This weekend was a lot of fun it was homecoming 08!
Friday night was follies....follies is where all the pledges of the tribes and social clubs put on skits for everyone else. Friday night was quite entertaining.It was interesting to see what the other tribes and social clubs had come up with. I was in Nenamoosha's skit our theme was save by the bell. All of the skits were different so it was fun seeing them.
After the skit we had building of the homecoming floats. Which the name of that game was to stay outside in the parking lot by the baseball field and work on your flaot until it was completely done. This was a lot of fun. I helped work on Nenamoosha's flaot we stayed and worked on it until around 2:30 in the morning. The theme of this years homecoming was generation choctaw. so we decided to decorate our float half 1954 dance theme and the other half 2008 sock hop.
Homecoming day was a lot of fun in itself. The tailgate kicked off around 2:00. At 2:15 there was a cheer competition between all the tribes and social clubs. once again this was quite entertaining to see what everyone had come up with. After the tailgate there was the homecoming parade. It was a lot of fun we rode down college street. I got to be on the Nenamoosha float on the 1954 side dressed in a black poodle skirt. It was a lot of fun. I enjoyed getting to dress up. Nenamoosha also had a fire truck in the parade. 10 of the pledges got to ride on the float. some got to ride in the fire truck, the rest walked beside the float throwing candy.
The homecoming game was fun. I am sad that we lost.
After the game there was a bonfire. The bonfire was also fun... we had smores and soft drinks and hung out by the fire.
This weekend was a lot of fun! Although from all the excitement that went on I will admit that I am exhausted.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
6. Age Discrimination
Yesterday I was like the "Energizer Bunny". I was going nonstop all day long. I was so talkative.
I did something I never do. I stayed up half the night writing my english paper. Normally when I am writting a paper I do the minumim requirement for the assignment or just past it. For some strage reason I got on a role and just wrote. By the time I was finished typing out my thought I had a eight page paper. Which anyone who knows me at all would know that this is something that I never do. I always wait until the last minute to get the things I need to do done. I am sure that my roommate thought that I had lost my mind last night.
Anyways let me get to what I really wanted to say in this blog entry.
My roommate loves to skate. Yesterday evening she decided that she really wanted to go skating. So I agreed that I would go with her even though I am not good at skating at all. She called a bunch of her friends and invited them to go with us. many of them were interested but had other obligations for the night. One of the girls that lives in the room next door to ours decided that she would like to come with us.
So here is where the adventure truely begins. We set of in search of a skating ring that my roommate knew that she had seen somewhere on the road between MC and walmart. We searched for about twenty minutes. we could not find what we were looking for. We had driven about a mile to far and somehow missed it. The skating ring was located right next to one of the things that I has just pointed out and said I did not know that we had that in Clinton. I have not gone out and adventured to see what all is in clinton yet so much of the territory that we covered
I had never seen before.
Once we arrived at the skating ring: we saw a big school bus that was covered in advertisement for them. When we walked up to the door it was locked but all the lights were on. The signs that were on the outside of the door said that it should be open. This mom and her son walked out the door and we took the chance and walked in. When we walked in the lights were really dim. The lady at the counter looked at us like were stupid. My roommate asked, "why was the door locked when the sign says that yall are open"? once again she just looked at us like we were stupid. Then the lady said," We are open on the specific times that are posted on the door". Once again we were confussed. Then the lady said to us, " We said we are open these times for ages five through twelve". My roommate asked," When are yall open for the public"? In a rude tone we heard, " We are not open to the public only for kids."
The point of me telling yall about my experience yesterday is that, I feel like this was age discrimination. Why would they have a skating ring so close to MC if they would not let anyone that is not a child to participate? College kids want to have fun just as much as kids do. Why should we be limited to something that might interest us such as: Skating?
The Mc mission statment states, "Furthermore, the University environment promotes the spiritual, social, emotional, and physical development of its students and encourages them to utilize their skills, talents, and abilities as they pursue meaningful careers, life-long learning, and service to God and others". The way I enterpret this statement it means we should be able to go out and do the fun things that we want to do and not be limited because we are not the age that the certain place is requiring. After all what does age truely mean?
I did something I never do. I stayed up half the night writing my english paper. Normally when I am writting a paper I do the minumim requirement for the assignment or just past it. For some strage reason I got on a role and just wrote. By the time I was finished typing out my thought I had a eight page paper. Which anyone who knows me at all would know that this is something that I never do. I always wait until the last minute to get the things I need to do done. I am sure that my roommate thought that I had lost my mind last night.
