The Thirsting

I know that I have not been very good at posting for quite a while, but I am going to get better! The plan is to post something every other week or so. This way all of you will get updates from Wayne but they wont be very over the top.

This weeks update is about an exciting opportunity we have just had here in Wayne. The Newman Center has been awesome enough to bring in the band The Thirsting! The Thirsting is a Catholic band with a beautiful focus on Mary and the rosary. If you have not checked out their music I highly encourage it!

This is one of their older songs. 

The Show was an acoustic show with the lead singer of the band, Daniel Oberreuter, and took place in the Lower "Gag" or lower level of the Student Center. The Concert was a great success!  

The Students did a lot of work to get ready for the show. They put up posters, baked food for the bake sale, made campus wide advertisements, and told all of their friends. It was so great to see all of the hard work the students put into this project. 

Posters that the students put up on campus. 

We had around 40 people stay for the entire show, this does not count the dozens of people who showed up to get dinner and stopped to stay a while. 

Over all it was a great event and we hope to bring back the entire band net year! I will end with a short video from the concert! 

To Learn more about the Thirsting check out: 

Website: http://www.thethirstingcatholic.com/home.html

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheThirsting

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thethirsting

Adventures in a Coffee Shop

(This is a story that happened last semester. I started writing it then, but did not finish until now. Enjoy!)

Many things have happened since I have been here in Wayne, but nothing as comical as my adventure at Miss Molly's! But I have already gotten ahead of myself so let me start over and begin at the beginning!

Up until he end if last week my roommates and I have not had Internet in our apartment. We were forced to go and search out Internet elsewhere and my favorite place to find it is Miss Molly's coffee shop! 

It's a cute little coffee shop with frozen yogurt and loose leaf tea (two of my favorites!)  I would go there and order my tea and pastry and would go up this beautiful spiral staircase into a nice little living room area called the "Magnolia Suite" 

    This is quite the staircase is it not?!? 

It is up in this room where I sat for several hours working away, like the little humming bird I tend to be, when I noticed it got idly dark really fast. So I packed up my things and headed downstairs. I did not even get one spin around the staircase when I noticed something was not right. The lights where off, there were no people, and the doors were locked. 

Yep you guessed it! Miss Molly's was closed and I was stuck inside!  I went down the stairs and looked around. I quickly realized that that I could easily leave, but if I did that I would have to leave the door unlocked and when they opened in the morning the first thing they would think is break in! Now I could have none of that so I went and sat down to think. I thought, and thought, and thought, but could not come up with anything. So with that realization I called my roommate Kirsten. 

When I relayed all of this to my roommate and she had finished laughing hysterically, she suggested that I call Amy, our Campus Minister and a local business owner in town.  After I told her what was going on, (she never did stop laughing), Amy and I agreed that it would be best if she called the police. 

I did not find this out until later, but apparently when Amy called the police they passed the phone from person to person, that way everyone could here the story of how I Elizabeth Connealy, got locked in Miss Molly's. After that the Police called the owners and they came and let me out. Apparently the student who was working forgot I was upstairs and thinking no one was in closed up shop early. 

The next day I went back to Miss Molly's and they gave me a coffee for my trouble. Moral of the story is this - Always be open to adventure because you could just be looking for tea and internet but what you find is a fun story. 

P.S. Thanks to Miss Molly and her family for not leaving me inside for too long ;)