Happy Friday! Finally, my midterms are over! I have spent the last two weeks in a tizzy trying to balance studying for four big midterm tests and a ton of reading dumped on me by another class while still trying to remain normal and at least have a glimpse of a social life. I got to breathe a big sigh of relief at 9 o’clock this morning as I turned in my blue book containing what I hoped to be the correct answers to my last midterm, world history. I do not find that class to be very interesting to be honest with you. The rest of my day I spent relaxing, minus the hour and twenty minutes I learned about mosques from the Ottoman Empire in Art History class. Anyways, enough of the academic hodgepodge. This past weekend I got to experience all the fun of Homecoming! On Friday, the thumping of bass as the speakers were tested for that night’s concert by Milkman and Sean Kingston rudely interrupted my nap. My groggy irritability soon melted away as I began to get excited for the night’s festivities! My roommates and I went to the concert early so that we could enjoy free ice cream bars, mess around in the photo booth, and watch the mechanical bull dominates our friends. Around seven PM, DJ Milkman, a mash up artist, began to spin. This guy was good! He mixed a lot of the popular songs and some amazing beats together that made the whole crowd move. I just know he will be the Next Big Thing, and USD was among the first to experience his awesomeness. Next up was Sean Kingston himself. He sang his top hits, ending with “Fire Burning” that left the whole crowd dancing in the street and everyone’s ears ringing from the pumping bass.
All that moving and shaking left my friends and I starving, so we pooled together some money to order some pizza and Cinna-stix, and hunkered down to watch one of the greatest girl-power movies of all time, She’s the Man. All in all, it was an amazing night.
On Saturday, we went down to the Homecoming tailgate. I found it so weird to see some of the USD alumni wandering about, wistfully remembering their own college days as USD’s current students imagined their futures and enjoyed the all-you-can-eat buffets. My roommates and I watched as a few strolled about our dorm, pointing out where they enjoyed their freshman year about twenty years back or so. Then the USD family of past and present united as we cheered on our Toreros in a football game against Drake, which we unfortunately lost. My friends and I all celebrated anyways, hitting up the infamous Yogurtland for some delicious fro yo that is all the rage here.
My exciting adventure of the week involved some mad dodge ball playing skills that landed me an ambulance ride to the emergency room so that I could have my shoulder put back in place after a major dislocation. I heaved that ball at my opponent and tried to throw my arm apparently instead... I got some strange looks from the doctors as I tried to explain how this happened while I was wearing my knee socks and black face paint that was the uniform for my team, Las Mapaches (The Raccoons). Needless to say, my dodge ball career has come to a sudden and saddening stop forever I do believe. But please, don’t let my misfortune stop you from getting excited at all the exciting intramural sports that USD has to offer! You too can start your very own dodge ball or intertube water polo team.
Well my parents are in town this weekend for family weekend, so I am going to enjoy some fabulous dinner down in Seaport Village! Oh, San Diego, how I love all the amazing food places you have to offer me…
Peace & Love til next time, Avery
