Week 12 of Semester 1--Thankgiving!

I've been posting pretty much every other week, and for that I apologize--it's been busy and yet not at the same time...

This post is mainly dedicated to Thanksgiving--that lovely holiday at the end of November that all Americans know and celebrate. Yeah, they don't down here... so we students have to make our own Thanksgiving dinners and traditions. Lexi was kind enough to host it at her apartment, so we all pitched in and brought the side dishes, since she made the turkey.

While the food was cooking/heating up, Michelle and I introduced Steven to the fun non-Newtonian fluid that is corn starch and water. What a deprived child! He never got to play with it before. Then we found something online about milk, food coloring, and dish soap, so of course, we had to play with that too. Science nerds! Hehe.

It was a partially-vegan holiday, since Nicholine (one of my roommates) is vegan, so we had salad, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce (which, I must say, Steven and Lexi did an excellent job at making), veggie gumbo, broccoli and cheese casserole, turkey, and pie for dessert. It was pretty damn tasty for all of our first times making a Thanksgiving dinner. Lexi had a blast carving the turkey (although she and Steven had the typical lover's spat over the proper way to do it... thanks for Google, we figured it out). Even the pups enjoyed their time playing together and sharing some of the dinner. It was a small group, but it was nice... since we all couldn't spend it with our families. :)

On another note, the P.A.W.S. Adoption event was over the weekend. We adopted 2 more pets--to their fosters. One of them was to me--the little calico kitten I'd been fostering, which has been renamed Reese from Sweetie (although that's stuck as a nickname at least). She gets along so well with Gibbs (Steven's cat) and Liamuiga that I couldn't separate them. So, I will have a cat when I go home at least now (since I know my parents are probably going to keep Chester and Bear).

We had our next two dives as well (dives 3 and 4 towards our Open Water Certification). They went much better for most of us--we went back to the River Taw shipwreck and also to the Bird Rock Reef. Saw some pretty cool wildlife this time--an octopus hiding in the wreck... a huge stingray... and some tube worms, to name a few. Lexi and the others mentioned some fire worm they had seen, but I missed out on that one. All that's left now is scheduling the paper final examination and we're all Open Water Certified Scuba Divers. It's pretty exciting!

So... until next week!