I performed for my first time at seminar over the weekend. As part of my music scholarship I am required to be in a music ensemble, and have private lessons once a week. As part of the lessons you have seminar, seminar is like a lesson but you sing in front of a group. I really enjoy my seminar group and they are all really kind and helpful. For seminar all the first years had to sing, I thought my piece went really well and all the other members of the seminar were very helpful. Even when the members gave critiques they seemed very genuine and kind about the help they were giving. I think I have grown a lot in my music abilities this year and I am very grateful to Warturg for that.

During this week of school here at Wartburg I have been playing the campus wide game of humans vs zombies. The game is like a huge version of tag. Me and my group of friends have been playing and we are still humans. In the game zombies will come after and tag the humans, once a human is tagged they become a zombie. Last night me and my friends went swimming, after swimming we looked and saw that zombies were waiting for us. We decided to run and we hid in a car for over thirty minutes. The game seems to be drawing to an end, me and my friends are one fourth of the humans left in the game. The game has been a lot of fun, but I have had to avoid going to the Mensa and I have had to take really long routes to get to class. Even though the game has been fun I am kind of looking forward to this all to go back to normal.

During class on Wednesday I went to two meetings, one was about studying abroad and the other meeting was orange connection. Both of the meetings had to do with traveling to another area for a certain amount of timer For study abroad I would have an interest in going abroad for a May term so I can get the feel of the country but not stay away for too long. Orange connection is about going to the Chicago area and shadowing someone in your profession for a short time. Both of those I had some interest in, but I think that I want to wait till my junior year to go abroad or go on the Chicago trip. In study abroad we learned that studying abroad doesn't cost much more than being on campus so that takes away one of my worries of studying abroad. I am glad that I was able to learn about these opportunities, and since my adviosor meeting is coming up I am glad I get to plan accordingly to my interests.

It feels great to be home. I am really happy that I get to be home for fall break. I get to see my family and catch up with all the things that I have missed in town since I have been gone. My friends that are still in high school are in town as well which it was really nice to be able to see them as well. I went to go see my grandma today, it was very hard to see her this way, but it was still really nice to see her. Since I have been home my choir director invited me to come to musical practice to see how it is coming along. I really loved hearing a little bit of what the high school is singing for musical this year. I really love being at Wartburg, but coming home made me realize I still love being home as well. Since I have been here it made me realize how much I missed being home and how I should come home and visit more often.

I had my first outfly today! I had a lot of fun during my very first outfly. Me and a big group of people stayed over at one of our two friends room in anticipation of outfly. At 6 in the morning we heard the people screaming that it was time for outfly. When we got out to the bell we heard all the announcements and then we went to breakfast. My friends and I got into the Mensa right away so we got done with breakfast pretty early. I took a nap so that I would be rested for the day before the events all started. Later that day I went to the bouncy houses and participated in all the other activities they had planned. Later that day I did some math homework that was due tomorrow regardless of if it was outfly or not, so I still had to get it done. Later me and my friends went to the movie Castaway. after the movie we searched for Zach Sommers. I had a friend who worked in the special dining and could figure out from the clues where Zach was hiding. We searched and we found him. The prize for finding him was 100 dollar gift card, since their was five of us we split the money and he said he will see what else he can get us. For my first outfly I had a lot of fun and I really hope the next three years of outfly can be just as fun.

I am really looking forward to outfly. I thought for sure that outfly would have been Monday but it wasn't. Since it was not Monday I thought that it might be today. I am really looking forward to a break and outfly would give me a nice break. I do not want outfly to be to close to fall break so I am hoping that it is sometime this week. I want outfly to be tomorrow but I do not want to bank on it. I am really hoping that outfly is sometime this week. People told me that it had to be before fall break, but they also told me that it had to be before homecoming so I don't know what to believe. I have a joke with my friends that outfly is just a joke that they play on the underclassmen. I am hoping that outfly is sometime this week, but I don't want to bank on it and get my hopes up.

I got a call from my mother over the weekend, the cancer that my grandma has is spreading at a very rapid rate. The doctors decided that giving her chemo would just make her feel sick and miserable for the time she has left, since it is spreading so fast and the chemo can't get rid of the cancer they have stopped giving my grandma chemo. My grandma is handling the news really well, she even said at least I will have my appetite back for the time I have left. My grandma said she had a good life and that the one regret she has is that she smoked earlier in her life. She said it made her children not want to be around her while she was smoking, and then when she quit the long term affect is the cancer she has now. I have plans to go visit her during my fall break so I am hoping that it is a good visit and that I get to see her again. The doctors have given her a month left to live and I am happy that I will get to go see her soon.