Of several thousand words

It's picture time with Josh. I had big plans for redesigning my blog and everything, but I have been so incredibly busy and backlogged with everything that my blog has taken the backseat. So just to get everyone back up to speed (I know many of you are dying for pictures!! :) And I know that many of you would rather look at pictures than read my ramblings (hehe), so here we go... my past few weeks. In pictures.

So to celebrate Chinese New Year, my housemate from Macau (try saying "I'm from Macau" and tell me if that's not funny!! :) ) made jiaozi (dumplings). Yum!! I also went to the Lunar New Years dinner hosted by Asia club and was amazed at the wonderful talents the people here have!

Midterm Break

Midterm break was amazing. It was great to get out of Carleton and Northfield. So Friday night a group of us went up to Chiang Mai Thai for delicious Thai food. They even had "Penang curry" whatever that is. But I had a delicious time!

Green curry, pad thai, all sorts of yummy food. And good friends too. That's Tom (a freshman) and Eric.

Here's me and Aaron my half-Asian freshman friend. I'm drinking Thai tea. Oh man. I was so excited.

Midwinter Ball

Then there was Midwinter Ball. So much fun. We quadruple dated, went to some fancy shmancy Italian restaurant in the cities that Sammy boy picked and got back just in time for the last hour of dancing. Here are the couples: Eric and Ali, Josh and Erica, Christine and Sam, Carolyn and David.

Aww...

Penguins.

So when we finally got to the ball, it smelled of people, sweat and alcohol. But we had fun. Here's me and Kelly, mon amie who was on my Paris program with me.

Good ol' times. Tyler K and me. Yah Asians!

My freshmen singing friends and me.

Ali, Eric, Chrissie, Sarah, me, Tyler, Erica, Amy, Angie.

We did get to dance. For a bit. :) Awww.

Chrissie, Angie, Wookie, me, Erica, Stephanie.

Blessings FLOwed. What a gLAURIEus time!

Flo and Laurie had us students over for "dinner" (by dinner, they mean lunch in Minnesota. By supper, dinner. It's weird). What a blessing.

They made "international food" because a lot of us are "international". They spared no expense. And we were richly blessed. There was Filipino food, briyani rice, Korean food - the beef thing yuM!,so much yumminess.

Laurie, Flo and Erica.

Yay!

Wacky Bowling

Then it was time for Mustard Seed madness. Our midterm activity: we went WACKY BOWLING. We were paired up and each person had to dress his or her partner. And look what happened! hahahaa...

There were.. not so pretty girls.

Scary looking "girls"

Big hair, no hair, many glasses. Oh dear.

People definitely stopped to stare. Asian Darth Vader!

But we had a ball!

So much love!

Even if I didn't bowl too hot!

Yes. It was a craaaazy time.

Worship!

We also had awesome worship and prayer - seek and soak time - in the basement of FISH. Brand new basement.

Worship was powerful.

Such great heights

Speaking of which, I went rock climbing for the first time. It's not as easy as you'd think! So here I am scaling the wall...

Sam, making sure I don't fall to certain death

Being cheered on by Christine. Almost there. Arms aching. Foot slipping. But HE will make me as sure footed as a mountain goat!

And after that... no I didn't fall. :) He gave His angels charge over me! hehehe.

Well that is all for now. I apologize for the generic and unimaginative commentary. It's almost 3AM. And my roomie is asleep. And my parents have been on my case about pictures for three weeks - "We'll just have to go to Erica's blog for pictures"... so here it is. PICTURES. Enjoy everyone. Leave me a message or two! Love y'all. More updates coming up this week. Till then, zai jian!