Blog for week 10

Sadness has started to creep up on us during week 10. At family meeting, Dustin reminded us that we had 18 days left until graduation...I feel like I've been here for awhile, but it also feels like time has just gone by so quickly!

It's been a good week though. Monday, a bunch of students went skiing. I stayed back and wrote papers and finished “When Character was King” ( Ronald Reagan's biography). I also went to town and spent time with Matthew and Marcie at a cute little coffee shop downtown. I've really come to enjoy spending time in coffee shops. Not only my mind, body and soul have matured, but so have my taste buds ;) My love for coffee has definitely grown while being here. The caffeine doesn't effect me...unfortunately, so it doesn't help me stay awake during morning and evening classes. But I really love a good cup of black coffee...no cream, no sugar! I do like flavored coffee when I go to Starbucks though...only because they usually burn their coffee... I think they do it on purpose so that costumers will go for the more expensive fancy flavored drinks, since their regular coffee is so crappy. Anyway, I sat by the window facing the river, eating a cinnamon roll and drink a vanilla latte, reading C.S Lewis. What a glorious way to spend a Monday afternoon.

Tuesday was even better than Monday! It was “Ladies Appreciation Day”! A few weeks ago we put on a “Guy Appreciation Day” where we made and served them breakfast and dinner, covered their dish crews, wrote them each a letter (so each guy got 19 letters!) and line danced after dinner. It was a great evening! But the guys...the guys went above and beyond on their day. They made us parfaits with fresh fruit and granola, and scones for breakfast. They did our dish crews too, which is always nice...since we do so many dishes here! For lunch they made us orange chicken, special Asian rice (made by our very own Asian/Mexican/Hawaiian boy) and vegetables...it was so delicious! In the afternoon we had work-crews. I was on the crew that chopped up trees, carried the logs to the barn, and then chopped the logs into fire-wood. I spent the first hour and half throwing the logs down the mountain to Peter, who loaded them into the wheel-barrow and took them to the truck. Before we did any of that though, I had to shovel a path from the mountain to the drive-way so that we could push the laden wheel-barrow through the snow, which was about 8-10 inches on the mountain. After we had finished that, we drove the truck down to the barn, unloaded and began swinging our axes and chopping that wood! It was my first time chopping fire wood and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I thought I would be super sore the next day, but I wasn't...probably because swinging an axe works the same muscles as rowing does. After work crews we were told we couldn't enter the main lodge until 5:30 and that we needed to dress up. So of course all the girls freaked out and ran to their rooms to go shower and dress up. It was really fun...we were all borrowing each others dresses, doing each others hair, etc... At 5:30(ish) one of the guys came over here to escort the ladies to the main lodge. When we got to the door, each girl got escorted to the tables, were we each had a name-placement card. The tables were covered in red table clothes and set for a 5 course meal, which is what we were served! The guys didn't even sit down to eat...they served us each course! It was so cute how they were all dressed up, and polite. They cooked each course themselves, since the cooks were girls they too got the day off. We had amazing freshly baked french bread, followed by Tomato Basil soup....

Ok so I wrote all of the above about 2 weeks ago...so I don't remember what we had after Tomato Basil Soup...sorry to leave you hanging. Im sorry for not posting anything last week. I must admit I've been a little lazy in bloging lately due to the fact that I only have a week left at Semester.

Lots of stuff happened this week, Thanksgiving, Baumans final class, and of course Christmas parties. Thanksgiving was lot of fun, I ate too much as usual... I ate 3 full plates of food. Everything looked so good, that I just had to try some of everything... duh! After napping off my food baby, I went for a run, which was extremely painful. Food baby was definitely kicking during my run! It was really nice to see everyone's families who came to celebrate TG with us. Although, it made me miss my family even more... Spending TG without my family was a weird feeling, but luckily I had my summit family to celebrate it with.

On Friday we went to go chop down our tree...and by we I mean everyone who remembered to wake up early and go walk to miles to cut it down...and yes, I slept in by accident. I did want to go help get the tree though :( The rest of the day was spent listening to Christmas music, playing Settlers of Catan and making ornaments!

Unfortunately I have to leave civilization so this is the end of this post! Sorry folks