Just a rainy Saturday at Luther

Rain, rain, go away, come again another day. As most of you know, this is a common chant among young children. However, I welcome today's rain, because it will force me to stay inside and get ahead on my homework for the week. Right now, for example, I'm sitting in the library getting ready to start on a pre-lab assignment for my biology class. And it's all because of the rain. If it had been sunny out, I'm sure I would be sitting outside doing leisurely reading instead of sitting inside staring at a computer, trying to make graphs on Excel. So thank you rain, for being my motivation for today.

I woke up early this morning (yes, a college student awake before nine on a Saturday, what is this world coming to?) for a volleyball workout. We ended up running sprints inside on the track, which was much better than I anticipated. Who would have believed that I, Allison Croat, who never runs, who in fact hates running with a deep passion, would wake up early on a weekend to run? But it wasn't too bad. And afterwards, I ate breakfast with Liza, one of my teammates. And it also got me up early, which gives me more time for my homework. So I guess I owe thanks to exercise for motivating me as well.

This week seemed to fly by. Classes were kind of slow, but the week was speedy. Volleyball had our first conference game this week. The JV team managed to pull out a win over Loras, but the Varsity couldn't manage to do the same. It was a two hour bus ride, but that makes for good conversation. It was nice to talk with some of the upperclassman about things completely unrelated to volleyball.

Anyway, back to class, which is the main point of college, or so I hear. My Spanish class is really fun. The professor likes to have us sit in a circle and has us do some silly things to get our minds working, but it really helps. Like yesterday, we were working on commands, and she had us stand up. Then we threw a ball around and if you got the ball, you had to give a command (in Spanish, of course). The rest of the class had to act out the command until the next person gave a command. Let me assure you, thinking of a command in English is hard enough, then having to give it in Spanish...no piece of cake. But it was fun! We have our first official Paideia paper due this week. We read the play Antigone by Sophocles and have been discussing power and justice. It's been a fun class to be in. I had my first biology lab on Thursday. We went to Dunning's Spring and collected "microinvertebrates" (or small insects) from the water, then went back to the lab to analyze. For not liking bugs a whole lot, this lab wasn't too bad. And calculus is always a favorite of mine.

Been getting to know some of the other freshman on campus a bit more. There's still many unrecognizable faces, but there are also a few that I do know. It's kind of cool, to go from not knowing anyone to knowing a small amount of people. I can't wait until I can know even more!

That's all for now. I wish you all sunshine, unless you need to get something done, in which case, I'll send some of my rain your way!
Always,
Allison