Just a brief overview, I went home for Christmas Break! 3 weeks of pure and utter happiness--I didn't want to go back to school and was secretly scheming to jump off the plane in Seattle and stay there. I mean, I am decently smart and decently talented, I could just have my cello shipped over and then become a busker (not to frighten you, parents) which is a completely plausible idea!
Break was fantastic though, I just wanted to stay home and sit at the kitchen counter with Momma for...ever. But alas, it doesn't work that way. Here are a few picture of life at home...
Mom and I after snowshoeing the Big :)
Cookies that were in love (until devoured by Alex's friends..)
The famous Tree Episode of 2010...
Drove for HOURS, all the way to Bigfork (finally) and found this short-ish, crooked-ish tree (it had a dowel taped to the inside so it would stand straight) that had been spray painted green...It was adorable. We then proceeded to tied it to the roof of the beamer. Mom, Lo, Lily, and I started to pull away and began to realize that the tree did not plan to stay on top of the car. Long story short, we pulled over next to a dead deer, we tried to retie the tree but to no avail, and we ended up driving 25-35 mph on a 70 mph high way thus more than doubling the time it took us to get home.
BUT it was a beautiful tree and a grand adventure.
I love the Wizard of Oz.
<3
(One of the ONLY pictures in which we are not trying to kill each other)
And then Russell, Corinne, Bailey, and Conner came!
I ended up taking some photos for their family pictures...
After all of the fun we had at home I was forced to go back to Midd to attend J-Term.
J-Term consists of taking one class for the entire month of January. For example, I took Visual Sociology and had class Monday, Wednesday, Thursday from 1-4 pm.
I haven't been taking a ton of pictures but here are some from socializing during J-Term...
This is my friend, Dani.
And these are Albert and Joe.
And then we went with the Ski Patrollers as dates.
The Ski Patrollers (above) are Chris, Emily, Caroline, and Caleb..
Picture above that are Jake and Caroline, Emily and Dave, and Chris and Me.
J-term was filled with lots of sleeping, snowboarding, movie watching, and general fun! Oh, and my birthday!
But after J-Term was Feb Break. Sadly, so sadly, I wasn't able to go home SO I went home, to Connecticut, with Dani. We even went to New York once! Saturday we drove the 5 hours to CT, spent time there, went to NYC on Monday, and left that evening for Killington. We were in Killington from Monday through Saturday and skied some absolutely amazing snow!
I had a great time but then it was time to return, once again, to Middlebury.
This semester I am taking:
Accelerated Basic Spanish--Fernandez
Human Ecology--Sheridan
Writing: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry--Shaw
Chem 104--Larrabee.
I love Spanish, Human Ecology and Writing require a TON of work, but Chem 104 feels like a 400 level Chinese class--I feel like he is speaking a foreign language to me. But hey, I will suffer through it. And hopefully survive.
This last weekend was Winter Carnival (the longest running winter carnival EVER!) which involved an 80's Dance with featured guests Orange Crush...
Comedians Shang Wang and a guy who is a writer for SNL and is frequently on Jimmy Fallon's show named John Mulaney.
Also, we had a Winter Ball but the pictures wont upload from it unfortunately.
Needless to say, it was a very fun weekend, but now back to the books.
Quick Facts about Middlebury:
1. We have the #7 dining services in the country...
http://www.hercampus.com/life/top-10-college-dining-halls?page=2
2. We supposedly have attractive girls AND boys
http://collegeprowler.com/rankings/
I am pretty sure we are like in the top 10 for most work in the country but hey--no big :)
I love you all! Wish me luck
peace
