Yeah... I got an email the other night and apparently the guy running the Nauvoo travel-study trip removed me from the trip roster already. I hadn't asked him to take me off of the trip, I only let him know that I was worried about how it was going to work and asked if it was possible for me to get my money back if I decided not to go. I'm guessing since I was in such a crappy mood Friday, I might have exaggerated my concerns a little bit and the guy may have taken that as a definite "I don't want to go on this trip" rather than what it actually was (an "I might not want to go on this trip after all, but I haven't decided for sure yet.") Still pretty annoying, though.
The good news is, I will be getting my $400 back (or actually, my $237 and the rest from financial aid... though I'm getting all of it anyway)... so I'll have plenty of money to pay for the Busch Gardens trip later in March, which I definitely am going on. And also other important things, like food, paper towels, flossers, and (if I ever get around to asking anyone again) taking girls on dates. The bad news is, just when I finally calm down about the whole thing and decide "okay, maybe it's not entirely bad that I won't be going on this trip, even though I was removed from the roster against my will" it seems like every freaking person that I tell about it starts trying to get me to get myself un-removed from the trip and go anyway. Including people who were, just a few days ago, asking why I was even going in the first place, as if they wanted me to not go. And of course there's still the concern of what the heck I would even do during spring break if I don't go on the trip... I know Ruth and Elizabeth will be around here somewhere, but aside from those two I don't know how many of my friends (if any) will still be around during that week. And being stuck by myself with nothing to do for a whole week would be pretty horrible.
I actually do sort of have an idea, though, if I don't reconsider the whole "not going on the trip" thing--since I'll have a good-sized chunk of extra money and Ruth has a car, maybe we could get a group of friends together and go on several "mini spring break trips" throughout the week. I remember Ruth mentioning that she wanted to go and see the zoo at Natural Bridge, so maybe that can be one thing; if the zoo's not open there's always the bridge itself, and the caverns, all of which I doubt many people here have ever seen (not being Virginia residents and all.) Another "mini spring break trip" possibility would be getting some people together to go and visit the area where I live; I think it'd be kind of funny to give people a tour of Clifton Forge and the surrounding area (and maybe eat at Victor's or San Juan or one of the other various yummy restaurants while we're there), and also to see what kind of reaction Mom would have to a carful of Mormons (...and Eddie) unexpectedly showing up at the house. Going to Roanoke (to watch a movie again, or possibly to go other places) could also be a possibility, since we managed to get there without any problems the last time. Heck, maybe even Lexington could make a decent trip--it's close by, so we'd end up with more "trip time" that way than if we went somewhere far away. And there's lots of historical stuff to see and lots of good restaurants to eat at, which are always good things to have on trips.
I guess I'd have to ask around and find out who's going to be staying here over the break to get this kind of thing to work, but hey, at least I actually have ideas for stuff to do! That doesn't happen very often at all.
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