How Do You Eat Your Gummy Bears?

So, I have very much been on this obnoxious (but ever so delicious) gummy bear kick the past, ehh week or so and I have noticed that I have a very specific (and originally unconscious) way of eating my gummy bears.

First I eliminate the green and yellow ones (typically the green go first followed by the yellow ones but sometimes I eat them together) and then comes the pesky little pineapple clear ones, followed by the orange and (saving the best for last) slowly ration out to red ones the rest of the time I am enjoying my gummies.

Well, being the psychologists that I am (I have had three semesters after all) I am thinking that there is definitely some deeply rooted psychological finding and revelation to be had by analyzing how I and others consume gummy bears and other candies that could be sorted by flavor and/or color.

So my challenge to you, my beloved readers, is tell me...How do you eat your gummy bears (or other candies as described above)???

Three Things

Number One: Chivalry is NOT Dead!

I must say, that it brings me the greatest joy whenever I see even the tiniest displays of proper gentlemanship being expressed out in today's world.

Saturday, while having a pleasant dinner out with my grandparents I was fortunate to see not one BUT two such displays. The first was as simple as a fellow holding the door open, and it was not just for me, but also for my grandmother, his own mother, and a few other ladies, and mind you there were pauses in the flow of people coming out this door, but he stood there nonetheless holding the door and smiling, as if it were his pleasure.

Second, while walking around a shopping center there was a young man, who while walking with his lady had his elbow perfectly angled so as to be able to escort her around while they shopped...that's right elbow out and hand about level with his mid stomach...that ladies and gentlemen is something we do not see everyday.

Anywho, bravo to boys with good manners.

Number Two: Eating Alone

So due to various scheduling issues, on Mondays and Wednesdays I have to eat an early dinner, and by early I mean like 4:15. Naturally, not many people partake in such early dinners so today I was left to eat dinner by myself, and I must say, it was wonderful.

See, it dawned on me while I was enjoying my Cocoa Puffs, that is has been MONTHS since I have had any time to myself. I went from school to home to camp to home to Europe and now back to school, and each and every destination involved me being almost constantly in vicinity of and interacting with other people. Now don't get me wrong, I quite enjoy the company of those who I've been around, but dagomit, I'm pretty cool too and I like to hang out with myself sometimes.

Number Three: Body Sculpt

As is customary of Maggie and I, a new semester brings a new fitness opportunity and we have decided to continue our exercise classes, this time taking up BODY SCULPT...basically it is a low weight/high rep. strength and toning class...Whoot!! I am excited because this is definitely going to be a challenge, I can tell my the amount of muscular pain I am in at the moment. I love exercise!!

Just a Snippit

Ladies and Gentlemen, that would be Pope Benedicto the 16th himself, that's right, looking right at me, and yes, no zoom required!




And down below, this is Assisi just at sunset, this was my favorite place we visited.




This is a group of some of the kids from our group on our cruise down the Rhine.







Here I am imitating Constantine. And please please please remember, Constantine was the first Christian emperor.
Here's me and Beth throwing our coins into the Trevi fountain, which means we both shall return to Rome some day.

The Life of a Pilgrim

The past 36 hours (well it's been 37 but I am not counting the past hour) have been some of the most challenging hours of my entire life.

Last night was the World Youth Day vigil, which basically is a big camp out on a massive field where the Pope comes to speak and there is lots of prayer and music and whatnot. Well, I don't know if you know anything about the weather in Germany but it was absolutely freezing like night, as in, I could see my breath kind of cold, and the ground was muddy and the constant threat of rain was on the horizon. We left the hotel at 7:45 in the morning to stake out our place (section A, which means we were pretty close) and basically spent the entire day killing time and hanging out (and in my case sleeping) on the field. It was cold all day, but when the sun went down, oh man, it was insane. So sleeping was quite a challenge, and let me just say you get to know people you didnt know very well, very well when circumstances call for it. So needless to say, I didn't get any sleep last night. Not to mention the toilets there were backed up and overflowed which left bathroom out of the picture and we hardly had anything to eat.

So after a nice, cold, 2 and a half hour Mass with the Pope this morning, as pilgrims we set off to what was supposed to me a 4K walk to the train station, but when we got to the train station all the trains were out of order, and this was the case for the next station which was another 5K off...Needless to say, from 1 o clock to 7:30 we were walking across Germany.

I really don't know if I have ever pushed my body quite so hard, but it's insane how God can deliver strength.

Ok I only have 39 seconds left and I need to get this up...more soon.

