-Leopold Kroenecker
The man that first started thinking about the concept of infinity, Cantor, met some major opposition in the form of his old mentor, Kroenecker. I enjoyed the quote :D
So on Wednesday the smoke alarm wen off at 2 in the morning. My intial response was 'oh it's nothing, someone's just cooking' and I went back to sleep. Which, in retrospect, is a terrible reaction to have to a smoke detector. Andrew knocked on my door saying that it was going off and I figured that I should probably get up... The house wasn't on fire, our best guess is that the next door neighbors had a fire and the smoke blew in.
I went to class and took a Spanish test, then got a bike to borrow from Pastor Glen on a semi-permanent basis - I need to get ready for Bikers For Jesus in August.
It was a beautiful day, so I ate my lunch outside. We also had our fellowship committee meeting outside. I'm excited - we're going to have a barn dance on the weekend after Easter, that'll be fun :D
After the meeting, I relaxed in a hammock, reading. That was nice, I want a hammock.
I've been working on trying to have good posture, so the result is that my back hurts a pretty good deal now O.o It'll be worth it though, I just hope it works.
Thursday I had class, then I needed to get groceries - much as I didn't want to get milk before spring break and let it sit. Then I had lunch with my big and grandbig :D We had a pretty good conversation about football - yay family :]
So since earlier this month I've been planning on going home this weekend, since I wouldn't be there over spring break, to surprise my family. As the week went on, I realised that this weekend wasn't the best time to go home because I had a lot to do, but I really really didn't care. I've gotten rather excited about going.
At the house dinner, we were mostly wondering where everyone was - you'd think we were a group that was involved or something.
After dinner, I went to play ultimate and was asking the same question - at first it was me and Dale, then five others came so we were able to play. And then I had to do homework O.o Yay procrastination...
Friday it was all rainy, so that was annoying after the great week we've had.
But then I was going home! I got there at about 4.30, and then Dad got home at 4.50 - he told me that Mom had badminton practice until 7 so I went there to see her.
Surprise :D It worked :]
We had Lou's (Dad and Ricky) or Uno's (me and Mom) pizza for dinner, and then watched most of The Dark Knight - that's a long movie, so we didn't get all the way through.
Saturday I woke up after Mom and Ricky left for their respective practices, so I spent the morning with Dad. Once practices were over, we all went to lunch and then to Verizon to change phones - we've disliked AT&T for a while now. We relaxed at home for a while.
The list of 'Classic Movies Carly's Never Seen' has been shortened once more - we watched The Godfather that night :]
Sunday I woke up and didn't want to leave... But we (well, me, Mom and Dad since Ricky has church all day on Sundays) had a yummy waffle breakfast :] While getting ready, I watched Mamma Mia with my mom :D
Then it was off to drive. I made some really good time, I made the 2.5+ hour drive in 2 hours and 5ish minutes :]
I went to church and had dinner, then helped clean up after.
At chapter I did pretty well on my quiz and then got to talk with Reed Koester (fellow BIT) - I like her, we get along pretty well :]
And now I have to figure out what to write a persuasive paper about, then write a rough draft. I hate picking my own topic O.o Wish me luck.
-Carly
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Down in N'awlins
I want to go back. It's kinda weird to be back in Aldersgate after spending the week in Louisiana. I definitely had a bunch of dreams where I had forgotten everything - like class times and whatnot - so I missed all my classes.
But y'all don't want to hear about that, so here's my account of what happened in NOLA: (ps, I'm writing these as I wrote them daily in a journal)
Friday 3/9/2012
We got off to a slightly rough start - no one knew where the keys to the van were O.o Then, once we found the keys, Christian wanted to move his car. So, an hour later than we wanted to be rolling out, we were leaving West Lafayette! It was a fun ride - we just kinda talked. Zach was a new aquaintence for us all, so we got to know him. He's a pretty cool guy :] Unfortunately, Shelly's grandfather passed away a few days ago, so she was unable to join us :[
At Bowling Green (our stop for the night), we met up with the other car - Dan, Sarah, Aaron and Kent left campus early to take a tour of Mammoth Cave so they got to the church quite a bit earlier than we did... We were all rather tired, so we had a quick devotion and went to sleep.
Saturday 3/10/2012
This morning was pretty interesting - Heather woke me up saying 'Carly, it's 6.08 and no one's awake - what should we do?' We were supposed to get up at 6 and I remembered that Corey had set an alarm as well, so I was wondering why it hadn't gone off. My watch said 6.08, but somehow my groggy brain made the connection that we were now on Central time - I just didn't set my watch back since we weould be springing forward that night. Heather and I had some good laughs about that :D An hour later, we all woke up and ate some breakfast and made lunch for the road. So, I ate some cereal and stuck three pieces of bread in a baggie. I dislike having to make sandwiches for lunch. Then we were on the road again - on to Birmingham. I slept through the rest of Kentucky and woke up in Tennessee. It was my first time in Alabama too, woot :] Once we made it to Birmingham, we played the highway game - we got turned around and some streets were closed off so we had to get back on the highway to get to the exit we missed. Once we were once more on the right path,we drove to the civil Rights Museum. We saw the 16th Street Baptist Church - the one that was firebombed and four girls lost their lives. The museum was really neat - I wish we could've had more time there. They had part of the Freedom Riders bus that was bombed - I'm not going to lie, that was a little creepy.
And it was a beautiful day! So nice after the colder weather we've been having in Indiana.
The museum is on the left here, the 16th Street Baptist Church is the one on the right.
On the way from Birmingham to Louisiana, we were playing Phase 10 (a card game) and by the end we were all bored so it turned into a community game :]
Then we were in Louisiana! And then New Orleans! I was so excited :D
Once we got to the church, we met up with the Heart of Africa folks that are going to be working with us for the week. A former Wesley intern (allong with another Wesley alum) now works with them in Dallas. They're a pretty cool group, this is going to be a fun week :]
Sunday 3/11/2012
This morning, we led the church service. Everyone was in the choir, that was fun :] , and Christian Kakez-A-Kapend (the former Wesley intern that now works with Heart of Africa) gave a sermon on not letting the bad things in your life detract from the good things. It was realy good. We ate with the church congregation and then got to play on the playground as we waited to go exploring :]
Liz and Stephanie were enjoying siding down in various ways (like backwards, on their backs, in the fetal position, etc.). up on top is Jason and Sarah, then Zach is the one in the bright green shirt and Aaron is right next to him. I'm in purple and Kent is standing next to me. Liz, of course, is on the slide :D
We took these street cars along St Charles Street to Canal Street. They were fun :]
When we got off the street cars and walked along Bourbon Street. That was an experience... There were so many bars and smokers O.o And there were a ton of people wearing University of Kentuky stuff - I think there was a SEC thing going on.
