~{Current Mood: Passive, slightly depressed}~
~{Music: Jimmy Buffett- A Pirate Looks At Forty}~
Alright well let's see. It's been a hell of a week so far. But, I'm going home on Friday morning. A friend that moved out of state a while back will be home for the weekend so I get to see her which is cool. However, I just joined the J.A.F.A. club and they're doing some stuff this weekend that I feel like I should participate in but I can't break my promise. Oh well! Speaking of J.A.F.A. though (that's the Japanese American Friendship Alliance). I did go on the camping trip with the club this weekend. WOW. Much fun, and very very interesting. Let's see what I can say about that. Friday Ivette and I got there fairly early and didn't really do much. We set up our tent, made a run to the most expensive gas station I've ever been to in my life, played kick ball for a while, and then finally (once everyone arrived) settled down around the fire with everyone else. Everyone stayed up fairly late, and in the end there were only a few of us up, one (dusty) playing the guitar, and another guy (ricky) banging on a cooking pot while ivette, todd and I sang, and laughed. Oh yes and Friday we experienced the first two accidents, which would be matt cutting his hand chopping wood and jeremy tripping over one of the unlit firepits and cutting his legs and breaking a flashlight clean in two. (I'm still not sure how he broke that flashlight!) Friday night was really cold out, the only thing nice was the fire which we eventually abandoned (all but ricky who had drank 6 cups of coffee and matt who was determined to sleep outside by the fire), and the tent was unfortunately even colder, but we did get a little sleep. Saturday proved to be a bit more productive. In the morning ivette and I just sorta hung out by the fire for a bit before we joined the majority of everyone else in a nearly 3 hour long game of hackey sack! Much fun!! After that there was a wood gathering expedition and then everyone but ivette, masami, dusty, jeremy, todd, and I took a nap and so the 6 of us decided to go down to the parks acquarium, spring, and then the playground (we were at Magnolia Springs by the way). The spring was cool, there was an alligator on one bank (some people were picknicking by it, wtf?), about 90 turtles and some of the biggest fish I've ever seen in my life, they were carp I think. Anyways then we went on to the acquarium which was mildly interesting and then to the playground where we got our third accident of the trip. After dusty/todd/jeremy pushed masami/ivette/I on the merry-go-round, and after a play on the sea-saws, we got on the swingsets. Several of the guys were swinging high with the intention of jumping off and unfortunately for dusty his swing couldn't handle it. The hood holding the swing to the chain slipped out and down he came. Ouch!!! We suspect he broke his butt!! Afterwards there was the walk back to the camp site and everyone finally got woken up. We built a big fire and pulled the tables around it and then a little fire to cook on. Everyone got their food, squished in around the big fire and enjoyed some refreshments and a rousing game of 'never have i ever' before people started heading off to sleep. After that it was mostly just a few of us left up talking about random stuff and dusty and ricky playing their guitars. Finally, early in the morning, ivette left me and the guys and then shortly after it started to rain and we all abandoned the fire (after much effort) to go sleep in our cars. Sunday it rained pretty steadily the entire time we were there so basically we cleaned up, packed up, took some group pictures and got out of there. So that was indeed the camping trip. Very fun as I said before. After all that sunday I was definately wore out but had to attempt to practice my duo scene for the fundamentals of acting class I'm taking which didn't help me b/c my partner and I both lost our lines at one point so that was sort of a failure. Oh well! As Dr. Whitaker says "Can't win them all Linds.!" Too true. So what else, got a test in Environmental Bio. in the morning and a quiz in the Bio Lab. That sux, oh well, can't do anything about it. Went to go see a play last night too....that sucked as well....we almost didn't get in and then we ended up having to leave before it was over. Monday started a bad week for me, its gettin a little better though. Hopefully that trend will keep up, I dunno though, you never can tell. Anyways now that I've ranted about the only thing even mildly interesting that has gone on recently in my life I'm done. Wow, the longest post yet. *sigh*
I'm soooo ready for summertime.... damn that was random...oh well
Adieu & bonne nuit
Lindsay
