November 26

       First of all, after I wrote my last entry, I realized that it was nearly as long as the average college essay! If only essays were that easy! This post will be shorter. Class was interesting and helpful this morning. I have wanted to learn this stuff (music theory) for years now, so I'm really excited that I finally have the chance! It's very challenging, but I love it. Immediately after class, I went to another help session for my e-music class and actually felt like I moved a baby step forward with the software! Yay! Around lunchtime, I decided to walk up to Tesco to do some grocery shopping. It was such a beautiful and sunshiny day (but sooo cold!), and I really enjoyed the walk. Lots of photo opps, even though I didn't have my camera.
       You're gonna think I'm a Glee junkie (or you already do), but Marta and I watched yet ANOTHER episode of Glee this afternoon and totally enjoyed it. Then, it was time to get down to business. I stayed in my room for 2+ hours doing all kinds of little tasks, and then my neighbors and I went out for girls' night at the local Indian food restaurant! It was one of the girls birthday, and we had a great time. I have never had Indian food before, but I really liked it! I didn't recognize most of the stuff on the menu, but one of my friends was kind enough to recommend something to me. We passed our dishes around the table and tried a bit of everything. Somehow, we managed to score a really nice bottle of Moet and Chandon champagne for half price! Yum. I love girls' night, but I must confess, I've never been to one quite like this where most of the conversation was about sex and sleeping around. Woah. I was shocked. These girls are great, but they definately operate on different morals than me. I stayed quiet through most of their conversation and just tried to enjoy their company. Eventually, one of them asked me my views on sex before marriage which I wasn't expecting. I kindly told them that I don't support it, but I'm not hating on them because they don't feel the same way. Touchy topic.
       I bet you can guess what happened right when we left the restaurant and walked through the freezing cold toward the bus stop . . . that's right - the bus went on a break. We huddled together in the front of the tube station and amused ourselves quite well. There was a group of 4 guys on the other side of the cove who were also waiting for the bus. I started to sing a little bit (with my friends' help) to pass the time and distract myself from the cold, and the guys started singing their own stuff across the way. It became kind of like a "battle of the bands," but then the girls and guys started singing together a little bit. Tube station karaoke - classic. Someone even threw us a little bit of change. We sang for about 30 minutes, and the bus finally came! On the ride back, we continued to sing with the guys to whatever songs we could think of. Poor bus driver! I hope he didn't mind our vocal stylings. It was really fun! When we got back, all 6 of us girls crammed into one of our small rooms and watched Mean Girls. I wasn't a fan, but it was still nice to hang with the ladies.
       Once again, I have stayed up too late. It's about 1:30 am right now, and I have to catch the 8:00 bus in the morning with 3 of my girlfriends for our overnight trip to Oxford! What an adventure this will be!

Prayer Request of the Day: That I would be a faithful witness of beautiful Jesus to my friends.