And then we made it to Café du Monde! Heather and I were so excited :D
The beignets were so good too! I'm pretty sure that my lifespan shortened by about three years after eating those, but it was so worth it :]
We went to the takeaway line and got our beignets, then Kent and I went to a store across the street because I wanted a Saints shirt and he wanted a shotglass. When we got back to the cafe, our group had evaporated. Another group appeared, and we went to the riverside with Glen quickly before everyone had to reconvene. It was so nice there, I wish we could've had more time.
Since Kent and I got separated from the group, we didn't eat our beignets. Therefore, we got to eat them on the street car :D Back at the area where the cars were parked, we split up to get some food. Most of the group went to Camilla's - apparently a diner-type place. Liz, Matt, Zach, Aaron, Lindsey (Junk, another former Wesley intern that now lives in New Orleans) and I went across the street to get some pizza insted. Aaron had been wanting to try alligator ever since we entered Louisiana, and he found a pizza that had alligator sausage on it :]
On the ride home, I had an interesting conversation with Christian Klayhpen (at least I think that's how his last name is spelled...). He's one of the Heart of Africa guys - and he is from Liberia. He's studying pharmacy and wants to go back to Liberia to help there. Apparently, when you go to get fingerprinted to leave the country, they tell you when you are leaving, like three months, two weeks, whatever they say. Well, when he went with his sister, they said 'You're leaving tomorrow, pack your bags.' He didn't get to say good bye to his dad until he called from New York. That was wild.
Monday 3/12/2012
This morning, we got started. After morning devo and singing, we spit off into work groups. I was on the drywall team with Kent and Aaron. And when I say we were on the drywall team, I mean that Aaron and I spent three hours fighting with one piece that just wouldn't fit. We definitely signed our names on the inside once we got it - we were bloody proud. Some of he lovely ladies of the church are making us lunches this week - today was gumbo. I was so excited! Kent and I both had three bowls - we agreed that we wouldn't be able to move afterwards but it was totally worth it :]
After lunch, we took a bit of a siesta (and that turned into a routine :] ) so after that it was time to screw the drywall pieces into the ceiling. We got them in and started covering the seams with drywall tape and mud. There was putty everywhere O.o And Kent, Sarah B and I stayed behind to finish up filling some holes in walls - we wanted to know what we would get for working overtime :]
Some of the Heart of Africa girls made a traditional African dinner for everyone - okra stew. It was good too. We invited some of the ladies of the church to join us for dinner, and a few of them did. I sat near them and talked about the city, that was cool.
Tuesday 3/13/2012
It's so nice that the putty didn't dry overnight, otherwise we would've been able to continue our drywall work this morning...
Since we weren't able to sand, we went on to other jobs. I was still working with the putty and filling in (or covering up) holes in walls.
Filling in holes in walls.
Zach had this hat that he was wearing until he found a yellow hard hat. I stole his hat (which wasn't actually his and wound up being Kent's) and wore it all week - it was great, it worked quite well as a hairband.
Today's lunch was red beans and rice - yum! I love Louisiana food :D
After lunch, it started downpouring outside. So, what do we do? Run outside of course! That was fun, we were all wet :] And some people were asleep and missed it all - we informed them of what they missed as we gathered for the lunch devo :]
The putty still wasn't dry when we went back, so I continued with the other jobs. One of which was washing windows with Corey. That kid is such a character - he's pretty fun to hang with :] (of course, I say kid and he's actually older than me). We both take Spanish classes, so we decided to practice.
We ate leftovers for dinner and then after the devo a group of us played an intense round of Egyptian Rat Screw (odd name for a card game, no?). At the end, it was me, Kent and Zach still going - that was intense. We all had to get outside for a bit afterwards :]
Then it was a game of spoons - Blessing and I bruised up each other's hands going for one spoon. That was fun. That night when Liz and I went to sleep, she set her alarm. Her phone tells you how long you have until it goes off. Eight hours of sleep? I accept!
Wednesday 3/14/2012
Happy Pi Day :D
We were able to sand the putty this morning! Once we finished that, my next project was organising the supplies. I like the green duct tape that we used to label the Wesley supplies :]
After lunch, I worked with the painting crew. I was going to be taping, so I grabbed a roll of painter's tape. Then I found another roll that was closer to being out, so I grabbed that and stuck it around my wrist too. I was starting a collection :D Once I finished painting, I started detail painting. Glen was working in the same area, he said that we were the Transcontinental Railroad :D Which led to a lengthy conversation about what the name is of the place where the Golden Spike was driven in and how the California team only made it to Utah but the Eastern team did have a jump on them so it was impressive that they made it that far. It was pretty fun :] The fire alarm wound up being our Promontory Point and the California team (me) ran out of paint there.
I helped Liz make pasta for dinner - two vegetarians were making the dinner so there was no meat, for once :D As I showered after dinner, I thought about my lack of phone (it died on Saturday) and interwebs (no wireless) for the week. It's been kinda nice. I mean, I'd enjoy being able to talk with friends, but instead I'm making new ones :]
It's nice that I take notes everyday - it helps with journalling and when other people don't remember what happened on a certain day :] Kent, Dan and I did a bit of group journalling while another group was playing Settlers of Catan. That seems like an interesting game, from what I saw.
Thursday 3/15/2012
I had quite the odd dream last night - it involved living about three blocks from Disneyland in a five-person apartment with Zach, Aaron and two others that were good friends of ours in the dream but I don't know them now. Yeah, it was weird.
I got up to help Glen make french toast this morning, and I may or may not have had a few troubles with the cinnamon...
We only worked a half day today, and the painting crew got the kitchen covered in paint - go team! (yesterday was primer). After lunch, we went on a not-so-touristy tour of New Orleans - we saw the church that housed three area congregations after Katrina, then we went to the Lower Nineth Ward.
Looking at the old levee right next to the new one, it's weird to think that they thought that would last. But it obviously did for however long until a barge crashed into it.
For reference, Glen (the man in the blue shirt) is about 6'6" tall.
Picture time!
Me and Liz
Me and Blessing
Baby D, me and Beatrice
After the Lower Nineth Ward, we went over to the pastor's house for dinner. They made fish, so I enjoyed the rice and watching people attempt to eat the eyes ( XP ). We had a singing devotion and enjoyed hanging with each other for our last night.
Friday 3/16/2012
Heart of Africa tended to get up late for breakfast at 7.30, so Christian Kakez-A-Kapend didn't tell them that they would be getting up at 6.15 this morning until last night :] Liz and I were in the same room as Blessing and Baby D, so we got up pretty early with them. Heart of Africa left for Dallas after breakfast and devotion, we were all sad :[
But we still had some work to finish, so we got to it. I worked with Aaron to clear the brush pile from when they cut down a tree and it looked like we both got into a fight with a small animal - there were scratches up our arms.
