Birthday, Potatoes, and Voting

I know these all seem to be very unrelated, but it could possibly be very related. Like someone who wants potatoes while celebrating their birthday and getting to vote on that day too. No that didn't happen to me, it's just want I want to tell you about. If anything gets boring, or stupid, just let me know.

My birthday was yesterday. I had fears that it would be a lonely day filled with me missing home and familiar faces all day. But it wasn't. The only thing really disappointing about my day was the shower in my room. It can't be called a shower cause it only drips in a small amount that would take 1/2 an hour to get my hair wet. But English water pressure is another story for another time.

I had class for a couple of hours. We are going to put on Much Ado About Nothing in January/February as a traveling tour (like I don't have enough experience in that). So we meet once a week to read through it and do some activities. Like we had a small section working with the word "break" Act I sc I ln 300-315ish. We performed it regularly, then mimed it, then put the words back in. Let me tell you, it's hard to work with Riverside Complete Works. It's a huge book!

After class we watched Henry V, the Lawrence Olivier version. Dude! I think we made more fun of it than we did pay attention to it. We had to watch it for class tomorrow. After the movie was done. The gave me cupcakes (or fairy cakes as the call them here) with a candle in it and sang to me and gave me a card. They were all very sweet and kind to me. I went to ECU last night also. I felt myself loosening up, which is a good thing.

Then I went to hand out potatoes again. I have told myself all week that I need to go. I was geared up for it, ready to have some conversation. It was a very slow night. There were only four of us there handing out potatoes and not many people at the club. I stayed by the car again. I did have some short conversations with people and got a couple of hugs from some drunk people. It was an okay night. I think that I have to warm up to this. It's an environment that I'm not used to and I'm around people that I don't know (and that scare me like the extremely drunk man last night). I found that before Sarah came, Sarah is amazing at conversation with other people, I was more outgoing than after she came. Not that she is a bad influence, she is a very good influence and someone that I greatly respect. But maybe knowing that there are others out there that can easily have conversations makes me sit back and say I can serve in another way. Cause we all don't have the same gifts, and trying to use what someone else is good at overlooks the gifts I have been given to serve in other ways. Does that make sense?

Oh, and I voted today! I just have to send the ballot in. Yay for absentee ballots and mothers that send you packages!!!! (My Ma sent me a great package today. It had so many goodies in it, including frosted sugar cookies!!! YUM!)