January 17, 2012

     Tuesday. Breakfast. Life & Teachings: DJ made me cry...again...I tell ya...that man...he read us a letter that his mom wrote him when he was six...the first time he had ever read it to students. heart wrenching, I tell you. Plenary...we learned all about the history from the Renaissance until today...since that's the era we're all studying in this spring semester. Lunch. Nap time. One on one with Burns...she took me to the local coffee place "The Cool Bean." I got a peach iced tea...so good! Then...self care time! I worked on planning our January event "Sierra Showcase" aka an open mic/talent show we are going to hold on Saturday! It should be great! Dinner. Reading for Leadership. Setting up our girl's hall event. Tonight, as we're still looking at January's theme: (re)defining the word "scholar," we talked about how important self care is and we had a night of destressification! We first wrote down everything we had to do and then placed them aside. We played this great game involving panty hose, balloons, and racing...pictures soon! We then watched cartoons on the projector in the meeting hall! Tom & Jerry and Kim Possible for the win! It was so great to ignore homework and our responsibilities! I then came back to my room and was ambushed by my roomies exclaiming "Happy Birthday!" Christy made me a beautiful hand knit headband that she made herself! It's a deep olive green with a maroon bow! It's SO CUTE! I'm wearing it tomorrow on my birthday! Other girls on the hall came in too...so sweet! I share my birthday with Jess...we're convinced we're twins and she gave me a beautiful card! I then read a bunch of girls a bed time story. We all hopped in Taylor's bed and I read them the story of "Scamp the Puppy." So fun! I am now in our lobby finishing up leadership homework and writing this post! Tomorrow I turn 20! How crazy is that! Excited to see what this new year and decade of my life are going to hold! Nighty night!