Goin Greek: Chi Omega

For those of you who don't know what "Chi" or "Omega" are, these are my new letters.  My colors are red and yellow; my mascot is an Owl (So, now I need to get some owl stuff :-P); and my philanthropy is the Make a Wish Foundation :-) (So, I'm pretty excited!).

The Chi Omegas! =D

This past week as been my busiest week thus far.  For one, the first issue of the Thielensian came out this week.  So, I had to work on Sunday, Monday, and a little bit on Tuesday.  On Thursday, I met and ate lunch with the new rifle coach.  He seems like he will be a really good fit for the club and I’m excited to start shooting again.

I also attended three sorority recruitment parties: Chi Omega, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Alpha Xi Delta.  I wanted a bid from either Chi Omega or Zeta Tau Alpha; Alpha Xi Delta wasn’t even accepting girls this semester, but they still had to have a party.  Because Molly asked me to go, I went.  This morning, at 9, there was a knock on my door.  When I answered it, four girls were standing there to hand me a bid for Chi Omega.  I spent most of the day with my new sister; we had brunch and went bowling.  The girls also gave me a Chi Omega bag, a Chi Omega candle, a Chi Omega picture frame, and three Chi Omega t-shirts.  I can’t wait to receive my letter shirts and letter blanket and my big!  So excited!!! =D

Kate standing beside my Duck Tape Tower

Oh, and I also built a Duck Tape Tower with  37 rolls of Duck Tape.  W.I.N.

Two Weeks of College in One Post

Jordan, Molly, and Becca at the hookah bar with me

I have been back at Thiel for three weeks since the end of Christmas Break.  Since returning, I have been really busy with classes, club meetings, and various activities.

a dog being stuffed

the bear animals

During my first week back to campus, I went to the hookah bar with several of my friends (I wrote an article about the hookah bar for the first issue of the Theilensian.  Then, that Friday, Thiel hosted a Build-a-Bear event.  Although they bought their animals and stuffing from a company other than Build-a-Bear, the event was still a ton of fun.  Students could choose from one of five animals to stuff (a frog, a moose, a bear, a dog, and a koala).  I chose to stuff a moose!  It even had a little stuffed heart inside J  I named him Marshall Morris Javier J  After I stuffed my bear, I stayed with my friend Molly to help refill the stuffing tables and fluff the stuff.  It was actually fun, and I even got to stuff a second animal when everyone else was finished.  The night was a ton of fun… and I got two stuffed animals out of it.

The following Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  So, I didn’t have class that day.  Instead, Thiel hosted a Prospective Student Visit Day.  I helped with it by being a part of the student panel (I sat with several other students in front of a room of perspective students and their parents to answer questions about Thiel).  Then, I went down to the cafeteria and ate lunch with several of the perspective students.

The remainder of that week was spent in class, studying, and at an hour-long dance class on Wednesday (Thiel has been hosting ballroom dancing lessons every Wednesday for an hour.  Thus far, I have learned the basic steps to the Rumba and the Cha-Cha.  I have two lessons remaining).

bingo cards from Grocery Bingo

Friday of that week was also exciting; Thiel hosted Grocery Bingo.  Grocery Bingo is an event where students go to the LHR to play 10 games of bingo.  Each of the winners receives a huge box of groceries; and, guess what, I WON!!!!!  My box contained a box of Oatmeal Cream Pies, Orioes, crackers, macaroni and cheese, breakfast bars, gummies, pudding, Raman noodles, Chef Boyardee lasagna, a 24-pack of soda, and washer/drier sheets (They contain laundry detergent, and then you can use them as drier sheets, too.).

An Overview of Last Semester

me underneath the Thiel sign

Hodge, my new home

In-case you don't know, I am a second-semester freshman at Thiel College; but, I have a feeling that if you are reading this, you know who I am, where I come from, and are related to me, seeing as I'm writing this mainly as a way for my family to keep-up with what I am doing while I am away at college.

this is called a morphsuit

Last semester, I left Bedford, PA (where I grew up) to move into college in Greeville, PA (3.5 hours away).  Greenville is a town that is very similar to Bedford.  For example, Greenville has one small movie theater, one bowling ally, one Sheetz, two grocery stores, one Walmart, a Presbyterian church, some fast food venues, and a few houses.  However, there are some differences:
Greenville: well, there's a college, here, a Walmart super-center, a train that runs through town, outlets located fewer than 30 minutes away, a dairy queen, a hookah bar, and some other random things that I'm sure I've forgetting to mention

the birthday cake that I got last semester

Bedford: more ice cream stands (but many of them are only open in the summer), my family, Altoona 30 min away and Johnstown 40isn min away (which means a drive-in movie theater), a karate school, excetera
Basically, both towns have their pluses and their minuses; but, honestly, I'd say having a college is a fairly large plus.

photo from Letchworth State Park

photo from the foam party

So, onto more about last semester.  (Lets see if I can sum last semester up in one crazy-run-on sentence).  I came to Thiel and then I had a busy first weekend during which I was doing everything that they told me to; then I started class and met a whole bunch of people; then the crazy-girl on the hall and I had a spat when her roommate moved out; then I went to more classes and met more people, and then I started getting frustrated with OWE and feeling very stressed every time I left the class, and Mom and Dad came up, like, every weekend after I moved in for a really long time because they had to, and Coleman came up a few times, I went on fall break to Letchworth State Park in New York with my family and then I came back and had more class and then after that we had Thanksgiving break and I went home and then I came back and had two more weeks of class and then finals.  Oh, and amongst all that, we had the Halloween weekend at Thiel, I went to the NRA museum with the shooting club, I attended a foam party and homecoming weekend, I had Habitat for Humanity meetings and things, I had WING meetings, I had shooting club meetings, and I also had Thielensian meetings.  I became the editor of the paper during my first semester.

Then, it was Winter break and, now, the third week of my second semester at Thiel College.  more on that, later.

fireworks homecoming weekend

fireworks homecoming weekend