Post by Arynielle on Dec 31, 2009 22:41:10 GMT -8
01/01/10
I know that I disappeared for forever during this past year so I'm planning on giving you guys a full update! This year is my sophomore year of college. During my freshman year, I lived in a dorm, which I am going to call Fayola*. Fayola... pretty much the most awesome thing on the face of the planet. It's an honors dorm, and the people in there are just amazing. Living with intelligent people simply makes life so much more entertaining.
I returned in my sophomore year because I just love Fayola, only to discover that the residents this academic year are even better than the ones from last year!
I ran for Hall Council, and I am now the Director of Programming for my dorm so this is what I've pretty much dedicated myself to. We plan events and keep residents in the hall updated with university programs-- essentially we're very busy. During our executive board evaluation, we determined that Fayola's Hall Council put on 27 programs during the first semester (almost two programs a week!), which is pretty amazing.
We are known as The Dream Team: Picture 1
In Picture 1, we are at Hall Leadership Camp, posing for a group picture. Yes, we made those shirts and are happily showing them off 'cause they're hawt.
Picture 2 and Picture 3 also show us at HLC. In 2, we won a balloon building competition to see which team could make the tallest balloon tower, and in 3 we are posing at the awards ceremony 'cause ResidenceLife recognized us as one of the most team-driven and hard working dorms.
Picture 4: This is a picture of me from Halloween. We planned an event in the dorms, and we probably had over half of the dorm show up, which is apparently a great turnout. I was a fairy for Halloween! I don't have my wings in this picture 'cause everywhere I turned, I kept on hitting people with them. >.>;; Oh, and in case you're curious, I'm drink "purple drank" out of a blue bowl. XD This was clean up and we had a lot of "purple drank" left so several hall council members and I had a bit of fun in the kitchen.
Perhaps one of our most successful events was Prom of the Future... which is exactly what it sounds like. XD It a prom with a futuristic theme. I didn't particularly like the theme, but the guys didn't want to do a masquerade so we were stuck with this. We had over 142 attendees from various dorms across the university-- we were told by ResdienceLife that this is ridiculously good for a RHA sponsored event, one of the best yet.
Picture 5: Sadly, this is probably the best picture of me the entire night 'cause it was the only one taken before I started dancing... afterward, I was disgusting and sweaty and eww.
Picture 6 and 7: Not good pictures of me and my prom date, but they're pictures nonetheless. This was after the both of us had been dancing for quite some time so we were kinda... well, disgusting.
STORY TIME!!!: I wasn't originally planning on going with a date because I was running the program so it wouldn't be fair to him if I had to leave him to attend to the snack tables or run the entrance table or guard the purses, etc. However, I discovered that I needed one because of one creeper who likes to... well, creep me out. There are more details (MANY MORE DETAILS) if you wish to hear them, but let's just leave it at that for now.
Now, this creeper had been bringing up the topic of prom and slow dancing and dating, etc. for the longest time, hinting at how we should go together. At first, I was a little freaked out, and I already "hired" an arsenal of my guy friends as "excuses" in the event that something happened at prom, but the plan wasn't entirely safe.
Then, I was talking to a friend (let's call him Aidan*) on Facebook, and I brought up the topic of prom and how he should go have fun if he didn't have anything else to do. He asked me if I was asking him as a date 'cause I would be making him feel very "unspecial" if I wasn't. Of course, an idea popped into my head! Aidan is the creeper's ex-roommate, and they hate each other's guts. It just so happens that Aidan is a good friend of mine so after I explained my predicament with the creeper, he totally volunteered to be my creeper-repellent. He, quote, unquote, said, "If [the creeper] tries to do anything, I'll punch him in the face. I have no qualms. I got your back old school style."
Aidan was a bit late to prom, which had me having to scramble to make up excuses so I didn't have to slow dance with the creeper. Granted, they weren't really lies, per se, 'cause I am a member of Hall Council and we did have to take turns watching the punch. When Aidan arrived, we decided to go dance. As we exited the food room, I kinda froze since I saw the creeper coming toward me. He seemed pretty intent on asking me to dance again, but while he was walking over, Aidan comes out and sees him. Being the smooth flirt that he is, he snakes his arm around my waist (making it quite obvious that we were dates) and gives me a gentle push of reassurance forward. The creeper sees and walks away in the other direction.
In conclusion -- Aidan: 1 | Creeper: 0
I have a platonic crush on Aidan.
Picture 8 and 9: This is our lovely hall council. Again, most of us are disgusting from dancing. Oh, and if you're curious about why our hall council president is making stupid faces, he always makes stupid faces when there's a camera involved. In fact, we had a brief conversation as we were posing for this picture.
