June 25, 2013
Well, yesterday night was my
sendoff party! I have to say I couldn't have hoped for better! It was so good
to see all my good friends before I left. So many of you guys I hadn't seen in
the longest time and had really wanted to catch up with. I would still like to
catch up with most of you more extensively, but I was certainly delighted to
see you yesterday.
So before the party I made
an enormous Costco run and just got tons of cheeses, some meats, strawberries,
raspberries, melting chocolate, and more. And then everybody brought delicious
foods as well, and there was just SO MUCH FOOD. It was great. I was pretty sure
at one point (after the third or fourth person brought strawberries as well)
that we were going to have large amounts of extra strawberries. And every other
food. But we did real well with the strawberries! Maybe in part due to the
incredible invention of Brie with melted chocolate and strawberry. Yeah, it's
kind of incredible. Slim decided she wanted something more interesting. So she
wrapped salami around it. Yeah: Brie, salami, chocolate, and strawberry.
Freaking weird, right? But she fed it to everyone at the party and got them all
into it. Okay, I'll admit, it is tasty. Hehe. But it really is just better
without it. Maybe if it were bacon it would actually add. In fact, I bought a
costco triple pack of bacon so we could have chocolate covered bacon! But I
forgot to make it/put it out, or didn't have time. I think we had enough food
without it. =)
Towards the end of the night
some pretty ridiculous shenanigans started going on. Michael, Roger, Eric, and
Nathan created a game with our resistance band. Three people at a time get
inside of it and try to run in opposite directions. We played it some in our
living room. Then we reminisced about elementary, middle, and high school. The
poor subs and how much shit they had to put up with from kids, without
exception. Even the infamous Mr. Han, despite how much everyone loved him. The
two classifications of subs: the passive ones who let people walk all over
them, and the extraordinarily bitchy ones, like Mrs. Woodman. The excessive
badgering to pick up "not only your own trash, but OTHER people's trash,
too!" as Stephane frustratedly explains it. "They even put up
pictures of the janitors, trying to get you to feel sorry for them and do their
job for them!" Blue slips, and how although Nathan cried about getting his
first one in second grade, he proceeded to get 30 more per year because he
realized how not big of a deal it was. "You pick up some trash for like 5
minutes and then all your sins are absolved." I discovered how terrorizing
Michael was as a middle schooler through all kinds of fabulous stories that
reminded me that I never want to be a middle school teacher.
I just wrote this post to
say that I had a wonderful time at my sendoff party last night thanks to
everyone who came, so thank you all for making an appearance, seeing me off,
and spending time with me.
I'm putting more pictures
from yesterday up on facebook, but here are a few from the night:
Did I really go without
seeing you for 6 months before? I don't know how I'm going to live without you
for two and a half this time...I love you big softer <3
Oh, frisbee friends. What
would I ever do without you?
Typical White siblings.
Nathan refuses to take more pictures. Maya and I insist that none of the ones
we took were satisfactory. Nathan really doesn't care.
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