I'm Alive and Well

Well here I am...sitting in a internet room in the ground floor of a hotel in Cologne, Germany!!!!

I must say, I have fallen in love with Europe, I could live here quite happily.

I want to write so much more, but I one, don't want to use all my internet time right now, and two, I can't quite process it all just now.

The trip has been so awesome so far though...all of last week we were in Italy and we got into Germany two nights ago and just got into Cologne yesterday night.

There are 800,000 youth here at World Youth Day and it is so amazing seeing people from all over the world in one place to worship God, although it is kind of tough with the language barriers.

Ok, I can't write eloquently just now, so I shall write more later but I am here and missing you all.

I'm friggin going to Rome today!

So today is the day--around 5ish I will be peacing out of the joint (and by joint I mean the United States) and be well on my way to Rome! And after a few days in Rome we're going to Assissi, Florence, Padua, Trenton, a few cities in Germany and then to Colonge for World Youth Day. I'm so excited I could perhaps wet myself, but I shall have to keep that under control.

I believe this trip is going to be very good for me, as all travelers say traveling is, but I just feel like it's going to be an exciting eye opener for me and only start an epidemic of all the traveling I hope to do some day.

Unfortunately, I am not done packing and doing all the other million things I had to do before I leave, so I must go, but I love you all and will miss you. I shall try to post if the opportunity arises.

Ciao!

roll out the red carpet my inner dork is coming through

Isn't he precious? For those who don't know, this is Hulk Hogan, he's a wrestler, and I must say, he's one of my favorites.

sigh, it has been quite some time since I have devoted any time on the internet looking up anything wrestling related, yet last night I found myself, back on the old websites, checking out stuff about the WWE, old favorite wrestlers, and other things of the like.

man I'm a dork. the sad part is, in middle school this was very much a regular occurance. man.

I miss DX man, the good ol' days. only the cool kids would know what that means.

Something that brought me great joy

mama
i made parfelsnarfs!! i tryed some it is even better with butter popcorn!! my parents havent tryed it yet my mom thinks it looks gross i will keep tryin though

if you have batmans phone# can i have it
his email says it does not exist

i had the best dream last nite if only it would come true
all of op c moved to the same street it was called OP C BLVD
lol
gota go I LOVE YOU and MISS YOU LOTS
LiL D


this is why i love camp.

Not Packing

I need to read more.

Because I am doing just about everything other than packing for my trip to Italy and Germany, I was piddling around on the internet today and found myself looking up books on the Dacus (Winthrop's library) on-line catalog. I looked up C.S. Lewis and decided that there is a lot of his stuff I really want to read and that I should truly make an effort to read a lot more that is NOT school related. So I believe I shall make this one of the many goals I set for myself for this coming school year.

While procrastinating I also spent time looking around the Rock Hill city website and looking at classes and such that are offered at the local rec centers, both ceramics and hip hop dancing looked interesting.

Oh yes

Oh yes, I forgot I also wanted to post the lyrics to this lovely new song Micah introduced at camp.

The Throw-up Song

I think I'm gonna throw up
I think I'm gonna throw up
I think I'm gonna throw up
my hands to the Lord

I think I'm gonna chuck
I think I'm gonna chuck
I think I'm gonna chuck
my sins out the door

I think I'm gonna hurl
I think I'm gonna hurl
I think I'm gonna hurl
Satan back to hell

I think I'm gonna pee
I think I'm gonna pee
I think I'm gonna pee
A-R-T-Y

*that spells "party" for those who don't get it

I find it quite entertaining.

Sleeping in the Staff Lounge

hehe...I tickle myself with how the title of the post definitely sounds like a parody to one of Tasha's songs "Sleeping on Seaboard" or at least to me it did.

anywho, I am for real sleeping in the newly returned staff lounge with brand new, well new to us, couches that are equally or more hideous than the one couch Gene brought in earlier this summer.

It's my last night here at camp, I am leaving at 9 am tomorrow morning, just long enough to go to breakfast and say goodbye to everyone. I figure I'm not going to sleep much tonight seeing as how i still have a whole little mess of things to do before I leave such as finish the staff banner, PACK, finish laundry, write some letters to some people before I leave and other such things. The last time I showered was Saturday night and it's very much not in the plan for tonight. Gotta love camp.

I don't have much to say at the current moment, for the fear of being too emotional with not enough brain power to make my emotions sound eloquent. So I am probably going to start unloading my stuff from Jordan's car where it has been sitting for quite some time now.

sigh.