Me: Waldo*, what're you doing?
Waldo: Making faces.
Me: Will you stop that and smile for once?
Waldo: -shrug-
Me: Come on, we want to see your beautiful face.
Waldo: I don't have a beautiful face. I just have this one.
Me: -_- -gives up-
Anyway! Other than just programming, we do all kinds of stuff together:
Picture 10: Yes, it's a Toga Party. Not ours, but we went to one. And you guessed it-- Waldo is in the back making stupid faces. I dressed most of those people up that night.
Picture 11: Four hall council members about to go out and chalk up the neighborhood to invite everyone to our Prom of the Future! Guess who's in the back making more stupid faces?
Alright, so enough about hall council. It may almost consume my life, but the basement does as well. You see, Fayola has three floors, plus a basement. I live in the basement, and as far as I'm concerned, the basement's where it's at. We pull a lot of shenanigans that the other floors don't. It's great. XD Oh, and just because you don't live in the basement, doesn't mean that you can't be an honorary basement resident. It has to do with how much time you spend there.
Picture 12 and 13: We went over to another dorm's program to make gingerbread houses. Picture 12 shows the finished product-- we made a mini-Fayola. Picture 13 shows what happened to us along the way. We had a frosting war. I was a casualty. I think everyone else in the room thought we were crazy. By the way, the guy in the red sweater is a really good friend of mine. We're going to call him Tony.*
Picture 14: So. After the frosting war, we returned to our dorms to make dinner. While we were doing this, we realized, "Hey. Three of us are wearing RED." We starting taking all of these RED TEAM photos, along with filming our cooking adventures. All was going fine and dandy when all of the sudden, Mary* decides to swing the red oven mitt at me (you can see it in the picture, being held by our neighborhood Waldo).
Me: What? No! Don't hit me with the oven mitt! Don't you have better things to do?
Mary: Like what? What would you do with an oven mitt?
Me: Hit Waldo with it.
Mary: >:3
We march downstairs to the basement, where we meet up with another friend who also happened to be wearing RED. We're officially the Red Team, and we dress up in kitchenware, bang on Waldo's door and attackhim with our supplies... truthfully, only Tony could get through the door and did most of the attacking. XD There are a series of pictures of this, but for your sanity, I've decided not to show all of them. This is just the finished product, and afterward, we get another guy to take a picture of the whole thing. ...and after uploading the pictures to Facebook, we realize something. WE SCARED/CONFUSED WALDO INTO SMILING FOR REALS. It was just about the most epic moment ever.
Picture 15 and 16: I was sitting in the basement one day, doing my homework, minding my own business, and I get a notification on Facebook (Of course, I was doing my homework. >.>;; I was only briefly checking Facebook). It says that Waldo posted something on my wall. I click on the link and I see a Clefairy. Now, amongst our basement shenanigans we've pretty much determined that everyone in our dorm is a different pokemon. Everyone claims that I would be Clefairy, for instance. Apparently, Waldo was bored enough to start making memes for everyone. Several seconds later, I see another notification. I click on it, and I get the Charmander meme from Tony. We (as in the basement) have this inside joke where Asians don't exist, if that explains anything.
Picture 17: We went to a restaurant. I just love this picture 'cause everything seems so color coordinated.
Yep, that's me, Tony and my roommate and her boyfriend.
Picture 18 and 19: There are probably about a dozen pictures detailing this, but this was me trying to take pictures with my short, Asian arm. This took place at about 9 in the morning. I had two hours of sleep, and the two goofballs sitting next to me didn't sleep at all. I strictly recall going to bed around 4 AM-- when I returned to the lobby, everyone was right where I left them. You see, it's Fayola's tradition for the hall council to make a finals breakfast every semester before finals-- Tony's not part of hall council, but he wanted to help. This was after the cooking, and we were all a bit groggy. If you noticed, Waldo's smiling again, after a bit of coaxing from me. Oh, and we're being ridiculous and wearing hats. Why? Because we can. I stole Waldo's fedora. Yes, waldo is wearing an elf hat.
Random stuff...
Picture 20 and 21: Taekwondo shenanigans during the summer.
Picture 22: Me and a friend. This is her goodbye party since she was going out of state.
Picture 23: My bestie kidnapped me for my birthday, and we went to Phoenix. We found one of those Japanese photobooth things... and we had fun. Lots of fun. This is one of the few examples. XD
*I changed certain names just to keep my life somewhat private and safe. I know who most of you are, but everyone has access to this information.