Anyways let me get to what I really wanted to say in this blog entry.
My roommate loves to skate. Yesterday evening she decided that she really wanted to go skating. So I agreed that I would go with her even though I am not good at skating at all. She called a bunch of her friends and invited them to go with us. many of them were interested but had other obligations for the night. One of the girls that lives in the room next door to ours decided that she would like to come with us.
So here is where the adventure truely begins. We set of in search of a skating ring that my roommate knew that she had seen somewhere on the road between MC and walmart. We searched for about twenty minutes. we could not find what we were looking for. We had driven about a mile to far and somehow missed it. The skating ring was located right next to one of the things that I has just pointed out and said I did not know that we had that in Clinton. I have not gone out and adventured to see what all is in clinton yet so much of the territory that we covered
I had never seen before.
Once we arrived at the skating ring: we saw a big school bus that was covered in advertisement for them. When we walked up to the door it was locked but all the lights were on. The signs that were on the outside of the door said that it should be open. This mom and her son walked out the door and we took the chance and walked in. When we walked in the lights were really dim. The lady at the counter looked at us like were stupid. My roommate asked, "why was the door locked when the sign says that yall are open"? once again she just looked at us like we were stupid. Then the lady said," We are open on the specific times that are posted on the door". Once again we were confussed. Then the lady said to us, " We said we are open these times for ages five through twelve". My roommate asked," When are yall open for the public"? In a rude tone we heard, " We are not open to the public only for kids."
The point of me telling yall about my experience yesterday is that, I feel like this was age discrimination. Why would they have a skating ring so close to MC if they would not let anyone that is not a child to participate? College kids want to have fun just as much as kids do. Why should we be limited to something that might interest us such as: Skating?
The Mc mission statment states, "Furthermore, the University environment promotes the spiritual, social, emotional, and physical development of its students and encourages them to utilize their skills, talents, and abilities as they pursue meaningful careers, life-long learning, and service to God and others". The way I enterpret this statement it means we should be able to go out and do the fun things that we want to do and not be limited because we are not the age that the certain place is requiring. After all what does age truely mean?
Sunday, October 12, 2008
5. Fall Break~!
I must say I am so happy that it Fall Break!
Last week was quite a challenging week. I had one quiz, two test and a huge paper. I was quite stressed out the entire week. The only thing that really kept me motivated was the fact that fall break was so close.
I have loved being able to relax this weeknd. I came home once again this weekend to see my family. I have been having a great time here. It is nice coming home and knowing that i do not hve to come home on sunday afternoon...I can actually stay until tuesday afternoon.
I hope since I get the opportunity to have this break that next week will not be so much of a challenge. If it is...well at least its only a three days worth of school right?
This weekend I am trying to fit in all of the things that I love to do in. so far I have accomplished quite a lot of them.
There was one really fun thing that I got to do last week and that was my tribe has sophmore night on thursday we first went in a room on campus and played a bunch of board games, then we got to spend the night with the sophmore of our choice in their dorm room. This was a lot of fun.
This is about all I have to say so I hope evey one had a great FALL BREAK!
Last week was quite a challenging week. I had one quiz, two test and a huge paper. I was quite stressed out the entire week. The only thing that really kept me motivated was the fact that fall break was so close.
I have loved being able to relax this weeknd. I came home once again this weekend to see my family. I have been having a great time here. It is nice coming home and knowing that i do not hve to come home on sunday afternoon...I can actually stay until tuesday afternoon.
I hope since I get the opportunity to have this break that next week will not be so much of a challenge. If it is...well at least its only a three days worth of school right?
This weekend I am trying to fit in all of the things that I love to do in. so far I have accomplished quite a lot of them.
There was one really fun thing that I got to do last week and that was my tribe has sophmore night on thursday we first went in a room on campus and played a bunch of board games, then we got to spend the night with the sophmore of our choice in their dorm room. This was a lot of fun.
This is about all I have to say so I hope evey one had a great FALL BREAK!
Saturday, October 4, 2008
4. "Oh Shirley"
This entry is dedicated to Shirley Lowry Rummel.
So I woke up Friday morning having the best morning ever. I was in a great mood. The night before I had gotten into Nenamoosha, the tribe that I wanted. I had woken up at 6:30 to get to a breakfast at 7 with my new sisters. Nothing was going to bring me down. I was so excited that I was coming home this weekend to go to my god brothers wedding. And it is also the best weekend ever is going on in Mobile, Alabama Bay fest.
