As Cassie already mentioned in her blog, we got to work together on Preview Day this past week which was a BLAST!! I just loved being able to work with some of the coolest people at ERAU! Granted my fingers did get a little tired from all the balloon tying, but hey, that’s okay! I had a great time with Cassie and people I got to meet on Saturday, and I hope that the prospective students enjoyed it almost as much as I did!
Unfortunately I was not awake enough at 6:30 am to grab my camera so I could take pictures with Cassie, but Lauren always has her camera, so this is the Lower Hangar during the Activities Fair after my afternoon shift was over.
This week heralded in one of ERAU’s famous traditions on campus: Sigma Chi’s Derby Days! Derby Days is a week-long competition between teams of girls (aka sororities, sports teams, etc.) and it is so much fun to be involved in anyway, but it also helps raise money for cancer which makes it about twenty times better! All week, we’ve been having competitions and dressing up for different days of the week to earn points for our team. I am on the Volleyball team, and my roommate Lauren is on Alpha Xi Delta’s team, so we’ve been documenting our awesome costumes together!
Sleeping Beauty and Leonardo!
Western Wednesday!
Here’s my Derby Days team (which is most of my volleyball team) with our “Coach” who is from Sigma Chi.
This is my (orange) team and Lauren’s (pink) team playing Dodgeball in our “Decathalon” portion of the competition. THAT was fun!
Tonight, the activity was “Survival Game”, where Sigma Chi brothers would run around campus with different animal names taped to their backs, and we would have to either tag them or hit them with socks to get points (pretty much like an arcade hunting game, only it took over the entire ERAU campus!). It was pretty epic.
There’s also a Penny Wars portion of the competition that raises money for the cure for cancer. Each team has a jug to put money in, pennies and bills are negatives, so the point is to get as much silver money in as you can and sabotoge everyone else by putting in tons of pennies! The good news right now is that Volleyball has the most coins in our jug. The bad news is… they’re all pennies. We’ve been sabotoged already. That’s alright… we’ll pull ahead! And all the money goes for a great cause anyway, so either way, we win! (However, if you go to Riddle and you want Volleyball to actually win, not just metaphorically… remember: silver coins. Thanks!)
So the rest of this week will be very, VERY interesting, so I will update you all with the Derby Days winners at the end of the week!
“I am no stranger to healthy competition- working hard and playing hard.” (especially when it comes to working for a good cause! :))
-Richard Branson
