1) I'm 18 days PAIN FREE!!! I am so giddy with excitement about this that I started laughing really hard... and Jin now thinks I'm crazy.
2) JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT was on campus tonight and was AMAZING! He is a very famous actor (500 days of summer, Inception, 50/50 (in theaters now), batman) and was our "Fall South 40 Week Speaker." Check out this link www.hitrecord.com to see what he's doing and to see what kind of show he did tonight! I'll post videos and pictures to facebook!
3) PARENT AND FAMILY WEEKEND WAS THE BEST! Seriously, I haven't been that happy in weeks!!! I felt so blessed to have both Spence and my mama come all the way out here for just a quick 48 hours! But oh it was so good to see them!!!
They arrived Friday at 5 and got to campus around 6. I walked them around campus and showed them where my workstudy job is, where all my classes are, where all the different places to eat are... Then went back to the South 40 (the area where all the underclass dorms are - looks like Hogwarts meets Paris) and we had dinner in the Bear's Den (the "cafeteria" in the South 40, where I eat most of my meals). Spencer stayed with me for the night and that was so fun!!! He had some homework to do so we went down to Ursa's (lots of explaining on this post! anyways, ursa's is on the South 40 too and it is open every night and has big flat screen tvs everywhere and you can get wraps or quesadillas and crepes and smoothies and ice cream and hot cocoa... basically its amazingly dangerous). So we hung out there and did some work and then got brownie sundaes and went back up to my floor to play Settlers of Catan with some of the guys on my floor! Spence slept in my suitemates' room because they were both staying in their parents hotel rooms.
Saturday we did lots of shopping! Target, Bed Bath and Beyond... the mall. I needed some real shoes for winter!! Saturday night we went to dinner with Gayathri and Anna and their families and Jin too. We went to this restaurant on the loop (this super funky street a mile from campus - named one of the top 10 streets in america!) and had dinner at Pi pizza, which is Obama's favorite deep dish pizzeria!! It was AWESOME! And so fun to be with all of our families!!
Sunday, I took them to my church (and we got starbucks beforehand, yay!!! I'm wayyyy starbucks deprived!) and then we went to Forest Park (its this massive park next to campus - its bigger than central park in NY and has 2 golf courses, a zoo, museums and a whole bunch of other cool things) I hadn't spent much time in Forest Park even though its so close, so we went over there and went to a restaurant on this little lake and it could not have been better!!! The weather was amazing! It's back to like 75-80 degrees and we sat outside and had a yummy brunch! It was a perfect way to end a wonderful weekend with my family!!
3) I'm going backwards in time here... So Friday I TURNED IN MY 20 PAGE PAPER! What a relief!!! If any of you want to read it, let me know and I'll email it to you :) It's a lot to take in, but it would give you a pretty good idea of today's social problems!
4) I had a calc midterm on Wednesday. Since I pretty much failed the last one, there was a lot resting on this one. I didn't get to study as much as I had wanted for it since I had that Urban Studies paper to write, but I still spent hours and hours studying for it Monday and Tuesday. I ended up getting a 70/90 on the multiple choice (don't know about the ten points of free response yet), which I was happy with. AND THEN... HE EMAILS US THE NEXT DAY AND SAYS THAT SINCE THE MEAN SCORE WAS A 50/90 HE IS GIVING EVERYONE 10 FREE POINTS!!! So that took my score from a 70/90 to an 80/90!!! Plus, I'm pretty confident that I got all the free response points, so I should get a 90/100!!! YES!
5) On the last post, I had mentioned that I got an A- on my spanish lit midterm. We got our spanish grammer midterms back last week... and I got a B+! I was sooooooo relieved! That test was really difficult and I am not very good at all the grammar stuff... so I am thrilled!
Okay! That was a lot of information!! Sorry it took so long to get a post up!! Miss you guys!!! I'LL BE HOME IN A MONTH!!!!
Oh, and I'm not going to post my pictures on here... because it takes too long and I have 50 pages to read for tomorrow... oops! But I'll get them uploaded to facebook soon!
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