Relay for Life and chilling

I finally got a chance to catch my breath after this weekend. I'd say this weekend was a huge success. We had Relay for Life and with all the contributions we had over 27,000 dollars raised. Pretty amazing if you ask me. I'm really glad it's over. I've learned two things: I prefer not to be captain again next year and I will not stay the entire 12 hours again! Yes, I stayed the entire 12 hours, which may sound a bit crazy, but trust me, it is not as crazy as one of my team members. I had one team member walking for his girlfriend's father, and he walked the ENTIRE 12 hours. He didn't stop for anything. He ate while he walked. We estimated that he probably walked over 30 miles. By the end of the night, I was exhausted and had a nice gift of blisters on my feet from having my shoes on for so long. The last hour seemed to be the longest, but I honestly have no idea how my team member felt. I'm really glad he was dedicated. I guess someone needs to be. Personally, I think he deserves an award.

The blood drive is coming up really soon!! Jan Wise is amazingly amazing! She sent out an email to all of Drake for me informing them about the blood drive and just today, I got 30 more sign-ups! This doesn't mean we don't need more, because we definitely do, so please sign up if you're in the area :) YaY for success!

For one of my math classes we are required to go through the Math Standards book and find problems from a textbook that follow the Standards, benchmarks, expectations, etc., and present our findings to the class with all sorts of information and be able to answer various questions...well, usually only 3-4 of us can present during one class and so having gone through 2 presentations already, we've come to realize this. Today was the start of the new topic presentation and we had two students present and then my professor asks if any one else was ready to present and NO ONE responded (including me). So I turned to her and told her that I had one (of the four) done, but I wanted to redo it b/c it didn't follow what it should (honest), and she said, "okay!"...and that was the end of that. I was expecting a lecture b/c we technically had two weeks to do it, but with everything going on I didn't have the time. Oh well. Thought I'd share that story b/c I got lucky (and so did everyone else).


Here are some Relay for Life pictures!! SO FUN!!




At the very beginning with my loves :)

This is my APO family! My pledge mom and my pledge son. They are awesome.
It's Erin! This was before her performance. I was so amazed by her performance that I forgot to take pictures :(
This is Julie (the one with the carrot in her mouth) and the flaying arms are those of the comedian: Mad Chad who has two sharp swords in his hands....swinging at Julie's face to slice the carrot!

Now, Julie is holding the swords, Mad Chad is on a unicycle.

Mad Chad at his best: Juggling 3 power saws while he does a balancing act. The saws were running and real.

This is my roommate Annelise and Sam...they're power walking!! Work those arms and legs!
This is our fun picture!

This started off being a picture of Cammeo and me with Spike, and then the rest of Cammeo's floor joined us.

These were luminary bags remembering those affected by cancer.