Trick or Treat

Last night we had Trick or. Treat. It was so much fun, there were so many children and they all came into our corridor, smiling and looking cute in their costumes. It was literally the most fun I've had for ages. I was in the study room handing out sweets and colouring pages for them to colour, with my best friend :) what could be better :)

This is a picture of the wall where they all wrote their names, sooooo many people!!!!!

October

Ok, so apparently snow in Cleveland happens in October...

Last week it snowed a lot, well as much as a heavy snow in the south of the UK, which was fun. It has spurred me on to get some winter clothes, otherwise I'm going to get rather cold, rather quickly. It's gone now, but it won't be long until it's back again I'm sure.

 

This week we have been gearing up for Halloween, which is tomorrow. Tonight we will have Trick or Treat, kids from around us come and we give the sweets, my floor has somewhere they can colour pictures, etc. Then tomorrow there is a fancy dress competition, yes, I am taking part. I will show you how that goes next. But here are some pictures of our floor that we decorated.

 

So it may not be the most sophisticated, but we are college students and it's out of toilet paper and sheets of coloured paper, it's not that bad!!

We also got our midterm grades, which Freshman get to see how good they doing so far. I did well, which I'm surprised at, because I was expecting to do way worse. Academically otherwise nothing much has happened.

I will also be starting my WJCU training soon, the radio station, which I'm really looking forward to. I will let you all know how that goes too.

Thank you all for reading this!!!!!!

Fall Break

We just had Fall Break at John Carroll, which is basically just half term. I went to my friends house and just basically had a break from school work. But we also carved pumpkins, so I thought I'd post pictures of that.

So, it's almost Halloween and everything is mad!!!! There is so much stuff everywhere and this week there are loads of activities on which are Haloween orientated. Like a fancy dress competition, but I will write about that later.

Homecoming and retreat

A few weekends ago was homecoming at John Carroll University. Homecoming is basically a time where Alumni and current students and family and everyone get together on campus for a weekend. There is a American Football game, a dance, and other little things. At JCU we had a comedian come on Thursday, that was pretty cool because  he was one of the people in the TV show The Office, celebrity!! On Friday my roommate and I went to the Homecoming dance, our dance was in Cleveland Browns Football Stadium. That was amazing, it was so beautiful inside where the party was and they had the doors to the stadium open, so you could go out and see the completely empty stadium in all it's glory. It was an amazing experience.

The football game at John Carroll was, honestly, boring. I didn't understand what was happening, and it seemed very slow, especially in comparison to Rugby.. Having said that the atmosphere was amazing and it was fun to be with everyone, so definitely go to one!!!!!

After the Football game there was a late night Bingo with Breakfast foods, and that was probably the best thing of the weekend. Food and free things, how could you go wrong...well I didn't win anything but still. I had an amazing time with my friends and RA (Resident Assistant), and met many new people too.

There were many other things going on too, but those were the ones I went to, and I had so much fun!!

The last 2 weeks have been mainly working though, I've had a lot of assignments due in quick succession. So that why it's taking me so long to post, I'm writing as I go along and then posting, because then it makes sense. Other than this I haven't done many new things, just socializing with my friends.

Last weekend though I went on retreat for the first time ever, it was called First-Year Retreat. That was a great weekend, I met completely new people and some I had classes with, but they all were similar to me and it was a great community to be a part of. I turned my phone off and had no electronic contact, it felt AMAZING!!! But it was just nice to stop and think about how much has already happened here and what I'm going to do over the next four years, not from an academic viewpoint. If any of you get the chance to go on any retreat it's a fantastic experience, just to slow done and think and take some time for yourself for a while. After the retreat we were given little notes from each other, and a letter. It just gives you so much more self confidence and a real feeling of self worth.

That's all I got for the past couple of weeks, will try to post more as soon as possible, miss all of you reading this from home!!

This last one is JCU football playing, the others are of cleveland browns stadium