Distruption in the Union

The following day after I had made my observatoins in the Union, I returned to disrupt its norms. I sat down in one of the comfy chairs and pulled out my books, just like those around me had. They were studying books or on their laptop and not talking to anyone. So I decided to strike up a conversation with the girl sitting next to me. Judging by the looks of her, she looked like one of the more studious students. She wore glasses had a lot of books and papers around her. To begin the conversation, I said something about hating all of the work that
I had ahead of me. I continued the conversation and asked her questions that she only returned with short, one answer replies. She would acknowledge my presense, but wouldn't take her eyes off her work, as if she were trying to silently tell me to be quiet. She never said anything mean to me, but I could tell she would rather me not talk to her since she was trying to study. After I had obviously disrupted her and her studying, I decided upon my next victim. I spotted another girl sitting in a chair around a table. There were four other seats avaliable, and she was only using one. So I walked up and asked her, if she was using one of the chairs and she answered 'no'. Usually, the norm is for people to just take the chair away from the table and use it somewhere else, but I didn't. I just sat down at the table with her and started pulling out my books. Before I had time to even begin a conversation with her, I saw that she was already packing up her books and getting ready to leave. I have never felt so awkward in my entire life. Just like the last girl, she didn't say anything mean to me, to make me feel awkward, but then again, she didn't have to.

Student Union - 2:20pm

After my classes on Thursday I had some awkward time availiable, so I decided to chill in the Union. I knew I could use that time to observe people and the norm behavior in the Union. Not wanting that to be obvious, so I got some Chick-fil-a and started writing notes so it would look like I definitely had something to do. What's really cool about the Union, is that it's like a hang out place to use for whatever you want it to be. There are constant conversations going on, people studying, watching the TV in the corner, and stuents eating food like Alpine.

(Note: there are two types of chairs: the comfy charis, gathered around a sort of coffee table, and normal table and chairs. I will refer to the former as comfy chairs and the later as the normal table and chairs.)

I noticed that like in the cafeteria, people will not share a table and chairs together if they are complete strangers; however, in the Union, a new situation arises: the comfy chairs. In the Union it is completely normal to gather around a common coffee table and sit in comfy chairs with a stranger sitting next to you. I found this interesting. The comfy chairs allowed to to sit beside strangers and the normal table and chairs didn't.
Another thing i noticed, is that the stranges sharing comfy chairs didn't talk to each other. I even tried making contact, when sitting in a comfy chair and no one would look at me. IF I did happen to catch someone's eye, they would pretend that they were looking at something behind me, or quickly glance away. Yet, when gathered around the common coffee table and sitting in comfy chairs, I noticed people spacing out and sometimes ease dropping on others who were close by.
After observing students in the Union, I realized that they had interesting behaviors.

Rushing Franklin Street

On the Wednesday that UNC won against Duke, chaos broke out on campus. It was insane! Me and my roommate were watching the game and as soon as the end of the second quarter was over, this crazy roar rose up out of our dorm. We live in one of the larger dorms so maybe that was the reason for how loud it we got, but it was unbelievable. As soon as the game was over and we heard the roars, we took off. Our destination was Franklin Street.
We started running as soon as we cleared our suit door, and continued onto the stairs. We ran for a while but couldn't make it all the way to Franklin. Screams and shouts of joy were rising up everywhere. If an outsider were to come on campus and see all of the sutdents running in one direction and hear our yells, they would have thought that someone had pulled out a gun on campus or something of the like. It really was scary running with all of those people and hearing students scream all around you. But knowing that we had won against Duke, made it heaven!
Once up on Franklin, it was even more crowded than on Halloween night. When we win against Duke, our tradition is to jump over fires on the street. So there were these people in the middle of Franklin street, making fires and jumping over them. You would have thought eveyone was on drugs! lol I'm so glad I went, because it will be the experience of a life time!

