Soo from a few weeks ago...
Successful Crush Party! YAY!
I had a ridiculous amount of fun last night!! Somehow the day worked out even better than I had anticipated! I went to math and got more extra credit to work on, ate a sausage egg mcmuffin from McDonalds (so good, try it), didn't listen at all in accounting, watching this really awesome show with Ashley -- more on that later, decided it was too pretty to coop myself up in the library, laid out insteadn and actually studied while I was doing it, got tan for my date party and formal tonight and stole a dress from taylor ann and ate dinner at McAlisters with the couples across the hall. And at this point date party hadn't even come close to starting!
Side note: The show I watched in the middle of the day yesterday was one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. It was part of the international fair I think and I am so glad we stopped to see what was going on! When we strolled up, this girl was bending her body in ridiculous ways... I'm talking like holding herself up with one leg while leaning all the way back and holding a plate of glass cups on the other foot which was extended 180 degrees into the air. Insane. At one point she was laid down on the ground and had a plate of glass cups on both feet, both hands, and in her mouth. She then proceeded to roll onto her stomach without dropping any of them. The most amazing part was that she did everythhing with such grace. I can only imagine how much control over your body you must need to bend the way she did.
The next act was equally fun. This guy got up on a steel ladder and balanced himself all the while keeping a bowl balanced on his head. He didnt stop there. He put another bowl on his foot and threw it perfectly onto the other bowl on his head! Then he did the same with two bowls, three bowls, and FOUR bowls! All of them landed beautifully in the stack on his head! And to clarify, he balanced them on his foot before throwing them. And they were stacked in opposite ways so that they made like a tower kind of on his foot. And he wasn't finished yet. He is standing on his ladder holding his hand out to the applause - looking like he acted out a silent Olay! - with around ten or twelve bowls blanced on his head when his little assistant appears with a vase. Like with the bowls, he dutifully placed the vase on his foot and landed it on top of the stack of bowls on his head. To finish it off, he completed the set with one of those fake bouquets of flowers. The end result: an amazing Thai performer in a shiny costume with flowers coming out of his head. Awesome.
The last act we observed was a group of around ten girls from the same Thai performing ensemble. They were arranged in a line, wearing matching red komonolike outfits standing behind a set of drums. With a little background music to set the tone, they all started banging their drums in perfect synchronization. You could tell the girls on the end were the ones who ran the show since they had the biggest drums. It sounds like an ordinary drum performance but it was unlike any drumline i have ever seen. All the girls were swinging their high black ponytails with the beat they kept on their drum. Smiles from all around made it seem like they couldnt feel the heat that was blistering down in the middle of the day. There was one girl who literally did not stop grinning the entire time. She made me want to try! They all made it look so easy! I can only imagine how much practice it took to make their mini show perfect. They were completely together and overflowed with confidence.
Well, so, Crush party... I was going to talk about that a lot more like three weeks ago when I started writing this post but then Kari came over and was like you ready? Because we were leaving for formal. I closed really fast and didnt finish because 1) I didn't want anyone to have to wait on me to leave and 2) none of my friends know I have a blog site yet. I should tell them but I'm just not, ya know, there yet.
The end of Crush party was even more fun than the beginning I described above! I started off in Laurel with all my good friends, went down to the frat house to grab one of my dates, walked back to catch the bus and get all new dates, and then I danced allllll niiiiiight looooong! It was SO fun! I am so in love with Super T. I think I sat down a grand total of like one minute all night. None of my dance partners could keep up and somehow at the end, the boys were outnumbered by girls! It didn't matter at all. I got on stage with Super T and he played Lets Get it On and Celebration and Jami Howell and I sang on stage with him! It was so sad when it all had to end! I gave him a goodbye kiss on the cheek and joined my friends on the bus. When we got back it was still super early, so we went to Hanna's and then to Gus's (Ben was in town). All in all, a very successful night!
The next morning I woke up early- you know like ten or so- and packed for formal at the Opryland Hotel. I had heard we were leaving at like eleven thirty or something and was all ready for like hours until we finally left at one. The car ride there was pretty fun actually. Just hanging out talking about plans for the summer and next fall and stuff like that. I didn't know I wasn't rooming with my friend until we were like halfway there... I really wish we had gotten to. It got awkward fast. I hope I didn't contribute to it all, but I feel like I may have. See, I had recently had a heart-to-heart with the guy who asked me. He asked me kind of out of nowhere one night when we were just having normal conversation and I was totally taken back by it. I get easily freaked out and his awkward asking made me think he was getting 'the feelings' which I never have any of ever. So, I did what I always do in those situations and immediately got myself out of any kind of relationship-like situation, appearance, whisper, stance, gesture, and attitude. In a sense, I just run away. Very very quickly. I thought it would be better by Steeplechase but it really wasn't so I will have to work on that some this summer.
Formal itself was really fun though! We started off the night with some country club margaritas, ate dinner at BB Kings on Second Avenue where I and almost everyone else got in overage, listened to a humiliating speech focused on Kyle's manwhoring practices, got tipsy off a Long Island Iced Tea, and then heard fabulous pong stories on the way home while taking bets on when JJ was going to pass out. My favorite part of the night was when we got back to the hotel and started pregaming for the Dustin Lynch band party. We pretty much just sat in the room and talked that whole time. It was so fun. I feel like I made a million new friends. After like two hours of just talking about nothing and everything, we figured it was time for us to meander down to the band party that was happening twelve miles away in our hotel.
Dustin Lynch waas awesome. He has the voice that every girl wants to marry-- and one was really asking for it that night. Her name was Roxy and she would not leave him alone. When she realized that was a lost cause, she moved on to the forty-year-old guitar player and proceeded to invite him to her room. Meanwhile, her date kept asking all of us girls to dance, even when I was dancing with my date he didn't let up. He turned out to be quite annoying but I would probably be doing that too if I had brought some drunk girl who was going to be sleeping with the band. So my date may have been kind of an awkward dancer... but luckily some of the pongs are super fun to dance with! Like crazy whip your head around, can't see because theres so much hair in your face, what on earth are we doing kind of dancing. I loved it.
Before we left, we made Dustin serenade us with Wonderwall which I guess gave him permission to stamp his name on our arms as we walked out the door. Instead of going back to the room, we set out to explore the hotel again. My desperate search for the water show was unsuccessful, but there was plenty more to see. The next morning was the same sort of deal where we woke up and explored and then ate lunch and topped off the trip with some gelato! Oh such good gelato too! I can't wait for italy! I shouldn't even bother eating real meals there!
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