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.).