Spring Weekend!

Now that it is Monday afternoon, and we have all gone back to being regular college kids with classes and meetings, it is safe to say we have all survived Spring Weekend. This also means I have a ton of work I should be doing as classes are coming to and end in just two short weeks. But since I promised new posts I have the perfect excuse to avoid them just a bit longer.

For those of you who don’t know or have not heard of Spring Weekend, it is by far the largest and most fun theme weekend here. Originally it was just a weekend, but this year the festivities kicked of a bit earlier with a comedians, duck hunt, and a diversity program to celebrate Asian Heritage month all before the weekend ever got here. Even still Spring Weekend is really all about the weekend and so Friday night kicked off with a concert featuring Raining Jane, Sarah Bareilles and Three 6 Mafia. Every year the student body gets to vote on what type of music we want for Spring Weekend. Then the concert coffee house committee makes a list of people they want to try to get. It is always a big secret of who is actually performing at Spring Weekend until the big revel at a coffeehouse night.
Saturday is my favorite day of Spring Weekend because not only is there a mixer Saturday night (we call dances mixers in college cause it sounds much cooler ;-) but there is a carnival Saturday afternoon. It is basically the equivelant of a big kid recess. There are rides like spinning tea cups and swings but this year we added a mechanical bull. There are also carnival games and food. The Caf is closed because everyone gets to eat at the cookout put on by our cafeteria catering service. If that doesn’t sound like enough fun you can also get airbrush tattoos, decorated frisbees, keychain pictures and even better its all FREE! Since the Carnival ends at three you have time to take a break and come out of your sugar coma induced by ice cream and fried dough. This year I spent the afternoon at the Stonehill softball fields. My roommate freshman Kristen, year plays outfield for the team and since I had not gotten to a game yet this season I headed out. Unfortunately they lost both games of the double header against Southern Connecticut State University, but they still played two really great games. Here are a few picts of Kristen in action. To cap the day off, we ordered some food, and hug out with friends until the Spring Fling mixer. It is always fun to dress up and act like you are at one of those good ol Jr. High dances. Even better was this year's raffle of a brand new Macbook Pro to anyone in the doors by 10:30. Unfortunately that means I didn’t win it, but I’m sure whoever did is pretty stoked! My friends and I danced the night away until they brought out pizza for us all to snack on. By the time my belly was full of pizza I decided it was time to call it a night and head for my bed.

Time Flies When You're Having Fun!!

Where did the time go??? I really don’t know. As I sit down to write this I can’t believe we are already in the home stretch of the semester. Pretty soon May 8th will be here before we know it and I will be enjoying my last summer of college. I can’t even remember everything that has been going on over the past few weeks; they have all rushed by like a crazy whirlwind. But here are some of the more important things.

First off, Spring Break!! It is hard to believe that break was weeks ago by now. Since I spent first semester in Italy I am still broke as a joke, and so I did not make any extravagant travel plans. I spent the week sleeping, eating, and catching up on the work that had managed to pile up. I spent part of the week in Lexington with my boyfriend and his family and the rest of the week I spent in Rhode Island with my adoptive family. I am really not adopted, but my best friend moved to Rhode Island after fourth grade. Now that I live in New England most of the time they have become a second family to me. I even have my own room in their house! I love them so it’s a pretty sweet gig I got. In Rhode Island I caught up on some of my favorite Rhode Island past times like shopping, scrapbooking and the most famous and delicious South County Brickly’s homemade ice cream.

Secondly, I GOT A JOB! Finding a job every summer is something I just dread doing. I had so much fun working for the admissions office last year that I really wanted to do it again. Not only do I really enjoy the job it allows me to stay on campus for the summer, which is a pretty great perk! So when application time came around I reapplied and crossed my fingers. There was a lot more people who applied this year so I was a little nervous about getting rehired. But a week or so after Spring Break I got the word that I will be living on working on campus this summer…I could not be happier!

Next on the list is I am getting my CAR! Now this may not seem like a big deal to most of you but to me it is. I have never really needed my car on campus and getting it from Texas up to school seemed to be a ridiculous idea. It does not pack neatly into a suitcase like most things. In all honesty until now I have been quite content borrowing friends’ cars and stealing their gas anytime I need. But with senior year approaching I realized that I will be going on interviews and eventually looking at places to live. So it only seemed practical that I have my own car. Right now my mom drives it around so it does not just sit in the driveway, but when I go home for by brother’s graduation in May I will be making the cross country road trip back up to school! Hopefully my ’99 Honda Civic, comically named the Green Machine will make it back!


Last but not least is Easter Break! At Stonehill we are very spoiled with a second shorter break spring semester. We always have Holy Thursday through Easter Monday off. It is just one of the many perks of going to a Catholic school. So while all my friends were in classes Thursday and Friday, I slept in, relaxed and put off doing homework just a little bit longer. Friday my boyfriend Tyler and I headed to Rhode Island to spend Easter weekend with them. We had plans to go fishing Saturday but the weather man had other plans. The weather was rather gross so we stayed in side and watched movie and caught up with one another. We did manage to find a break in the rain to enjoy the hot tub for a while…it’s my favorite! Sunday we all went to church and had an amazing brunch after. Because not everyone was as lucky as I was to have Monday off we all headed in separate directions Sunday afternoon. Tyler and I to his house to have Easter diner with his parents, and my friend Kacie back up to school at UNH.

Even though the end of the semester is mere weeks away we still are all still looking forward to Spring Weekend before we have to hit the books for final exams! I promise an update before then!