Pink, Anyone?

Only three weeks left until Thanksgiving break!!

However, though that does sound extremely appealing right now as more and more days go by without getting to sleep in, and more and more papers become assigned, at the same time I almost dread it. Why, one may ask? Well, that means that I only have three weeks to get a rather large number of assignments out of the way, because after Thanksgiving, we have a surprisingly short amount of the semester left before Christmas break. So it looks like even if I thought these past few weeks were busy, things are only going to get crazier - but crazy tends to be the basic definition of college, so I really should not be surprised.

This past Sunday I managed to work out my schedule at my job so that I could take a bit of a break from the stress and go on another WORLD trip to Pittsburgh to go salsa dancing. This was slightly different from a typical WORLD trip, however, because this one was also open to members outside of the club, so anyone on campus could go for just a bit more money than club members had to pay (and believe me, it was really cheap for a whole night of dancing plus the ride up and back). So basically, I learned to do basic salsa in 30 minutes, then spent the rest of the night dancing with both friends and strangers, and though I do not think I ever got very good at what I was doing, it was definitely a lot of fun, and I felt a lot better when I got home. Nothing like crazy dancing to make the stress go away!

As Halloween began its approach, WU began to definitely reflect the holiday. Monday saw a lot of changing hair colours and styles on campus in preparation (including my own!!) and even the cafe got into the spirit of things by occasionally having Halloween-themed foods, such as blue pudding for desert, and they even had a pumpkin painting contest right during lunch. Also, the levels of free candy randomly in baskets and containers around campus sky-rocketed, which I am definitely not complaining about and took full advantage of.

Come Thursday, and after hearing about it the past two years but never participating in it myself, I decided to head to the Halloween dance held right on campus. I was far from disappointed, because it seemed that everyone really had gone all-out on creative costumes, and the dancing was a lot of fun. And besides, dancing in costume is always more exciting than dancing in regular clothes - not to mention more challenging, especially when you make a decision like mine to wear a rather long cloak accompanied by boots with an impressively high heel.

After the dance itself had ended, my typical group of friends and I decided that ice cream was definitely in order - as well as the stereotypical college 'Wal-Mart run,' which typically involves a group of several students going to Wal-Mart a bit late at night to get something ridiculous. In our case, it was almost 11, and we were searching for a toothbrush. After being successful in our first mission, we headed on to find ice cream, only to discover that the ice cream machine at our first choice was broken, and we were forced to relocate. However, we were able to eventually find success again, and it was a sweet treat to end a pretty great evening.

Oh, and wearing cat ears all around campus all day Friday was definitely fun as well - especially considering they were bright orange, which may have been a bit of a clash with my new hair colour, but it was a clash in the best of ways!

This coming week is the annual fall play, and I most certainly have secured tickets for myself and my friends already. I look forward to the play every year, and have been going since even before I was a WU student myself, because the productions are always open to the outside community as well. This year, the play is The Importance of Being Earnest, and I believe that it is some sort of comedy...but I am really not picky about it. Not to sound biased or anything (though I probably am, to be honest) whatever show the WU theatre department decides to put on, from whatever genre, it always turns out to be really good and into a really fun evening. Thus, I am going no matter what the show is about, and I am definitely looking forward to Thursday now.

Anyway, until next week, have a great Halloween - I know I definitely have been, and I love dragging it out through the entire week instead of it only being for one day!