Aaron found a snail and picked it up, asking what we should name him. I said Stanley, and so he became Stanley the Snail. We had to set him free, but we made sure it was a place where he'd be safe. :]
After lunch, we showered and headed out. We stopped to enjoy the afternoon in Audubon Park and got together a quick game of Ultimate Frisbee - what else would we do in a large field on a Wesley trip? ;D
We had Po Boys for dinner, then some people stayed in the resturaunt to watch the first half of the Purdue game and some of us went to walk around Magazine Street. We wanted shirts (especially after the Ultimate game) and found a store. Zach and I wound up getting the same shirt - it's a cartoon smiling beignet holding coffee and says 'Beign-Yay!' :D I enjoy it :]
On the way out of town, we had the GameCast up on two different phones, and when we stopped for gas the game was getting close and whichever phone updated first was the one we looked at. It was crazy! But they did win.
This whole week we've been joking about asking for consent for things like sleeping on shoulders, touching hair, etc. So, I asked Kent and he said that I could sleep against his shoulder - he was sleeping against the window - and we slept until we got to Tuscaloosa, our stop for the night.
Saturday 3/17/2012
Today I woke Heather up saying 'Heather, it's 7.08, what should we do?' and she laughed :]
We planned out tomorrow's Wesley service in the van - like the music and devotional thoughts and whatnot, then Sarah slept on my shoulder as I listened to some Celtic music :]
At lunch, we split off to various fast food resturaunts and threw the frisbee as we waited for everyone to gather once more (like I said, what else on a Wesley trip? :] ).
I was driving Dan's car behind the van when suddenly the flashers go on and we pulled off to the rest stop we were about to pass. Apparently there had been an accident up ahead that was stopping traffic and so we got to get out and, guess what we did, throw the frisbee! It was nice to be able to wait out of the van.
We dropped off Jason in Indy (my first time in the actual city) and then it was back to Purdue.
When I got back to Aldersgate, Catherine and I talked for a bit - apparently the robotics team that she and Seth helped with had a good competition over the weekend.
On Sunday I got up at about up at 9.30 and remembered that I need milk, so it was off to Walmart! At 10.30 on the morning after St Patrick's day - there weren't many other people out and about at that time :]
We (the crew from the New Orleans trip) did the church service at Wesley, so that was fun. We sang some of the African songs that we sang down there :]
I was going to spend the evening, but I decided that could wait because I wanted to go to the Wesley Ultimate recreation. I missed playing, I'm definitely getting back into this. Partway through our second game, the lights went out. We were confused, but just assumed that Purdue didn't want to pay for the lights when Aaron joined and said that the power was out in the res halls. It was a huge blackout - even people like Liz who live north of campus had no power, and the bars on the south side of State lost it as well. Aldersgate still had power (Kyle and I determined while driving home that Grant Street was the line of the outage), so we had a party of people that wanted to watch the basketball game (we were playing Kansas) but couldn't at home. It was a crowd, and it was such a good game until the last four minutes :[
Monday I had to get up for class O.o However, it was kinda fun because in Com we watched some of those as seen on tv commercials - I love how people are in black and white and completely incompetent unless you have this spiffy product :]
It was so beautiful outside! I sat outside and read instead of sitting in the basement of Beering like I normally do, and of course I got a little sunburned O.o Welcome to Spring!
I had chapter after orchestra, and I think I actually didn't do too badly on the quiz considering how little studying I did in NOLA.
I worked on transferring my journaling from my iPod to my journal while I did laundry after the new lesson, and that's why this entry is so late - I wanted to get that finished before I posted this.
Today I had another terrible CS lab O.o My TA said that he did the kind of things that we were doing in a class that was about three levels more advanced than the one we are in, that made us feel great...
We had an exec meeting at 2.30, then I went back to Aldersgate to listen to some Jimmy B and clean out my room - put away the laundry and things from the trip and switch out the long sleeved shirts into the trunk. I felt rather productive :D
We had our full COM meeting at 7, and then I came back to write this post. And now it's late and I want to get up to run tomorrow before classes. I've got a rather busy week ahead of me, hopefully this weekend I can actually work on getting ahead for next week.
Peace.
-Carly B
But y'all don't want to hear about that, so here's my account of what happened in NOLA: (ps, I'm writing these as I wrote them daily in a journal)
Friday 3/9/2012
We got off to a slightly rough start - no one knew where the keys to the van were O.o Then, once we found the keys, Christian wanted to move his car. So, an hour later than we wanted to be rolling out, we were leaving West Lafayette! It was a fun ride - we just kinda talked. Zach was a new aquaintence for us all, so we got to know him. He's a pretty cool guy :] Unfortunately, Shelly's grandfather passed away a few days ago, so she was unable to join us :[
At Bowling Green (our stop for the night), we met up with the other car - Dan, Sarah, Aaron and Kent left campus early to take a tour of Mammoth Cave so they got to the church quite a bit earlier than we did... We were all rather tired, so we had a quick devotion and went to sleep.
Saturday 3/10/2012
This morning was pretty interesting - Heather woke me up saying 'Carly, it's 6.08 and no one's awake - what should we do?' We were supposed to get up at 6 and I remembered that Corey had set an alarm as well, so I was wondering why it hadn't gone off. My watch said 6.08, but somehow my groggy brain made the connection that we were now on Central time - I just didn't set my watch back since we weould be springing forward that night. Heather and I had some good laughs about that :D An hour later, we all woke up and ate some breakfast and made lunch for the road. So, I ate some cereal and stuck three pieces of bread in a baggie. I dislike having to make sandwiches for lunch. Then we were on the road again - on to Birmingham. I slept through the rest of Kentucky and woke up in Tennessee. It was my first time in Alabama too, woot :] Once we made it to Birmingham, we played the highway game - we got turned around and some streets were closed off so we had to get back on the highway to get to the exit we missed. Once we were once more on the right path,we drove to the civil Rights Museum. We saw the 16th Street Baptist Church - the one that was firebombed and four girls lost their lives. The museum was really neat - I wish we could've had more time there. They had part of the Freedom Riders bus that was bombed - I'm not going to lie, that was a little creepy.
And it was a beautiful day! So nice after the colder weather we've been having in Indiana.
The museum is on the left here, the 16th Street Baptist Church is the one on the right.
On the way from Birmingham to Louisiana, we were playing Phase 10 (a card game) and by the end we were all bored so it turned into a community game :]
Then we were in Louisiana! And then New Orleans! I was so excited :D
Once we got to the church, we met up with the Heart of Africa folks that are going to be working with us for the week. A former Wesley intern (allong with another Wesley alum) now works with them in Dallas. They're a pretty cool group, this is going to be a fun week :]
Sunday 3/11/2012
This morning, we led the church service. Everyone was in the choir, that was fun :] , and Christian Kakez-A-Kapend (the former Wesley intern that now works with Heart of Africa) gave a sermon on not letting the bad things in your life detract from the good things. It was realy good. We ate with the church congregation and then got to play on the playground as we waited to go exploring :]
Liz and Stephanie were enjoying siding down in various ways (like backwards, on their backs, in the fetal position, etc.). up on top is Jason and Sarah, then Zach is the one in the bright green shirt and Aaron is right next to him. I'm in purple and Kent is standing next to me. Liz, of course, is on the slide :D
We took these street cars along St Charles Street to Canal Street. They were fun :]
When we got off the street cars and walked along Bourbon Street. That was an experience... There were so many bars and smokers O.o And there were a ton of people wearing University of Kentuky stuff - I think there was a SEC thing going on.
