RIT's 10th Brick City Homecoming

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It was a fun weekend. Probably my first Brick City Homecoming that I actually attended most of the events. Other years I did not really give too much attention to it. I started off with Rihanna concert on Friday with Stephen, Norb, Alice, and Mei. It was a busy day and we arrived at the entrance 2 hours before the show at 8pm. The line extended from the top of the stairs near the ticket box office and all the way down into the parking lots. I would assume that more than 3,500 people came to see Rihanna (4,800 maximum capacity for seatings). Her performance were the same routine that Stephen and I saw in Toronto 2 weeks ago. Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto has a venue capacity of 16,000 people and I'm sure when we were there, it was a full house. It was nice seeing her again. There were some hardcore fans (some ignorant) who had the nerve to push people around in the mosh pit. I was only 5 feet away from the stage in the mosh pit. For the Rihanna concert, I spent 4-5 hours standing for her performance. The next day, I woke up at 6am to drive to Lima Country Golf Club to volunteer for community service. I went with Norb and Stephen. The funny moment in the car was when Stephen brushed his teeth in my back seat while I was speeding on the highway. I looked back and laughed, I told him, "What's next? blow bubbles and pretend you are taking a shower too?" We arrived at the golf course and met with Brian, Alyssa, Alayna, and Kari. We all volunteered to drive the golf carts and help the NTID alumni with their bags and take measurements of the distance between the ball and the hole at short and long drive. We had some fooling around with the golf cart to kill time. Norb and I got in trouble near the club house for spinning the golf cart around the dumpster and the putting green with Alayna at the back. The lady came out scolding at both of us and took away the golf carts from all the volunteers. It was sure fun! After that, I dropped Norb off at Dino BBQ and went with Stephen to Howie Mandell's performance. I laughed so hard and almost lost my lung two times. Howie Mandell was really funny. I like the videos that he showed as a shampoo boy and annoying cell phone user. Today, I went for a 5K run at Grace Watson sponsored by Residence Life, Phi Sigma Pi, and the Running Club. It was my first 5K I participated. I ran for 28.5 minutes (28:28:46). I was 81th person out of 124 people who ran. It was a good thing that I have practiced running on the treadmill before doing the event. It took me 30 minutes to get to 2.44 miles (25 minutes jogging, 5 minutes cool down). I was surprised that I did 3.1 miles in 28.5 minutes jogging with a backpack. If I had not brought my bag with me, I could have had shorter time jogging. Thanks to Dylan and his Dad for inviting me. Dylan's dad won 1st for his age category. Tonight I will be going to Dino BBQ with Dylan and his parents with Stephen. I cannot wait for that BBQ rib tease.

I'm definitely not looking forward to Monday because I have not touched my homework and study for the arabic quiz. Cram time!