My seminar essay is done! November is here, Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away! Of course, don rags, a math essay, a lab essay, and a Greek essay are also just a few weeks away but I will be able to enjoy my Thanksgiving in relative peace. I can't wait for the food, the family, the realization that I'll be home in just a couple of weeks for Christmas break! Yes. November is good even if there's a lot of school still to be done.
Here's an update on the plans I alluded to last time:
Unfortunately I did not get to any Day of the Dead celebrations. Not for lack of trying, I just misread the webpage and the place I went to had no celebrations going on. I still got Day of the Dead souvenirs though because they're so beautifully and hilariously morbid. No pumpkin carving happened either because seminar essays were due Halloween day and no one had time or energy to carve, least of all me. However I still did celebrate Halloween in some small ways. I dressed up for seminar as Jekyll and Hyde and afterwards some dorm mates and I went on the college student version of trick or treating: vending machines. We watched It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! while we ate our Snickers and Butterfingers.
We have officially begun meetings of the Offbeat Domestics, an organization dedicated to all the things we would have loved if any of us had taken home ec classes: knitting, crocheting, baking, and possibly fermentation (yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi.) Our main purposes meeting currently are to read Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery, Death on the Nile, out loud while the others knit and crochet. As you might guess most members are female but men are welcome. We're especially motivated to knit and crochet now since the weather has finally taken a turn to the brisk (we had a lovely snow this morning) and we're all thinking of hats and scarves. It's one of my favorite things to do now, not just because Death on the Nile is a masterfully crafted novel, but I get to spend time with some of my favorite people.
I've avoided mentioning this in the fear of jinxing it even though I alluded to it last post but I'm going to be brave: I'm planning on going to Spain next summer to walk the Camino de Santiago or The Way of St. James. I'll be walking it with a college friend's family and some other friends as well. The Camino de Santiago is one of Christianity's most famous pilgrimages, comparable to the pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Francigena to Rome. We'll be taking the French Way, starting in a tiny town in France and walking across the border into Spain. Our final destination is Santiago de Compostela, home to the cathedral that houses the remains of St. James, patron saint of Spain and one of the original twelve disciples. People have been walking the 500 miles through Basque country in order to do penance or receive a miracle or to find themselves for over a thousand years. Martin Sheen just starred in a movie called the Way that tells the story of a father estranged from his son who died before he could be reconciled with him. The son was walking the Camino de Santiago but he died before he could finish so Martin Sheen decides to walk the Camino in honor of his son. Here's a link for the trailer: http://theway-themovie.com/. I've been wanting to go on pilgrimage ever since I read The Sacred Journey. I'm not completely sure what I'm in for but it could be amazing, terrible, or amazingly terrible. It's worth the risk.
I hope all of you have a great week. I know I'm planning on it!
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