Eating Snails

Thanksgiving break begins for me in exactly 4 hours!!! WOoOOO!!!! :D I am very excited to go home to just be home for a few days. I can't even remember the last time I did that. And it make it even better, I have plans to see many, many friends who I love dearly and have not had the pleasure of seeing in quite some time - I am already thankful!!

I'm going to attempt to give you a brief synopses (while I'm in the process of rounding up my belongings to take home) of what has been going down here in and around my Bede dorm room.

1. Busy Person's Retreat.

I mentioned in my last post that this little thing was beginning. We had an opening prayer service on that Sunday night to kick it off and then met with individual spiritual advisors for 30 minutes every day for 4 days. Each of those nights there was an optional group prayer excerise as well. The outcome? It was definitely a wake-up call. Faith is one of those things that is easy to let slip through the cracks when life gets busy. It was kind of frustrating because I felt so busy that week that the relaxing time with my advisor and the group prayer things almost felt like a burden. Now the challenge is where to go from here? I Need to control this business thing!

2. Poetry.

I realized this past week that the semester is nearly over and that's bad news for my independent study Creative Writing class - it's really easy to let such a thing slip through the cracks as well. When there are no set class meeting times, it's almost as if the class doesn't exist until you check your syllabus and realize you have three weeks of class left and about half the books left to read. Oops! ... I did feel rather poetic this past week, but the busyness factor kind of kept that urge surpressed. If only there were more time to just read and write for the pure enjoyment of doing it!

3. New Moon

Have you gotten got up in all the hype over the new Twilight movie? Have you dressed like a vampire and gone to see it? I have - well I went to see it on opening day, NOT dressed like a vampire. I'm not really even a fan of the books. I thought the first movie was kind of not very good really at all, but I still drove to Sioux Falls (because Yankton was sold out) to watch it with friends. It turned out to be significantly better than the first movie in my opinion. Apparently the lady next to me thought so as well. A friend back at MMC sent me a text asking where I had run off to and I responded during the movie - I used my hand as a shield to block the light up factor of my phone, mind you, and it was on silent as well. The lady turned to me and harshly spit at me, "Um, EXCUSE ME, DO YOU MIND?" She then glared at me and turned her attention back to Edward. :S I didn't say anything. I was kind of intimidated. Naturally, I wanted to be angry, but I suppose I would have been irritated if my neighbor was texting during a movie I had been dying to see....who knows.

4. Fall Formal

Saturday night everyone dressed up all classy-like and headed to Hillcrest for the MMC Fall Formal. It was a great time with great friends!! See photos above! :) OH, it was also the source for the title of this blog. Before the dance, a group of us ate at a Cute Seafood Place here in Yankton (I honestly can't remember the name...it used to be the Lighthouse....) and I tried a snail and loved it! WOO! I felt very distinguished. :P

5. Omaha.

I spent my entire Sunday in the big city of Omaha. I had to go down there to a planning meeting for a Core Team TEC retreat I am helping with in January. Long day, but good works.

6. The End. Have a Blessed Thanksgiving!!!