5 and 7 minutes, it finally found a way to dig under the fence it was trying to get through and I was able to pass. What was really good though, was my timing regarding the weather. As I was leaving orchestra, it was a really nice day. Then, walking into the TREC, I heard thunder. About 10 minutes after I got inside the TREC, I saw that the sky was rather green outside and the thunder was getting louder. Suddenly, there was a tremendous crack of thunder and it started raining - and I mean raining. It was loud - apparently there were bits of hail at one point (though the rain might have just been falling that hard). I stayed until about 10.30 or so, and when I was walking back the storm had moved on - it wasn't raining anymore - but there were still constant lightning flashes to the south. Pretty much perfect timing :]
Then, when I got back to Aldersgate, Seth asked whether I had anything in the freezer - apparently there was a bunch of cookie dough and mozerella sticks in one of the freezers downstairs. I said they weren't mine, but I'd take them if they weren't anyone else's :] It turned out that they weren't anyone else's, so Seth and I had a midnight snack :D There's a reason I scheduled my classes so that I wouldn't have any early classes on Thursdays - I start at 10.30 :]
Today I turned in a job application at the Tippecanoe County Public Library - pretty much the perfect job for me :] I really hope it works out.
Thinking of books, I'm really excited for November to come. In 2003, this book called Eragon came out. I really don't remember how I first heard about it, but I really liked it. then the sequel, Eldest, came out in 2005. In the Author's Note at the back of that book, Christopher Paolini said that the next book would be the last book - it's a trilogy. So, when Brisingr came out in 2008 I was really excited to finish it. However, as I got closer and closer to the end, I was really starting to wonder how it was going to end - I was running out of pages and something near a miracle was going to be needed to wrap the story up. Then I got to the end and it said that the fourth would be the final book.
So now I'm rereading the books - I made the mistake of not rereading them before reading Brisingr and I was confused for a lot of the book and wound up having to go back to the others to look things up. But yes, now that I'm rereading them I can't wait for the final one :D I only brought Eragon with me, thinking I could ask my parents to bring Eldest at Parent's weekend (where we're playing SE Missouri State, which is actually where my cousin Melissa went to school :D ) and then I could get Brisingr at fall break. Well, I didn't account for the fact that, coupled with how fast I read, I wouldn't really have any homework or anything to do (my first assignments were assigned either yesterday or today) so I finished the book. I debated whether I could wait till parent's weekend to read Eldest, and so yesterday I went to the West Lafayette library to check it out :D (Before you start thinking that parent's weekend is really far and therefore my decision makes so much sense, my mom is going to come down the 16th, which is a Friday, to play badminton with me and then my dad and brother are going to join us for the game on the next day - the 17th. Three weeks. I could survive, but I'm chosing not to ;D )
After the library, I had to get some tupperware and carrots so I can have my refried bean tacos, so I went up to Marsh (grocery store). I went in planning to get tupperware, carrots and sour cream. I walked out with what I planned, as well as some pop tarts, Halloween cake mix (I'm planning ahead :] ), Batman and Scooby-Doo fruit snacks (yay for being 19 year old and being sad because the Disney fruit snacks aren't on sale, and so setttling for the Batman and Scooby-Doo ones :D ) and a Tangled colouring book (I was walking down the plates and napkins aisle looking for tupperware when I saw it. Getting the colored pencils when I was at Target with my mom was definitely a good decision :D ). I know I'll eat it all and it was all on sale :]
Tonight is our first house dinner - we have a house gathering once a week to talk and bond, rotating who cooks for everyone and who does devotion. Tomorrow is badminton again, and then Saturday I'm going over to the Robynes' (Pastor Glen and Pastor Lana) for breakfast and a hike or bike ride with Wesley people. That should be fun - they live west of campus near a creek. I think that'll be the farthest west of campus that I've ever gone - normally I'm on camous or east of it.
Peace.
-Carly B
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