Oganawambula

I have noticed a dearth of posts from our group of white mothers, and I thought that I should rectify that. I worry that the blogging tendencies of our group will die, and we will never keep in contact! Particularly with one of us going to Europe, communication will become much more difficult. As I sit here in my usual place (SWKT computer lab), I can't help but think how quickly this summer has passed by. My last calculus class was today, and I leave on Thursday to go home for a while. Was I really in Africa 7 weeks and 4 days ago? As I look forward to lazy days in the California upper-70, lower-80 degree weather, think of days spent in the spa with my niece and nephews, with only relaxation and (hopefully) some shopping (sponsored by parents!), I think how much time changes things. Weird, huh? I'm going to stop now, because I always feel like I come across sounding superficial when I wax poetic. Here are a few random events from my life lately that I would mention to all of you if you were here:

Apparently I am having speech problems lately, and for some reason they tend to come out most often when I am talking to Ben from Log Cabin (of course it happens with Ben because he would totally notice and bug me about it! The latest one was at the Stake Activity on Friday when I asked Ben, referring to the rocket launcher, "So, have you rocked any launchets yet?" Definitely a shining moment for my vocabulary!

So, on Saturday night we were at a campfire up in the canyon with some of the ward when Austin, a kid that has been here for the summer, asked me, "Are you a feminist?" Where did that come from??? We weren't even talking about anything closely related to that. In fact, I don't think I have ever talked to him about that. Do I have this feminist look or something? We then had a short discussion about definitions of feminism and the difference between "gender parity" and "gender equality."

After the bonfire on Saturday, Jenny and I watched High School Musical! Whitney, if you haven't seen it yet, you are definitely missing out. It is so amazingly cheesy and wonderful! by the way, are we surprised that the person who owns the copy we were watching is Jay? Funny, I don't sense any shock coming from any of you.

Home teachers came over yesterday (Curtis and Steve). It was pretty nice, but definitely a lesson about pioneers full of penetrating questions from Curtis. I felt pretty bad because Jen and I were both so tired that we would zone out and try to get the other person to answer the questions. There was a lot of leg-poking going on. Oh well! We probably should get more sleep on Saturday nights.

Oh yeah, the ultimate highlight of the weekend (besides High School Musical), was singing Cambodian karaoke through the window at Clayton's apartment (after hours) while he and his VERY recently-returned former mission companion were having a night of Cambodian karaoke and brownies. You guys would not even begin to understand how intense they were about the karaoke. I really don't know what to think.

To top it all off, I had an interesting conversation with a male member of our ward last night at ward prayer. This male will remain nameless (not because he would probably care that much, but because this will disturb you all so much that I don't want you to have a target for your frustration). I asked this male, teasingly, why he ditched Church yesterday. Basically, the story that he told me was that he stayed up too late Saturday night playing video games, and then couldn't get up for Church on Sunday and slept until 2pm! I know that you are all pretty disgusted by this, as am I, and I just needed to share it with you. Here it is. All of our fears about video games confirmed!

Anyways, thanks for listening to me blabber. Have a great day!