A very busy day.
Well, now that I have time to write, which I am mostly doing to keep myself awake, I'll tell you about yesterday's events.
It was Halloween, so since I am on the residence committee, I had to decorate the six lounges for a murder mystery event. Tuesday night, a few of us got together to start preparing some of the decorations, like the red cross that was going in the nurse's office. However, there was a lot of miscommunication yesterday. First, they told me to decorate all afternoon since I finished class at 1:30. However, I could not do this because I didn't know where any of the supplies were. Second of all, I don't know what goes where, what rooms were going to be for which people. so I ended up helping make the cupcakes on the first floor. That was fun because I really felt accepted by the people who were doing it. They were talking up a storm with me. I loved it.
I went back to my room for a while before I had to feed the Noomster. I fed him, then went to where I thought we were going to meet to start decorating. We were supposed to meet on the fifth floor, but when I got there, no one was there. Eventually, after waiting for about ten minutes or so, I saw the residence life coordinator, and she said that there were a few people on the third floor lounge decorating it. I went down there to see what I could do. It was so stressful because there were only three of us decorating, and we had six lounges to do.
Around 6:40, we decided that since only three lounges had been decorated, we would double the characters up because the event started at 7. I was not happy about all of this. when we have a committee meeting, I am definitely going to bring this up to them.
The event itself was great. We had a costume contest. there were six contestants. Another person and I tied!!! I dressed up as a guide dog trainer in training. LOL. I had a blindfold because I know that apprentices have to go through a ten-day period where they wear a blindfold and use a guide dog with the rest of the class. Oh that was fun. Then we had the murder mystery. My team won that too. I guess I was just having good luck last night. I laughed throughout the whole thing because the characters did a great job with the acting, and they were pretty funny.
I was glad to get to bed last night because I knew that I had an 8:05 class this morning. Little did I know, we were going to have a fire incident at 4:20 this morning. Grrrrrr. I was not a happy camper. I woke up all disoriented and stuff. There were flashing lights everywhere I went. All I wanted to do was get Newmar and go. I even forgot my room key. LOL. Luckily they didn't penalize us for that this time. We had to wait outside for about 20 minutes, in our pyjamas, in the freezing cold. I put on my slippers because I know how sensitive my feet are. I kept saying, "If I find out who pulled that fire extinguisher, I'm going to have their head on my wall!!" My RA liked that attitude. LOL. He said, "I'll help you with that one, Jessica." finally, we got let back in after the fire trucks had left. I had to wait in line to get a one time only card for my room. The man at the front desk was really nice about it too.
When we got back to our room, I set my alarm for 7:30 instead of 7 so that I could at least have an extra half hour. I knew Newmar wouldn't have to go that badly. He was even reluctant to wake up at 7:30 when I got his breakfast ready. LOL. Poor guy.
Something really neat happened today. Since I couldn't eat breakfast this morning, I went to William's pub to get a cappuccino and a bagel. Now, the trick was to get everything: Newmar, the cappuccino and the bagel back to the class without any spillage. This is my biggest fear of carrying hot liquids. Newmar did amazingly well. Mind you, I had the gentle leader on him so that he wouldn't pull at all. The biggest challenge was getting up the stairs at the C building. Once I was up, we were doing great. I am so proud of my boy.
Well, that's all for now, folks.
Take care.
Jessica and Newmar.
It was Halloween, so since I am on the residence committee, I had to decorate the six lounges for a murder mystery event. Tuesday night, a few of us got together to start preparing some of the decorations, like the red cross that was going in the nurse's office. However, there was a lot of miscommunication yesterday. First, they told me to decorate all afternoon since I finished class at 1:30. However, I could not do this because I didn't know where any of the supplies were. Second of all, I don't know what goes where, what rooms were going to be for which people. so I ended up helping make the cupcakes on the first floor. That was fun because I really felt accepted by the people who were doing it. They were talking up a storm with me. I loved it.
I went back to my room for a while before I had to feed the Noomster. I fed him, then went to where I thought we were going to meet to start decorating. We were supposed to meet on the fifth floor, but when I got there, no one was there. Eventually, after waiting for about ten minutes or so, I saw the residence life coordinator, and she said that there were a few people on the third floor lounge decorating it. I went down there to see what I could do. It was so stressful because there were only three of us decorating, and we had six lounges to do.
Around 6:40, we decided that since only three lounges had been decorated, we would double the characters up because the event started at 7. I was not happy about all of this. when we have a committee meeting, I am definitely going to bring this up to them.
The event itself was great. We had a costume contest. there were six contestants. Another person and I tied!!! I dressed up as a guide dog trainer in training. LOL. I had a blindfold because I know that apprentices have to go through a ten-day period where they wear a blindfold and use a guide dog with the rest of the class. Oh that was fun. Then we had the murder mystery. My team won that too. I guess I was just having good luck last night. I laughed throughout the whole thing because the characters did a great job with the acting, and they were pretty funny.
I was glad to get to bed last night because I knew that I had an 8:05 class this morning. Little did I know, we were going to have a fire incident at 4:20 this morning. Grrrrrr. I was not a happy camper. I woke up all disoriented and stuff. There were flashing lights everywhere I went. All I wanted to do was get Newmar and go. I even forgot my room key. LOL. Luckily they didn't penalize us for that this time. We had to wait outside for about 20 minutes, in our pyjamas, in the freezing cold. I put on my slippers because I know how sensitive my feet are. I kept saying, "If I find out who pulled that fire extinguisher, I'm going to have their head on my wall!!" My RA liked that attitude. LOL. He said, "I'll help you with that one, Jessica." finally, we got let back in after the fire trucks had left. I had to wait in line to get a one time only card for my room. The man at the front desk was really nice about it too.
When we got back to our room, I set my alarm for 7:30 instead of 7 so that I could at least have an extra half hour. I knew Newmar wouldn't have to go that badly. He was even reluctant to wake up at 7:30 when I got his breakfast ready. LOL. Poor guy.
Something really neat happened today. Since I couldn't eat breakfast this morning, I went to William's pub to get a cappuccino and a bagel. Now, the trick was to get everything: Newmar, the cappuccino and the bagel back to the class without any spillage. This is my biggest fear of carrying hot liquids. Newmar did amazingly well. Mind you, I had the gentle leader on him so that he wouldn't pull at all. The biggest challenge was getting up the stairs at the C building. Once I was up, we were doing great. I am so proud of my boy.
Well, that's all for now, folks.
Take care.
Jessica and Newmar.