Yes, I know I rambled. Sorry. ^_^;;; That's a brief summary of my life. Hope you guys enjoy the stories and pictures! XDDD
I know that I disappeared for forever during this past year so I'm planning on giving you guys a full update! This year is my sophomore year of college. During my freshman year, I lived in a dorm, which I am going to call Fayola*. Fayola... pretty much the most awesome thing on the face of the planet. It's an honors dorm, and the people in there are just amazing. Living with intelligent people simply makes life so much more entertaining.
I returned in my sophomore year because I just love Fayola, only to discover that the residents this academic year are even better than the ones from last year!
I ran for Hall Council, and I am now the Director of Programming for my dorm so this is what I've pretty much dedicated myself to. We plan events and keep residents in the hall updated with university programs-- essentially we're very busy. During our executive board evaluation, we determined that Fayola's Hall Council put on 27 programs during the first semester (almost two programs a week!), which is pretty amazing.We are known as The Dream Team: Picture 1
In Picture 1, we are at Hall Leadership Camp, posing for a group picture. Yes, we made those shirts and are happily showing them off 'cause they're hawt.
Picture 2 and Picture 3 also show us at HLC. In 2, we won a balloon building competition to see which team could make the tallest balloon tower, and in 3 we are posing at the awards ceremony 'cause ResidenceLife recognized us as one of the most team-driven and hard working dorms.
Picture 4: This is a picture of me from Halloween. We planned an event in the dorms, and we probably had over half of the dorm show up, which is apparently a great turnout. I was a fairy for Halloween! I don't have my wings in this picture 'cause everywhere I turned, I kept on hitting people with them. >.>;; Oh, and in case you're curious, I'm drink "purple drank" out of a blue bowl. XD This was clean up and we had a lot of "purple drank" left so several hall council members and I had a bit of fun in the kitchen.
Perhaps one of our most successful events was Prom of the Future... which is exactly what it sounds like. XD It a prom with a futuristic theme. I didn't particularly like the theme, but the guys didn't want to do a masquerade so we were stuck with this. We had over 142 attendees from various dorms across the university-- we were told by ResdienceLife that this is ridiculously good for a RHA sponsored event, one of the best yet.
Picture 5: Sadly, this is probably the best picture of me the entire night 'cause it was the only one taken before I started dancing... afterward, I was disgusting and sweaty and eww.
Picture 6 and 7: Not good pictures of me and my prom date, but they're pictures nonetheless. This was after the both of us had been dancing for quite some time so we were kinda... well, disgusting.
STORY TIME!!!: I wasn't originally planning on going with a date because I was running the program so it wouldn't be fair to him if I had to leave him to attend to the snack tables or run the entrance table or guard the purses, etc. However, I discovered that I needed one because of one creeper who likes to... well, creep me out. There are more details (MANY MORE DETAILS) if you wish to hear them, but let's just leave it at that for now.
Now, this creeper had been bringing up the topic of prom and slow dancing and dating, etc. for the longest time, hinting at how we should go together. At first, I was a little freaked out, and I already "hired" an arsenal of my guy friends as "excuses" in the event that something happened at prom, but the plan wasn't entirely safe.
Then, I was talking to a friend (let's call him Aidan*) on Facebook, and I brought up the topic of prom and how he should go have fun if he didn't have anything else to do. He asked me if I was asking him as a date 'cause I would be making him feel very "unspecial" if I wasn't. Of course, an idea popped into my head! Aidan is the creeper's ex-roommate, and they hate each other's guts. It just so happens that Aidan is a good friend of mine so after I explained my predicament with the creeper, he totally volunteered to be my creeper-repellent. He, quote, unquote, said, "If [the creeper] tries to do anything, I'll punch him in the face. I have no qualms. I got your back old school style."
Aidan was a bit late to prom, which had me having to scramble to make up excuses so I didn't have to slow dance with the creeper. Granted, they weren't really lies, per se, 'cause I am a member of Hall Council and we did have to take turns watching the punch. When Aidan arrived, we decided to go dance. As we exited the food room, I kinda froze since I saw the creeper coming toward me. He seemed pretty intent on asking me to dance again, but while he was walking over, Aidan comes out and sees him. Being the smooth flirt that he is, he snakes his arm around my waist (making it quite obvious that we were dates) and gives me a gentle push of reassurance forward. The creeper sees and walks away in the other direction.
In conclusion -- Aidan: 1 | Creeper: 0
I have a platonic crush on Aidan.
Picture 8 and 9: This is our lovely hall council. Again, most of us are disgusting from dancing. Oh, and if you're curious about why our hall council president is making stupid faces, he always makes stupid faces when there's a camera involved. In fact, we had a brief conversation as we were posing for this picture.
