apples, chocolate, pancake/ practical joke night

Woke up and went straight to class. Our class that normally has about 20 people in it only had about 7 today because there was a nasty car crash that took out power lines that happened on the main road into campus today. So a lot of people were backed up in traffic. We got our quizzes back from last week. I received a 9 out of 10 on my econ quiz!!!! YAY!!! Then we went over the homework questions. I did what I could of my homework for that class and went in today with 3 questions. My tutor didn't answer a single one. I don't remember if I mentioned this before or not but my tutor looks exactly like a hobbit. He is chubby and has frumpy curly hair and a bit of a pig nose. He is a very nice guy he just doesn't know what he is talking about. So he makes me upset every time we have our class. I feel as if it is a complete waste of time.

I then took off to my nutrition education class. We learned about nutrition requirements for women who are pregnant. It would be exciting had I not already taken the class at Purdue. So again another class today that felt like a waste of time.

I had an hour to kill before my next class so I went over to the public health building to drop off a form for work. On my way to the office I followed signs that read "Do you like apples? Go this way" with an arrow pointing. It lead to the basement. I got to participate in a food sensory study for 20 minutes. I got to try various types of apples and give feedback on why I did or did not like them. Then I was rewarded with a giant lindt chocolate bar. That would be a Swiss chocolate bar!!!! Whoo Hoo!

Then I went to my econ lecture. It is so much more enjoyable with a giant chocolate bar beside me :)

I then went home and procrastinated as much as I could for about an hour and then sat down and started working on my 2,000 word essay for my Australian Studies class. I have to compare an aspect of Australia to my home country. Lucky, for me I have all of the tour guide books. They are making out to be great sources!!! All I need now is a travel guide for the US. Even though I was born in raised in the US I feel like I know more about Australia then the US on certain topics. Probably because I was eager to learn about Australia because I'm a tourist and I was forced to learn stuff about the US, so it wasn't as exciting in that context.

I then left around 8:30 I left for the weekly tradition of Pancake Night!!! Sven was supposed to make them tonight but her suddenly had class. I think he just wanted to get out of it. So Sophie cooked instead. So again we had crepes. Mom sent me a comic that I shared with my pancake group. The comic was of a dad in the kitchen who told his kid that he was making creepies. The kid said "I think you mean crepes" Then the mother pops in on the conversation and says "You haven't tasted them yet" Everyone got a kick out of it.

I was helping Sophie in the kitchen making the pancakes and they boys were running around the whole unit back and forth and back and forth. We sit down to eat the pancakes and afterwords Sophie looks at Mark and says "what did you do to my room!" Apparently in the past Sophie leave her card lying around the living room or kitchen. (This is the cared that you scan to get into your own room. The door automatically locks behind you so you carry your card with you everywhere). In the past Mark would see it and take it and go into her room and steal her desk chair and mirror. After pancakes she realized she had left it on the table and it was suddenly on the counter. So she storms off to her room and sure enough Mark had struck again. He took the chair, mirror, her mattress, and her light bulb!!! It was absolutely hilarious!!! We were all laughing so hard. Mark did put all of the stuff back in her room the way he had found it. But we all got such a kick out of it.

It made me sad because I can't play practical jokes on my roommates because they are all girls and would actually get pissed about it instead of laugh. So I told Sophie I would help her come up with a plan for revenge. She needs to act quickly because last week she came back from soccer practice and laid down on the couch and mentioned that she needed to shower. So Mark grabbed her ankles, Sven grabbed her wrists, and the other Mark ran and turned the shower on cold water and they through her in there clothes and all. So now she needs to get even for 2 jokes that have been played on her.

So after Sophie's room was pieced back together we sat around and chatted some more. Syazrin informed us that he gets up at 5:30 everyday. We asked why and he said it was because he had to pray. He is Muslim. Apparently they pray everyday at 5:30am, 12:30pm. 3:15pm, 5:50pm and 6:50pm. We calculated that out to be 1,825 prayers a year. We also found out that not only can he not drink alcohol (which we already knew) but it can not touch him. So if someone walks by and spills their drink on him and is not allowed to pray for 40 days.

So quite an eventful day. Going to bed now.