New Friends!!!

OK! So besides the fact I PROMISED these people I would blog about the following experience…it is most certainly blog worthy.

Sooo the other day I was just chilling in history class and I got an e-mail (which I waited to check until AFTER class) from Jacob, one of our interns at Memorial Road (where I go to church, right by OC) inviting me to go to a before church dinner at Jeff’s (our college minister) house with some other students and the interns and other such people! I of course jumped at the chance because
1) I love the college group at Memorial Road and am wanting to get even more involved.
2) FREE FOOD?! I THINK SO YES!
3) I would get to meet new people (Which I love to do!).

Long story short, I accepted the invitation and invited Todd to go as well and we were set.
Jacob picked us up at 5:30 and we headed over to Jeff’s and there were a few people I’d met like my freshmen link Casey and Caleb plus Blake, who I had just met a couple days before that when I had an interview for Earn Your Wings Hub Leader; other than that, it was allll new people.
Jeff made us all hamburgers and we got them STRAIGHT off the grill so they were so fresh and DELICIOUS!
Once Todd and I got all of the fixings on our burgers we went to the table and sat with Jacob, Casey, Kim, Jeff, and…(he is going to be so excited for his official debut on the blog)...HUDSON! Hudson is also one of the interns at Memorial and he is HILARIOUS. Good grief.
We all ate and talked about just… random things. Mainly to do with Spring Break, OC, Church and Spring Sing (since it had just wrapped days before).

Also while we ate, Hudson was getting the powerpoint slides for the announcements at church ready, and gave us a “sneak preview” at one of his announcements.
If ONLY I had it on video….my life would be complete.
We were having “pop tart” night after church and Hudson had this WHOLE thing planned where he was a jack in the box and wound himself up and popped out screaming “pop-tarts tonight”
It may easily be the creepiest and most hilarious thing I have ever encountered.
He just kept doing it OVER. AND. OVER. to “practice” so he wouldn’t laugh once he got up in front of the college group.
After we all got done laughing at Hudson and eating, we loaded back up in the cars and went to the church to set up.
Let me just keep it real…I was looking forward to that announcement all of church…the time came…
HUDSON DIDN’T DO IT.
I was angry…but he told me I should feel “grateful that even though we are new friends he felt comfortable enough to be crazy in front of me.” You win this time Hudson.
In any case, it was a LOT of fun and I enjoyed getting to know Jacob and Jeff and everyone else better than before.
Can’t wait to do it all again!

(Hope everyone mentioned here is happy to see their name…I was GLAD to put them there! Glad we are friends now!)

BTW…found out yesterday…I’M GOING TO BE AN OC RECRUITER THIS SUMMER! This blogger will soon be coming to a church camp near you! Can’t wait to meet all of the prospective Eagles!

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Three Letters: W. P. A.

Well Gentlemen, I have a new favorite week of the year…
WPA WEEK.
WPA stands for “Women Pay All”, aka a week where girls ask guys on a different date each night and pay for everything on said date.

The first night was Bingo Night. Unfortunately I did not get to attend that night because I had rehearsal for Two Rooms.
(Side note: Two Rooms is going WONDERFULLY. It is apparently really different than types of things OC usually does, and my castmates are SO strong! I am loving being onstage with them and Carly is a WONDERFUL director! It open April 8-10. You should all come see!)

Tuesday night was one of my favorite activities of life…FREE ICE SKATING!
My dear dear Wendy asked me on Monday to be her date, so we were all set and ready to go!

Me and Wendy! We look AWESOME and ready to skate!

Skating Students!

Kaitlin and Me!!!

Morgan, Caitlin, and Brittany! These girls are wonderful!

Sarah!!! This California girl is absolutely amazing!

Abigail and Natalie made “Olympic Sweaters” for themselves and their dates! I loved them so much!

Afterwards we went to OnCue and my date even got me a drink and snack! Therefore, I was already LOVING WPA week.