And then we made it to Café du Monde! Heather and I were so excited :D
The beignets were so good too! I'm pretty sure that my lifespan shortened by about three years after eating those, but it was so worth it :]
We went to the takeaway line and got our beignets, then Kent and I went to a store across the street because I wanted a Saints shirt and he wanted a shotglass. When we got back to the cafe, our group had evaporated. Another group appeared, and we went to the riverside with Glen quickly before everyone had to reconvene. It was so nice there, I wish we could've had more time.
Since Kent and I got separated from the group, we didn't eat our beignets. Therefore, we got to eat them on the street car :D Back at the area where the cars were parked, we split up to get some food. Most of the group went to Camilla's - apparently a diner-type place. Liz, Matt, Zach, Aaron, Lindsey (Junk, another former Wesley intern that now lives in New Orleans) and I went across the street to get some pizza insted. Aaron had been wanting to try alligator ever since we entered Louisiana, and he found a pizza that had alligator sausage on it :]
On the ride home, I had an interesting conversation with Christian Klayhpen (at least I think that's how his last name is spelled...). He's one of the Heart of Africa guys - and he is from Liberia. He's studying pharmacy and wants to go back to Liberia to help there. Apparently, when you go to get fingerprinted to leave the country, they tell you when you are leaving, like three months, two weeks, whatever they say. Well, when he went with his sister, they said 'You're leaving tomorrow, pack your bags.' He didn't get to say good bye to his dad until he called from New York. That was wild.
Monday 3/12/2012
This morning, we got started. After morning devo and singing, we spit off into work groups. I was on the drywall team with Kent and Aaron. And when I say we were on the drywall team, I mean that Aaron and I spent three hours fighting with one piece that just wouldn't fit. We definitely signed our names on the inside once we got it - we were bloody proud. Some of he lovely ladies of the church are making us lunches this week - today was gumbo. I was so excited! Kent and I both had three bowls - we agreed that we wouldn't be able to move afterwards but it was totally worth it :]
After lunch, we took a bit of a siesta (and that turned into a routine :] ) so after that it was time to screw the drywall pieces into the ceiling. We got them in and started covering the seams with drywall tape and mud. There was putty everywhere O.o And Kent, Sarah B and I stayed behind to finish up filling some holes in walls - we wanted to know what we would get for working overtime :]
Some of the Heart of Africa girls made a traditional African dinner for everyone - okra stew. It was good too. We invited some of the ladies of the church to join us for dinner, and a few of them did. I sat near them and talked about the city, that was cool.
Tuesday 3/13/2012
It's so nice that the putty didn't dry overnight, otherwise we would've been able to continue our drywall work this morning...
Since we weren't able to sand, we went on to other jobs. I was still working with the putty and filling in (or covering up) holes in walls.
Filling in holes in walls.
Zach had this hat that he was wearing until he found a yellow hard hat. I stole his hat (which wasn't actually his and wound up being Kent's) and wore it all week - it was great, it worked quite well as a hairband.
Today's lunch was red beans and rice - yum! I love Louisiana food :D
After lunch, it started downpouring outside. So, what do we do? Run outside of course! That was fun, we were all wet :] And some people were asleep and missed it all - we informed them of what they missed as we gathered for the lunch devo :]
The putty still wasn't dry when we went back, so I continued with the other jobs. One of which was washing windows with Corey. That kid is such a character - he's pretty fun to hang with :] (of course, I say kid and he's actually older than me). We both take Spanish classes, so we decided to practice.
We ate leftovers for dinner and then after the devo a group of us played an intense round of Egyptian Rat Screw (odd name for a card game, no?). At the end, it was me, Kent and Zach still going - that was intense. We all had to get outside for a bit afterwards :]
Then it was a game of spoons - Blessing and I bruised up each other's hands going for one spoon. That was fun. That night when Liz and I went to sleep, she set her alarm. Her phone tells you how long you have until it goes off. Eight hours of sleep? I accept!
Wednesday 3/14/2012
Happy Pi Day :D
We were able to sand the putty this morning! Once we finished that, my next project was organising the supplies. I like the green duct tape that we used to label the Wesley supplies :]
After lunch, I worked with the painting crew. I was going to be taping, so I grabbed a roll of painter's tape. Then I found another roll that was closer to being out, so I grabbed that and stuck it around my wrist too. I was starting a collection :D Once I finished painting, I started detail painting. Glen was working in the same area, he said that we were the Transcontinental Railroad :D Which led to a lengthy conversation about what the name is of the place where the Golden Spike was driven in and how the California team only made it to Utah but the Eastern team did have a jump on them so it was impressive that they made it that far. It was pretty fun :] The fire alarm wound up being our Promontory Point and the California team (me) ran out of paint there.
I helped Liz make pasta for dinner - two vegetarians were making the dinner so there was no meat, for once :D As I showered after dinner, I thought about my lack of phone (it died on Saturday) and interwebs (no wireless) for the week. It's been kinda nice. I mean, I'd enjoy being able to talk with friends, but instead I'm making new ones :]
It's nice that I take notes everyday - it helps with journalling and when other people don't remember what happened on a certain day :] Kent, Dan and I did a bit of group journalling while another group was playing Settlers of Catan. That seems like an interesting game, from what I saw.
Thursday 3/15/2012
I had quite the odd dream last night - it involved living about three blocks from Disneyland in a five-person apartment with Zach, Aaron and two others that were good friends of ours in the dream but I don't know them now. Yeah, it was weird.
I got up to help Glen make french toast this morning, and I may or may not have had a few troubles with the cinnamon...
We only worked a half day today, and the painting crew got the kitchen covered in paint - go team! (yesterday was primer). After lunch, we went on a not-so-touristy tour of New Orleans - we saw the church that housed three area congregations after Katrina, then we went to the Lower Nineth Ward.
Looking at the old levee right next to the new one, it's weird to think that they thought that would last. But it obviously did for however long until a barge crashed into it.
For reference, Glen (the man in the blue shirt) is about 6'6" tall.
Picture time!
Me and Liz
Me and Blessing
Baby D, me and Beatrice
After the Lower Nineth Ward, we went over to the pastor's house for dinner. They made fish, so I enjoyed the rice and watching people attempt to eat the eyes ( XP ). We had a singing devotion and enjoyed hanging with each other for our last night.
Friday 3/16/2012
Heart of Africa tended to get up late for breakfast at 7.30, so Christian Kakez-A-Kapend didn't tell them that they would be getting up at 6.15 this morning until last night :] Liz and I were in the same room as Blessing and Baby D, so we got up pretty early with them. Heart of Africa left for Dallas after breakfast and devotion, we were all sad :[
But we still had some work to finish, so we got to it. I worked with Aaron to clear the brush pile from when they cut down a tree and it looked like we both got into a fight with a small animal - there were scratches up our arms.
