The Life of Forrest Gump

I leave for California on Tuesday morning to intern at the Western Region Greek Association Leadership Conference...that's a lot of words. Anywho, I am still unsure of my schedule and what I will and will not see, but I have a fun little Twitter account so I can upload info and pics from my phone. So get ready and get jazzed to be tweeted. If my updates have a link attached to them- click on it because those are the pics. 

Click HERE for a twitterific good time.

"Cheerleading camp on crack." There is no better way to describe it. Well maybe Cheerleading Camp on heroine....but I'm not really sure of the affects of heroine. Mom, do you know? Anywho, it was an awesome weekend! I met up with the SOAR team (the orientation team) at Georgia Southern last Thursday and traveled with them to Ole Miss for the conference. Man, they're an amazing group. Nearly as amazing as me, but we won't get into that debate at this moment in time. The 9 hour bus ride was just that....9 hours. And let me tell you, 9 hours is a long time. It's way longer than 5 hours.

Thursday we arrived at the majestic Holiday Inn of Oxford, MS. The hotel must have decided to go with an African inspired lobby. And by African inspired, I mean they randomly had three stuffed lions in glass cases in the middle of the lobby. No hint of Africanness anywhere else. It is my guess they got the lions from the zoo down the road and stuffed them...that's not too morbid, is it? We arrived to the jungle late late Thursday night...so we went to b

ed. Yes, I know that is a good story- I'll tell it again later.

Friday morning we walked around the square of Oxford. Great southern square. Afterwards began SROW. And let me tell you it was the beginning of a SROWtally awesome weekend. The first event was a sticker swap for all the undergrads. See, now when I heard there was going to be a sticker swap- I packed my personal sticker album of Lisa Frank and scratch-n-sniff stickers...but that was apparently not the right thing to do. The 1400 students in attendance crammed themselves into the Rec Center gym and went crazy, slappin their school's stickers on various spots of peoples' bodies (and by various, I mean everywhere....everywhere) to the beats of sweet lil T.I. and Soulja Boy. The picture explains it all. That night was the Sing/Skit/Dance Competition. Let me tell you, this was not taken lightly. Schools have been practicing their stuff for months. And I don't want to sound biased, but Georgia Southern's was the best. They ended up winning Third place. Yayy! The video is their performance.

Saturday was mostly educational sessions. There was some good. There was some really bad. But all...interesting. The theme of the conference was "Once upon a SROW..." so it was all fairytale/Disney themed, which was also....interesting. I participated in the Graduate Case Study Competition and actually ended up winning! Best Communication!! So that was SROW exciting.

There was a closing award ceremony on Sunday...and I have to take a second to brag on Georgia Southern. They won more awards than any other school in attendance- and there were schools from all over the Southeast (yes, even U. of Alabama). They won the Service Project, 3rd in Dance Competition, 1st place in the SCVNGR Hunt, Me with the Grad Case Study, and my supervisors won the Best Presentation of the conference! So it was pretty cool to see GSU doing so well.

They have such a top notch program and their orientation leaders are just simply the best of the best on campus. I cannot wait to work with them this summer!

But now, its back to the grind (what does that actually mean? What grind am I getting back to?). School work and grad asst work is no fun. But I counted today and I only have 39 days until the last day of classes. Which I am not sure if that is a good or bad thing. I have a ton of stuff to do until then. Boo. Simply, Boo.

I am also beginning my countdown to San Francisco: 12 Days.

I started a Twitter account (if you haven't heard about it, google it) last week. So I will include a link to my Twitter site so you can see all my Tweets (yeah, thats right, my Tweets=my updates) while I am in San Fran. I'll just be uploading what I am doing, what I've seen, and pictures from my phone...yes, I am such an innovator of communication. HA

And by shiny and bright, I mean my life. Oh, I keed I keed. But, the graduate life is going swell. Just swell. Let me tell ya though, this second semester is not the easiest. 12 hours of time-draining classes and 20 hours of GA work is a little much. But who am I to complain. 

Right now, the weather is a sunny 85 degrees and the first official day of Spring Break. So, I may not be spending it on the beach livin it up in PCB (uh, yeah right) but its still nice outside. Days like today are reasons I heart USC (again, University of South Carolina..not that OTHER one). 

In case you haven't heard, I have accepted an internship at Georgia Southern University for this summer working with freshman orientation. woop woop. im excited to be working with them. I am actually heading to Ole Miss with all of the orientation leaders this weekend for SROW (Southern Region Orientation Workshop). It should be an interesting conference. There have been at least 10 different people who have described the conference as "cheerleading camp on crack."

I also found out I will be interning at a Greek conference in San Francisco later this month!

This semester has been going well...but busy. The best word to describe it is busy. Until next time (whenever that may be), have a good one.