Couch and Cake

Oh Couch and Cake....a classic Imani tradition. Each Wednesday night starting at 10 is devoted to one person who brings us cake, we sit on our comfy chairs and couches, and they share their life story. It's wonderful. What a great way to learn about people's lives....eat delicious cake while taking a break from homework! But then the best part is we ask them questions for an endless amount of time! Such fun. Here's what the questions looked like tonight for Sarah while we ate her delicious chocolate cake:

-How many countries have you lived in?

-Where would you want to get proposed to on campus?

-If you were a boy, what hall would you live on?

-What would be your Hunger Games survival strategy?

-Favorite kind of tea?

-How many kids do you want?

-Which race would you be if you could pick?

-Would you rather be a fruit fly or a rock?

-Which building would you blow up on campus if you had to blow one up?
-Who would play you in a movie?
-How did you meet your boyfriend?

-What's the color of your underwear you're wearing right now?

-Favorite super hero?

-What's your theme song for life?

-Which Disney princess are you?

-Which Covenant men's sports team is the most attractive?

-First Covenant crush?

-Which Olympic sports would you do for winter and summer?

-Where do you want to go on your honeymoon?

-Do you own any pets?

-What part of Germany did you live in when you were one?

-Which Harry Potter character are you?

-What's your first kiss story?

And the list went on and on. I'm proud to say I asked a good majority of the questions, as I do every week. I just love getting to know people by asking them really strange questions! 

Yep....Couch and Cake is the place to be on Wednesday nights for Imani. 

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Carter Tower

I got the rare opportunity today to go up into Carter Tower all by myself for about twenty minutes. My boss was fixing the door at the bottom of the stairs and told me to go up and "Go explore." I walked slowly up the winding staircase, savoring the moments that I had alone in the tower. Names of hundreds and hundreds of former students, employees, visitors of "Hotel above the Clouds"....so many people with their names signed and the dates going as far back as the 1970s and 1980s all the way up until my most recent addition. I wanted to stay up there forever and read what people had written and to imagine what their experiences had been like while in the tower. Most of them probably didn't have the chance of being there by themselves like I did, so I imagine that they were more rushed and didn't care to read the names as much. It was the coolest feeling to be standing up there, completely alone, and yet feeling the presence of hundreds of people who had been there before. It was eerie, but so peaceful and beautiful. I could have stayed for hours.

I spent less than a minute looking at the breathtaking view because I was so captivated by the names and the quotes that people had written down. It's as if they all had just one chance of leaving their mark at Covenant, so they wanted to write something beautiful and memorable or perhaps just simply their name and the date.

The moments I spent up in the Tower today were the most peaceful and enjoyable moments I have had at Covenant in a long time. There will always be a place for Covenant College in my heart, and that Tower, mysterious and old, is my favorite spot on the whole campus.

Especially when I can be there all alone.

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