Laser Quest

Last Saturday one of my dorm mates and I went to Laser Quest in Modesto for the housing weekend trip. I really wanted to go because of the escape room and my dorm mate really wanted to go because she loves laser tag. When we got to Laser Quest we had to split up into two groups of five people and the rest of the CSU Stan students. The two groups of five people were the groups that would be doing the escape rooms first and the rest of us would be doing a round of laser tag. As the two groups were getting ready for the escape rooms we had to tell one of the workers our code names for the laser tag game. My dorm mates name was 'Diva' and mine was 'Jern'. My code name was 'Jern' because it is an inside joke between my family. During our first round of laser tag I stayed in one area and would shoot the people that crossed into my path. In the end, I was ranked 13 out of 23 players. After we all got our score cards my dorm mate and I volunteered to be in the next group to be in the escape room. We had 45 minutes to get out of the one called 'The Cellar' and it was basically about a serial killer who captured us and we had to discover who his next victim would be to make it out alive. I was the one who figured out how to open the last box that had the key in it. By the time we got the box open we only had one minute and one second left. After we made it out of the escape room we had one more round of laser tag to play. During my second round of laser tag I went up to the second story and was shooting people one the first floor as well as people on the second. At the end of this round, I was ranked 9 out of 31 players. After this last round we all got back on the bus and went across the street to eat pizza at Mountain Mike's. After we ate Pizza we got back on the bus and went back to the school. When we made it back to the school my dorm mate and I were super tired so we went to bed.

Thanks for reading my blog! If you have ever made it out of an escape room or have a crazy story about laser tag I would love to hear it.

Jenah

Supporting The Stan State Volleyball Team

When I was younger I started playing volleyball and it has been such I huge part of my life. I played for about nine years playing on club teams and in middle school and high school. I stopped playing because I was burnt out and there was just too much drama with a whole bunch of girls. I decided to go support our volleyball team here. On Friday my dorm mate, my PAL, and I went to our first volleyball game to support the girls and see how they played. It was a lot of fun even though we lost the game was still intense and the warrior mascot was pumping everybody up. The final score of the first game was  25 - 19 and we lost, the second game we also lost 25 - 18, we won the third game 25 - 15, and the fourth game was a battle, but the final score was 29 - 27. We even though we lost it was still a great game and everyone was still cheering. One of the students even started a wave in the crowd during the fourth game because it was such a close match. During time outs they played music to pump up the crowd and the warrior mascot was dancing his heart out which made everyone in the crowd cheer even louder. Even though we lost it was still a super fun game and I can not wait to go and support other sports in order to have this much fun again.

Thanks for reading my blog! Hope you have gone to support your school also it can be a lot of fun.

Jenah

Television Verses Doing Homework

Every floor in the housing dorms has a theme. The theme of our floor is Lilo and Stitch and because my roommate and I are still children at heart we decided to watch all the Lilo and Stitch movies. I brought my television from home and we hooked up my roommates' laptop to it in order to watch the movies. After I came back from home on Labor Day my roommate and I decided to start watching the first Lilo and Stitch movie because why not. Our classes did not start until 11 the next day so we decided that we could stay up late. The next day after I got back from class at 7 my roommate was watching Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, so we hooked up her laptop to my television and finished watching it. We then watched Stitch! The Movie and Leroy and Stitch even though we both had homework we needed to get done. After the movies were done we both started our homework but at midnight we went outside to see the full moon and stop stressing about college. The next morning, I woke up early to get some more homework done before my first class of the day at 8 in the morning. After my first class, I finished the rest of my homework for my next class up until almost the last minute. The moral of the story is do not wait until the last minute to do your homework and do not watch three movies in one night if you have a lot of reading to do.

Thanks for reading my blog! If you have any stories similar to this please let me know.

Jenah

Memories and Making Inside Jokes From Welcome Week

My first time leaving home, meeting people I will live with for the next year, and my first week on campus before classes start. Pulling up to the round about right outside the housing gates I saw a lot of people unpacking their cars and volunteers wheeling their stuff to their dorm room. It was my turn to unpack the car and the volunteer brought me to the wrong room. When we finally made it to the right room the first thing I noticed was all the cute welcoming decorations that my RA and PAL had put in the dorm. I was the first one in my room so I got to choose which bed I wanted. After dropping off my stuff my parents and I went to Super Walmart and spent $428.01 on other things I would need. We came back and meet the other people I would be sharing a dorm with and unpacked some of my stuff. After that we went to the welcoming dinner and my parents left. Our floor met out on the grass and got to know a little about each other. We then went to main dining for the huddle where there were games, prizes, and food. One of my dorm mates and I went to a secession the next day called Netflix (Safe Sex) & Chill, we sat at a table with our PAL for the presentation and for some reason she got very excited. We asked what she was so happy about and she said she hoped they would show us the Tea Video. We were still very confused but the presentation started so we could not ask any more questions. One of the slides had a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwvrxVavnQ&t=4s and it was the tea video. It basically is a video that explains how people need consent before making people tea (sex). It is now an inside joke between me my dorm mate and PAL. The next memorable event was our first meet your neighbor hour where most of the people on our floor went to our RA and PAL's room and played Cards Against Humanity. There were a lot of laughs and more inside jokes were made. We all went to the village cafe for dinner together as a floor and the laughs continued there. There was a raffle and one of the people running it offered us more tickets and someone on my floor grabbed a handful of tickets and had to return half of them because she took to many. She ended up winning the prize and our whole table cheered for her. Later that night we went back to the village cafe for game night and played a few rounds of Jenga before we started playing Cards Against Humanity again but this time with a smaller group of people. With this smaller group of people, we made a lot more inside jokes. The next day after the morning workshops three of my dorm mates and I asked our PAL to take us on a campus tour so we could see where our class were and to get the edge on everybody that would be participating in the campus scavenger hunt later that day. We made it back to the dorm to change our shoes and go to the scavenger hunt which was a complete waste of time because we were hot and tired and it was not fun. Later that night there was a glow pool party where everyone got glow sticks and were dancing and playing games. Even though the music sucked it was still a lot of fun. The next night my dorm mate and I went to an event called Tribal Tag put on by a club at school. It was basically capture the flag but at night with glow sticks in the quad. After the game was over we crossed the street and had nachos. When we came back to the dorms it was sometime around midnight and we were getting ready for bed. As I was laying down about to go to bed I heard people above us running around on the balcony and knocking on people's doors. Come to find out they were throwing a dance party. The next day I went home for a dentist appointment and missed out on a lot more jokes from the floor events that went on. I came back to campus on Tuesday the day before classes started and tried to do one last event but they ran out of things for us to tie dye so we could not do it. We finally went to bed Tuesday night ready for classes to start the next day.

Thanks for reading my blog. Let me know what you thought of the tea video.

Jenah