Hello everybody! I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving ( I know I did!) ! The food was EXCELLENT as always, and I especially enjoyed the turkey and stuffing. It was great to be back in Bakersfield, even though I probably spent only a total of 60 hours there ;) I didn't bring my camera, so hopefully Lauren will post all the Thanksgiving pictures up!
As far as this goes, I turned in a five page paper today detailing my political beliefs and WHY I feel the way I do, and on Friday I have a little news quiz in Political Science and a Chemistry test. Tuesday and Thursday I have my ice skating lessons, which will wrap up on the 9th of this month. They're going really well, and I'm nailing the basics :D I can't wait to move on to the higher levels and hopefully someday I'll be able to pull off a spin or some other impressive figure-skating maneuver. I originally wanted to get into speed skating, but I think I'll try figure skating first.
The two pictures I have posted here are from my Initiation Week at Alpha Chi Omega. It was a couple weeks ago, and Monday-Thursday night all 25 of us new members had a giant sleepover in the basement of the Alpha Chi house. Needless to say, we got hardly any sleep at all! One night, a few of us went out and bought red and green (our colors) plastic cups and stuck them on a fence on a bridge above a freeway in the shape of a lyre (our symbol). It was about three in the morning but it was fun! The picture of that is below. Another night, we went up to the giant U and stuck white trash bags in vertical lines so that the U looked like a lyre...hard to explain but it looked kinda cool. As far as hazing and all that goes, I will assure you all that there was none of that! I wouldn't have stood for something like that. It was just a very fun week and at the end of it we were formally initiated as active and potentially lifelong members of Alpha Chi Omega! I'm still enjoying it a lot, although we haven't done too much lately because it's close to finals. All of mine are on December 16 and 17....whew! It's coming up soon!
Well that's all I really have to say for the moment...it's a busy week so I probably won't update this for a little while, but I love you all and take care!
Love, Steph
