Greek Filled Weekend

This weekend has been crazy busy fun and I can’t wait to tell you about it. So on Saturday Theta got a team together and we played in a kickball tournament in support of Gamma Phi Beta’s philanthropy. We won our first game which tickled us pink because sometimes it takes us a while to get warmed up (slash we’re not that athletic). Unfortunately we lost our next two games, but it was still fun and we soaked up a little sun being outdoors.

On Sunday there was another athletic event, this time a powder puff football tournament for the all-sorority sisterhood, put on by the Panhellenic Council. I was on the yellow team and we played red, orange, then finally pink and took the first place victory! It was great, we fought hard for it. The game with orange was in overtime for about 10-15 extra minutes with us finally scoring a touchdown. Later on that night I went bowling with my little sister Marissa to benefit Theta’s Relay for Life team. We played two games together, then two games with a couple of boys from Sigma Chi. I guess when the boys came I had to turn up my bowling skills because I scored a 157 then a 159. It was one of my better nights for bowling.

PS Video coming soon (sorry I haven’t had a chance to make it yet!)

I Have A Little!

Well at least I can call her my little now. Her name is Marissa and she’s a Freshman this year. She transfer student from Scripps College and basically we are the same person. We have the same likes, mannerisms, and almost the same thoughts. All and all I really like her…I’m so glad I get to call her my little now! The way she found out I was her big was to go on an “Easter egg hunt” finding six eggs. Each one had a letter or two (my name is eight letters long), then it was her job to spell out my name. I got so excited when she came down the stairs to the basement because she basically bowled me over from hugging me so hard. I LOVED IT. I subsequently spent the rest of the day with her family because they were in town which was really nice because I got to know them well. They seemed to like me and were happy that I was Marissa’s big because Marissa had been hoping for me. I won’t lie, I was hoping for her too. Win-win all around! But now the weekend is over and it’s time to go back to school and reality. I finished and turned in my 13 page lab report for Cell Bio today (thank goodness that’s over) and just now finished reading Act Two of Othello for class tomorrow. I’m homeworked out! Now it’s time for some relaxing, then off to bed.

Theta Mystery

Last night was my sorority Kappa Alpha Theta’s mystery formal dance. It was really fun, I got to dress up and dance the night away! I wore a black knee length halter dress with ruffles on the halter part. The dance was masquerade themed so to find my date we had matching masks. The dance was at a location in downtown Tacoma and it was fun. My date was very nice to me and gentlemanly which made the evening much more enjoyable. He told me I looked nice, offered to buy me a drink (I had to decline because I’m underage) and told me he enjoyed his night. All and all it was a good first Theta formal dance.

Watch!

If you don’t/didn’t want to read that big long post below, watch this video. It’s me, explaining the event, 25, that I’m participating in with Invisible Children. Please please please watch!

Here is the link I mention:

http://ic.stayclassy.org/member/ic-fundraising?fcid=68263

Invisible Children Day of Silence

On April 25th, I will be participating in the Invisible Children Organization’s newest campaign, 25. For 25 hours I will be silent along with more than 23,000 other people to bring awareness to the people of Uganda still facing and dealing with a civil war. The idea for 25 was initiated because it has been 25 years since Joseph Kony took over control from a woman named Alice Lakwena leading a war between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GoU). The people of Uganda have been silent and invisible for 25 years. Being silent for 25 hours will unite people across the country.

Invisible Children began in 2003 when three filmmakers went to Africa in search of a story. What they found were children in Uganda used as both weapons and victims. The LRA’s goal had been to overthrow the Ugandan government. The war had been going on for so long at that point that Kony was having trouble getting adults to be soldiers for the LRA. His new tactic was to abduct children ages 7-12, put a gun in their hand, desensitize them and essentially turn them into killing machines. Children were being forced to leave their homes at night and commute to “safe places” to avoid being captured. Once back in the US, the filmmakers produced “Invisible Children: Rough Cut” and starting showing the documentary to get people’s attention. Since then, Invisible Children has grown exponentially, first helping to rescue all the child soldiers. Now the need to night commute has ceased, peace talks have begun and 900,000 people have been returned to their homes from refuge camps. Even though these good things are occurring and progress is being made, there are still concerns about the roughly 1 million people who are still in Internally Displaced Camps (IDPs). Invisible Children has turned its attention to the pressing concerns of clean water, health, economic opportunities and education. It has also been a priority to reintroduce and educate the children rescued from the LRA.

