Up to speed

Dead camera battery + bad memory + lack of free time = this post that is later that I planned, and without photos.

Anyways, here is an update on what I have been doing the last week or so: (this events are not in chornological order)

- Sustainability forum
On Saturday there were a series of talks about susatinability. They varied from architechture, to permaculture to IB. Overall the event was pretty good (they did have pancakes for breakfast for the people who attended so I have to be a bit positive). However I felt like it didn't really give me any good ideas on how we can improve the sustainability at the school. And I still don't feel like I fully inderstand permaculture...
- Secret Santa
Secret Santa is a strong tradition at AC. What happens (for those who don't know) is that everyone has a person to whom they give small gifts for a certain period of time without them knowing who your are. Most of the houses started last week but the party reps in our house are a little slow. Finally Sunday night they decided it was time for us to start! So we all pulled names out of a box.... only to be told a few minutes later that they forgot to put some names in the box and that we should forget the names and that we would do it again later.
So about an hour later the party reps came around with a new set of names and I chose a new Secret santa. So yesterday morning I snuck into my secret santa's room and put some chocolate on her bed. Then, pleased with myself I went to day room. But on the door was a sign that said 'we are very sorry but please forget your secret santa and we are giving you new ones today'! So I had to run upstairs and take the chocolate off the bed of my 'no-longer-secret-Santa'.
Finally yesterday they got their act together and we all have secret santas that are official... I hope!
- Kitchen:
Every house has a kitchen. And they are all small and dirty. However our house parents were so fed up with the state of things (I agree that it was gross and therefore never use it) that they took everything out of it and unplugged our fridge. It is a bit depressing to see that the future generation of our world cannot even be bothered to clean their own dishes (Mom: you will be proud to know that anytime I did use the kitchen I ALWAYS cleaned my stuff ... and usually other people's as well)
- Laundry
Today the washing machine ate my money. It was very sad.
- coastal path
On Sunday, it was nice and sunny and so one of the girls in my house (Nora) and I walked into Llantwit along the coast. It takes about twice as long as walking on the road but it was worth every min. I love Wales!
- math party
When you don't know how to do your math homework, what do you do? When the Albanian girl in the dorm next to you is a math genius, what do you do? When you happen to have some chocolate from your secret santa, what do you do? When you have an ipod and speakers, what do you do? You throw a math party! obviously!
- Fire alarm
Some smart individual opened a door that triggers a fire alarm on Firday. It was annoying.
- AC vibes
on Saturday night there was an event called AC vibes. It was basically people playing/singing/preforming music. It was really wonderful. Some of my favs were: the gospal choir (which was basically a group of girls who sang a song and clapped and looked like they were having tons of fun), a small jazz ensemble (who were really good and I just wanted to get up and dance [ and the drummer broke his drumstick!]), and a group of girls who rewrote 'ganster paradise' as 'AC paradise'.
- Service: no longer kayaking
I officially finished kayak trainning for my service. Last week we did orienteering. and in the next term we are doing rock climbing. I can't wait!
- Fundraising event
there was a large fundraising event held at my school on friday. I joined the group of students who dressed up and helped out. We set the tables, greeted, served the food and cleaned up.
They were fundraising to build a well for a school in Africa and so a group of the Africas did some dancing and singing and had a fashion show of their traditional clothing. And the best part was that they had a goal of raising £1000, but in the end they raised just over £2000 pounds!!

It has been a wonderful week!