Superstar!!!

I hope that everyone imagines Molly Shannon doing that! That was the goal at least. This post will primarily be about my adventures running a 10K last weekend in wine country as Supergirl. I was actually running with a whole team of Supermen and we kicked ass. We won a real award (a huge cup trophy called a coup, that must be brought back next year) for being the best group of people who were dressed up (deguiser, en francais) and it was pretty hilarious. My friend Corinne and I got the idea to dress up for this race and then we decided it would be easier for everyone to be the same. Superman was what we decided on because I made flying a requirement. It is the coolest superpower, in my opinion. So everyone put all of their mental energy together and we conjured up really awesome costumes complete with capes and everything. It was pretty hilarious.


I ran with my friend Angeline for most of the time. We did pretty well together and it is really fun running with someone else. I'm including pictures, both of the group and me because they are pretty fun. Unfortunately, we took off our costumes before we knew that we won that award so we don't have a picture of us up on the podium. If it weren't for the fact that one person left the shirt on, we may not have been given the grand "coup" and our bottles of frou frou champagne (really the name). By the end of the race I had accumulated 3 bottles of alcohol. It's amazing how that happens when you hang out in wine country.

So that was really fun. The rest of the weekend I spent hanging out with people and relaxing because for some reason I've been very tired lately and I have a lot of work. Last Thursday, I learned that a presentation I'm giving on Friday, which I originally thought was for just a few people, was in fact for the whole department here. I did so much English teaching last week and then when I learned that it just made me a little crazy. Luckily, most people will not be able to come due to a scheduling complication and the fact that Easter is this weekend. So now I will do it on Friday and then again in about 10 days. So Friday will be like practice. I still need to do it for more people because most people still don't understand what I'm doing here. Lots of people still think I'm a postdoctoral student and we need to clear things up and explain what this crazy American girl is doing here (that's what they want to know at least).

So that is an update for now. Life is not too exciting at the moment besides the super awesome race we did. Easter weekend should be relatively calm since a lot of people will be going home. And then my friend Anna is coming to visit next week. So that should be really nice!!

Well, until next time...