The original documentary was shown at my high school (Lake Oswego) when I was a sophomore. After seeing it, I really wanted to be involved, but there were no real resources in high school for me to get involved in. Now in my sophomore year at University of Puget Sound, I am a member of the Invisible Children Club and have been the secretary for the past two years. It is something I am very passionate about. One of my dreams is to have the opportunity to go to Africa, to see first hand what the people of Uganda and other nations are experiencing. Through this campaign, 25, I have the opportunity to fundraise in addition to staying silent. The money I raise goes to the Invisible Children Protection Program which funds all of their programs.

Here is the coolest part about fundraising through this campaign. Every week, the highest fundraiser for the week is going to be offered A TRIP TO UGANDA THIS SUMMER WITH THE INVISIBLE CHILDREN SCHOOLS FOR SCHOOLS PROGRAM! It is an unbelievable opportunity to be directly involved with the organization. If you can, I would love for your support, by donating to my campaign 25 participant page. Just click on the link below. Any donation amount will make a huge difference in a child’s life. Your donation is even tax deductible! All you have to do is keep the email receipt you get after donating and include it with your taxes.

http://ic.stayclassy.org/member/ic-fundraising?fcid=68263

Thank you for helping the children of Uganda and supporting them, I truly appreciate it.

Crazy Busy Weekend

My weekend has been jam packed since Friday and it is only since about 5:15 this afternoon that I’ve been able to really sit down and get work done. On Friday I went to see a theatre show called “The Pillowman” and then had ice cream with a couple of my Theta sisters…not a lot of homework done there. Yesterday my sorority went to play capture the flag with Sigma Chi, we had an all sorority sisterhood and then I went to a party at Sigma Chi that was themed highlighter…not a lot of homework done yesterday either. Today I started to work while doing laundry, but Theta also had an alumnae tea event this afternoon for two hours…do you see the pattern emerging here? To get to the point, I’m working on an essay due tomorrow, but I have already written a sonnet for my poetry class. I’m 1 for 3 in the homework game and I gotta get to 3 for 3! On a side note, the party last night was really fun. People were wearing white shirts and carrying around highlighters for people to write stuff on or draw. Then when you went down to dance there were black lights so everything glowed. It was awesome and I had a lot of fun with my friends.

April Fools Success!

I was 3 for 3 prank wise yesterday! I pranked both of my parents at different times during the day, my mom in the morning and my dad in the afternoon after my classes. My crowning glory however with pranking was I got my friend Tali involved and we pranked our good friend and my roommate Kelley. I got this idea at about 9:30 yesterday morning and texted Tali if she would help me prank her. She said yes and so I got to work planning this elaborate tale of how Tali (she’s really really accident prone/clumsy which is why this worked) tripped in her room while getting ready, sprained her ankle, and had to go to the hospital. Kelley, Tali, and I get coffee every MWF at 11 am so Tali hung back and didn’t show up until about 11:15 so I could set up the joke with Kelley. At 11, I texted Tali saying she could text me that she was in a lot of pain. She obliged and I sent questions in texts back and forth with her to frame out the story. I then showed the texts in order to Kelley, including the one about how Tali said it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. So Kelley’s sitting in the chair dumbfounded that Tali’s in the hospital and decides to text her. So what did I do? Whipped out my phone and text Tali before Kelley can, warning her to be ready for Kelley’s text. So now Tali’s keeping up the charade with Kelley while I’m trying not to laugh. They were discussing what color to make Tali’s cast. At about 11:15 I texted Tali asking when she is going to come. She responded with “coming now”. Tali makes it to our student union building and comes around the corner where I yell “It’s a miracle!” and Kelley is yelling/in disbelief that she bought it. Some of my best work.