Aaron found a snail and picked it up, asking what we should name him. I said Stanley, and so he became Stanley the Snail. We had to set him free, but we made sure it was a place where he'd be safe. :]
After lunch, we showered and headed out. We stopped to enjoy the afternoon in Audubon Park and got together a quick game of Ultimate Frisbee - what else would we do in a large field on a Wesley trip? ;D
We had Po Boys for dinner, then some people stayed in the resturaunt to watch the first half of the Purdue game and some of us went to walk around Magazine Street. We wanted shirts (especially after the Ultimate game) and found a store. Zach and I wound up getting the same shirt - it's a cartoon smiling beignet holding coffee and says 'Beign-Yay!' :D I enjoy it :]
On the way out of town, we had the GameCast up on two different phones, and when we stopped for gas the game was getting close and whichever phone updated first was the one we looked at. It was crazy! But they did win.
This whole week we've been joking about asking for consent for things like sleeping on shoulders, touching hair, etc. So, I asked Kent and he said that I could sleep against his shoulder - he was sleeping against the window - and we slept until we got to Tuscaloosa, our stop for the night.
Saturday 3/17/2012
Today I woke Heather up saying 'Heather, it's 7.08, what should we do?' and she laughed :]
We planned out tomorrow's Wesley service in the van - like the music and devotional thoughts and whatnot, then Sarah slept on my shoulder as I listened to some Celtic music :]
At lunch, we split off to various fast food resturaunts and threw the frisbee as we waited for everyone to gather once more (like I said, what else on a Wesley trip? :] ).
I was driving Dan's car behind the van when suddenly the flashers go on and we pulled off to the rest stop we were about to pass. Apparently there had been an accident up ahead that was stopping traffic and so we got to get out and, guess what we did, throw the frisbee! It was nice to be able to wait out of the van.
We dropped off Jason in Indy (my first time in the actual city) and then it was back to Purdue.
When I got back to Aldersgate, Catherine and I talked for a bit - apparently the robotics team that she and Seth helped with had a good competition over the weekend.
On Sunday I got up at about up at 9.30 and remembered that I need milk, so it was off to Walmart! At 10.30 on the morning after St Patrick's day - there weren't many other people out and about at that time :]
We (the crew from the New Orleans trip) did the church service at Wesley, so that was fun. We sang some of the African songs that we sang down there :]
I was going to spend the evening, but I decided that could wait because I wanted to go to the Wesley Ultimate recreation. I missed playing, I'm definitely getting back into this. Partway through our second game, the lights went out. We were confused, but just assumed that Purdue didn't want to pay for the lights when Aaron joined and said that the power was out in the res halls. It was a huge blackout - even people like Liz who live north of campus had no power, and the bars on the south side of State lost it as well. Aldersgate still had power (Kyle and I determined while driving home that Grant Street was the line of the outage), so we had a party of people that wanted to watch the basketball game (we were playing Kansas) but couldn't at home. It was a crowd, and it was such a good game until the last four minutes :[
Monday I had to get up for class O.o However, it was kinda fun because in Com we watched some of those as seen on tv commercials - I love how people are in black and white and completely incompetent unless you have this spiffy product :]
It was so beautiful outside! I sat outside and read instead of sitting in the basement of Beering like I normally do, and of course I got a little sunburned O.o Welcome to Spring!
I had chapter after orchestra, and I think I actually didn't do too badly on the quiz considering how little studying I did in NOLA.
I worked on transferring my journaling from my iPod to my journal while I did laundry after the new lesson, and that's why this entry is so late - I wanted to get that finished before I posted this.
Today I had another terrible CS lab O.o My TA said that he did the kind of things that we were doing in a class that was about three levels more advanced than the one we are in, that made us feel great...
We had an exec meeting at 2.30, then I went back to Aldersgate to listen to some Jimmy B and clean out my room - put away the laundry and things from the trip and switch out the long sleeved shirts into the trunk. I felt rather productive :D
We had our full COM meeting at 7, and then I came back to write this post. And now it's late and I want to get up to run tomorrow before classes. I've got a rather busy week ahead of me, hopefully this weekend I can actually work on getting ahead for next week.
Peace.
-Carly B
Friday, March 9, 2012
Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day!
I've got a wonderful feeling everything's going my way! :] I had this stuck in my head at one point this week, it was odd because I've never sctually seen Oklahoma or heard that song in its entirety.
Ok, I want to get this posted before I leave so it's going to be a modified version of how I take my notes during the week of what happened. (That's what I do so I can remember what happened on Monday when I'm writing this post on the following Sunday :] )
Monday:
In Stat, my professor said that 'we learn simplified gambling in class. don't try this at home. or, try it at home but not anywhere else.' I enjoyed that one :]
After orchestra, I watched the ending of Braveheart with Kyle, Seth and Jake (Catherine joined us as well). I want to go back to scotland...
Tuesday:
The CS lab was... meh? It wasn't too bad, but still annoying enough that we didn't really know what was going on.
And then I got home to have yet another bloody nose. My dad actually sent me an email recommending getting a nasal spray that day, so nice timing, Dad ;]
Obviously my notes aren't quite enough, this is what I have down next:
+lunch
And I can't remember what I'm supposed to say. Did I have lunch with someone? Or was it something particularly interesting? No idea.
I had to write a Spanish video review, so I didn't go to the Wesley Tuesday evening stuff. I did get a thing to sigh, that had to be turned in by noon the next day. I though that was going to be fine, then I saw that I wasn't 21 so my parents had to sign too... To the scanner! And to the phone to warn them :] I wound up having a great chat with my mom, so that worked out :]
Wednesday:
I got up and out early so I could turn that form in - I wouldn't have any other time before noon.
It was such a nice day! I was wearing a nice sweater and light jacket. If it wasn't so windy, it would've felt like late spring/early summer.
I needed a microwave for lunch (the second half of a Chipotle burrito - thanks mom :D ) so I ate in the basement of Beering and then read for a bit outside. Yeah, it was a little breezy...
It was apparently red sweater day at Wesley - me, Heather and Liz all had red sweaters on :] Mine even matched my hair :D
Heather and I worked on our CS project for our break - we were done on Wednesday (not Friday at 5)! It was rather exciting :]
Wednesdays tend to be annoyingly busy for me, so I managed to make it all the way to Elliott before realising - bloody hell, all the music's in my room... So that was fun.
When I got back to A-gate, I went to finish my project and realised that a piece of the code didn't work properly. To Seth! I'm so glad he's in the house. We got it working and I updated Heather :]
Kyle's girlfriend Ahslee arrived sometime during the day. Kyle made a few introductions, and it went something like this:
Kyle: That's Andrew, Payton, Seth, and.... um... oh yeah, Carly.
