To start out I'd like to tell about one of my first adventures here at BYU. I was here for the summer semester, so this one wasn't exactly recent but it was when I really got to know the campus. It was a warm Sunday evening, that was slowly turning into the dark of night. After ward prayer a group of us got together and chatted to get to know everyone just a little better, most of us were at least acquainted with each other before so it wasn't too awkward. But a few of the boys noticed that their room mate wasn't there and concluded that he had yet again left with a girl in our ward that he'd become rather "comfortable" with. So with nothing else to do, the hunt started to find the two late night romantic walkers. I was just a follower, I didn't know what there intentions would be once they found them, but looking for better acquaintances and something to do, I joined in. We split into groups in search of the love birds. I went with two other friends. Our territory to search was up and around the bell tower and then to venture onto campus, pass the art museum and just go from there. We made our way up there, passed by all the Sunday night tunnel singers and made our way, on and on. We weren't having too much luck finding the couple we were stalking but we were sure having a good time finding our way across the dark campus, at that time I had no sense of direction for the campus and it just seemed so big and confusing, but now of course looking back I know exactly where I was and the path I took. After passing several other couples enjoying the moonlight that were not the couple that we were looking for, we met up with others that were on the search too that we had divided from in the beginning. And all of the sudden with them we started having luck. We spotted a couple on a bench over by the RB. We hid behind bushes, buildings and signs. After it was confirmed that it was them, all I remember was some boys taking action trying to sneak up on them, a yell and then everyone running so that they wouldn't be caught in the "stalking" party. Apparently someone had almost caught them kissing but were caught right before it happened. That night was fun, pretty pointless, and ridiculous. We had no purpose for doing it but I ran around the then unfamiliar campus and had a good time with people in my ward. It was probably my first adventure here.
And now for the sake of fully completing the assignment I'll tell my recent adventure, because I wasn't sure if that story would count considering it happened a few months ago way before the assignment was given. So my newest adventure... Since there is always booths around the Wilk, I decided I would be apart of one. And then I saw the perfect one and I could even get a free shirt out of it. It was the disabilities awareness booth. You could pick to be disabled for two hours then go watch a 20 minute video about real people who have to deal with real disabilities here at college and then get your free t-shirt. I chose to have a crippled hand. So they taped up my right hand so that I couldn't really use it. And my friend received crutches as his disability, which was limited leg use. I then preceded to order my breakfast of an egg and cheese omelet. Eating that was pretty difficult considering I only had one competent hand, which was my left. I also had to take notes in my Book of Mormon class with my left hand and it looked like a little child's hand writing. It was pretty interesting to see what I would have to do if I really did have a crippled hand, and especially my right hand. Luckily after two hours I was cured and could go back to normal, which makes me grateful that I can use both of my hands!
And I decided that now I'm always going to check out those booths and get involved, because there are a lot of things that are offered to do here at BYU.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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