Hectic Weekend

A. Showcase
B. Watchmen
C. RA group Interview

Hello everyone!
I'm sitting here in the racquetball courts, writing this and listening to music. Why, do you ask? Well, I am trying to find my own secret hang out place. I am almost 90% positive this place is perfect, because not too many people play racquet ball anymore. The only downside is the bathroom is far away O.O

So here is a tale of my weekend, a sum up of the Ballroom Dancing Showcase, Going to see Watchmen afterwards, and my RA interview.

A. Showcase
It's Saturday, and we meet up at noon in the dance studio. The show doesn't start till 6 pm. We go over the finale number (which is mind numbingly weird but it was fun anyways), and practice stuff over one final time. Then the girls start getting ready for the show, like doing stuff to their hair, and putting makeup on. Gia let me put hers on and I have to say it was kind of fun. Then this one girl pulled out this glitter stuff for your hair and skin. It was fun spraying them all and then seeing them reflect like a pool of water in the moonlight.

Then we went to the Figliulo Recital Hall for the show. We completely sold out, and even had people sitting on the stairs! It was really cool though, because all my friends were in the crowd. Andrea's dance partner came. We all thought it was going to be her husband, but it wasn't. It was this really pretty and really nice guy named Christopher. He was pretty, and so obviously not straight. *sigh* It made me realize how I've been so successful at everything here, except for love.

On a better note, Everyone was super excited! My dance went really well, even though I was shaking from the adrenaline rush! It was really cool when we walked out because all of my friends and probably all of Annie's friends cheered when we appeared. Then we did these social dancers, where we showed off the other stuff we had learned, like the chacha, the rumba, etc

B. Watchmen
Right after the show, Danielle, Emyli, and others dragged me to go watch the brand new Watchmen movie. Wow! I was both amazed and shocked at the same time! First of all, not once did I guess any part of the plot, which in my eyes says that the plot, and the directing, were really well done. It really made me want to read the book! The thing that I was shocked by was the fact that they got away with calling it an 'R' rated movie. It should have been X! You saw every part of both gender's bodies, and then you saw this really intense sex scene. If you put it all together, it could have been porn. O yea and it is super bloody. If you take those parts with a grain of salt though, it was great!

C. RA group Interview
Then on Sunday we had the RA group interview. Since all the theatre people had rehearsal, they gave us our own time (after everyone else). They brought us in, and sat us down. They gave us a folder full of "Evidence" like written checks, plane tickets, a set of car keys and payment, some girl's report with a grade, etc. We had 10 mins to come up with what we thought would happen. We eventually came to the conclusion that this wife was cheating on her husband, and he was paying a detective to find evidence. The person she was cheating with was paying her car bills and restaurant bills, etc, and the babysitter for the family's kids discovered the affair.

After that they gave us this huge sheet of poster paper, and we had to come up with a new residence hall for students, and had to draw up a plan, then describe it, along with who it was for, its name, and where it should go on campus. That was some fun.

Then they told us we had to try and build a really tall building using gumdrop buttons, dry spaghetti, toothpicks, and marshmallows. We had to use all four types of material, and it had to stand for at least five seconds when done. The catch was that one person was blindfolded, one couldn't talk, and two others had to use their non dominant hands. AND everyone had to help build. THANK GOD I didn't have any of these maladies! We didn't build the tallest building, but I'm pretty sure it was the sturdiest!

After all that, which was a ton of fun, yesterday we got the mail telling us if we got the positions or not. I DID! I was so happy! It really made me feel that I can accomplish whatever the hell I want to accomplish. On the other hand, Robby and Regina did not make it. I was shocked. I thought Robby would be a really good RA, and Regina would be such a better RA than I could ever hope to be! But thats what happened. I talked to all the people in my "group", and almost all of them became RA's, so I guess we all did really well together.

That's about it for now!

Love,
Neil