Short And Sweet

This post is not going to be super long because not a whole lot is going on, but I thought I would give a quick update. I have a lot of homework related stuff to finish up today for tomorrow including 1 and a 1/2 extra credit assignments, studying for a Biology test, and doing the final proof read for a Chemistry lab report. I also am going to choir today and auditioning for a solo. Yikes! Wish me luck! I’m really excited for the weekend. That is going to be jam packed also because I’m going to see the dance group at my school (RDG), another play for the senior theatre festival, a philanthropy event for Theta, and filming with a group for my final English project. I know now we are definitely near the end of the semester because everything is piling up!

Crazy Weekend

I have had such a good weekend. On Friday night I went to see the 7th annual UPS drag show hosted by the BGLAD club on campus. I went with friends of mine and it was great. There were some professional drag queens and then there were also student performers. A friend of mine was named “drag king” at the end of the night for being the best out of all the drag kings. The emcee was a professional drag queen named Glamazonia. She was awesome. My friends and I were like, “How tall do you think she is?” so after the show I asked her. 6’6″…without heels. OH MY GOD. I couldn’t even believe it.

On Saturday I saw a play called Terra Nova. It was also part of the senior theater festival and it was just as good as Bug, but different than it at the same time. This one was not creepy, just utterly and painfully sad. It is about five Englishmen who are racing the Norwegians to be the first to get to the South Pole. All the Norwegians came back alive…None of the Englishmen did. It was heartbreaking to watch especially when you know the lead guy who has to watch all of his soldiers die. A lot of the audience was crying and my friend Grace and I were about to. It was really well done though, the acting was superb.

Now we come to today. I went to an Alumnae tea for Theta which was nice. It was fun to talk to Thetas who have previously graduated. I also sat out in the sun today for a couple of hours reading, relaxing, and playing frisbee. I did my homework already and now am going to relax until I go to bed. It’s been one busy weekend!

Bug

Ok I forgot to post this, but I just wanted to say that I saw an incredible show last Friday at school. It was part of the senior theatre festival where everything is student run. The theatre majors have to put this on as part of their senior thesis. I saw the first show Bug with my friend Kelley and it was AMAZING. Probably the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen live, but awesome. The two leads were seniors and their acting was unbelieveable.

Bug is a play set in Oklahoma about a woman (Agnes) who lives in a motel room passing the time drinking and snorting cocaine with a friend (RC). This same friend brings a guy to Agnes’ room one night (Peter) and this guy ends up staying with her for like three weeks and they fall in love. Doesn’t sound creepy does it? Yeah well, Peter is a paranoid schizophrenic which you don’t find out until the second act who believes that the government planted bugs in both of them. And though the whole thing Agnes is worrying about her abusive husband who has just been let out of jail on parole. It was just bloody, intense, and scary. However, I LOVED IT.

Registration

Finally it is almost my time to register for classes! At 2pm today I get to register for the classes I will take next year as a SOPHOMORE. Weird right? In about a month I will no longer be a freshman and I will be considered an “upperclassman”. I want to register for Ecology (Bio 211), Organic Chemistry (Chem 250), British Literature I (English 221), and a humanities core requirement. I haven’t decided between cultural anthropology and intro to Latin American studies. I am leaning more towards intro to Latin American studies. We’ll see. There’s a lot of room for all the classes I need and I think there still will be in the next twenty five minutes. If not, I’m going to be very disappointed. I know it’s going to work out. It has to.

Easter and Upcoming Events

On Sunday it was Easter and that was really nice because I got to relax and enjoy the day. The Easter bunny brought me some candy, a CD with music inspired by Alice and Wonderland, and a little stuffed pink flamingo. I thought that was super cute because for Theta after initiation, one of my new “family members” got me a plastic flamingo. There has just been a flamingo theme recently! I also got cards from my mom, grandparents, and friend Jeremy which I loved because they were all really cute cards! This week is Love Week for Theta where the new members (ie me!) get presents from our new big sisters everyday all week. On Saturday there is big reveal where we get to finally figure out who our bigs are. I can’t wait! I’m going to go to choir today, go eat with my friend Kelley, and then go to Theta and get my presents. Yay!