Wake Forest

I will try to re-cap my weekend. IT had been wretched, snow, cold, and yucky in Blacksburg the whole week but skies were blue and it was warm when Kathleen and I left on Friday after class. The drive down was great. It's such an easy and scenic drive - perfect for roadtripping. We also made two bangalicious mixes to listen to, so we were having fun. I mean common, how can you not be happy listening to Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind and totally feel like a Middle Schooler again? Anyway, we ended up staying with my good friend Kaj who lives in the Wesley house. I am a huge fan of Wake housing - I think it's absolutely awesome. He lives with 13 other people and it's the most random mix of people ever, but somehow it works and I love the dynamic of the people that lived in the house. It was great and they were all really nice. Anyway, Kaj being the awesome guy that he is took us to the quad and we did a little sight seeing and some t-shirt purchasing. Later we went for some coffee at this great little place in the Reynolda Village called Simply Yummy and the drinks lived up to the coffee shop's name. Next, we had dinner at Village Tavern which is my FAVORITE place ever. I love love love the service there. Our waitress, Sherry was amazing and really made us feel at home... if you go to Wake or ever decide to eat at Village Tavern, request Sherry. I had Jonas the last time and he was awesome as well, but he doesn't work there anymore. Anyway, we had the BEST dinner ever and came back to the house where we were told we had to get initiated by jumping through Adam's window (Adam is one of Kaj's housemates). Apparently the front door automatically locks and Adam's window is open for service 24-7 and that's how the majority of their friends enter the house which is really funny because you'll see random people appear and wonder where they came from and their reply is just, "window." Ha ha, I love it. Anyway here's a link to Kathleen's window adventure for your enjoyment. Shortly afterwards, we realized the window kind of ripped her insulin pump thing off of her and had to take her to Student Health.... You know it's going to be a good weekend when, you have barely spent time somewhere and soemone is already hurt. After Kathleen was saved at the Student center, we went back to the house where everyone was going out to Cobalt's for a KD party. It's cool to see how different the partying scene at every school is. In this case, it was pledge night and the sororities rent out bars. Anyway, they id's us (which I guess makes sense because afterall - it is a bar). Obviously we were under, and we got marked with x's but... never in my life have x's meant "do not drink" they just mean "try harder." Anyway, it was kind of disappointing because we didn't really know anyone and there was a dance party going on outside and there were a bunch of sketchballs all on top of the fact that we couldn't get drinks. Don't get me wrong, the people who wern't sketchy were REALLY REALLY nice. I got propositioned to kiss a lot during the night which I thought was strange because around here, we don't just go around asking people to make out with us and then leave afterwards. That aside, we came back that night and watched one of my new favorite movies Jeux D'enfants and since half of Kaj's house or at least the people that were there with us had been in France for a whole semester - they could understand it and it got really good reactions. Also, mine and Kathleen's Cookout virginity was taken that night and it was about time. The place was amazing - TDF even! The next day we slept in until noon and Kaj made us breakfas (because that's just how AWESOME he is) and then she and I decided to go buy some things for Kaj and his friends because they had been so good to us. We decided on chocolate and peeps because they were rumored to be having a "tender romantic chocolate cuddle night." We had to contribute to the cause, so we did. Ha ha... When we got back, we went to the Tech-Wake game and Tech won. We cheered for both teams, but towards the end we kind of felt like jerks because we got really excited when Tech was ahead and everyone around us gave us the evil eye which is understandable because we hate it when other students from other schools sit in our student section and cheer for their team. But, I mean, we were very conflicted - we would have been happy either way and honestly, we thought Wake would win. What really impressed me was the beginning of Wake basketball games. It's so crazy - it would be impossible not to be super pumped after a set like that. The lights go off, there's music and dancing and crowd shuffling. Think Hokie Football and how awesome that is before every game and that's how the beginning of Wake baskeball games are. Afterwards, Kathleen and I decided we'd cook for the whole house. It was a pretty big hit everyone really liked the alfredo and carrot cake that we made. And let me just say that this was all made from scratch. The guys were so funny, they were like PLEASE COME BACK! And to that we say, "gladly." The weekend was great and it was so good to see Kaj again and meet his friends - everyone was amazing and so so nice and hospitable. We cannot wait to see them again, and I hope they'll visit us sometime at Tech this semester. :D