Quick Update

Well, I see it's been a while since I updated my blog. I guess I've been a little preoccupied lately! I'm sorry to all of you who have been waiting to be updated on the excitement that is my life. I'll see if I can do the past month justice in a short update. First, I took a guide course for sea kayaking with my fellow Lifeline workers. Yes, you are seeing the picture clearly, that is snow on the ground and yes, there was ice in the ocean! Luckily most of the time we were in a pool and didn't have to worry about hypothermia.

After finishing our kayak course, we went up to Moosehead lake for a weekend retreat with 5 students and 5 staff. It was really amazing. We had a good time ice fishing and were able to make "fish chowda" one of the nights after catching toug and cusk. It was pretty exciting. We also had some amazing sunsets every night. But the fun part was snowshoeing into the camp. We really didn't need our snowshoes until we hit the actual camp property where, if you didn't have proper equipment, you would fall in past your waste in the deep snow. Very fun. The night we came, I wish you could have seen the stars. They were exquisite!

Then came April Fools Day. What a day. My roommate Ali, and my friend Jess and I all went to the boys house (where 10 guy friends of ours live) to give them an April fools prank to remember. First we all woke up at 1:30 in the morning and made ourselves some blueberry pancakes...you know, to get our energy up. Then we snuck over to the guys house in all black of course. When we got there, the fun began. We put bologna smiles on their windshields, put honey on their door handles of their cars, put a maze of twine in their kitchen, tied their sprayer down so when it turned on it sprayed them, put a bucket of water above one of their doors, taped newspaper in their doorway, put gummies in their shoes, tied their door handles to other door handles, and finished it off with writing "you've been april fooled" on their kitchen window! The best part was, they had no idea (until we revealed it to them at the Cru meeting that night). We got some good laughs from it...and eventually they did too!

Finally, the last picture is of my friends Ty, Ali, Jaime and I all going to the American Legion building for a dance. At first, we thought that it was going to be a fun swing dancing night. It ended up being more like wedding music...which was still fun. We learned lots of "contra" style dancing and we made up a few moves on our own. I actually had a great waltz with a man named Gene who was about 40 years my senior. It was a fun night.