Episode LI: Weekends

I am no longer taking “classes”, I am no longer studying for my oral exam, and I have not recently gone on any crazy vacations, which means that I have had a fair amount of free time lately. And I have had free weekends! Here are some samples:

For KU’s second home football game, the Student Union sponsored a pre-game tailgate with free hot dogs, chips, sodas and T-shirts to all students. I went with some friends and got absolutely stuffed over an hour-and-a-half of eating. The whole time there was a lovely little praying mantis sitting at our table, and it seemed as though every time I would get up or move seats, the mantis would turn so that it could face me.

The next weekend KU played a nationally-televised road game, so I went out to watch the game. As you can see, Rafael, Amanda and I all wore our free T-shirts from the previous weekend. Interestingly enough, the dude in the background with the blue shirt (to the right of my head) is purported to be the student who designed our T-shirts. What a coincidence!

The next weekend (on a Friday afternoon) I got to hear my first ever tornado siren! Apparently a tornado had been spotted touching down somewhere in the county, and we were supposed to go to the basement. However, from our porch on the fifth floor of Haworth Hall, we had a perfect view in the direction of the purported tornado. Unfortunately, we did not see so much as a strong wind, but I did get a picture of a dark sky and circled the general area where the tornado was supposed to have been.

Finally, the weekend after that Amanda and I went on a quick drive into rural East Lawrence, where we toured a farm and picked our own fruits and vegetables (tomato and okra mostly). Then we went down the road a bit to an apple orchard and picked our own apples!