Tue, 04 Nov 2008
Happy election day! I have been excited and nervous for today...I am hoping some sort of election news will penetrate the MTC, but I would be grateful for anything anyone sends my way. I got my absentee ballot a few weeks ago and sent it in--trying to be a good citizen:)
Events of the week:
Last Tuesday night a microwave in the residence hall exploded. I was sitting talking to someone out on the floor, and all of a sudden there was a huge bang. And smoke. And girls screaming and running around. I started thinking to myself: "That was louder than anything I usually hear in the residence hall...I think that might have been an expolsion." And, sure enough, I looked over in the direction of the smoke and a forming crowd of girls to see the microwave's door had blown off, control panel askew. Inside was a green waterbottle that someone had put in the microwave closed tight.
There was glass everywhere (no one was hurt), and in the flurry of girls in pijamas I heard things like "has anyone called the front desk?" and then a vacuum start up. Action was taken. We all bonded. We're closer because of it and got to tell the story the next day.
Halloween on Thursday. I dressed up as Sister Jensen and Sister Jensen dressed up as Sister Gold. We switched hairstyles and clothes. It was quite convincing. We had our cleaning assignment that morning, though, and after we had changed back into church clothes, it appeared Sister Jensen didn't want to be Sister Gold anymore. We had gym a few hours later, and I stopped being Sister Jensen. I was quite glad to be myself again.
Yesterday, Monday, Korean and I had a fight. Korean grammar is different from the languages I've studied before, but entire semester-long classes spent disecting sentance structures has helped immensely with Korean. Everything up to this point has pretty much made sense to me grammatically, even though I can't always reproduce it. Yesterday, though, we were going through a sentance (or is it sentence? I'm sorry, another reminder--no spell check) in class and there was a part I didn't get, and it absolutely drove me crazy. Korean and I didn't speak for the rest of the day, I was so frustrated. It made me scared to think about surviving in Korea. But I will learn. I'll be back at it again tomorrow.
Lots of love,
Carrie
Happy election day! I have been excited and nervous for today...I am hoping some sort of election news will penetrate the MTC, but I would be grateful for anything anyone sends my way. I got my absentee ballot a few weeks ago and sent it in--trying to be a good citizen:)
Events of the week:
Last Tuesday night a microwave in the residence hall exploded. I was sitting talking to someone out on the floor, and all of a sudden there was a huge bang. And smoke. And girls screaming and running around. I started thinking to myself: "That was louder than anything I usually hear in the residence hall...I think that might have been an expolsion." And, sure enough, I looked over in the direction of the smoke and a forming crowd of girls to see the microwave's door had blown off, control panel askew. Inside was a green waterbottle that someone had put in the microwave closed tight.
There was glass everywhere (no one was hurt), and in the flurry of girls in pijamas I heard things like "has anyone called the front desk?" and then a vacuum start up. Action was taken. We all bonded. We're closer because of it and got to tell the story the next day.
Halloween on Thursday. I dressed up as Sister Jensen and Sister Jensen dressed up as Sister Gold. We switched hairstyles and clothes. It was quite convincing. We had our cleaning assignment that morning, though, and after we had changed back into church clothes, it appeared Sister Jensen didn't want to be Sister Gold anymore. We had gym a few hours later, and I stopped being Sister Jensen. I was quite glad to be myself again.
Yesterday, Monday, Korean and I had a fight. Korean grammar is different from the languages I've studied before, but entire semester-long classes spent disecting sentance structures has helped immensely with Korean. Everything up to this point has pretty much made sense to me grammatically, even though I can't always reproduce it. Yesterday, though, we were going through a sentance (or is it sentence? I'm sorry, another reminder--no spell check) in class and there was a part I didn't get, and it absolutely drove me crazy. Korean and I didn't speak for the rest of the day, I was so frustrated. It made me scared to think about surviving in Korea. But I will learn. I'll be back at it again tomorrow.
Lots of love,
Carrie
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