So, these last two days (Friday and Saturday) have gone by extremely fast but they have also been a blast thanks to some special people!
Friday the 19th, i did not attend class, but instead went on a Volunteer opportunity to Kearney Middle school, the middle school in Commerce City, right outside of Denver. The town is VERY rough, with a lot of gangs and it is very under developed with a lot of the lower classes living there. We left at 6:35am! It was ridiculously early, but we had to drive over an hour and a half to get there. The kids at the school are very special. These kids do not see college as an opportunity for them, and so we headed over there to talk to the 8th graders about college and how no matter what your financial status, you can go to college. My cluster group (20 CSU students) played an egg toss (hard boiled of course) type game with the kids. We found out that the point of the game was to express to the kids that practice and patience and good communication can get you a long way. We had a blast with the kids, and the kids seemed to have a really joyful time as well. I was relieved that I got to miss class for a great experience and had a fabulous time! We left the school around 12:30, and got back to the school around 2pm. It was a long day, but a fun one. Later that evening, a friend from High School, that i hadn't really talked to or seen since arriving here, called me up and asked if i wanted to join her and a few of her friends for dinner and a movie. So, i agreed and we headed to dinner at Red Robin's and then went to see "My Best Friends Girl" That was intense.....VERY much sexual but quite funny. After that, we headed back and she asked if I wanted to join her at the football game on Saturday. I agreed.
Saturday 20th,
Well, on Saturday I met up with Therese at about 10am because some of her friends wanted to tailgate so we were going to join them. Well.......that plan sort of disappeared quickly! We got to her friends' dorm, and they were barely out of bed and hadn't even begun to change yet. So we waited, and waited, and waited.....about 2.5 hours later (no joke!) they were ready! By that time, it was already around 12:30 so the tailgating was pretty much done because of the idea and fact that the game started at 1:30, and we still had to get to the stadium. We went to wait for the bus, but by 12:45 it still hadn't arrived so Therese ended up driving us....we had four in the back bed of the truck (which is NOT illegal here in Fort Collins) and then Therese and I in the cab. We found out that they pretty much shut down the main roads down here when there is a football game, so if you aren't going to the football game, and you try and go your "normal" route, you are screwed because it only leads directly into the parking lot of the stadium, no where else. It is crazy. So, we get there around 1pm and walk a little bit and then decide to head into the stadium. We went into the stadium and found a place to stand. The game starts, and CSU gets the first touchdown! Yay! This is fabulous, because our team really is not a good football team and everyone knows it. But we managed to keep on track the whole game and by the 3rd quarter, CSU was still winning. With 2 min left on the clock in the 4th quarter, that is where everything became intense and crazy! The as time continued down, the score became 28 to 25 (Houston). With everything SOOO close, everyone was crazy and intense and we WON!!! We are now officially undefeated, because the CSU vs CU game does not count because they are not in our division. I had a great time at the game EVEN though, crazy drunk creepy kids kept touching me. I have never been so personally violated at a football game as i we there! It was ridiculous! They were so drunk and tehy kept touching me, and so i told them twice, that the police officer that was only 3 rows down, was going to become my friend..and they sort of laid off. They then started pushing each other around and ran into one guy pushing him forward on to the row in front of him. That guy then turned around and punched the other guy in the face....it was CRAZY! But, alas, they called it off right then, and nothing more happened. We headed back to campus and had dinner and then I headed back to my dorm.
I got back to the room (around 6pm) and then shortly after, Angela got back and we headed to Safeway and Walmart and I got some food. I spent $50 between the two places. :( Not cool!!! When we got back, it was after 8pm, I was putting away the food, and decided that we had TOO many cookies so i packed up 3 packages of cookies and a pack of cupcakes into a bag, and asked Nathan if he wanted them, but alas he did not. I then asked this girl Chantel who is a daniels Scholar like me, if she wanted them.....it took a few minutes to convince her to take them, but she did! I then delivered them to the room that she told me to, and it was just her friend liz in there, and then left. A short while later, she texted me and asked me to come join her. So i did, and it was Nathan, Chantel and Liz there. We all just hung out, they ordered pizza, and then we "watched" a movie "Baby Mama" No one really watched it, Nathan and Liz were messing around with a Nathan's cell phone, and Chantel was pretty much falling asleep. Nathan and I started texting each other even though we were in the same room, but alas we decided we should head to bed because it was after midnight and Nathan had church in the morning. So, we headed out and i stopped next door which is Nathan's room to pick up 3 movies he wanted me to watch. I have those, and have to get to watching them sometime, when i magically appear with time.
But over all, the last 2 days have been great and things seem to be looking up, but i am not sure how long it will last, but it is great right now. I am going to be doing a lot of homework today, even though i was going to do a 3 mile walk, but i too much homework :(
I am suppose to be leaving for Alamosa on the 3rd of October, but am unsure if i still want to because the person i was going to meet down there and I are not getting a long right now, and it seems as though they are hiding something and it is pissing me off, but they won't tell me what is going on! Not nice!
I will update soon! I miss you all!!
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