Me: What the heck??
It was pretty entertaining :]
Thursday:
Oh what a beautiful day... or not. It was rather narsty when I left, all rainy.
After my proof class, I and another BIT, Matt, who's in the same class went to get our membership boards - the things we have to get everyone to sign. We get to sand them down and paint them, so I got started on that. There was sawdust everywhere :]
I had to get some provisions for the mission trip, so I went to Target. And couldn't find camping stuffs or WD-40 for the longest time...
We had our house dinner, and after I was talking with Ashlee and Catherine. That was pretty cool, Kyle occasionally came down to see what we were doing and Catherine and I said that we kidnapped Ashlee, the 2 girls of the house wanted a visitor :D
Friday:
This morning I gave a presentation in Spanish about San Fermín - the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Then Com was cancelled, so I got to go home and work on things. This is what (exactly) I had on my list for the day:
-pack
-laundry
-dishes
-watch Hugo (free redbox rental - it was a very cute movie :] )
-stat homework
-bloody effing hell
I'm so good at planning ahead...
I did manage to get my big bags packed up and to Wesley, so after Stat I went to Red Mango with Jacob :D It was a nice little break in the middle of my day. And evidently a while ago he traded his firstborn son to his father for something, and he didn't even remember what it was anymore! I got a kick out of that :]
And now I really need to go - I need to finish up my packing (like camera, notebook, you know, unimportant things like that) and then it's go time!
Sorry for the rather less extensive post than normal, I'll have a better one for y'all when I get back from New Orleans.
Till then!
-Carly B
Ok, I want to get this posted before I leave so it's going to be a modified version of how I take my notes during the week of what happened. (That's what I do so I can remember what happened on Monday when I'm writing this post on the following Sunday :] )
Monday:
In Stat, my professor said that 'we learn simplified gambling in class. don't try this at home. or, try it at home but not anywhere else.' I enjoyed that one :]
After orchestra, I watched the ending of Braveheart with Kyle, Seth and Jake (Catherine joined us as well). I want to go back to scotland...
Tuesday:
The CS lab was... meh? It wasn't too bad, but still annoying enough that we didn't really know what was going on.
And then I got home to have yet another bloody nose. My dad actually sent me an email recommending getting a nasal spray that day, so nice timing, Dad ;]
Obviously my notes aren't quite enough, this is what I have down next:
+lunch
And I can't remember what I'm supposed to say. Did I have lunch with someone? Or was it something particularly interesting? No idea.
I had to write a Spanish video review, so I didn't go to the Wesley Tuesday evening stuff. I did get a thing to sigh, that had to be turned in by noon the next day. I though that was going to be fine, then I saw that I wasn't 21 so my parents had to sign too... To the scanner! And to the phone to warn them :] I wound up having a great chat with my mom, so that worked out :]
Wednesday:
I got up and out early so I could turn that form in - I wouldn't have any other time before noon.
It was such a nice day! I was wearing a nice sweater and light jacket. If it wasn't so windy, it would've felt like late spring/early summer.
I needed a microwave for lunch (the second half of a Chipotle burrito - thanks mom :D ) so I ate in the basement of Beering and then read for a bit outside. Yeah, it was a little breezy...
It was apparently red sweater day at Wesley - me, Heather and Liz all had red sweaters on :] Mine even matched my hair :D
Heather and I worked on our CS project for our break - we were done on Wednesday (not Friday at 5)! It was rather exciting :]
Wednesdays tend to be annoyingly busy for me, so I managed to make it all the way to Elliott before realising - bloody hell, all the music's in my room... So that was fun.
When I got back to A-gate, I went to finish my project and realised that a piece of the code didn't work properly. To Seth! I'm so glad he's in the house. We got it working and I updated Heather :]
Kyle's girlfriend Ahslee arrived sometime during the day. Kyle made a few introductions, and it went something like this:
Kyle: That's Andrew, Payton, Seth, and.... um... oh yeah, Carly.
Me: What the heck??
It was pretty entertaining :]
Thursday:
Oh what a beautiful day... or not. It was rather narsty when I left, all rainy.
After my proof class, I and another BIT, Matt, who's in the same class went to get our membership boards - the things we have to get everyone to sign. We get to sand them down and paint them, so I got started on that. There was sawdust everywhere :]
I had to get some provisions for the mission trip, so I went to Target. And couldn't find camping stuffs or WD-40 for the longest time...
We had our house dinner, and after I was talking with Ashlee and Catherine. That was pretty cool, Kyle occasionally came down to see what we were doing and Catherine and I said that we kidnapped Ashlee, the 2 girls of the house wanted a visitor :D
Friday:
This morning I gave a presentation in Spanish about San Fermín - the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Then Com was cancelled, so I got to go home and work on things. This is what (exactly) I had on my list for the day:
-pack
-laundry
-dishes
-watch Hugo (free redbox rental - it was a very cute movie :] )
-stat homework
-bloody effing hell
I'm so good at planning ahead...
I did manage to get my big bags packed up and to Wesley, so after Stat I went to Red Mango with Jacob :D It was a nice little break in the middle of my day. And evidently a while ago he traded his firstborn son to his father for something, and he didn't even remember what it was anymore! I got a kick out of that :]
And now I really need to go - I need to finish up my packing (like camera, notebook, you know, unimportant things like that) and then it's go time!
Sorry for the rather less extensive post than normal, I'll have a better one for y'all when I get back from New Orleans.
Till then!
-Carly B
Monday, March 5, 2012
The Indiana weather machine seems to be malfunctioning...
Another busy week. Hooray for taking 18 credits O.o
Monday I finished Shadows in Flight - the latest book in the Ender's Shadow series. I love Bean, he's my favorite character and he's the main character of the Shadow series. And I knew it was going to happen, but I was still sad when he died. It was really well written, though, so that made me happy.
And then I went to Probability and my friend asked 'So, are you ready for the quiz?' My first thought was 'bloody effing hell...' Yeah, I'd completely forgotten about it, so that was fun.
Then I got back to A-gate and saw that I had a card from Aunt Kelly! The front said 'Some money for the poor college student...' and I laughed - yup, that's me! :D Thanks, Aunt Doley :]
After orchestra , I decided that I was going to dye my hair - I had a box that I hadn't had time to use yet, so now I have red in my hair again :]
Tuesday I woke up obnoxiously tired. Thankfully, the lab wasn't too bad, we were able to get it done. Then I had exec and dinner with my whole Psi family :D (At least all of us that are still on campus.) I love my Psi familty - we're a fun group to hang with. There's my family from my facebook profile picture, as well as my grandbig - Lauren's (Larn's) big - Jason. It was funny - Larn dropped off Brent first after dinner. As he got out, we all said good bye.
Larn: Bye, Little.
Billy: Bye, Big.
Me: Bye, Twin.
Jason: Bye, Brent.
