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Friday September 20 2013

Friday night was a formal occasion around the world! At home it was Homecoming for Washington College. At Rhodes University, the winetasting society was hosting a shindig for committee member elections – the theme: Casino Royale.

I started the day early at the gym (super proud of myself, don’t mind my bragging). Afterwards I joined Becca and Anne-Laure for coffee in the upper room at the Provost Café. It was so nice of them to let me crash their weekly date. Love those girls. After that I went to the Cave (a café like place by the library) to crash another weekly ritual. Caitie and Gillian meet at the Cave for donuts every Friday morning before they go to their community engagement. This was all before 10 o’ clock.

Okay, after that I did a bit of work (had to be productive sometime). Gillian, Jes and I worked a bit on our physical theater group assignment. By “worked”, I mean we hung out in the lobby of the theater department while Jes had some lunch, Geoff played with the settings on her digital camera, and our friend Hana chatted with us. Oh so productive. I Later in the afternoon, I got a henna tattoo! This past week was an awareness week for Rhino poaching. I donated R5 to the cause and got a super cool design on my hand!

That night we all got fancy schmancy and traversed the rocky brick pathed campus to the Great Hall (where incidentally we will take our final exams in November… I think there will be less wine present at that event). The whole event was beautiful and classy and just so much fun. Pretty much all the BC people were there and we got to take tons of pictures and just have a grown up night in pretty dresses drinking all kinds of wine and eating figs and brie. Don’t even get me started on the figs…!

I left winetasting a bit early to go to my friend Kelsey’s 22^nd birthday party. Gillian and I met up and we went over to Kelsey’s digs where we had a grand ol’ time with all of the very best drama people there are here.

I got back to my room just in time to skype with Jimmy so we could see each other all dressed up for our respective formal events. My night had just ended, but he was just about to head out for a night of Homecoming fun!