Lots of stuff today. Had Spanish homework/tutoring (in which I found out how to say "toilet paper" in Spanish) later, hung around in the library talking to random people after that, and before either of those was the travel study program launch thingie (I signed up to get more info on the England, Spain, and Nauvoo, Illinois trips... would have also signed up on the Italy art trip but for some odd reason the sign-up sheet was already gone by the time I got to it. I guess I spend too much time talking to Kaitlyn, since they were already packing up the stuff for the travel study programs before I got to the last one.) Did get a free pen, post-it notes, and frozen chocolate cream-puff things out of it, though, in addition to talking to a bunch of people and... sort of offering to go walk with Kaitlyn around Buena Vista if she ever wants to just go walking around to see what stuff is there (she mentioned she wanted to earlier) but didn't want to just go off walking by herself. I wonder if that's sort of like a date of some sort... well, I didn't actually ask her to go walk with me on some particular day, just kind of mentioned it as a possibility. So probably not. But still, "offer to go and do something with a girl" is only a few steps away from actually asking a girl out on a date, right?
Speaking of that, some guys I was talking to in the library mentioned this "date auction" thing they're having next week. Apparently this is actually something open to everyone, and you sign up for it (which nobody told me up until now, and the fliers advertising it were completely non-informative about... they sort of gave the impression of "this one specific guy is being auctioned off to go on a date with whoever pays the most to charity" rather than "a bunch of guys are going to be there and a bunch of girls will donate to charity to go on dates with them," which is apparently what it actually is.) Seems slightly creepy, but if it would actually let me go on a date for the first time I could probably tolerate a little creepy. One of them actually said he'd try to get one of the forms for me so I could sign up, and apparently they were convinced that if I was in this thing that girls would actually pay to go on a date with me. Seems highly unlikely to me, but... oh well. Might as well at least try it and see, since I really doubt I'd be able to actually ask a girl on a date the regular way.
Food! They had clam strips, onion rings, shrimp, jalapeño poppers, and burritos all in the same night today. Needless to say, I had some of all of them (first a burrito--veggies only since it was some kind of beef stuff instead of chicken this time--and clam strips, then shrimp, onion rings, and jalapeño poppers.) Still kind of amazed by the edible-ness of the food here.
Missionaries showed up again today and I finally managed to actually come out and say that I really wasn't interested in converting to their religion, though I wouldn't mind talking to them and learning some of the history behind it or things like that. Took forever to figure out how to nicely tell someone that you don't want to convert, since that's the kind of thing that throughout history has usually been said with a spear in the face rather than with words... but I think I finally managed to pull it off. Didn't seem to have offended them either, which is always good!
Oh, and I got my painting pad thing back today, so no worries about that being lost forever or me not getting it back in time to finish the homework or anything like that. I still need to get my mailbox number and combination (again) so Mom or Dad can send me stuff in the mail here, but... I guess I'll try to remember that another day.
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