I enjoyed that :]
The Walkabout committee had a meeting where we decided to get thinking about designs and what we're going to do for the actual Walkabout - which is like a clue trail that we make for the actives.
As I was doing homework, I had some tea and put in the recording of Beauty and the Beast from senior year. I miss pit :[ But goodness, did I not sit up straight or use any bow?? Watching me play was painful.
And, of course, what is an evening for me without a bloody nose? I went to scratch my nose and swore rather loudly. They aren't all very bad (like sometimes one kleenex will do the job and it's done in about 2 min), but it's still getting real old real fast.
Wednesday I planned on getting up at 6.30, so I was actually got up at 6.50 - yay homework. However, it was a beautiful day! I think it was 65 ish degrees and I wore a nice shirt and jeans - no jacket. It was awesome :]
And I lovve orchestra and al, but Kimberly and I were rather glad that we didn't have orchestra that night. Our Wednesdays kinda suck.
And this particular Wednesday would've been even worse because of the speech I had to give in COM. So I timed myself in the morning and I was right at 6 minutes, so I cut out a sub-point (not a major detail). Then I didn't eat breakfast, probably a good thing since I felt like I was going to hurl before I actually got up to speak. And when I did speak, I wound up concluding at the 4 minute mark - what happened to the extra 2 I had?? I hate public speaking.
And it was no longer Wednesday - it turned into Wind's day! It's kinda funny, sometimes I kinda forget that I have red in my hair (not necessarily forget, I just don't think about it), then the wind blows a strand into my face and I'm like 'Ohmygod, red!' :] Mariah laughed at me for some reason when I told her... ;]
After CS, I got to relax and have a dinner of champions - peanut butter and pizza pockets :D Yay college :]
I watched the Star Trek pilot and was rather confused, so I wanted to watch the next episode but I had a headache and a test the next day, so I decided to be a good student.
It's alway fun to wake up and think 'Bugger, I thought I was tired yesterday...' Thursday I had my MA 301 midterm. It wasn't too bad, and then I got to go to lunch at Noodles & Co. with my Big and Grandbig :D Sometime maybe I'll get a picture of the three of us so y'all can see Jason.
Our house dinner was that night too, and then I had homework. And I think my nose might be trying to kill me via blood loss. Seven in two weeks (I think... I've lost count), yeah, like I said, real old real fast.
Friday was quite the interesting day of weather. Walking to Spanish, it was chilly and overcast. Spanish to the Math library and then the library to COM it was sprinkling a bit, not too bad. After COM, I walked out to see that it had rained heavily and hailed, and was still raining a bit. I had to meet someone in Marriott Hall, so I sat at a table next to the window rather than my normal spot in the basement of Beering. So I got to see when it was torrentially downpouring and hailing. That was nice to watch from inside :]
When it let up a bit, I went to class. And after that, it was a beautiful day. It remained that way through when I walked to A-gate to pack up for the weekend retreat and then back to my CS lecture. And then after CS, it was overcast and crazy windy again. Then once we got to the monestary, it was snowing. Like I said, the weather machine seems to be having a minor freak out...
We met at Wesley for the retreat, and it's a good thing I got there early since I forgot my pillow and sleeping bag. Mariah needed cash too, so we made a run back to get various provisions.
And we were off! When we got there, it was dark and the guest house was warm :] It was a cute little house too, complete with a spiral staircase. I don't like walking up and down spiral stairs, so I claimed an air matress on the ground downstairs. I was pretty deflated too, so that was nice - I like soft beds.
And it's a good thing I can fall asleep with lights on and people talking since I went to sleep in the living room while people were still talking.
Saturday morning we had communion with the monks. It was an Episcopalian monestary, so we got wine with communion (it was good wine too :] ). We normally have grape juice that we've dipped the bread into, so actually doing the passing of the chalice was interesting.
We had breakfast after communion and then a talk about the theme of the weekend - Imago Dei, made in the image of God. It was an interesting talk.
Some people went to spent a few hours in Three Rivers, the city nearby. I elected to remain behind so Liz, JJ, Jake and I went to the library to get some work done.
The library was so cool! I was enjoying looking around and found the English/Scottish history section - that was bad news, I did have to get work done after all.
At 3.30 one of the monks came to talk to us about the monastic life - it was pretty interesting. They basically pray, read, meditate, and take care of the buildings and cats all day.
It was tea time after the talk, and then Vespers - an evening prayer time. After Vespers, they had a 30 min meditation period that I and a few others stayed for. That was really neat, to be able to just sit in dark and silence for a period.
Dinner that night was an alfredo pasta - so yummy :] And then we had another group talk, this time we got to share our stories. That was really neat, to be able to hear what brought people to where they are today.
Some of us were leaving at 6 on Sunday, so we were up and at 'em at 5.30 - though we still didn't leave till 6.30, yay Wesley time :]
Christian and I wound up together in the front bench of the van and he couldn't find a comfortable position to sleep in, so we wound up trading off sleeping across the bench - basically with our heads in the other's lap. It was relatively comfortable, and nice to be able to take a nap after the lack of sleep that we got over the weekend.
Mario requested that I play the violin solo thing (and bits of the viola part) from Kansas's Dust in the Wind with him on guitar at Wesley, so when I got home I looked up the song and music and practiced it. The solo is the part from 1.30-2.12 of this video, and then I played the straight notes at the end too. (But, no, I didn't have hair or a beard like that :] )
At about 1pm, I thought about how much I had to do and decided that it could all wait so instead I played Kingdom Hearts :] I only had about an hour, so it was't too bad at all.
Then it was time for practice and then service. Unfortunately, I had to rush out after service because the BITs had a dinner at Roy's (one of our advisors) house and I was driving people there.
The dinner was fun - they made casseroles that I couldn't eat (meat) but the corn, salad, and rolls were very yummy. We watched the ending of the women's basketball game - we're the Big Ten champions! After two overtimes - that was a little stressful... During the meal and then after for a bit we talked with Roy and his wife, Sarah. It was pretty neat to hear about their lives.
When I got back to A-gate, Kyle and Seth were getting ready to play Halo so I watched them. I've never seen the actual storyline of Halo before, so that was interesting to see.
And now it's Monday morning and I'm about ready to count down the hours till Spring Break. I won;t get much sleep, but I haven't been anyway so it's all good :]
Peace.
-Carly
Monday I finished Shadows in Flight - the latest book in the Ender's Shadow series. I love Bean, he's my favorite character and he's the main character of the Shadow series. And I knew it was going to happen, but I was still sad when he died. It was really well written, though, so that made me happy.
And then I went to Probability and my friend asked 'So, are you ready for the quiz?' My first thought was 'bloody effing hell...' Yeah, I'd completely forgotten about it, so that was fun.