Wednesday night was a delicious treat…FREE LUSHBERRIES FROZEN YOGURT! On this night I’d say it was a…double date with Ben, Morgan, Kimber, and Me! The first 200 OC Students in line got free frozen yogurt!

Lushberries!

Me and Morgan enjoying our fro-yo!

Ben and Kimber love Lushberries!

The line outside!

More of the line PLUS Laura and Brett posing for the camera!

Now Thursday was the NIGHT OF NIGHTS! OC SGA rented out a theater at Quail Springs mall for us to see ALICE IN WONDERLAND IN 3D. FOR $1!!!! Shocking yet exciting. The first 250 people to get tickets were good to go on Wednesday after chapel.
Unfortunately, my date (my friend Madison) and I were not among those people…
NEVER FEAR…SGA went and bought 30 more tickets for the next day!
We didn’t get them then either…:(
We were both pretty bummed, but refused to let it get us down from having a nice friend-date! We decided just to go to Cuppies and Joe when…
I LUCKILY SCORED 2 FREE TICKETS!
My friend Blakely had an extra ticket she wasn’t going to use, so she gave it to me. Then Hallie had given hers to Kaitlin who decided not to go so I got that ticket as well!

Madison and I were set! We had Kayleigh and Ben save us seats at the Theater because Madison is in the opera and they had rehearsal til 8 so we rushed over to the theater after that and sat down right in time for the previews!
We put our 3D glasses on and the world was a new place! The theater had a great energy because it was full of OC Eagles!

The movie itself WAS. SO. GOOD. I love Disney, I love Helena Bonham Carter, I love Tim Burton, and I love Johnny Depp! Overall, the movie was just FANTASTIC!

Everyone pouring out of the theater after the movie!

Kayleigh, Ben, Kimber, and Me!

My DATE! Madison is such a sweetheart and a fellow theater major! What more could I ask for in a WPA Date?!

Kim and Me enjoying each other’s company after the movie! She is a blast to hang out with!

Once again, an OnCue trip was made following the date! I varied from my usual OnCue snacks and got a milkshake! It was so yummy!

Overall, I would have to state that WPA week was a RESOUNDING SUCCESS! Great job SGA and various dates who made it a fun week!

NOW IT’S OFFICIALLY SPRING BREAK!!!!!!

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SPRING SING

No words are able to express the fun I had this past weekend with Spring Sing.
GOOD THING I HAVE SO MANY PICTURES!

A lot of these are from the holding room, so you get to see some “behind the scenes” stuff!

Me and Wendy!

Practicing the guys’ song!

Me and Callie! Love her! I wasn’t even friends with her before Spring Sing, so I’m glad we were both in it!

A big group waiting around before we perform.

Me and ABIGAIL! She is one of my favorite seniors and a Gamma Rho Flight Attendant! We were doing our best Spring Sing faces (and reenacting part of Gamma’s show!)

We had shows on Thursday and Friday night, plus a Saturday afternoon AND night Show!
On Friday night some of us performed our first 3 songs for the prospective Freshmen (as it was Spring Visit) while they ate dinner! It was so fun and we got pizza beforehand!

A group of friends eating pizza!

Me with the always lovely Hallie!

I don’t know what’s happening in this picture…but I look absolutely frightening!

Love this part of our show.

It was fun doing a preview for the prospective students of next year!

My mom took some pictures when they came for the show! Yay!

Pi Brides!

Psi and Sigma “Psigma” are “Top Gun”!

During the “blurb” before the Freshmen show!

IT’S US! ONSTAGE! GO FRESHMEN!

Me gettin into it! Kinda blurry but that’s me!

Theta Grandmas!

Kappa presents “Star Trek”!

Hosts and Hostesses! They were honestly INCREDIBLE!

Delta Lumberjacks!

Chi! Pinnochio!

GAMMA RHO FLIGHT ATTENDANTS! I loved their vocals (incidentally…they won best vocals!)

Alpha was Calvin and Hobbes (awesome theme!)

For some reason Omega and Iota/Lambda weren’t in my mom’s pictures! Oh well…maybe I’ll get ahold of some later!

