Pheasant Shoot

haha. So each week the Harlaxton people put a "bulletin" on our meal table which has important times for meetings and other info. This week's top line reads: "Monday (today) is the Pheasant Shoot. Please be aware there will be a shooting party on the grounds starting at approx 9:30 a.m. Do NOT go into any of the wooded areas today." Being shot by a pheasant-hunter. That would sure put a damper on your Harlaxton experience.

It's a sad day for the Harlaxton Lions. We were defeated tonight (76-95) by the Grantham Outlaws. They weren't even a college team. All the guys were mid-20s to mid-30s and they were good! We had a great crowd there, and I thought it was still a fun game. My teammate Holly and I didn't get much playing time, so we stayed around afterwards to do cartwheels and run.

I don't have anything too exciting to tell you. Today was just a normal day of classes. OHHHH! I almost forgot! It's Clean Sheet Day! Woohoo! Every 2 weeks we can get clean sheets from housekeeping. Not everyone chooses to take advantage of this service, but with being sick last week I thought it might be a wise move on my part. Well, I sleep on the top bunk. Do you know how hard it is to change sheets on the top bunk, especially when the bunk bed is in a corner? So picture this if you will : I tuck the fitted-sheet under the bottom 2 corners of my mattress. I kneel on the foot of my bed with one of the top 2 corners of my fitted-sheet in each hand. On the count of 3 I fall forward, almost like a face-dive. I make sure to get the corners as far as I can so there are no ripples in my fitted-sheet. Believe me, if you were here to see it I'm sure you would've laughed.

Being a Holland Dairy girl, I love my milk... and cheese, and yogurt, and ice cream, etc, etc. Something I've had to get used to are the different names they use for their milk. You would not ask for skim milk or 2% milk with your breakfast. It's called "skimmed milk" and "semi-skimmed milk." Appetizing, eh?

This was kind of a random info blog today. Let me leave you with a great quote I found about traveling.... by Ursula le Guin... "It's good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end."