valese01

Under Orion's Belt
2002-01-20 20:42:15 (UTC)

Two Days in Review

Well i haven't written an entry into this thing in a few
days so i figure i'd better up date it. Of course in those
few days i have done a lot of stuff so I'm going to have to
just talk about the really important stuff.

First Friday. The first full day of classes. Mine seemed
good enough. My econ professeur is very old but seems to
know his stuff. My english class should be interesting, if
for no other reason than that Chris is in it with me. The
teacher dosen't appear to be much older than her students,
and is a little, well, "different" lets say. The first
thing we did was interpret an add promoting the
legalization of drugs. I think Chris' "kill me" pretty much
sums that up. My fundamentals of acting class looks very
good. A lot of improv and games and such. Should be cool.
That night Steve, Ryan, Megan and I went to Ciompi Quartet
performance in Shmucker's recital hall. They're a world
famous string quartet and they were very good. Some of the
stuff was a little to modern for us though. We had to leave
early and get Jon and Liz go to Hanover to see Black Hawk
Down. The problem was that Jon's car only holds five people
and we had six, so Megan had to sit on Liz's lap all the
way there and back. Black Hawk Down, i thought, was a very
good movie. It was intense but not overly goory, and did
not try to glorify or overy-dramatisise the topic. There
was the token sad death scenes, present in every war movie,
but even they were not over the top. I think it showed the
confusion, horror and terror of combat in a realistic way
and kept close to the real story of the real event. It was
over all a bit draining. On the drive home Ryan brought up
the idea that, in the movie, 19 people died trying to save
the 3 man crew of a helicopter, and that the idea of "leave
no man behind" was a bad one. Well, i personally feel that
a policy of "leave no man behind" is honorable and correct.
It shows that American service men and women are not just a
means to an end, but people, whom the military regards as
important enough to risk others to save. This is just my
opinion.

Saturday. Awoke to snow. About and inch or so actually. Met
the group for lunch and then decided to play frisbee out on
stine while it snowed. We played for a good two hours at
least. Steve was flying all over the place to make catches
and play defense, sliding through the snow. My tactic was
to stand in the goal until steve or jon or will dropped it
the dic changed sides, and then either jeff or chris threw
it too me. I scored multiple times in this manner. We got
another 2 or 3 inches while we played, but eventually we
just got too cold and called it quits. Met for dinner at
5:30 and then at 7 in paul common to watch the Patriots
play the Raiders. Patriots won in OT with a field goal, and
even though I'm glad they won, I will admitt that the call
that got them to OT was terrible and that the refs should
be fired for making it. Tough luck Raiders. Had a snow ball
fight in the time between the end of the game and midnight
madness. Dustin brought out his "snow-baller" snowball
maker. The thing is great. Makes perfect snowballs
evertime, nice and round and throwable. Servo had hot dog,
chicken fingers and other goodies for midnight madness. We
tried waching Ghosts of Gettysburg in Ryan's room but Bob
had to get up early so we decided to borrow one of Liz's
roommates DVDs and watch it in Dustin's room. We got yelled
at by the RC in Huber for being loud. She's an ass. Jeff
got on the "Man" list for saying "no we're just going to
look intimidated" after the RC asked if we're going to
leave of just stand there. He then proceeded to almost be
removed from the list for saying "i don't take any gruff"
later that night. We left before the movie was over because
we were all tired. Got to bed round 3:30 am. So much for
going to bed early.

Quote: "Those refs are worthless"




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