Valentine's Day

I've really been wanting to blog about Valentine's Day or singles awareness day. In the past I have never had the chance to participate in Valentine's Day (I never had a boyfriend during Valentine's...they're too hard to keep, ya know...;) But this year, I was able to keep my boyfriend and participate! I never really thought about it until now, but Valentine's Day is really hard. Especially on the guys. It's actually kinda awkward....unless you talk about it and let each other know what you're expectations are...which is what we did! lol But seriously, a couple weeks ago I was thinking about Valentine's Day and what I'd get my boyfriend....and.....I drew a blank. I mean, what are girl's supposed to get guys on Valentine's day(for my sake, now referred to as V day)? Now some girls, I'm sure, don't get their bf anything. And that's fine, but I'm not that kinda of girl. My rule is, whatever he is expected to do, I'm expected to do too. That way it's even. But anywas, I was starting to stress out about what to get him. Then I relaized I could ask what he expected and then everything would be okay. So I did, and the question was answered. But what about those who don't ask. Or it's weird for them to ask because of their situation...do you know what I mean? Like they're "just friends" (WHATEVER!!). But that can make things hard.
If you think about it there are a lot of expectations for guy's on V day. They're supposed to take the girl out on a nice date/dinner and pay for it, and be gentleman enough to drive! They're supposed to give her flowers and candy and if you're lucky a present....That is a lot of expectations if you ask me. Therefore, since my boyfriend wasn't expecting it from me, I didn't expect it from him. So we had a nice, affordably priced Valentine's day together, with no worries or stress about expectations. That way, we weren't disappointed. That doesn't mean to say that if you talk about you're expectations beforehand that you can't be surprised! I still expect for the guy to surprise me! haha

Performance at Memorial Hall

It was a Wednesday night a couple weeks ago when I went to the Mumbai Benefit Concert. It was to raise money for help to the victims of the terrrorists attacks that had been going on in India. It only cost $3 yet was the best concert I ever went to. There was no program, so initially I had no idea who was going to sing or perform. There eneded up being various UNC a cappella groups including: The Lorilies, Alliance, and the Walk On's. Then after some singing a traditional Indian dance group from UNC performed. I had never seen anything like it! It was amazing. It was neat to see that even though we came from a different culture, we could still enjoying something similar: dancing. The joy on their faces was true joy and it overflowed into the crowd. I also thought it was touching to see that the people in the audience were from different cultures, but that we could all gather to support a cause in a time of need. Any chance you get to go to a benefit concert go, because you will experience more than just the performance!

Parents Visit To College

This crazy busy week is coming to a close and many people are making weekend plans. This weekend my parents are coming to visit. I am happy to say that I love my parents and I miss them from time to time while I'm at college. They have not been to visit me and my older sister since...well last September for my sister's 20th birthday. They live fairly close, roughly a 3 hour drive, and my sister and I see them and visit home occasionally.

This weekend there is no occasion. No birthday. No baskeyball game. No concert that we're going to. My parents are simply visiting to see how we're fairing in our college lives. However, every time they visit, we do the same thing. We get groceries...They pay! I'm not complaining! I'm about out of everything as it is since I don't have a meal plan. And then we go to the mall and shop/look around. I enjoy our repeated weekends but my sister is under the impression that we should do something different this time. When I asked her what we could do as a family, she couldn't say.

So I'm asking you. What are some cool, family fun ideas to do with my parents this weekend?

IDK

So I don't know what to write about. I saw that on some other people's posts they were talking about it being hard to keep up with their blogs. I don't necessarly have a problem with keeping up with it, I just have a problem in what to say...

I could tell you about my weekend helping out at 180 at my church back home, but I'm not really feeling it today. Maybe some other time.

I could tell you how tired and busy I am, but I've kinda already touched on that topic. No one wants to read about that again. It's not even interesting. I wrote it more for myself to have pity on myself! lol jk

Let's see what else is there?...My parents are coming to visit me this weekend. I'm going to two plays/concerts within 3 days so that's pretty cool. One at Playmaker's and one at Memorial.

Otherwise I don't have much to say...