Homecoming Week

Hello everyone! This week has been kind of ridiculous, but in a very awesome way. It was full of rehearsing for songfest, getting ready for homecoming, studying in the little bit of spare time I had left and trying to retain a small portion of my sanity while juggling everything else. I also got to see my parents this weekend! It’s always great to have the opportunity to see them.
Songfest is such a rewarding experience! This rich tradition was full of fun, laughter, excitement, highly choreographed song and dance numbers and much, much more. Here are a few basic things about Songfest; it is essentially a campus wide competition for all the residence halls. Each hall puts on a skit that lasts a little less than ten minutes. The halls act out their skit and can insert musical numbers into them. Each hall has been rigorously working, (the sororities much more so than the fraternities,) on their routine for several weeks to get ready for this performance. At the end of Songfest Friday night, awards are given out for things such as best theme development, best music choice, best overall and participant’s choice. All of the skits were incredible. One was a variation on Tarzan and Jane; another on Avatar: Georgetown-style. One of the Fraternities even did their own rendition of “Love the Way You Lie.” I personally was involved in the cheerleading and dance team’s routine at the beginning of Songfest. Dress rehearsal was on Thursday night. If you are a student, you should go to this performance because it is free and only semi-edited. Friday night is the night parents, teachers and alumni come to watch the performance.
Homecoming took place on Saturday as well, making this week very busy but also exciting. Georgetown won the football game against Pikeville 70-58! Homecoming court was announced during halftime along with the winner of freshman prince and princess. Prince and princess were announced on Friday during songfest as well. One of my really good friends, John Presson, won prince by the way! Following the game it was a mad dash for me to get ready for dinner before the PHA (President’s House Association) dance. After racing to my room for a quick shower and throwing on some dress clothes, I drove over to pick up my lovely date before the festivities. About sixteen of us went out to eat in Frankfort before partying like it was the end of the world at the conference center on east campus. Yes, I did just reference that song. Songfest is definitely getting to me. East campus, by the way, is the part of campus where the athletic complex is located along with the conference center and upper classmen apartments. I hung out for a bit then went to one of my personal favorite late night/early morning eating establishments: Hong’s bakery. (The actual name is Donut Express in case you are trying to find it.) Hong’s opens at 2 a.m. so if you are looking for something to do in the middle of the night you should definitely go.
Sunday found me going to hear Tevin preach at Zion Hill Baptist Church in Midway, Kentucky. This was the church we had so much trouble finding earlier in the semester. He did an excellent job! It was very rewarding getting to see one of my friends preach the Word from the pulpit. We all went to eat brunch in the CAF after church. I had a pretty chill day planned for the rest of my Sunday until cheer practice, but something came up. I was hanging out at the Phi Mu house when some of my friends wanted to go to the Red River Gorge. The Gorge is a great place to go hang out for a day or spend a night camping. There are lots of trails to hike, along with tons of extremely high vantage points which you can climb and view the abyss below. Can you tell heights are not my thing? We had a good time though. I will definitely go back. If you are into outdoorsy things like hiking, camping, rock-climbing or just enjoy being outside in nature, the Red River Gorge is a great place conveniently located about an hour outside of Georgetown. After making the descent back to ground level, I was feeling much better about my safety and had a sense of accomplishment. I couldn’t have asked for better people to go with either. It was definitely a great trip.
I should probably talk a little bit about the school part of my college experience as well… I have midterms coming up along with some longer papers in the next few weeks that I am beginning to write in my spare time, (not a lot of spare time floating around, but the work gets done somehow.) Other than that, all of my classes are going very well I think. My Communications 101 class built a bridge out of straws today which was very awesome! My group was fantastic. The point was to study small group communication, but all of us would really like to build the sturdiest bridge as that entails bonus points on our next exam. I will keep you posted on our results. Our bridge does look pretty legit though.
I am about to go to Freshman Seminar so I have to say goodbye. I hope you all have a great week. Be good and I will talk to you next time. I gave out my email to you earlier in case you had any questions, but that was a while back. It is gharned0@georgetowncollege.edu. If you have any questions or just want to talk, shoot me an e-mail.