What a weekend!
Wow, what a weekend this was!!
Friday night started off Relay For Life. This was my first time participating in a Relay event, and I will definitely be participating again in the future! The team that I was on raised $1,157.33 - beating our goal of $1,000!! - and the school as a whole raised a little over $53,000, beating our goal of $52,000! Very, very, very impressive! I think they said this was the most the school has ever raised in a Relay event, and also there was a record (for the school) number of people there -- around 800 people, with 63 different teams/organizations there!
My team set up our campsite and hung out together before the event started (it started at 7). There had to be at least one person from each team walking for the entire 12 hours of the event; I walked for most of it because I just wanted to. One of my friends and I, we didn't really like the music that they were playing, so we used my iPod and listened to our own music (with headphones so we didn't annoy anyone, obviously). We made such fools of ourselves, skipping and dancing around the track, but it was really so much fun.
Funny story! Well, maybe it was only funny if you were there... but anyway. The faculty advisor for our club was there with her daughter, who is 6. Her daughter was wearing Spiderman gloves and had on a Spiderman t-shirt. She got her face painted as Spiderman. We were playing Hedbanz, and the card we grabbed out of the pile for her to be was.... you guessed it - Spiderman! It was funny; we were all laughing, but then we had to be like "No, no, no it's a good one!! We promise!!" because she thought she got something bad. It was cute.
There were performances by all four of the school's a'capella groups - The A Sharp Arrangement, The Potsdam Pitches, The Potsdam Pointercounts, and our newest group (which I think JUST formed last semester!) Stay Tuned. The Pointercounts have been my favorite for quite a while; I even have their CD. So obviously, I knew they would be good. I hadn't ever heard Stay Tuned before, but I have two friends in that group, so I had to be a good friend a pay attention to them. And OH MY GOD they were SO good. I'm not just saying that either! They were amazing! Stay Tuned and the Pointercounts are definitly my favorites. I'm not a big fan of A Sharp Arrangement or of the Pitches.. A local band called The Homewreckers performed and ruined some good songs with their not-so-great performances of them. The original song they played was decent, but the rest was... not. However, this also could have been because of the crappy microphones and everything in the fieldhouse (where the event was held).
The luminaria ceremony was really emotional, as were the speeches given during the night. A lot of people cried, but I expected that. I really love the fact that I was there with the clubs I was there with. The team I was on was the Potsdam Harry Potter Alliance and the Renaissance and Medieval Studies Association. PHPA is like a family. We're all close to each other, and I feel like doing Relay together brought us all closer. I really do feel like a really tight emotional bond formed between those of us there. We all care about each other, and we're all there for each other, and really, that's what family is. That's what family does. Those people, that club, they mean so much to me.
Two of my guy friends ended up giving me piggyback rides at various points throughout the night because I was tired! I eventually got to the point where I was literally too tired to be tired. By the end of Relay, I was exhausted and my legs were KILLING me. It was so much fun though, and such an amazing experience. The feeling is indescribable, but I just felt... really good about participating in it.
My roommate and I got back to our room a little after 6:30 in the morning. I climbed into bed and fell asleep in the clothes I was wearing. I had set my alarm to go off at 10 in the morning because I had things to do and couldn't waste away the day sleeping. But when the alarm went off, my response was "no." I set it for 11, and went back to sleep for another hour.
I woke up at 11, took a shower, got dressed, and was mostly awake by 12:30 in the afternoon. One of my friends texted me and asked me to go over to her suite because her sister was there and wanted to see me. So I went over there because I missed her and wanted to see her again too. 1:50, I look at my phone and realize the time. It was 1:50, and I promised my friend that I would go to the Poetry Jam one of the clubs he is in was hosting from 2 to 4! I got there right at 2, so right on time. It was really interesting; I liked listening to other people's poems, short stories, and excerpts (it just took me like 5 tries to even get that word spelled close enough that spell-check knew what word it was) from books or other works they were working on. I didn't share anything, but I kind of wish I had. I would have shared the intro to Break Me.
My roommate and I did a movie night, and I got to bed around 12:30, then had to wake up at 9 this morning to work on a group project with my group from Literacy Foundations at 10. I spent most of the day drawing and colouring for that project. And I went on an Easter egg hunt. I wasn't going to go at first, but it was my friend's event, so I figured "ey, why not?"
Today was a really relaxing day, which I needed after being so busy at the beginning of the weekend.
But now, it is one in the morning, and another busy week starts in a few short hours. And so I shall stop writing and go to sleep. Night!
