Happy Friday :D This week's been a pretty good week.
Tuesdays are the other night that Wesley operates - they have bible studies and devotion and communion. Last Tuesday, they also had the Winterization crew callout.
Winterization is a huge service project that Wesley organizes and it's where about 500 volunteers from all over campus go to homes of the elderly in the Greater Lafayette area and help the owners 'Winterize' their houses - basically it's a lot of raking and cleaning windows. I volunteered last year, and this year I'm going to help set it up - either mapping out the homes volunteers are being sent to and/or registering everyone when they show up that morning.
After that meeting was the bible study I'm doing - Disciple. It's a 3 semester bible study - I'm excited. We took a break halfway through to sing some songs with everyone else (all the other bible studies start at 8) and it was back to Disciple. After everyone was done, we all gathered again to sing some more and hear a devotion.
The Wesley building has some appartments that people can live in, and one of the residents is Mario. It was his birthday on Tuesday, so he did a birthday devotion and we all took communion. It was all pretty fun, albeit busy. My Tuesday evenings are going to be spent entirely at Wesley from 6-10 until Winterization, then it'll just be 7-10 :] I'm excited for it though - should be lots of fun.
Then we had a short orchestra rehersal on Wednesday - an area orchestra needed the band room to have their rehersal - so Kappa Kappa Psi (a band and orchestra co-op service fraternity) had a cookout for whoever wanted food. It was Andy's (our conductor) birthday, so we all sang to him then. The look on his face was hilarious when we started - just a look of 'there they go' resignation.
Thinking of KKΨ, I wanted to rush last year but wasn't sure if it was band and orchestra or just band. While talking with some of the brothers on Wednesday, they said that orchestra was accepted too - and they seemed like they kinda wanted some orchestra members instead of all band geeks - so I think I might rush this year. We'll see what happens come January.
And now thinking of bands, it's been in the upper 90s all this week - and the marching band has gone out and practiced every day on their asphalt practice field. I commend them - it's really bloody hot. What's even better, my room has no AC - my fan hasn't been turned off since Wednesday morning. The nice thing is it's pointed right at me when I'm sitting at my desk, so that's good. The unfortunate thing is that means it's not pointed at me when I'm sleeping so I have a minor heatstroke when I'm in bed. And if you were wondering what the title means, October is my favorite month and fall is my favorite season for many reasons, but the foremost right now is that I would love it if it were 20-30 degrees cooler and stayed that way until winter.
Pastor Glen and I had planned to go on a bike ride yesterday, but it was really warm (for the house dinner, five of us had some sort of sleeveless shirt on and Ben was joking about calling Domestic Services claiming that we were being abused because we didn't have any AC) and he had things to do, so it was postponed till tomorrow morning. Then other people wanted to join or hike, so we turned it into an Alternative Breakfast Club (I'll explain the term in a moment) like the adventure we had last week. I'm excited :]
Ok, Breakfast Club is a tradition we have at Purdue. Basically, everyone who's 21 gets dressed up in some sort of costume (anything from Coach Hope to the rival coach to Bert and Ernie to a Care Bear) and go to the bars before the game. And by before, I mean they're there by 7 or so in order to have enough time to drink before the game (which is at noon). And then most of them go to the game (still hammered) so that makes the student section an interesting place to be :D I'm just excited for the football season to start up - our first game is tomorrow!
Boiler Up!
-Carly B
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