Pizza and Pasta :)

Another day in the Kiwi land. Here are some fun facts I leaned at school today:

• You can’t think “harder.” Rather, you can think differently.
• There is a layer of ash that can be found around the entire earth. It is part of the evidence to support that a giant 6-mile in diameter meteor killed off the dinosaurs.
• There was a young boy named Calvin Graham, who enlisted in the Navy during World War II at the age of 12!!
• We now have butter knives as well as steak knives because Cardinal Richelieu was fed up with one of his dinner guests who picked his teeth after dinner with the pointy steak knives. So, Richelieu rounded out all of his knives. Since he was an influential man at the time, everyone followed suit and we now have rounded butter knives.
• What is the “daffy definition” of elapse? [how a dog drinks] dilate? [to live to an old age]
• D C-L S N D C. [the seal is in the sea]
• I M N D L-F-8-R [I am in the elevator]

The host mom, Julie, of two of the girls in our group (Whitney and Emily), invited everyone over for a pizza and pasta night. We all crammed into their little house and ate some delicious pizza, pasta, salads, ice cream, and peach cake. With all 16 of us “BYU American princesses” as JJ likes to refer to us, it was quite a noisy affair with all our chattering and laughing. We all had a wonderful time getting to know some of the host families, and just being together. We are together during school, but we are focused on school since there is so much to cram into so little time. It was just so nice to get together outside of school, relax, eat, and enjoy each other’s company. We really do have a great group. There are a lot of us (last JJ came, there were only 11 girls!), but I feel like we do a good job including everyone and just being nice to each other. Carol Anderton, our literacy prof, commented on how she has never seen a study abroad group so united. She said that usually there are a bunch of little cliques, but we are different. She noticed how we sit by new people every day, and can often be found talking in one big group. I like that. We are all so different, but this experience has brought us all together, connecting us and forging great, new friendships. I’m excited for all that is still to come…