Another post!

Hello everybody! I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving ( I know I did!) ! The food was EXCELLENT as always, and I especially enjoyed the turkey and stuffing. It was great to be back in Bakersfield, even though I probably spent only a total of 60 hours there ;) I didn't bring my camera, so hopefully Lauren will post all the Thanksgiving pictures up! 

As far as this goes, I turned in a five page paper today detailing my political beliefs and WHY I feel the way I do, and on Friday I have a little news quiz in Political Science and a Chemistry test. Tuesday and Thursday I have my ice skating lessons, which will wrap up on the 9th of this month. They're going really well, and I'm nailing the basics :D I can't wait to move on to the higher levels and hopefully someday I'll be able to pull off a spin or some other impressive figure-skating maneuver. I originally wanted to get into speed skating, but I think I'll try figure skating first. 

The two pictures I have posted here are from my Initiation Week at Alpha Chi Omega. It was a couple weeks ago, and Monday-Thursday night all 25 of us new members had a giant sleepover in the basement of the Alpha Chi house. Needless to say, we got hardly any sleep at all! One night, a few of us went out and bought red and green (our colors) plastic cups and stuck them on a fence on a bridge above a freeway in the shape of a lyre (our symbol). It was about three in the morning but it was fun! The picture of that is below. Another night, we went up to the giant U and stuck white trash bags in vertical lines so that the U looked like a lyre...hard to explain but it looked kinda cool. As far as hazing and all that goes, I will assure you all that there was none of that! I wouldn't have stood for something like that. It was just a very fun week and at the end of it we were formally initiated as active and potentially lifelong members of Alpha Chi Omega! I'm still enjoying it a lot, although we haven't done too much lately because it's close to finals. All of mine are on December 16 and 17....whew! It's coming up soon!

Well that's all I really have to say for the moment...it's a busy week so I probably won't update this for a little while, but I love you all and take care! 

Love, Steph

Hello!

Well, Lauren has tried to convince me to create a blog for a year, so I finally decided to give in :)

My first post will be about the Winter Formal hosted by Alpha Chi Omega that was last night. It was a lot of fun! The theme was

 Mardi Gras and we all met at the house first and then took a charter bus downtown to where the dinner and the dance was held.

I went with a RM named Josh who's in Phi Delta Theta. (He used to play football for Dixie State...cool). On Wednesday, we held our annual "Mr Alpha Chi" compet

ition to find our "dream" frat boy, which means we nominated our favorite frat boys from the different houses and then publicly humiliated them ;) We asked them a bunch of random questions and to sing parts of their favorite Britney Spear's songs, and they also had to perform something for the talent part of the competition. The deal was that we wanted all the nominees to be asked to our formal, so I asked Josh even though I didn't know him at all!

Anyway, here are some 

pictures!