Me: Waldo*, what're you doing?
Waldo: Making faces.
Me: Will you stop that and smile for once?
Waldo: -shrug-
Me: Come on, we want to see your beautiful face.
Waldo: I don't have a beautiful face. I just have this one.
Me: -_- -gives up-
Anyway! Other than just programming, we do all kinds of stuff together:
Picture 10: Yes, it's a Toga Party. Not ours, but we went to one. And you guessed it-- Waldo is in the back making stupid faces. I dressed most of those people up that night.
Picture 11: Four hall council members about to go out and chalk up the neighborhood to invite everyone to our Prom of the Future! Guess who's in the back making more stupid faces?
Alright, so enough about hall council. It may almost consume my life, but the basement does as well. You see, Fayola has three floors, plus a basement. I live in the basement, and as far as I'm concerned, the basement's where it's at. We pull a lot of shenanigans that the other floors don't. It's great. XD Oh, and just because you don't live in the basement, doesn't mean that you can't be an honorary basement resident. It has to do with how much time you spend there.
Picture 12 and 13: We went over to another dorm's program to make gingerbread houses. Picture 12 shows the finished product-- we made a mini-Fayola. Picture 13 shows what happened to us along the way. We had a frosting war. I was a casualty. I think everyone else in the room thought we were crazy. By the way, the guy in the red sweater is a really good friend of mine. We're going to call him Tony.*
Picture 14: So. After the frosting war, we returned to our dorms to make dinner. While we were doing this, we realized, "Hey. Three of us are wearing RED." We starting taking all of these RED TEAM photos, along with filming our cooking adventures. All was going fine and dandy when all of the sudden, Mary* decides to swing the red oven mitt at me (you can see it in the picture, being held by our neighborhood Waldo).
Me: What? No! Don't hit me with the oven mitt! Don't you have better things to do?
Mary: Like what? What would you do with an oven mitt?
Me: Hit Waldo with it.
Mary: >:3
We march downstairs to the basement, where we meet up with another friend who also happened to be wearing RED. We're officially the Red Team, and we dress up in kitchenware, bang on Waldo's door and attackhim with our supplies... truthfully, only Tony could get through the door and did most of the attacking. XD There are a series of pictures of this, but for your sanity, I've decided not to show all of them.
This is just the finished product, and afterward, we get another guy to take a picture of the whole thing. ...and after uploading the pictures to Facebook, we realize something. WE SCARED/CONFUSED WALDO INTO SMILING FOR REALS. It was just about the most epic moment ever.Picture 15 and 16: I was sitting in the basement one day, doing my homework, minding my own business, and I get a notification on Facebook (Of course, I was doing my homework. >.>;; I was only briefly checking Facebook). It says that Waldo posted something on my wall. I click on the link and I see a Clefairy. Now, amongst our basement shenanigans we've pretty much determined that everyone in our dorm is a different pokemon. Everyone claims that I would be Clefairy, for instance. Apparently, Waldo was bored enough to start making memes for everyone.
Several seconds later, I see another notification. I click on it, and I get the Charmander meme from Tony. We (as in the basement) have this inside joke where Asians don't exist, if that explains anything.Picture 17: We went to a restaurant. I just love this picture 'cause everything seems so color coordinated.
Yep, that's me, Tony and my roommate and her boyfriend.Picture 18 and 19: There are probably about a dozen pictures detailing this, but this was me trying to take pictures with my short, Asian arm. This took place at about 9 in the morning. I had two hours of sleep, and the two goofballs sitting next to me didn't sleep at all. I strictly recall going to bed around 4 AM-- when I returned to the lobby, everyone was right where I left them. You see, it's Fayola's tradition for the hall council to make a finals breakfast every semester before finals-- Tony's not part of hall council, but he wanted to help. This was after the cooking, and we were all a bit groggy. If you noticed, Waldo's smiling again, after a bit of coaxing from me. Oh, and we're being ridiculous and wearing hats. Why? Because we can. I stole Waldo's fedora. Yes, waldo is wearing an elf hat.
Random stuff...
Picture 20 and 21: Taekwondo shenanigans during the summer.
Picture 22: Me and a friend. This is her goodbye party since she was going out of state.
Picture 23: My bestie kidnapped me for my birthday, and we went to Phoenix. We found one of those Japanese photobooth things... and we had fun. Lots of fun. This is one of the few examples. XD
*I changed certain names just to keep my life somewhat private and safe. I know who most of you are, but everyone has access to this information.
Yes, I know I rambled. Sorry. ^_^;;; That's a brief summary of my life. Hope you guys enjoy the stories and pictures! XDDD
Ahh dorm shenanigans