At the Bon (pronounced “bone”), which is
what we call the dining hall on campus, the food is pretty good overall, and there are always vegan and vegetarian
options available. Here is a link to their website, where they have a list of meals
served throughout the week. Friday lunches are the best lunches. Here you can
see two different types of smoothies, two different types of curry with rice
and lentils and cranberry chutney, and a chicken quesadilla with salsa. Delicious! I usually finish
off my meal with coffee and a cookie.
In other news, my final scene for acting
class is going along swimmingly. Trevor and I performed our first draft last
week and got some good feedback. Here’s a photo of our set in the Black Box
theater. Yes, it's literally just a bed. We sit on it together and talk.
As my fellow bloggers have mentioned,
there have been some protests going on in response to some racist incidents on
campus and on social media. While it’s terrible to be reminded so viscerally that
racism is alive and kicking on college campuses in 2015, I’m proud to see my
fellow students rallying around this serious issue with love and support. As an
artist, I feel that most of what I can do in these dark times is simply add
some beauty to the world, or at least make the world’s inherent beauty more
visible. So, I was really glad to look out of the window from where I was doing homework in Maggie’s (one of
two on-campus coffee shops) and see some of my friends from the theatre
department making art on the sidewalk. I asked some people to watch my laptop
and backpack and went out to join them despite the icy cold weather and
freezing wind. We used chalk to draw flowers and hearts, and write messages. Spread the love!
Anyway, that’s all for now, folks. Much
love from Portland. If you have any questions, email me at jessicakostka@lclark.edu.
Best,
Jess