“It’s not a sprint…it’s a marathon!”

Reasons why:
1. Literally. My morning run was by no means a sprint. I took a nice easy pace this morning and tried to see a little bit more of Cambridge. I found the direction of the Botanic Gardens and am excited to see those in the future!

2. Schoolwork and classes: I’m going to have to start my work early on my midterm paper for my D&B class so that I don’t end up pulling a late night the night before it is due.

3. Croquet: Ken and I had a chance to redeem our trivia team from last night in croquet against two of the Penn boys. We had finally come to terms with our trivia loss, but we were not willing to lose in an athletic competition. As they were warming up, we were honestly pretty intimidated seeing as how we had about zero experience between the two of us. We got off to a good start, but quickly fell far behind, with our moods quickly following suit and rapidly worsening. Never one to back down from a challenge, however, I got our team back into the competition with a great turn, going through 2 hoops while knocking several other balls out of the way. We were back in it! We managed to pull out the victory, and that somehow soothed our competitive feelings. We didn’t lose sight of the goal and made an amazing come from behind victory to steal the croquet title. After the game, we got a little too cocky and challenged the program assistant and he quickly demoralized us by winning the game before we even made it through two hoops. Definitely a fun game and one that I am going to keep playing!

4. Formal dinners: It was definitely a long dinner extravaganza. Back at school, we get so used to eating dinner in a rush to get back to homework, but it’s nice to have a slow, multi-course meal with good company and good conversation. Tonight’s menu included salmon with eggplant and toasted chips for a starter, duck with lentils and potatoes for the main course, and then berries and whipped cream for dessert. It was fun to be waited on and to be a little adventurous with the meal. I’m not sure I’d eat the same thing again, but it was fun to try tonight!