My First College Homecoming!

When you are involved in the planning of homecoming week survival is a blessing! Every night here was a different activity to help celebrate the new school year (even though we've been here for a month and a half)!

Monday: that morning Jill and I got up early and served hot chocolate and salt water taffy to cold students walking to class! This was how we got to tell them about all the weeks festivities!

Tuesday: I had cheer practice for 3 hours getting prepped for the big game Saturday! Then the student government chalked the campus and I bought a milkshake at the cafe (they have really good milkshakes). Then we went to the homecoming service project and wrote letters to missionaries that had attended SVU!

Wednesday: I got to get up early again and man the king and queen nomination table! That afternoon I got to venture out to Roanoke and help some friends find dresses for the dance! We also stopped at Target and I missed Target!

Thursday: I got to get up early again and work the voting for king and queen! Then cheer practice again! and movie night!

Here is me resting my knee and watching from afar at cheer practice. The play and pause button for the music is on the other side of the gym and they all joked that I was the DJ sitting over here by myself.

Friday: Orson Scott Card was on campus   for Friday devotional and he is an amazing speaker! Jill and I went to get our books signed and then I was off to another cheer practice! That night we had a team dinner at Coaches house and it was fantastic. It was so nice to have a meal in a home! After dinner we decorated the boys locker cages! Then to the bonfire!

Saturday: Early cheer practice and then the football game! I didn't get to cheer at it due to a very embarrassing knee injury but I sat on the sidelines and photographed! The new softball field was dedicated after the volleyball game that was after the football game!

I quick ran home and got all gussied up for the dance! Jill was my date and we drove out to Lexington to try sushi (I was the newbie. Jill is a seasoned sushi eater) and I liked it! We partied it up at the dance and then stayed to help clean up after!

Sunday (morning) (or Saturday night) I finally went to bed after a very long week! Now I am trying to catch up on all the things that got left last week. Blogging being one of those things

I hope your week was slightly less busy but just as fun! This week is mid-terms and LOTS of tests! Next week is Halloween! Insane! Then its November! Insaner! and I bought my plane ticket home for Christmas! Insanest!

-ALC

Up-To-Date

Things I am not currently up to date on:

• sleep
• eating
• my astronomy, art, and english homework
• exercise
• my flu shot

Things you are not currently up to date on:

• general conference in college
• fall on the east coast
• cheer and cheer injuries
• SVU homecoming
• PSS adventures
• dress shopping

Don't worry, I would never leave you not up to date! Soon enough you (and more importantly I) will all be up to date!

General Conference: College Edition

Can you totally tell this is just a screen shot photo from my phone from Jill's instagram post?

Jill has a TV in her room to play wii on, so we took it over. I brought my laptop and we streamed conference and watched it as a group. Somebody had a contraband waffle maker and it was really great to have waffles! I love waffles and hadn't had one since moving here!

One of the girls watching it with us taught us the game her family played. Before the session starts you pick around 4 words that you think might be said (love, work, apostle, Christ, scriptures...) and when you hear the word you raise your hand and if you're the first person you get a piece of candy. It was very competitive.

I lost.

It was a lot of fun to be able to watch conference with a bunch of friends and discuss what we were listening to. If you missed conference you can view the talks again at lds.org

-ALC