Then I got back to A-gate and saw that I had a card from Aunt Kelly! The front said 'Some money for the poor college student...' and I laughed - yup, that's me! :D Thanks, Aunt Doley :]
After orchestra , I decided that I was going to dye my hair - I had a box that I hadn't had time to use yet, so now I have red in my hair again :]
Tuesday I woke up obnoxiously tired. Thankfully, the lab wasn't too bad, we were able to get it done. Then I had exec and dinner with my whole Psi family :D (At least all of us that are still on campus.) I love my Psi familty - we're a fun group to hang with. There's my family from my facebook profile picture, as well as my grandbig - Lauren's (Larn's) big - Jason. It was funny - Larn dropped off Brent first after dinner. As he got out, we all said good bye.
Larn: Bye, Little.
Billy: Bye, Big.
Me: Bye, Twin.
Jason: Bye, Brent.
I enjoyed that :]
The Walkabout committee had a meeting where we decided to get thinking about designs and what we're going to do for the actual Walkabout - which is like a clue trail that we make for the actives.
As I was doing homework, I had some tea and put in the recording of Beauty and the Beast from senior year. I miss pit :[ But goodness, did I not sit up straight or use any bow?? Watching me play was painful.
And, of course, what is an evening for me without a bloody nose? I went to scratch my nose and swore rather loudly. They aren't all very bad (like sometimes one kleenex will do the job and it's done in about 2 min), but it's still getting real old real fast.
Wednesday I planned on getting up at 6.30, so I was actually got up at 6.50 - yay homework. However, it was a beautiful day! I think it was 65 ish degrees and I wore a nice shirt and jeans - no jacket. It was awesome :]
And I lovve orchestra and al, but Kimberly and I were rather glad that we didn't have orchestra that night. Our Wednesdays kinda suck.
And this particular Wednesday would've been even worse because of the speech I had to give in COM. So I timed myself in the morning and I was right at 6 minutes, so I cut out a sub-point (not a major detail). Then I didn't eat breakfast, probably a good thing since I felt like I was going to hurl before I actually got up to speak. And when I did speak, I wound up concluding at the 4 minute mark - what happened to the extra 2 I had?? I hate public speaking.
And it was no longer Wednesday - it turned into Wind's day! It's kinda funny, sometimes I kinda forget that I have red in my hair (not necessarily forget, I just don't think about it), then the wind blows a strand into my face and I'm like 'Ohmygod, red!' :] Mariah laughed at me for some reason when I told her... ;]
After CS, I got to relax and have a dinner of champions - peanut butter and pizza pockets :D Yay college :]
I watched the Star Trek pilot and was rather confused, so I wanted to watch the next episode but I had a headache and a test the next day, so I decided to be a good student.
It's alway fun to wake up and think 'Bugger, I thought I was tired yesterday...' Thursday I had my MA 301 midterm. It wasn't too bad, and then I got to go to lunch at Noodles & Co. with my Big and Grandbig :D Sometime maybe I'll get a picture of the three of us so y'all can see Jason.
Our house dinner was that night too, and then I had homework. And I think my nose might be trying to kill me via blood loss. Seven in two weeks (I think... I've lost count), yeah, like I said, real old real fast.
Friday was quite the interesting day of weather. Walking to Spanish, it was chilly and overcast. Spanish to the Math library and then the library to COM it was sprinkling a bit, not too bad. After COM, I walked out to see that it had rained heavily and hailed, and was still raining a bit. I had to meet someone in Marriott Hall, so I sat at a table next to the window rather than my normal spot in the basement of Beering. So I got to see when it was torrentially downpouring and hailing. That was nice to watch from inside :]
When it let up a bit, I went to class. And after that, it was a beautiful day. It remained that way through when I walked to A-gate to pack up for the weekend retreat and then back to my CS lecture. And then after CS, it was overcast and crazy windy again. Then once we got to the monestary, it was snowing. Like I said, the weather machine seems to be having a minor freak out...
We met at Wesley for the retreat, and it's a good thing I got there early since I forgot my pillow and sleeping bag. Mariah needed cash too, so we made a run back to get various provisions.
And we were off! When we got there, it was dark and the guest house was warm :] It was a cute little house too, complete with a spiral staircase. I don't like walking up and down spiral stairs, so I claimed an air matress on the ground downstairs. I was pretty deflated too, so that was nice - I like soft beds.
And it's a good thing I can fall asleep with lights on and people talking since I went to sleep in the living room while people were still talking.
Saturday morning we had communion with the monks. It was an Episcopalian monestary, so we got wine with communion (it was good wine too :] ). We normally have grape juice that we've dipped the bread into, so actually doing the passing of the chalice was interesting.
We had breakfast after communion and then a talk about the theme of the weekend - Imago Dei, made in the image of God. It was an interesting talk.
Some people went to spent a few hours in Three Rivers, the city nearby. I elected to remain behind so Liz, JJ, Jake and I went to the library to get some work done.
The library was so cool! I was enjoying looking around and found the English/Scottish history section - that was bad news, I did have to get work done after all.
At 3.30 one of the monks came to talk to us about the monastic life - it was pretty interesting. They basically pray, read, meditate, and take care of the buildings and cats all day.
It was tea time after the talk, and then Vespers - an evening prayer time. After Vespers, they had a 30 min meditation period that I and a few others stayed for. That was really neat, to be able to just sit in dark and silence for a period.
Dinner that night was an alfredo pasta - so yummy :] And then we had another group talk, this time we got to share our stories. That was really neat, to be able to hear what brought people to where they are today.
Some of us were leaving at 6 on Sunday, so we were up and at 'em at 5.30 - though we still didn't leave till 6.30, yay Wesley time :]
Christian and I wound up together in the front bench of the van and he couldn't find a comfortable position to sleep in, so we wound up trading off sleeping across the bench - basically with our heads in the other's lap. It was relatively comfortable, and nice to be able to take a nap after the lack of sleep that we got over the weekend.
Mario requested that I play the violin solo thing (and bits of the viola part) from Kansas's Dust in the Wind with him on guitar at Wesley, so when I got home I looked up the song and music and practiced it. The solo is the part from 1.30-2.12 of this video, and then I played the straight notes at the end too. (But, no, I didn't have hair or a beard like that :] )
At about 1pm, I thought about how much I had to do and decided that it could all wait so instead I played Kingdom Hearts :] I only had about an hour, so it was't too bad at all.
Then it was time for practice and then service. Unfortunately, I had to rush out after service because the BITs had a dinner at Roy's (one of our advisors) house and I was driving people there.
The dinner was fun - they made casseroles that I couldn't eat (meat) but the corn, salad, and rolls were very yummy. We watched the ending of the women's basketball game - we're the Big Ten champions! After two overtimes - that was a little stressful... During the meal and then after for a bit we talked with Roy and his wife, Sarah. It was pretty neat to hear about their lives.
When I got back to A-gate, Kyle and Seth were getting ready to play Halo so I watched them. I've never seen the actual storyline of Halo before, so that was interesting to see.
And now it's Monday morning and I'm about ready to count down the hours till Spring Break. I won;t get much sleep, but I haven't been anyway so it's all good :]
Peace.
-Carly
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