Sunday, September 10, 2006

Run Forrest, Run!

Hey everyone! I just got back from the beach. We had a beach party and a thing they call 'Ocean Rush'. That's where a bunch of sucker college students line up on the beach and when a person says "GO!" all of them start running for the ocean. Everyone who goes in and gets completely wet gets a free T-shirt. Needless to say, I was one of said 'sucker college students'. Who couldn't use a free T-shirt?
There was also a sand castle building contest. My team built...well, actually we didn't built anything. Really what we did was we uncovered what God had already placed on the beach. That's right, we dug the biggest sand hole in school history. We guesstimated it to be about 15 feet deep. It was pretty sweet. Of course in order to justify it as a 'castle' we also dug around the outside of the rim of the hole to make a wall. then we took the buckets of sand that we hauled up out of the pit and made towers all along the wall. Sadly, we didn't win. The winners received a hundred dollar cash prize. Second got $50, third $25. But, we didn't get any of those. so what if it wasn't the best 'castle'. I am 100% positive we displaced the most sand.
Friday night we had a thing called 'Rush'. At this event we all sat in the bleachers of the gym as a bunch of different groups (called 'Fellowships') tolled us what they were about. Then at the end some one yelled out "RUSH!!!" and everyone in the bleachers 'rushed' down to the fellowship that they wanted to join. There are four brother/sister fellowships. The Panthers and Lambs, the Eagles and Doves, the Saints and Angles, and the Trojans and Pandas. The former in each of the groups listed is the guys part of the group, and the latter is the girls. They do some things together(guys & girls), and some things separate(just guys & just girls). For the most part all the groups are very much the same in that they do service projects, Bible studies, and events. What makes each group different is not only what kind of events and service projects they do, but mostly the overall character of the group. I joined the Eagles because it's more the arts group (musicians, thespians, artisans of varying types). Cool stuff.
Well, to quote Forrest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that."

2 comments:

Elaine Butler said...

So how many college students does it take to dig a 15 foot pit in the sand?
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Michael said...

over a span of two two hours--6