I'm back

I just rolled into Elon after spending a week and a half in MD for Christmas, a week working and New Year's at Camp Royall and some change at David's house catching up on sleep.  Getting my textbooks for my winter term class (Plants and Civilization) was an interesting experience because one of the books is a cookbook full of delicious recipes!  Maybe our homework will be to cook (doubtful).  What is more likely is that I will be reading and writing a lot of papers because class only lasts about three weeks and I have four good-sized textbooks from which to read.

In other news, the fish are alive and Orange is EVEN bigger than I remembered.  With the Christmas money my parents gave me, I will be able to buy them a bigger tank for their long futures (koi can live many, many, many years).  And in one short week, I will be starting a 12-week long Autism volunteer-ship in Chapel Hill.  The program I will be volunteering with is called "Art-to-Art" and is the drama program run in collaboration with the Art Therapy Institute of Chapel Hill, the ArtsCenter and Paperhand Puppet Intervention (I'm pretty sure that the phrase "paperhand puppet intervention" sums it up).  I am soooo excited!

Okay, now off to clean my room and read for tomorrow's class (I don't think teachers should be allowed to assign homework before the term has even started).

Love,

Monica

What I just devoured:

Ingredients: Organic Sweet Potatoes, Water

Elisabeth and I went to Food Lion to buy some water guns for this year's kickoff of camp's "Assassin" competition.  We're allowed to kill people with plastic knives and/or water gun shots.  So, to increase our odds and abilities to win, we decided to doubly equip ourselves by acquiring both weapons to place on our persons.

While at Food Lion, carefully exploring each aisle for plastic firearms, we openly salivated once having reached the baby food section.  Leaving the store with many a memorable and tasty purchase, the mashed up sweet potatoes were by far the yummiest steal of the night.  For me, they were just the right amount of sweet taste and "abc" (already-been-chewed) texture.  And you can't beat these types of labels:

• Organic
• No Artificial Colors
• No Artificial Flavors
• No Preservatives
• No Added Salt or Sugar
• Vegan
• Wheat Free
• Kosher