Relay for Life and a BUSY week!
Last week end was super busy for me as well as very tiring. Put it this way...Thurs Night was the last time a had a proper night of sleep and from then to Sunday afternoon I had only 8hrs of sleep. Relay for Life is a 24hour event held to raise awareness and money for the American Cancer Society. People in teams walk laps around the track or in our case the gym.
(Above:Caitlin W's Mum with me and Sol at the Relay and Top Above:the word HOPE with the luminaria bags )
....Now Thurs night we stayed up pretty late decorating the gym Relay the next day. Thus I went to bed at 1am, skipped my morn class on Fri morn( don't worry...I didn't miss much...boring lit/English class.besides, I figured I needed as much sleep as I could get) and went over to the gym again in the afternoon to see whether they needed any more help. Since they didn't, we went back to the dorm and waited till 4pm to go back to the gym for the start of Relay. All my friends( Sol, Kathleen, Caitlin. N and Caitlin. W)were involved in this too so we made our own team. Our team was in charge of Luminaria( since we are part of the Colleges against Cancer club) and this is remembering those that lost their battle against cancer and those that survived. We had people purchase paper bags and write the names of their loved ones who fell into either group and then arranged the bags into the word 'HOPE' on the bleachers. We also put glow sticks in them so that when we shut off the lights the bags kinda glowed. It was really cool. we also did other stuff but its complicated to explain. Basically, we took turns in twos or threes walking around the gym cause someone from a team always has to walk laps. When you're not walking, there are games and other activities going on to participate in especially during the night and early morning hours.The activity I was in charge of was karaoke at 2am. Some of the other activities we had was Rock band, musical chairs, twister, root beer pong, ice cream eating contest, etc.It was REALLY FUN! Our team had this rubber duck float which we bought at the dollar store to go with the theme of Relay( Cruising for a cur...so its a cruise theme). We all took bets at the beginning of Relay to bet how many times the duck would go around the gym since we decided we would do laps with the duck around our waist. ( I won since I bet 749 and we did about 730 laps...but according to Caitlin she won cause sometimes we didn't go around with the duck....her bet was the only one higher than mine) I managed to stay awake the whole night until about 7.30 am on Sat. I couldn't take it any more so went back to the dorm to sleep till 9.30am and then went back to the Relay all the way till 4pm on Sat. 
(Right: Me with the ducky)
After this, while everyone went to dinner and bed, Caitlin N and I had to go to Owen's house( a member of Vox Nova) for dinner then drove to Ashley's (another member of Vox Nova) dad's house for a sleepover since his house was closer to a church Vox Nova had to sing at early on Sunday morning. Being that only me and Caitlin were sleep deprived out of the rest of the choir, we couldn't really be wet blankets ( plus Ashley had a gorgeous Golden Retriever so of course I had to spend time with her:) )so we talked and had fun and only went to bed at 12 midnight. We were up again at around 6.15am to change and head over to the church for practice and service. It was a Lutheran church and the people were really really friendly! I wish Catholic churches were more like them. After the service, they gave us a barbecue lunch. Once we were we done there, we drove back to the school and reached about 1pm. I went straight to bed and slept through dinner and mass. I woke up about 8.30 pm, ate something and stayed awake long enough to do any homework that was due the next day and then went back to bed till Monday morning. So that was my TIRING weekend..The week was pretty bad as well. I had papers left and right as well as tests to do cause we are nearing the end of the term. On Thurs and Fri I went to watch the school play. They were pretty good and the play was hilarious!This weekend we had an open house on Sat morn but other than that it was a much slower weekend that the previous one. Nikita at 7:19 PM
(Right: Me with the ducky)