Pancakes!!

Well, this is officially the longest I’ve ever gone without writing a blog, and I’m not sure why that is. So for the 900^th time, I’m terribly sorry! Although, not all that much has been happening. I told you all about my school schedule and how not demanding it is, so that has been nice to just sit back and relax, but its getting a bit old! How sad is that? Isn’t it every college student’s dream to not have a lot of homework? I suppose if I had a job, it wouldn’t be that bad, but sitting in the flat for hours on end doing absolutely nothing is getting old. SO, I decided that I would start reading again. I used to read books like nobody’s business when I was in middle school, and then it dwindled in high school and almost disappeared when I started college. Anyway, I’m turning over a new leaf. I read Catcher in the Rye and The Picture of Dorian Gray (both VERY good, I would highly recommend both), and now I’m reading The Case for Christ, also good so far.

Well life hasn’t been too bad out here, just hanging out more than anything. We’ve recently developed an addiction to the card game Squeak. It’s like a community version of speed Solitaire. And it all started when I taught Lucy how to play about a week ago, then everyone else, one at a time, wanted to join in too. Its gotten way competitive, and Lucy absolutely slaughtered me the first night we played, but since then I’ve been unbeatable. Unfortunately, last night was the end of my Squeak reign. Emma beat me last night. It was a sad day in the world. Well for me; everyone else seemed pretty happy about it. Oh, but the good news is, Dan decided he wanted to put money on one single round of Squeak, so we put a fiver on the game, and I ended up just barely winning. That was fun.

Besides Squeak though, I have been doing *some* school. My creative writing class isn’t too bad, my Intro to World Dramatic Literatures is still a bit boring, and my the proposal for my 15 minute show is due in my Drama Projects class on Friday. So I think, like I said in my last blog, that things are going to get a bit busier here in the next few weeks. This weekend should be fun though, Jimmy’s coming from Germany to stay for the weekend and a few days after. His semester is finishing (the German school system is even weirder than the American or English one’s), so he’s going to come visit out here, and hang out with me and my roommates.

Oh, on a different note, we’ve (all of us in the flat) have all been getting along really well this term. Its been fun, what with playing Squeak and all, and we’ve started doing a group dinner every Thursday night. Heather made enchiladas last week, and those were way good. A bit different in England than New Mexico, but still very good. I think Anna’s cooking tonight, some Thai soup, but its just nice to not have to cook once a week. (I think I may have already told you all of this before… so I apologize if I’m repeating myself…) And even better than someone cooking for you once a week, was today: Pancake Day! Yes, it’s a national thing. Everyone makes British Pancakes (think crepes), and then you eat loads and loads of them! Lucy’s been perfecting her pancake mix since we got here, and we made 4 batches to feed all 9 of us! The kitchen got all smoky, and we had fun flipping them in the pans… we didn’t even drop any of them! Although… some ended up a bit wonky, still tasted good though!

Well, I think that’s pretty much it, I’ll write more in the next few days, and I’ll try to do it a bit more regularly. I shouldn’t like to go another 3 weeks without a blog! I do apologize. Ooo, but it snowed! IT SNOWED! For the first time! It was awesome. We made snowballs and threw them at each other and froze our hands off. It was fantastic. I’ve had my fix now, so I can go another year without snow if I have to… even though I don’t want to.

The only other interesting thing that has happened is that we got bored one night and attempted to fit as many people into my wardrobe as was possible. Sounds dumb, I know, but it really was quite funny. We started off fitting three people, and were all proud of ourselves, but we’ve now graduated to fitting five of us in there! It was hilarious, because all of us were squished in there, and then Emma, who was tucked on the bottom at the back, started yelling because she could hear the floor of the wardrobe breaking under our weight! Then, within a few seconds it snapped and we all screamed. So now my wardrobe floor has a crack… I think it was particle board, so I don’t know why we thought it could hold the weight of 5 university students! Anyway, now my wardrobe has character.

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