Museum of Science and Industry

On Friday the 21st of November I went to the Museum of Science and Industry with my friend Kris at around 10 Am, and we stayed util around 5 or 6 PM. The first things we looked at was the giant toy train track. It is so big that I couldn't even really get a decent picture from the second story (but Im gonna add the picture I got anyway).

We saw a lot of really cool things, including an x-ray of a nebula, and a whole swarm of Christmas trees inspired by different cultures. The nebula was really cool, but some of the Christmas trees were disappointing because they displayed stereotypes that aren't even true at all. For example, the tree inspired by Belgium had a bunch of waffles on it. Waffles weren't even invented in Belgium! However, most of the trees were pretty cool, and I got a picture in front of the Japan one (my cover picture).

Nebula X-ray

Regardless of a few inaccuracies, the museum was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed myself a lot (to the point of briefly considering becoming a physics major, but then I remembered that involves a lot of math). I would definitely go again, though I will probably explore a different museum next year. 

St. Louis Zoo

A while back I went to the St. Louis Zoo with my friend Kris. We went at around 9 AM and left around 5 or 6 PM. It was kind of chilly that day, but it didn't matter because we were walking around a lot anyway. Even though we didn't have time to see everything, we saw quite a few different animals. my favorite was the Burrowing Owl. Alas, I have misplaced the picture I took of it, but it was adorable! 

I had a lot of fun at the zoo, and it was very relaxing. I didn't think I would have as much fun as I did at the zoo because I thought I would get bored. However, the vast variety of animals they have kept my attention very well (I may have gotten overly excited about certain animals like the gazelles and elephants). 

About an hour before we had to leave we went to the sea lion show. It was really cool to see how many tricks it could do! God's creation is amazing!

Homecoming

In October I went to the 2014 Homecoming dance at 8 PM with my friends John, Jeana, Miranda, and a few other people who I can't remember the names of. Despite the fact that it was an outdoors dance, it wasn't cold in the tent people were dancing in because of body heat. Even if you're like me and would rather dance in the outskirts so you don't have to smell body odor, you could still dance without freezing to death because there was a bonfire. Overall, it was a well planned out event if you're into that sort of thing. Looking back on it from a personal point of view, I probably only had fun because of John.

If you know me, you know that I am not the type of person who usually goes to things like dances and parties, and I really only went because A. John wanted me to, and B. I figured I may as well have the dance experience I never had in high school (quite willingly). That being said, to be perfectly honest, I'll probably not be going to any more dances as long as I can avoid it. If I want to get dressed up, I'll go to an anime convention. I'm not saying I didn't have a good time though - at least for the first half when they were playing good music. After they started exclusively playing rap "music" I was pretty much done. No matter how hard I try, I just can not enjoy myself very much when there is trashy, degrading music playing in the background. I was also disappointed that the dress code was "semi formal" rather than formal. I probably will not go to the Homecoming dance next year, unless there's a formal one (and by formal, I mean the music will be classy rather than full of disrespect).

Plunger Ball is one of the most fun games I have ever played. It was invented by someone on campus a few years ago I believe but this match up was against Jansen and Joy hall. it was a blast had I had a great time.

This is from the Janssen soiree only a few of us actually had dates so we went with each other. We called it a bro date and it was really fun until they started playing romantic songs on the dance floor to make things awkward. also the food was really good. 

I attended the art walk with Adrian and Nick where we had some good food and got to look at some really amazing art work.

NSO

NSO was a lot of fun I had a great time hanging out with some of my football buddies as you can see in the picture above with Dylan Massey, Taylor Kaufman and myself. during NSO we went to east St. Louis to a elementary to plant trees with the children then we went back to help re paint some of the parking lot. after that we went to a jungle gym for grown ups and had some amazing food is was very enjoyable and i had a great time.