Christmas in October?

This Saturday at Eastern University there was snow. Now normally if it was November or December it would be reasonable but the one thing I can’t wrap my min around is that it is still October! When I first heard that it was supposed to snow I didn’t really believe it. I thought that it was going to be like most screwed up forecasts that say that is going to snow but really it ends up that it is just rain. I was somewhat prepared just in case it did snow; I wore a scarf, hoodie, sweatpants and snow boots. When I walked outside of my dorm it was still just raining but not even a full hour later it had started to snow. Snow in October, who knew that this would ever happen? Anyway, it continued to snow all day long. It snowed so much that the power went out on campus at least three different times. This was mildly inconvenient but thanks to the really bright flashlight that I have I didn’t break my leg walking around in the dark. Thankfully, the emergency lights were on so that I could get some work done in the hall.

                Advice: Whenever you start to think that it is starting to get cold always go home and get your winter clothes because you never know what the weather will be like and you don’t want to wind up in the middle of a blizzard wearing shorts and flip flops.

Did you hear?

This past weekend was tryouts for the male and female basketball teams. Around thirty men tried out for the team and 17 women tried out for the women's team. I was one of these young women that tried out for the team but I was a walk-on along with five other girls, which means, that we were not recruited to play on the team. This past Saturday was a big day for the large amount people who were trying out for both the men and women’s team. There had been a lot of preparation leading up to this day almost since the beginning of the school year when preseason started. It was somewhat frightening to think that the moment that we were all waiting for was finally here. I personally, was a little nervous until I talked to my family and my best friend from back home who reminded me to do the very best that I can and not worry about the outcome because I did everything I could do.

            Saturday came and I remembered the advice that I had heard from my family and I tried to leave everything that I had on the court. That night, I was called into the head coach’s office to have a meeting with all of the coaches. As I waited to have the meeting with the coaches, all I could think of was that they were going to either tell me one of three things. One: that I was not going to make the team, Two: that I made the team or Three: that the coaches wanted evaluate me a little bit more. Out of the three of these options I was hoping that it would not be the third option because I really wanted to know if I had made the team or not.

            Finally, I was time to have the meeting with the coaches and they told exactly what I was hoping that they wouldn’t tell me, that they wanted to continue to evaluate me longer and that I should come to the next practice. After the meeting I sat down and really thought about what the coach’s had told me and realized that I should be even more excited that I get a second chance to make the team. So, I went to the next two practices and had another meeting with my coaches. At this meeting I was a lot less nervous because I know that I did everything that I could do. So, I meet the coach’s in the storage room while the other girls who made the team were trying one there gear. After everyone had left the head coach was about to tell me if I had made the team or not. Then suddenly, the assistant guy’s coach came in and began to have somewhat of a long conversation with him. At this point I was getting to be a little impatient because I really wanted to know if I had made the team or not. Finally, the assistant coach for the men’s team had left and I talked to the female head coach and the assistant coach and they told me that I had made the team! I was ecstatic and I couldn’t wait to call home and tell my family what had happened.

Advice: Whenever you are faced with a challenge, give your all at it so you will not have any regrets later on.

Are you SCARED of the Dark?!

Are you scared of the dark? I hope not because the power went out this week on campus. There was an accident were a car ran into a poll and the transformer on the poll blew up, on a road close to Eastern’s campus. When this was going on, I was in the gym playing basketball, with a few other girls and the lights went out in the middle of our game. The score board made a very loud noise and scared some of the girls half to death. Then the generator lights turned on and off and someone slammed the gym door shut, it felt like we were in some type of scary movie or something. We went outside to see what had happened and as we looked into the sky we saw the sky flashing orange and blue. I wasn’t really scared but I knew that I need to head back to my dorm before anything else happened.

 Oh! Thank you so much mom for getting me a flashlight because I was able to use this to head back to my dorm across campus when it was pitch black. I was also able to see in my room which was very helpful. The power was out for about two hours and a lot of people were very upset because they were trying to do their homework but there computer was low on battery. So I decided to read my book for class in the hallway, were there was some light that was still on from the back-up generators(never thought that reading a book would make time go by so much faster). All I can say is that I am glad that I wasn’t afraid of the dark.

Advice: Make sure to always carry around a flashlight and try and keep your laptop charged at all times because you never know what will happen.

Orientation

 Freshman! That is what i have been referred too lately. it seems as though all of the first year college students have been lumped together in one large group. Much like how we were lumped together on the first few days that school started. Hurricane Irene had struck the campus along with my home town, which had been evacuated day before. This was an awesome experience for me because it was like a terrifying ice breaker. For one I learned who most of the people who lived in my building were but at the same time there was a lot of flooding and the power went out many times in a lot of other dorms. When one of the Ra's( Residential Advisers) came by our room to tell my roommates and my self to go down to the first floor, I grabbed everything that i could think of to bring with me and left the room. when we got to the first floor I meet new people and had very interesting conversations with them. A lot of these same people i am still friends with a few weeks later.
Advice:
 Even though a situation may seem bad try and make the best of it because you never know what will come out of it.