So when I got home I was expecting the best weekend ever. Well as soon as I walked into the door I saw my mom and my godmother sitting in my living room and they said to me sit down we have some bad news to tell you. I found out that my grandmother Shirley Lowry Rummel had died Thursday morning. She had been diagnosed with lung cancer at the beginning of the summer. She had chemotherapy and radiation throughout the entire summer. About a month ago she was told by her doctor that the cancer was gone. Once my grandparents found out this news they decided they were going to go to their house in Pennsylvania and live there for a month.
My Grandmother was the sweetest grandmothers anyone could ever ask for. She was an amazing person. She will always hold a huge piece of my heart. Here are some things that will always remind me of her: I will never forget how every Saturday morning when she used to live next door to me at my bay house how I would go for breakfast. She would always cook me whatever I wanted no matter what time of day it was. My favorite thing she would cook was grits. She also used to home make the best biscuits in the world. She was always so considerate others. One thing she used to always do was whenever she did something that she thought was silly or that she should not have done she would say “ Oh Shirley”. My cousin Bradley and I have picked up this trait from her. I am constantly saying this. Every time I do something silly I will always think of her. She was known as “Nanny”. She was probable one of the best people I have ever known.
I was reminded by my godmother of what my grandmother said to me on the night of my 19th birthday. She toasted me and said “you have made my life worth living for the past ten years, and I love you”. I did not realize at the time how much those words would mean to me at the time. Now looking back on that day those words are more valuable to me than anyone could ever know.
My grandmother was always cleaning the house and cooking. One thing that makes me happy is the fact that I know that she is in a better place. She is somewhere now where she can be happy and not have to deal with all the things that were bad towards the end of her life. She is someplace where she can live in a frame house (just like she always did) which has a water front view, a place where she does not have to do any cleaning. All she has to do is sit there and look beautiful watching over all of us.
I leave my readers with this advice: remember that god works in mysterious ways you cannot predict what he is going to do.
So I woke up Friday morning having the best morning ever. I was in a great mood. The night before I had gotten into Nenamoosha, the tribe that I wanted. I had woken up at 6:30 to get to a breakfast at 7 with my new sisters. Nothing was going to bring me down. I was so excited that I was coming home this weekend to go to my god brothers wedding. And it is also the best weekend ever is going on in Mobile, Alabama Bay fest.
So when I got home I was expecting the best weekend ever. Well as soon as I walked into the door I saw my mom and my godmother sitting in my living room and they said to me sit down we have some bad news to tell you. I found out that my grandmother Shirley Lowry Rummel had died Thursday morning. She had been diagnosed with lung cancer at the beginning of the summer. She had chemotherapy and radiation throughout the entire summer. About a month ago she was told by her doctor that the cancer was gone. Once my grandparents found out this news they decided they were going to go to their house in Pennsylvania and live there for a month.
My Grandmother was the sweetest grandmothers anyone could ever ask for. She was an amazing person. She will always hold a huge piece of my heart. Here are some things that will always remind me of her: I will never forget how every Saturday morning when she used to live next door to me at my bay house how I would go for breakfast. She would always cook me whatever I wanted no matter what time of day it was. My favorite thing she would cook was grits. She also used to home make the best biscuits in the world. She was always so considerate others. One thing she used to always do was whenever she did something that she thought was silly or that she should not have done she would say “ Oh Shirley”. My cousin Bradley and I have picked up this trait from her. I am constantly saying this. Every time I do something silly I will always think of her. She was known as “Nanny”. She was probable one of the best people I have ever known.
I was reminded by my godmother of what my grandmother said to me on the night of my 19th birthday. She toasted me and said “you have made my life worth living for the past ten years, and I love you”. I did not realize at the time how much those words would mean to me at the time. Now looking back on that day those words are more valuable to me than anyone could ever know.
My grandmother was always cleaning the house and cooking. One thing that makes me happy is the fact that I know that she is in a better place. She is somewhere now where she can be happy and not have to deal with all the things that were bad towards the end of her life. She is someplace where she can live in a frame house (just like she always did) which has a water front view, a place where she does not have to do any cleaning. All she has to do is sit there and look beautiful watching over all of us.
I leave my readers with this advice: remember that god works in mysterious ways you cannot predict what he is going to do.
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