Summer Plans and Academy Craziness

My new hobby (or should I say old?) has been looking for plane tickets. I have been quite annoyed with the high cost of airfare to Europe until I realized yesterday that I'm looking up flights that are six months away! No wonder they are so expensive! I am hoping to visit Austria again this summer, this time with my sistas, who have been invited to stay with relatives for a month or so and get the Austria experience for the first time. I may also be in Morelia for about a month, also. We shall see how these ambitious summer plans shape up...

This past week at the Academy has been absolutely crazy. I started a game of Marshmallow Assassins about a week ago and am still amazed that I was the one who initiated the madness. About 60 students played, bringing about massive chaos in the building for many days. The way the game is works is that everyone who is participating receives a marshmallow and the picture of their secret target, the person they are to find in a common area and hit with the marshmallow. When you hit your target, they are out and you take their target. The last person left wins.

Ever since the game began, there has been running and yelling throughout the dorm. Some students have been hiding away on the their wings for hours on end to avoid getting hit. Others have banded together, making agreements with opponents and helping friends enter and leave the building safely.

I believe that if we play this game next year, there will be many more rules.

While working the front desk for nine hours on Thursday, I lived through a Marshmallow Assassin hostage situation, a massive downpour that created a waterfall of dirty water from an overflowing drain near our dorm, and a tornado warning. That was probably the most eventful desk shift I've had.

And then this past weekend was our trip to Perfect North for a day of skiing/snowboarding, from which it took me a good three days to recover. Thankfully, no one got majorly injured, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. I had no falls, but I was also not daring enough to go on some of the more difficult slopes. I did go on one fairly hard one and somehow managed to get to the bottom without wiping out. That was definitely an adrenaline rush, and I was not able to work up the courage to go on it again. But now I sort of wish I had, because I probably won't get to go skiing again for another year or so.

This weekend is a four-day weekend. The dorm closes, so I'm off work for the those days, which is exciting. I plan on going home, sleeping a lot, and watching a few movies. After that, it's back to work and back to class. This semester I am taking an Advanced Oral Spanish class and an upper-level Religious Studies course on the History of Christianity Since the Reformation. Let's hope I can pull off another couple As with everything that will be going on this semester at the Academy.