The Cursed Trip :/

Hellooo all (2 of you, tops ;D),
As I've probably mentioned on here before (but I can't specifically remember and I'm too lazy to try and find anything right now), History Club has been planning for over a month to go on a trip to Washington D.C. We had planned to go this spring to see the cherry blossoms in bloom and as many of the monuments and such as possible.

Jefferson Memorial

Unfortunately, after many other trials and tribulations to make this trip possible, it had to be cancelled at the last minute for insurance reasons :P We didn't go through a transportation company insured by the school, so our president of History Club had accidentally made himself liable if anything happened. Understandably, he did not want to assume such responsibility, being a college student and everything, so the trip had to be cancelled.

Most of us didn't really have a problem with it; we understood that it just didn't work out. Not everyone was so forgiving though, and our president, Ed, got grilled at our last meeting on Friday. The advisor that came was very supportive of him and the club though, and it was good to hear some voices of students supporting the club who haven't been there much this semester. Hopefully it'll all work out better next year. We were supposed to go yesterday but the weather was dreadful, so we wouldn't have had that fun of a time anyways. We're going to try extra hard to make it all work out in the fall :D

Who needs cherry blossoms?! They just make my allergies act up anyways ;D

I'm still very proud of how much History Club has done this year. We have a long way to go, but as a club that is only a year old, and with advisors who have only been here a maximum of 3 years, we all know it's going to be rough at first. We are learning though, and we will definitely use the experience to better the club and ourselves in the future :)

I'll leave you with some Billy Joel, definitely one of the best piano players of our generation :D

Until next time... :)

One Day Without Shoes! :D

We did it!! ^_^

That's a terrible video of our barefoot walk around campus, but you can see most of our feet anyways before I inadvertently film a car as I decide whether or not to keep filming. It was soooo cold! My feet literally went numb in seconds. I was concerned about frostbite, but my feet recovered quite well once we got inside :) And then we got free socks from the bookstore! Woooot :D All in all, a surprisingly successful day (especially for my neck of the woods lol).

Sorry for not posting for so long, though! I was so busy trying to organize ODWS, and then before I knew it that was over, but I still had a ton of work to do :P Unfortunately, it's going to be like that for the rest of the semester for me. Final projects, papers, the last "normal" exams, and then finals are all coming up. In addition, History Club is going to D.C. next Saturday (:D) and so I basically have to do all my homework for the first part of next week during this coming week. So much to dooooo!!!! Oh wells, what can ya do? :P But anyways, my posts will likely be extremely sparse until after finals. Like, I'll probably only do 2 or 3 posts tops until then :P lolz

Not much else to say really... I'll leave you with a video of Hank Green (musician brother of rather famous author John Green, whose books I need to read this summer)'s visit to Google, which is rather hilarious even if you don't really know who he is :D

Until next time... :)

HEY! I'm Blogging Here!!

What a week! I know I say that a lot, but seriously! Last week was nuts!!

Yeahhhh....

Not only did I manage to forget two important homework assignments (which my professors were forgiving enough to give me extensions on, thank goodness!!), but I was also forced to juggle duties for History Club and my own self-imposed duties regarding my TOMS Club and One Day Without Shoes. Thankfully, by the end of the week anyways, I found out that I am not alone in any of those things (particularly the TOMS stuff), and so a lot of the stress was taken off of my shoulders.

This coming Tuesday, April 5th, is TOMS's One Day Without Shoes. I've probably explained it before, and if I haven't then you can probably figure out what happens by the title of the event. If you STILL don't know what it is, please see toms.com and/ or onedaywithoutshoes.com :) But anyways, I've been planning for weeks now to try and host a showing of the TOMS documentary, but I kept putting it off in favor of homework and History Club. Last week I realized that ODWS was only one week away, and I really had to get moving on organizing something!