Friday night started off Relay For Life. This was my first time participating in a Relay event, and I will definitely be participating again in the future! The team that I was on raised $1,157.33 - beating our goal of $1,000!! - and the school as a whole raised a little over $53,000, beating our goal of $52,000! Very, very, very impressive! I think they said this was the most the school has ever raised in a Relay event, and also there was a record (for the school) number of people there -- around 800 people, with 63 different teams/organizations there!
My team set up our campsite and hung out together before the event started (it started at 7). There had to be at least one person from each team walking for the entire 12 hours of the event; I walked for most of it because I just wanted to. One of my friends and I, we didn't really like the music that they were playing, so we used my iPod and listened to our own music (with headphones so we didn't annoy anyone, obviously). We made such fools of ourselves, skipping and dancing around the track, but it was really so much fun.
Funny story! Well, maybe it was only funny if you were there... but anyway. The faculty advisor for our club was there with her daughter, who is 6. Her daughter was wearing Spiderman gloves and had on a Spiderman t-shirt. She got her face painted as Spiderman. We were playing Hedbanz, and the card we grabbed out of the pile for her to be was.... you guessed it - Spiderman! It was funny; we were all laughing, but then we had to be like "No, no, no it's a good one!! We promise!!" because she thought she got something bad. It was cute.
There were performances by all four of the school's a'capella groups - The A Sharp Arrangement, The Potsdam Pitches, The Potsdam Pointercounts, and our newest group (which I think JUST formed last semester!) Stay Tuned. The Pointercounts have been my favorite for quite a while; I even have their CD. So obviously, I knew they would be good. I hadn't ever heard Stay Tuned before, but I have two friends in that group, so I had to be a good friend a pay attention to them. And OH MY GOD they were SO good. I'm not just saying that either! They were amazing! Stay Tuned and the Pointercounts are definitly my favorites. I'm not a big fan of A Sharp Arrangement or of the Pitches.. A local band called The Homewreckers performed and ruined some good songs with their not-so-great performances of them. The original song they played was decent, but the rest was... not. However, this also could have been because of the crappy microphones and everything in the fieldhouse (where the event was held).
The luminaria ceremony was really emotional, as were the speeches given during the night. A lot of people cried, but I expected that. I really love the fact that I was there with the clubs I was there with. The team I was on was the Potsdam Harry Potter Alliance and the Renaissance and Medieval Studies Association. PHPA is like a family. We're all close to each other, and I feel like doing Relay together brought us all closer. I really do feel like a really tight emotional bond formed between those of us there. We all care about each other, and we're all there for each other, and really, that's what family is. That's what family does. Those people, that club, they mean so much to me.
Two of my guy friends ended up giving me piggyback rides at various points throughout the night because I was tired! I eventually got to the point where I was literally too tired to be tired. By the end of Relay, I was exhausted and my legs were KILLING me. It was so much fun though, and such an amazing experience. The feeling is indescribable, but I just felt... really good about participating in it.
My roommate and I got back to our room a little after 6:30 in the morning. I climbed into bed and fell asleep in the clothes I was wearing. I had set my alarm to go off at 10 in the morning because I had things to do and couldn't waste away the day sleeping. But when the alarm went off, my response was "no." I set it for 11, and went back to sleep for another hour.
I woke up at 11, took a shower, got dressed, and was mostly awake by 12:30 in the afternoon. One of my friends texted me and asked me to go over to her suite because her sister was there and wanted to see me. So I went over there because I missed her and wanted to see her again too. 1:50, I look at my phone and realize the time. It was 1:50, and I promised my friend that I would go to the Poetry Jam one of the clubs he is in was hosting from 2 to 4! I got there right at 2, so right on time. It was really interesting; I liked listening to other people's poems, short stories, and excerpts (it just took me like 5 tries to even get that word spelled close enough that spell-check knew what word it was) from books or other works they were working on. I didn't share anything, but I kind of wish I had. I would have shared the intro to Break Me.
My roommate and I did a movie night, and I got to bed around 12:30, then had to wake up at 9 this morning to work on a group project with my group from Literacy Foundations at 10. I spent most of the day drawing and colouring for that project. And I went on an Easter egg hunt. I wasn't going to go at first, but it was my friend's event, so I figured "ey, why not?"
Today was a really relaxing day, which I needed after being so busy at the beginning of the weekend.
But now, it is one in the morning, and another busy week starts in a few short hours. And so I shall stop writing and go to sleep. Night!
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