Tues. 5 April 2005
today was a day of confrontation. well - only this morning before class. laura m. stood up to suggest that vegtarians get to 'cut the que (cue?)' of the lunch line as by time some of them get to the lunch servers, the vegetarian food is all gone and then they can't eat. this is happening due to when someone doesn't like the main course offering and takes vegetarian instead, which the cooks did not plan the food for them to eat vegetarian. and since everyone needs food, we decided that would be the best option.
carly s. stood up next. she also had an issue to bring up. she's very brave, i think, because i wouldn't normally bring this up. this is what she said:
'the bemidji people really like the moorhead people and this isn't a 'we don't like you thing' but we were wondering if we could have alternating nights with the common room becausewe feel like we can't come in there...
or something along those lines.
anyway, it was really sweet what she said. all we wanted was to be able to use the tv room also - or even just watch the news. but when you walk into the commons room, you suddenly feellike a foreigner as they all stare at you. then you turn around and walk out. well, all the moorhead people (well, not all - just the eyes-glued-to-the-tv-ones) are upset. they tried to justify themselves with excuses - but it just didn't work. it was suggested to have people fill out suggestions to the solution on a piece of paper and then turn them into louise. we'll have to see what happens.
this afternoon we went to summertown, a small little shopping town 6 blocks away. we saw a house that was the former home of the writer of the first oxford dictionary (you'll have to excuse me, i don't remember his name right off hand). once in summertown, we hit up some smaller stores, lots of them thrift. nothing really hit my eye. then i spotted a sports store and ran inside for aquick look - and lo and behold - they had swimcaps!! i bought a few - they weren't what we call cheap, but it was well worth it.
on the way back, laura m and i ran into kent and he showed us this cute little street right by wycliffe hall that had quite a few art stores! and beautiful art it was. we both decided that we were going to quit school so we could move to oxford and spend our money there. it would be fabulous.
carly s. stood up next. she also had an issue to bring up. she's very brave, i think, because i wouldn't normally bring this up. this is what she said:
'the bemidji people really like the moorhead people and this isn't a 'we don't like you thing' but we were wondering if we could have alternating nights with the common room becausewe feel like we can't come in there...
or something along those lines.
anyway, it was really sweet what she said. all we wanted was to be able to use the tv room also - or even just watch the news. but when you walk into the commons room, you suddenly feellike a foreigner as they all stare at you. then you turn around and walk out. well, all the moorhead people (well, not all - just the eyes-glued-to-the-tv-ones) are upset. they tried to justify themselves with excuses - but it just didn't work. it was suggested to have people fill out suggestions to the solution on a piece of paper and then turn them into louise. we'll have to see what happens.
this afternoon we went to summertown, a small little shopping town 6 blocks away. we saw a house that was the former home of the writer of the first oxford dictionary (you'll have to excuse me, i don't remember his name right off hand). once in summertown, we hit up some smaller stores, lots of them thrift. nothing really hit my eye. then i spotted a sports store and ran inside for aquick look - and lo and behold - they had swimcaps!! i bought a few - they weren't what we call cheap, but it was well worth it.
on the way back, laura m and i ran into kent and he showed us this cute little street right by wycliffe hall that had quite a few art stores! and beautiful art it was. we both decided that we were going to quit school so we could move to oxford and spend our money there. it would be fabulous.
posted by andi at 9:13 AM
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