New Discovery

Monday night at our Japan meeting, last week, it was Kathryn and Yurika's birthdays. So we celebrated with singing happy birthday, signing cards, gifts and cake.

One of the presents was silly string. Kathryn whirled around and sprayed some at Tomoya, in the middle, who jumped away and was freaking out. Apparently, Japan does not have silly string so they were so enthralled by the idea of silly string and would jump whenever we sprayed it at them.

A photo of everyone, Japanese students and us.

Pay Back

Last weekend Sarah went home while Ashley, Brock and I stayed on campus. So Sunday night, we decided to prank her room since she had left her keys with us. 

Everything was wrapped, including the toilet.

Love My Room

After last night's disaster, of plastic wrap and toilet paper, someone had to clean up the room. So I got to work cleaning the room and getting laundry done. It looks so amazing and clean! I love my room!

Cleaned up my desk too. I love sitting at my desk and reading and looking at all these amazing people that are in my life. This is most definitely my happy spot on campus. Couldn't ask for more amazing people to be in my life. I miss and love them all.

They Are So Dead

After the game Sarah, Cassie, her roommate, and I watched a movie to help us get over the loss we just experienced. I came back to my room around 1:00 am to this.

Cassie, Jenise and Karla had pranked my room while I was at Walmart with Cassie and Sarah and watching the game. Sarah was in on it and new it was happening tonight and had to get me out of my room. Well that wasn't too difficult with our basketball team playing. 

Everything was plastic wrapped; my suitcase, chair, trash, clothes, shoes, backpack and everything in my backpack!

Cupcake Face

Saturday at dinner there were red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, the best dessert ever. There were only five cupcakes left on the platter so Sarah and I each grabbed two. Cole loves red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, so we were rubbing it in his face that we had cupcakes and he didn't. Just as we had sent a photo Cole walked into the dining hall and then we decided that we should get the last cupcake so then he would have to come to us to get a cupcake. Literally, five minutes after we had taken all the cupcakes the staff brought out a whole new platter and Sarah and I looked at each other and said "we are not eating all those!" Cole came over to the dessert bar and grabbed the whole platter and walked towards us and stopped and talked. He decided to put the platter back though. After we were all done we saved one cupcake for one purpose. We were walking out of the dining hall and Cole was leaving too, so we stopped and talked and then I asked if Cole wanted the last cupcake. He made a funny face and said no. Anthony, his friend said he would take it. Cole yelled at me to not give it to him, because he was going to throw it in his face. At that moment I took the cupcake and smashed it on his face and tried to make it stick, but cupcakes are terrible for stuffing in someone's face. I walked to my door as Cole tried to throw snowballs at me, but he is terrible with aim.

After that adventure with Cole, Anthony and Dylon I headed to Sarah's room to watch the boys play. Our basketball team was competing for nationals in the NCAA DII in Missouri. Before the game started we went to Walmart and I got my chips and dip. Sat down with this delicious childhood snack and watched the game.

We had seven seconds left in the game and were at the foul line, winning by two. We needed to make both of the shots so that we could get good enough of a lead, but we were 1 for 2. The game started again with three seconds on the clock and the other team was coming down the court and chucked  the ball up on the arc line. Boom! He made it! NOOO!!! It was tied! I was screaming at the top of my lungs for Haley, the RA who was just in the room watching the game and left because she thought we had just won the game. At first I was screaming her name as I was in the room, but then I ran out into the hallway and was yelling her name. I had everyone coming out of their doors. Jenise was in Cassie's room and was panicking. She came down to Sarah's room and was like what's going on? She had thought she was going to have to call security, because someone was getting raped or something terrible. Whoops, I guess I will try and be quiet next time. Over time was over and we lost 83-89. Bummer!:(

Workout Buddies

On most days we work out around 4 and sometimes we are only in the cardio center or in the weight room too. If we happen to go into the weight room we will a sea of football guys working out with us. We always gawk at something every time. One guy was doing chest presses with 100lb dumb bells, another was doing bicep curls with 45lbs. 

Totally Different

Monday night last week I had my Japan meeting and we went to the Rig, which is a student run cafe/restaurant. We played the game telephone, in Japanese, and enjoyed drawing on the chalkboard tables that they had. I'm certain that the Japanese have way better drawing skills than most Americans! I was blown away with how well they could draw stuff. It looked as if the photos had come from a cartoon.

Tomoya, in the red sweater, is an exchange student for one year here and is teaching us Japanese. He has amazing English! In the telephone game he taught us "I'm Home." Kathryn then asked how do you say "honey" so that she could say "honey I'm home!" Tomoya and the other Japan students were confused in why we wanted to say that and the significance of honey. We were trying to figure out where they were coming from and asked "if he had a girlfriend would he call her honey?" Tomoya made a disgusted face and asked "why would I call her honey? What does honey mean?" Nate then responded "don't you have pet names for your girlfriend? Like Sweety, Babe, Honey?" Tomoya was so confused and said no. We then proceeded to ask "what would you call your girlfriend then?" Tomoya responded "just by her first name." 

Us: If you called her 'honey' what would she do?

Tomoya: She would be confused and upset.

We were all laughing so hard during this conversation.