Ah, I do not feel good. I arrived in Maryland after a somewhat scary flight ( I can't remember how many times I prayed the rosary), and slept all day. I didn't know I was so tired until I hit the couch. Today I went to get my glasses (they're so damn cute!!!). I actually picked out a guy's pair for my second pair, but they look so good on me. It's been quite a week for me though.

Monday: Veteran's Day
I was honestly confused. I don't even know what Veteran's Day is about, but my guess is it's to honour old army dudes and dudettes. My uni also thought it would be great to combine it with some good old community service. That, I was also clueless about. I thought we were going to hang around school and wash some cars and stuff. I had no idea we would be going to different places and working on lots of diverse stuff. I initially wanted to go to the Thrift store that was on the list of places to serve, but it was all filled up, so I ended up going to the Boys and Girls club with Pauleisha's team. Rest of the pics are in the Veteran's Day Collection.

At first, it felt like the place was overflowing with students, and it seemed like there were more uni kids than actual kids, but we played an American version of "Form a big circle." I was tempted to say "Like your mother's cooking pot" *lol* The kids were sweet. And I met a guy that I never knew was in my year. Honestly, I'd never seen him before. But he was nice. No.... there is no potential of a love interest there, so stop wishing.

Tuesday: My Speech
It was fantastic!! If I say so myself. I delivered a speech, aided with a powerpoint presentation on Facial Scarifications in Nigeria and Western Africa which I wrote a fantastic essay on previously, and my professor was just blown away. Ahhh, the sweet smell of success. Not quite the smell of overdue homework which is about to choke me at this point.

Wednesday: Intercultural Food Night and My Culinary Debut

Cooking Nigerian food takes so long. Honestly, there is no fast way to do it. Darling Charla-Maye let us use her kitchen, so that made things so much easier. Of course, we left them a pot of rice and chicken in thanksgiving (no pun intended). Our food turned out to be more than a hit. After setting out all the food in the warmers, I nipped back to my room to shower quickly and change because cooking for six hours left me smelling like onions and cayenne pepper. So in the spirit of the International thingy, I slipped into my ankara skirt that billows as I hurry down the stairs. It's simply marvellous.
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The food is gone. All I met was upturned plates, and forks and spoons. We had cleaned out in under three minutes reportedly. I didn't even get to see people eat my own food! But it was great because all the other countries still had full pans of food. See the pictures here Nigeria rocks everybody!! But we specials already knew that.

Just got back from a basketball game. I'd forgotten how entertained I used to be by basketball. I went late though, at 4:53pm, but I still caught a lot of action. I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. This week was the last week of classes, and finals start on Monday (actually they've already started for me since I had my English final on Thursday), and I've been neck deep in last minute homework and studying. I recorded most of the time I was there. We lost unfortunately. :( But it was a close win for the Flaglers anyway. 75 to 73. If you didn't see the game, and you're bummed because you missed it, sorry, I can't give you a blow by blow. I'm not good at that sort of thing. I will post a clip of a few shots the Lions made here later.
In other news this week, I went to see Cedric Liqueur perform. He was in the Cannon Memorial Library on Wednesday, December 5 to perform a poem by Sappho (She was one of the most prominent female Greek poets of the 6th century. - Learned that in class..heh heh). It was unbelievable. Mr.Liqueur is able to express such a vast variety of emotions with just his eyes and mouth. I was speechless for most of the rendition, and then when he had a free moment, I jumped over a few people's legs and got a picture with him. Swell, innit?

Love is in the air, and right now you can't go anywhere on campus without encountering couples holding hands and staring deep into each other's eyes as they amble around school (this usually leads to them bumping into something at some point). I'm not celebrating Valentine's day this year, but CAB definitely is! Some enterprising students set up a gift delivery service for couples wanting to give their loved ones Valentine's Day pressies. Just a dollar, and the object of your affection receives a rose, or a teddy or a card on Valentine's Day! I think it's pretty cool.