Meanwhile in the Cornfields...

Back by popular demand: the beloved bullet-pointed list!
Just kidding.  This was not demanded by anyone of the popular (or unpopular, for that matter) persuasion.  But there's no better way to recap my highly thrilling week, right?

Highlights, Lowlights and Mood Lighting of My Week

• On Monday evening, I went to to dinner at my Spanish professor's house with the seven other students in my class.  To my pleasant surprise, it was actually a lot of fun!  Because let's be honest: semi-formal dinners generally have major potential to be insanely boring.  (I would define this dinner as semi-formal because both of my forks [yes, there were, in fact, two forks] were placed to the left of my plate.  And I'm not even left-handed.)  But no!  This dinner was full of delicious food, class bonding and a lot of laughter.  The most exciting part of the evening, however, was when my friend put out the flames on a napkin that mysteriously caught on fire.  Later that night, her status said:

"Successfully averted the conflagration of my Spanish teacher's house."

 Yes, yes she did.

• I'd like to say that something crazy and exotic happened on Tuesday, but the most exciting thing was that I didn't have any classes!  Is that even worth a bullet point?  Probably not.  But oh well.
• On Wednesday, my band was given some pretty discouraging news.  Long story short, the school's administration has cancelled the search for a new director, leaving our band director-less for next year.   The entire music department is now up in arms and hoping to peacefully bring to the administration's attention just how badly this decision is going to affect us.
  But on a lighter note, Wednesday also brought a new position of leadership for me!  Sort of unexpectedly, I was "elected" to my school's honors council.  I went to my first meeting Wednesday night, and I enjoyed it quite a bit!  We're currently working on planning our trip to Kansas City next month.  So basically, you can be expecting a post about my exotic weekend in Missouri in about a month and a half!
• Since Valentine's Day is on Tuesday, this week has been my school's "Week of Love."  So on Thursday, we had a knock-off brand of Build-a-Bear come and grace us with its presence!  I built a pink monkey and named her Maya.  She's really the ugliest stuffed monkey I've ever seen, but I suppose it's what's on the inside that counts.

This is Maya the Monkey.  She's not the most attractive monkey out there.  But she's stuffed with love!

• Today I bought a caramel hot chocolate from the campus café.  Nothing more eventful than that has happened!  But I suppose the night is still young.

So there you have it!  It's been a good week.  No complaints.  Well, except for that whole up-in-arms-about-the-lack-of-musical-director situation.  But other than that, I'm a happy camper.