After scheduling a showing for Monday and getting it approved for the freshman CES credits (they have to get 6 Community Enrichment Series credits each semester; one credit for each event), I found out that the bookstore at my school was having some TOMS-related things for ODWS. They had already printed up flyers and stuff too, which was extremely helpful for me :)

Of course though, Tuesday is not going to be a good weather day AT. ALL. :P It's going to snow and rain and be windy and cold. And any other day this week will at be at least 15 degrees warmer :P Oh well, I guess that's the whole point haha. It's just frustrating. Most of the places that children do not have shoes are much warmer than here ;P

Well I better go, my sister needs the computer for homework (using the fancy desktop again :D)

I'll leave you with this video from charlieissocoollike. It is freaking hilarious xD I haven't laughed so hard at a video in ages.

Until next time... :)

I'm Not Dead :)

Just very busy!! I'll update when I can!! :)

Until next time...

TORNADO!!

Wow, what an evening! I couldn't believe it when I saw on the news on the dining hall's tv that we were under a tornado warning! O_o

My roommate told me to use this picture under penalty of death ;P

I live in a mountainous region, and we are very rarely put under a tornado watch, let alone a warning! It was kinda scary, I'm not gonna lie! Once we got back to our dorm, the RA's herded us into the deepest part of the basement where we sat until the warning was over. By then, however, I only had 10 minutes until my night class was to start. I called home out of fear for my family, who was also under the same warnings, and my mom convinced me that I shouldn't go to class, at least not until the weather cleared a bit.

I honestly thought I might see something like this outside my window :-/

Unfortunately, I apparently shouldn't have listened to my mom and my gut, because when I went to class an hour late (it's a two hour class) everyone was there. Even when the weather is fine, it's rare to see everyone in that class!! I felt like such an idiot walking in like that :P At least I went, but still. I hate when stuff like that happens to me.

I used to watch the Discovery Channel show Storm Chasers whenever I possibly could. Not only did I think it was a great show, but it was also so terrifyingly exhilarating to see all those tornadoes, and to watch the storm chasers get so close to them! But, watching that show completely convinced me that I never want to live out West in Tornado Alley, nor do I ever want to be within 500 miles of a tornado :P

Yep, I'm avoiding AALLLLL that. ;P

We got really lucky though today. My family is all safe, and my college received no damage that I saw. Further west though, there was a good bit of damage; some buildings had their roofs taken off, and there was golf ball-sized hail and even baseball-sided hail not far from my family home. 

So, all in all, an eventful evening. I wonder what the morrow will bring?

Until next time...

Hola!

Just a quick post to say that, even though I haven't been real busy the past few days, I've still been too lazy to post xD

Can you blame me for not wanting to type something for once in my life?! :) Really, though, there hasn't been much to blog about. Other than History Club drama, which I wouldn't discuss here anyways, I've just been doing my best to be a good V.P. and get my TOMS Club running. Fundraising is a pain in the butt :P

I must remember to make a post about One Day Without Shoes soon though!! :) I'm sooo excited for this year's ODWS, and I hope to be able to show the first TOMS documentary on campus before it, so people have the opportunity to learn more about TOMS and exactly how they work. I hope lots of people go without shoes this year; a lot did last year, but I think that was mostly due to the good weather that day. I want to make a difference!! :D

I also attempted to get a bottle of TOMS nail polish that the nail polish company Essie is distributing for ODWS. I hope I got a bottle :)

Until next time... :)

*PSA*

An out-of-the-ordinary post to make sure Cindy and anyone else who may be wondering why I haven't commented on my most recent posts-- My computer is not letting me :( I don't know why, but I can't comment on other blogs either :P The comment box doesn't even appear most of the time, and if it does, when I try to tell it to post the comment, THEN the box goes away. If anyone has any idea what's going on please let me know. I probably just need a new laptop :P Won't be getting my new one til August though.

Me wants to smash youuuuu

And my fishies at the bottom of the blog aren't showing up either- just a white box :P
Ok, lol, until next time...