Responsibilities of Owning a Fish..

On Friday, Ayumi and I took a trip to town. I impulsively bought two gold fish (I have been wanting fish for some time, to make our room complete). 

May I introduce Maple (the really orange one) and Cuba (the one with just a speck of orange on his head). 

They really are cute.

Ayumi even liked them... I had to tell her fish were friends not food though. 

Now with this whole fish business I thought it was going to be easy. Right. Fish are supposed to be the easy pet. 

But apparently this is not so. 

It is very easy to kill goldfish if you over feed them, or you under feed them, or if you don't clean their water enough, or if you leave them by an open window and they get hypothermia. It is all a very touchy business. 

Hopefully I will learn all the ways not to kill the goldfish before they die on me. 

This weekend a few of my friends and I also took a trip to some waterfalls that are close by... the water was really cold, it numbed my legs after awhile! A couple of us went swimming, and a few of us fell while climbing through them. 

The falls are very beautiful. There is a dam above and then four big waterfalls are layered on top of each other. There are 3 above this one that we walked up too. 

And then last night there was the International Student Association Banquent. 

The theme was: Corazón Latino!

It was good to have some guacamole and spicy food :) 

We dressed internationally because it was the international banquet. 

Jane and I both wore wrap around skirts that she got from Kenya. They are so fun with all the color!

I like spontaneity. 

Spontaneous: Arising from a momentary impulse

This weekend was very spontaneous! 

Until next time then! 

Maple Tree Inn + Moss Lake

We took a trip to Maple Tree Inn last night. It is a wonderful place that serves all you can eat pancakes, with real homemade maple syrup. It is only open about 2 months out of the year so the place was packed! We had ten people and had to be split up into two tables. Thankfully they were like right across from each other, so we didn't feel the loss too bad. Anyways:

It was DELICIOUS!

Of course since it was all you can eat we had a competition. Our table won :D

Jordan did however get 18.5 down. 

Between the 10 of us we ate about 100 pancakes. Yes.. 100

Needless to say, next time we go I think I am going to eat until I am happily full and not stuff myself :) 

Today after church a group of us went to Moss Lake! It was a beautiful day!! And with the time change we had a lot of daylight to climb trees and run through the forest. 

Moss Lake gets it name from the multiple feet thick moss that lies on the outskirts. 

 We were warned most earnestly not to step on the moss from one of our upperclassman, he said it would suck you in if you stepped on it... still not sure if that is true, but I stayed away from putting the my whole weight on just in case. 

It reminded me of the swamp from Lord of the Rings.

It was a wonderful weekend!

Spring is almost here I'm thinking :D

<3

There Really Is No Place Like Home

Burnt Out

Two words that would have described me two weeks ago.
I was exhausted and needed a break.
Thankfully, the school must have needed a break too because February Break finally came and I was able to go home.
Sleep
Family
Friends
a little bit of work
reading for pleasure
playing the piano
eating yummy food

I love being home.

Motivated and Awake are two words that describe me now :)

And the two words that I have for the rest of the semester:  Bring It