So Much To Talk About...

I have been so busy with school...I'm sorry I have not posted in a long time. First off, I would like to thank everyone that sent me a birthday card, believe it or not mail is a great gift right up there with quarters and my mom can tell you how much I love quarters. When in college, quarters...well, unless you can go home to clean your clothes, quarters are very useful in keeping your clothes clean. We have to pay $2.00 a load to wash our laundry around here. 1.25 for the washer, .75 for the dryer.(and the machines only accept quarters!)

Anyway, last weekend was wonderful! My brother came all the way from Ky to see me for my birthday. And he only got confused twice! (confused meaning lost) I can tell y'all what happened...He arrived Thursday night about 7:00pm. All we did was empty his car, and I showed him the library.
Friday I woke up and went to my math class at 10:00 I told him to meet me at the library and he would go to my ASL class with me at 11:00am. I found him reading some Dumas books, and after ASL class I checked out those books for him. I don't think he got done with them in time. (I think he was reading the Count of Monte Cristo, but you would have to ask him about that...I maybe his little sister, but I don't know everything he does.)
I went to the Cafe and we have these to-go boxes, I filled one up with enough food for Jonathan and I both, we went to the basement and ate in the Kennel. There I met my friend Erin Mann. She works with costumes in the theatre department. She was planning to go to a fabric store; Mary Jo's in Gastonia, NC. I asked Jonathan what he wanted to do. And we agreed, I would go to the fabric store with Erin, and he would spend time in the library working on a paper for his college class.
Erin and I did not get back to Gardner-Webb until 6:30pm.

I went to dinner as soon as we got back, found Jonathan, and forced him to go to a Deaf Performance Night here at GWU. There were stories, funny ones, ABC stories, all sorts of stuff. We have group called Joyful Hands and they performed a couple songs, which looked wonderful. One of the few things Jonathan seemed to understand...well there is this one interpreter here on campus, she is very skilled. She also leads the Joyful Hands group. Apparently the girls in that group made something to challenge her. A melody of various snips of songs put together, she had to interpret them with no preparation or even knowing which songs they were gonna use, they did this twice, once in the beginning and another time later in the night. They used rap, rock, heavy metal, techno, musical, any type of music that you could think of that has lyrics, they had for her to interpret. It was hilarious when she couldn't tell what was being sung. I was finished at 9:30pm, a group of us went to Denny's afterward. Jonathan refused to go, so I went in a car with some friends. The interesting thing, because there was so many of us, and since all the hearing people did not talk, only signed, the tickets got messed up, and quite a few did not have to pay for their meal. I was one of them. Yeah all I got was a dessert, but still that $5.00 I could use for something else. We got back at 1:00 in the morning.

Saturday I woke up around 10:00ish, called some friends, found my brother and started baking my cake around 12:30ish. My friends, Matt, Chelsea, Stephanie, Amber, and my bro started watching some anime around 1:00pm in Decker lobby. After Amber got to eat some cake, (the cake was chocolate with chocolate icing) she left a few hours later. We only stopped for one hour for dinner, after dinner Stephanie had to leave, she had to play for the band at the basketball game. She is in the marching band/Pep band. After that, it was just me, Jonathan, Matt and Chelsea. We stayed up until 1:00am watching the anime. It was a great weekend!

Well that's all I feel like sharing for right now, hopefully I will find some more time to post more stuff sometime soon.
much love,
Joannis