Well. Make that almost relaxing - there is that Religion in America paper I should probably get started on...but aside from that, a relaxing weekend! What more could a college junior ask for than only one assignment for a weekend?
Speaking of Religion in America, one of our continuing themes throughout the class is that we need to visit four places of worship that are different from what we are used to, and write a reflection about how Americans are worshipping somewhere different. Our first one of these reflections is due on Tuesday, so a few friends from the class and I are all going to visit a local Catholic church right here in Waynesburg - I've personally never been to a real Catholic service before, so I'm very curious (and admittedly a little nervous) about what I am going to see and experience, but I definitely think that all of these trips will be eye-opening experiences.
And not only my trips for Religion in America - for World Religions, my other theology class this semester, we are going to be visiting four different places of worship for each of the four religions we are studying in the class: Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Now, if I think that the Catholic service is going to be different from my typical Baptist/Nazarene service I have grown up on, those four are going to be EXTREMELY different - but I'm beyond excited about them, that's for sure. Nothing is more eye-opening than putting oneself really outside of one's comfort zone for a new experience that is completely uncomfortable and different, and seeing another's religion is certainly a way to understand that person on a much deeper level. Besides, understanding other religions beyond my own will hopefully help me learn more about myself as well...so overall, I really cannot wait for those trips. I'll definitely be blogging about each of them here as they occur.
This week, one of my friends and I also seized the opportunity to sign up to be in the Waynesburg University brochures and advertisement photo shoots, which will be occurring in late October. I absolutely love pictures and posing and just generally being creative like that, and think it is going to be a really good time - so loyal reader, you'll just have to keep your eyes open for my face in the newest Waynesburg brochures! Its a really cool opportunity, and especially awesome because they were just letting anyone from the campus sign up, not just selecting certain people for it - so we'll have real Waynesburg people doing real Waynesburg stuff now, I guess. I'm just glad that they're letting my eccentric self be a poster child for the university!
October - now THAT is going to be an exciting month, and its rolling towards me faster than I can even begin to believe. October is when things start to really go crazy on campus, too, as even more exams and midterms roll in, and typically big papers start to be due across campus - but its also the month that even more extracurricular stuff starts to happen as well. Its not going to be any different in my life - the first weekend of the month a rather sizeable group of WU students and I are headed up to Pittsburgh for yet another Anime convention, the KuroKiiro Festival. We're actually really lucky to live less than an hour from two conventions a year, which is more than most cities can say - looks like Pittsburgh just got a few extra awesome points in my book! As the month goes on, I'll have those photo shoots, and eventually Halloween, which usually is the time of a dance right on campus. My costume is already planned...but I think I'll leave it as a surprise you can look forward to reading about in a few weeks. Let's just say I'm pretty excited about it.
Sometime within the next couple of weeks, my group in Geology is going to take a field trip to Ohiopyle, which is a 'geological point of interest' a little less than an hour from campus to do research for our final project in that class. I'm actually pretty excited for the trip, even though we don't have it 100% planned out yet - Ohiolyle is actually a really nice place, and I don't think that any of my group members have ever seen it besides myself, so I'm looking forward to showing them all the waterfalls and natural water slides, which is probably what we are doing our project on! We actually might be going next Saturday - and I really hope we do. I'm terribly impatient sometimes...
Oh! The most exciting part of my week? My friend Nicole and I enjoy our daily trip across campus to see a small family of four kittens that lives near a few of the campus houses! It may not sound like much, just a few kittens, but after going down every day to see them, they've slowly been warming up to us even to the point that we can play with and hold them - and that's definitely a nice stress relief between classes, to just go and sit in the sun enjoying the weather and holding a nice little kitten.
Although I've heard everyone that passes call the kittens by a different name, we have our own for them - Ninja, Howard, MoMo, and my personal favourite, a little grey one I call Renton. Now, there are always cats running around Waynesburg, but these four are definitely the coolest (mostly because we tamed them, but hey, I think that's a legitimate reason). I don't see our cat obsession ending any time soon, either. At least it keeps two video game obsessed girls outside for at least a little bit of the day, though, so that's good at least (and a good excuse!).Well, my plans for the weekend are not too exciting, though I am making the trip back to my high school's home football game to see the marching band play, and leaving after half time like a true ex-band kid myself, so I'm looking forward to that. Though I would never want to repeat my high school days again, and they seem more and more distant with each passing day in college, its still nice to see things like that now and again and have those nostalgic memories for the evening. As for tomorrow? Looks like I have a Religion in America book review in my near future and a few hours at Target as I save up for Queens, which though it might be painful now, will certainly be worth it in...four months! I can't believe I'm leaving in four months!!!!
And on that optimistic note, I think I shall end this incoherent ramble and spare you any further spastic thoughts. Next week I'll be sure to talk about the Catholic service Sunday, as well as any other excitement my friends and I seem to always manage to find right here on campus!
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