The results of Spring Sing were:
4th-Kappa (Star Trek)
3rd- Iota/Lambda (Kindergarteners!)
2nd- Gamma Rho (Flight Attendants)
1st- Chi Lambda Phi! (Pinnochio!)

We Freshmen sure held our own and took 5th place, very good for a Freshmen show!!!!
Spring Sing was so fun. It’s sad that it’s over, but now I have already started rehearsals for Two Rooms (the play I’m in this semester) so I am staying busy!

Hope everyone got to see Spring Sing!
God Bless!

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CLUB NIGHT!

So this week is honestly SO VERY BUSY with all of the Spring Sing goings-on. Monday we had our final run through, last night was CLUB NIGHT, tonight we are off (but we have Church then I have a Two Rooms read-through), then tomorrow night through Saturday night we have the rest of the Spring Sing shows! Yayyy but busy!

I had never seen Spring Sing until last night.
Let me just try to display my face for the whole show…

I loved it.

I got quite a few pictures last night, from different clubs performances to the hosts and hostesses performing their songs! It was probably the greatest night of my OC career so far because everyone was sooo supportive of one another. Also, on a bright bright note, we freshmen TRULY rocked! We had so much energy and were so ready for all of the clubs to see us!

Some of the crowd before!

The stage.

Some of the club banners!

Other banners!

Omega doing Pokemon!

Tiffany singing her solo…“Feelin’ Good” by Michael Buble. Amazing!

Psi and Sigma “Psigma” join together to present “Top Gun”

Keith with his guitar and his solo.

The flight attendants of Gamma Rho!

Courtney Tarpley (fun fact: my former EYW Hub Leader!) performing her solo “River Deep, Mountain High”

The hosts and hostesses perform “Under Pressure” together.

Michael Raftery singing his song “Can’t Stand the Rain”!

Meagan Martin performing “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” for the crowd.

I loved SPRING SING CLUB NIGHT!

If you are coming to spring sing…GET EXCITED. IT’S SUCHHHHH A GREAT SHOW THIS YEAR!

If you don’t get to come don’t fret…you can see Spring Sing online!
There will be a live feed at http://www.springsing.tv

Hope to see many of you at Spring Sing! Bye!!!!!

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The Final Approval!

Spring Sing fever is OFFICIALLY in the air at OC!
This is why I have been so BAD about keeping a regular blogging schedule, and for the past TWO weekends having left three blogs all for Saturday. I PROMISE to bring blogs all throughout the week for sure after Spring Sing is over.

Thursday night was FINAL APPROVAL for all of the Spring Sing groups. This meant that the Freshmen, after all of our hours and hours of work for our first Spring Sing, were truly being put to the test for the first time.

The way final approval works is…you perform your show for a panel of those approving, which includes the hosts and…well, honestly I don’t know who else. After that, everyone goes back to the holding rooms and the directors come back and tell the group if we pass or fail. If the group passes, we are done for the night and until Spring Sing.  If you fail, you have about 2 or 3 hours to get to a level in which to get to a point the judges will pass your group.
In general, and in the case with our group, the Freshmen usually fail, so that they have time to clean up the show a bit more. 

Luckily, we were SO motivated to work in the time we were given that when we went back we PASSED!!!! It was such a great feeling to know that after all of this work, we were finally ready to PERFORM! Spring Sing is THIS COMING WEEK! CRAZY!!!! For real…the excitement is just like Christmas!!! Everyone on campus is coming together because of this happening!

Here are some pictures from Final Approval!

Kappa, in their Star Trek suits!

Boys practicing our song.

Girls cleaning up their routine!

Running it again! The second time! I look CRAZY!

Our part-timers onstage!

Hittin the Stage!

I hope everyone is having a GREAT time lately! If you haven’t gotten your Spring Sing tickets…HURRY! They are ALMOST sold out!
Also…if you cannot attend Spring Sing…you can watch the LIVE FEED! Here’s the link:
http://www.springsing.tv/

God Bless!

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