Today I'm thankful for progress on setting up social justice events in the Northfield community. While logistics for details like room reservations get tricky now that I am an alum, I am so fortunate to have a few connections on campus to student groups and professors that are willing to work with me. At Carleton it can be so hard to get people motivated to go to your event because most students are running around between academics and other activities, and as always it is a humbling experience to work with and rely on others to take care of aspects of planning that I cannot simply because of my role in the community now.
I'm thankful for recently bookmarking a recipe to make "ice cream" with frozen bananas just days before I accidentally left my banana in my car outside overnight. I got to experiment by blending it smoothly with a little almond butter thrown in, and while it still tastes like banana, and therefore you have to enjoy the banana flavor, the consistency was lovely!
I'm thankful for my first-ever broomball game and that my friends would welcome me as both an alum and as a first-timer. Minnesota born and bred, and I had never played broomball before! It was always on my college bucket list, but I stayed away from it because there was actual possibility of injuring myself when I had made my commitment to my tennis team and staying healthy for them as best I could. Broomball was also a humbling experience, given the lack of traction literally brought me to my knees, and well, I do not like being bad at things. So, I have discovered if I want to get better (which I really do! I want to actually help the team rather than just be a scrub who falls all over the place...), I will have to work on movement strategies, get myself accustomed to whacking a ball with a tiny surface area compared to a tennis or badminton racket, and..... embrace the sucking for now as gracefully as possible.
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