Midterms and Fall Break

I knew I wouldn't be any good at posting during the school year. Free time is so rare around here, but I've just been gently reminded that people need an update, so here you are.

Last night I went salsa dancing with some friends. We had a GREAT time. A couple of boys even returned for a second dance, which seems like an indication that I wasn't horrible. :) I appear to have developed a kind of dancing theme lately. I'm taking ballroom dancing lessons and am planning to learn the "Thriller" dance next week. How this happened, I do not know. Perhaps I finally realized that something needed to be done about my lack of groove skills.

Tuesday night I volunteered at Convoy of Hope and sorted supplies that will be sent down to Hurricane Katrina victims. This was the first of the activities I'm helping arrange for the campus ministry I belong to. It seems to me that if we're going to talk about helping the poor and unfortunate all the time, as Christians, we have some kind of responsibility to do something pragmatic about it. It was a great time, and I hope to go back often this semester. For those of you who don't know, I'm also hoping to do an internship at Convoy next semester. I would get experience working with an international non-profit's communications and would get to do some Spanish translation. The prospect of all that is very exciting.

And, finally, it's time for midterms! I can't believe it's October already, and sometimes my complicated schedule seems really daunting, but Fall Break is next week! I'm going with some friends down to Arkansas for an all-girls camping trip. I think we're also going to stop by the glass chapel on Highway 7 and go spelunking! Before I headed off to college, I had a list of several goals to accomplish during my four years at Drury. The only remaining unfulfilled goal is to go spelunking. Woo Hoo! (The last one I fulfilled was the DC internship!)