This week was the New Zealand show from start to finish. The students from Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, an all Maori University in New Zealand, arrived late Sunday night. Monday they made the poor jet-lagged students and faculty wake up bright and early to help put up the show. They were so sleepy. And they kept commenting on how hot it was. Monday evening was a barbeque dinner, which I got to go to as well. It was funny to hear the Maori students keep talking about how everything in America is so big (from the mountains to the hamburgers). They also thought our food was very sweet, and that a fruit salad should have been on a dessert table instead of the salad table.
Tuesday Wayne went back to help finish setting up, only to discover that someone had moved his computer and monitor and broken the monitor in the process! Since that's our only monitor, we weren't sure what to do about that; we don't exactly have spare money lying around to buy new monitors all the time. :) Luckily the gallery found a replacement monitor for use in the art show by Thursday, so Wayne's installation piece was ready for the opening show on Saturday. We still don't know if they'll replace our broken monitor in the end, or if this is just for the show. But the opening reception on Saturday was lots of fun!
The rest of the week was busy too, in between all the hubbub for the art show. Wednesday we went to Salt Lake City to visit my dad and grandma before they left to drive back to Odessa. It was fun to visit and chat with them and with Aunt Sharla. Hopefully they'll drive safely to Odessa! They said they were going to leave for Texas on Friday, but I was guessing they wouldn't leave until Saturday or even Sunday (it *is* the Rees family we're talking about...). But sure enough, they left town on Friday! A few hours later than planned, but Friday nonetheless!
Thursday was a big homework day, and then in the evening we got free pizza and ice cream at the CS opening social. Unfortunately, Wayne thought it was all tasteless. I thought it was just a fluke, but when he got sick on Friday afternoon (and is still sick) we realized he must have already started getting sick and that's why he couldn't taste anything. That's too bad. But he did win a BYU Computer Science cap in a drawing. Which neither of us will ever wear. But hey, we can't say we've never won a raffle drawing now. :)
Friday was another reception, this one for one of Wayne's cousins who got married. We got lost on our way there. They renumbered all the exits in Utah over the summer some time, so it still throws us off now and again because Mapquest and Maps.Google are all wrong when it comes to the exit numbers. And we were too busy reading some of Kandinsky's writings to notice when we missed our exit. But when we finally arrived, we spent most of our time there sitting and chatting with Grandpa Madsen. Grandpa sure likes telling us stories. :)
On Saturday we worked hard to gets errands done and homework done. We did get the errands done. But the homework is still waiting for us to pay attention to it tomorrow. Wayne has a good excuse...he got sick and couldn't think straight. And I...felt like I was just banging my head against a wall for a few hours. Hopefully I'll figure out why the smoothing technique I tried to apply to the data made things worse instead of better. And hopefully before Wednesday when it's due. It's tricky because I'm supposed to be the TA for the class I'm taking, so I can't just go talk to the TA, unless I want to talk to myself...but I haven't been much help so far ;).
So this week we have lots of homework ahead of us, and we'll have to think of things to do for a good break so we don't go crazy! Hope you all have fun.
Loves,
Becca and Wayne
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