It feels like forever since I last wrote. These past two weeks have sped by in a busy, busy blur. One of those weeks was filled with lighting rehearsals, technical run-throughs, and dress rehearsals, all leading up to a weekend of performances. The process was time consuming, but it was exciting to perform, especially since I was dancing for my friend Faith. It's nice to be in something you really care about, to be able to put your heart into it.
The next week began with an enormously wonderful surprise: A SNOW DAY! This is the first snow day we've had since my freshman year, and I've never seen this much snow in Greensboro. It definitely brought back happy memories from
home. Freezing rain started on Sunday, and as the snow started to fall early that evening, our hopes were increasingly heightened. By late that night we found out scho
ol was canceled, and we ran out in the street to celebrate. I'd never seen that much snow fall in the city before, so it was neat to see it so illuminated by the city light sky glow. That night we bundled up and hiked through the snow over to my friend Paul's house, we we got sneak attacked by my friend Sam pelting us with large snowballs. His fiance Gina held the door locked from the inside so that we had no choice but to stay outside and have a massive snowball fight. The next day the twins and I played out in the snow around campus, warmed up at home with cappuccino, and ended the day with a delicious banana chocolate chip feast courtesy of Gina's amazing cooking skills.The rest of the week was a bit more stressful.....professors tend to pile on work right before breaks. One bright spot of bright spot of this past week was a visiting Scottish professor from the University of Southampton in England. He sat in on/taught two of my English classes, and it was such a delightful change of pace to have this brilliant, intellectually fascinating old man teach us in his charming, thick Scottish accent. My friend Sam and I went up to thank him at the end of one of our classes, and he told us he thought we were exceptionally bright young people with stellar features ahead (after which our regular teacher told this man that we were two of her best students) ....naturally, we went around feeling really ridiculously conceited for the rest of the day! I'm hoping I can get a least a couple of awesome professors like this for my semester abroad.
And now I'm on a much needed SPRING BREAK. I've already had a fantastic couple of days this weekend (lots of sun and playing outdoors involved) and I'll write about that soon.
