Leadership Quest and RENT
So I went to a four day program at Rutgers last week and I wasn't really sure what to expect. It was called Leadership Quest but not much info was availble online outside of, heres the deadline to apply, and write us an essay about your leadership skills. This was all the way back in May. But I got in, and signed my life away on a kinda scary permission slip (we are not responsable if you get yourself shot during our community service activity or if you accidently fatally injure yourself on the high ropes course). But anyway, I did all my college shopping early so I would have a shower caddy, and a bed set for the week and it was amazing.
Our incoming freshman class is somewhere around 7,000 students. This program was for fourty of us. I knew all thirty nine names by the first night thanks to a painfully long name game session. We took personality tests (apparently I am a person conserned with others' feelings and am not adventurous but that wasn't a surprise) I helped make the nastiest ice cream sunday in human history (an entire container of red hots, rocky road ice-cream, dino sprinkles, strawberry whipped cream and gummi bears topped with a cone all inside a dog bowl). I climbed a high ropes course, or part of it anyway. I presented a new idea for Rutger's tours to many deans of the college and ending up having a dinner disscussion with the dean of student life, who was impressed by my sucess in business. I did three hours of community service in one of the largest, and most unknown gardens in any United States University (and got to walk through an acre of bamboo forests while doing it) and along the way met some really awesome people and learned a lot of cool things (how to play beer pong even though I don't drink among other valuble lessons) So I basically just wanted to write it all out so I don't forget it, though Zain took enough pictures that I will be able to view every single moment again and again. (seriously he took over 200 pictures in 4 days) plus since it was the first year of the program, an offical student photographer was documenting the whole thing and will be postnig the pictures hopefully by this friday.
And to toally switch gears, I am going into the city to see RENT with my aunt tomorrow. I have been dying to see this again since I saw the movie, and since it's leaving Broadyway in a matter of weeks I was afaird I never would, but hey I am. So I'll know every single line before I walk in there and if I owned any eighties boho wear I would totally be wearing it tomorrow, but since I don't I guess my pretty new purple sun dress will have to do. I am mega excited and cannot wait to be in that theature again.
Our incoming freshman class is somewhere around 7,000 students. This program was for fourty of us. I knew all thirty nine names by the first night thanks to a painfully long name game session. We took personality tests (apparently I am a person conserned with others' feelings and am not adventurous but that wasn't a surprise) I helped make the nastiest ice cream sunday in human history (an entire container of red hots, rocky road ice-cream, dino sprinkles, strawberry whipped cream and gummi bears topped with a cone all inside a dog bowl). I climbed a high ropes course, or part of it anyway. I presented a new idea for Rutger's tours to many deans of the college and ending up having a dinner disscussion with the dean of student life, who was impressed by my sucess in business. I did three hours of community service in one of the largest, and most unknown gardens in any United States University (and got to walk through an acre of bamboo forests while doing it) and along the way met some really awesome people and learned a lot of cool things (how to play beer pong even though I don't drink among other valuble lessons) So I basically just wanted to write it all out so I don't forget it, though Zain took enough pictures that I will be able to view every single moment again and again. (seriously he took over 200 pictures in 4 days) plus since it was the first year of the program, an offical student photographer was documenting the whole thing and will be postnig the pictures hopefully by this friday.
And to toally switch gears, I am going into the city to see RENT with my aunt tomorrow. I have been dying to see this again since I saw the movie, and since it's leaving Broadyway in a matter of weeks I was afaird I never would, but hey I am. So I'll know every single line before I walk in there and if I owned any eighties boho wear I would totally be wearing it tomorrow, but since I don't I guess my pretty new purple sun dress will have to do. I am mega excited and cannot wait to be in that theature again.