Top of the morning to ya! This past week I had the honor of starting another new experience by heading out of little old Boone with 8 APPS, Appalachian Popular Programming Society, executive members and 4 advisors at 7:30 am to reach our final destination, Minneapolis, Minnesota, by 6pm saturday evening. We took this 5 day excursion to NACA, a national conference for campus activity boards. It was really intriguing to see how other schools planned and created events to entertain their respective student bodies of various sizes. What made this trip so different than the many I have previously taken with family or friends? Well for one, I went with people that I only really hang out with at school and also we were with faculty. I tend to be a little crazy and blunt when I have “freedom” and had to make sure throughout the trip that my comments were in line. Looking back on it, it was probably a great learning experience on filtration and necessity of my speech. My favorite NEW aspects of the trip were as follows:
- Talking to strangers on the plane about their lives
- Eating out for almost every single meal $$$$$
- Going to the most boring and cold state on earth
- Not using the plane bathroom because I was too lazy to go
- Asking questions to random attractive polish men on a whim because I am going to Poland this summer
- Introducing myself to agents to talk about events coming to our school
- Seeing Bill Nye in the Hotel lobby
- Seeing at least 50 different entertainers all in one place (musicians, comedians, spoken word artists, random talents)
- Talking to a random guy at the coffee creamer station about future career aspirations and finding out he does research on HIV ( my minor is health promotion) and he offered me his business card!!!!
Challenge Yosef 