You probably
thought I was going to stick with my posting once a month routine…jokes on you,
people! This one will likely be brief. But you all know that I am, what my
professors call, “overly eloquent”. I like words. So we’ll see how this goes.
I only have a few quick nuggets to tell you about
this week. Though I was determined to write a post free of any tour guide
tales…I just can’t contain my excitement about being an undergraduate campus
ambassador!!! No. The only thing I want to mention in this week’s installment
is the tour 5 fellow guides and I gave to a little group of just 200 6th graders. Obviously my
script went out the window when the very first question I got was, “are you a
tall midget?” *commence an eruption of giggles* I knew it was going to be a “fun”
group. What I didn’t expect, was one little black boy dressed up in a suit and
tie, carrying an iPad that was about the size of his face. Eric? Nope. Just a little 6th
grader who asked endless questions about our “financial aid package” and
“undergraduate research opportunities”. I ain’t making this stuff up, folks! I
felt I fulfilled my duty when after showing them our indoor rock-climbing wall,
a girl in the group shouted; “I want to go to college!!!”
In the middle of my week while walking up the
parking lot, I was greeted by a middle-aged man traveling down the parking
structure wearing roller blades. Who knows why I find roller blades so
hilarious, but it kinda made my week.
This weekend was a dandy one, starting with prom
nightttttt on Friday! No, really! It was the first annual Undergraduate
Admission Staff Prom…(and no, I have no extravagant “prom-posal” to report from
Eric). We got all dressed up; well, I did. Eric just came straight from work
where he was already wearing a suit and tie. It was a fun night seeing my
fellow tour guides out of their blue polos and breaking loose on the dance
floor. If only our prospective families could see us now. Davis would surely
become their first choice.
One rather strange moment of my night came when I
was hit on by a ginger while in line for the bathroom. (It was a good thing
Eric was on the dance floor). To give you an idea of what this young man was
like, all you need to know was that he had a blown up picture of Marilyn
Monroe’s face on his tie. Stay classy. He
asked if I liked his tie, and I replied in the most sarcastic tone I could
muster, “yeah, I’m really enjoying Marilyn Monroe’s face starring at me all
night”. To which he responded, “Well I’m really enjoying you in that dress
tonight”………..smooth. I wanted to laugh
in his face/run far away, but we had to awkwardly continue standing side by
side in front of the bathroom door. I was praying that whomever was occupying
the restroom would hurry up; especially when the ginge started suggesting that
we “explore” the rest of the basement where the bathroom was located. Ericccc!!! Thankfully right at that
moment the door opened and I escaped. Work is sure going to be awkward on
Monday.
After dancing the night away late into the night, I
remembered that I had signed up for an 8am shift at work Saturday morn. I was commanded to stand in a parking lot and
direct people to our visitor center. Easy peasy. What I didn’t anticipate, was
that there were about 351 other events happening on campus on the same day; a
run for Autism, a vegetable competition, an engineering conference, a protest,
a baseball game, a gobal health event, campus tours, and oh; the President of
the UC’s was coming. So while I hoped I would just be directing people to the
tours, I ended up having to answer copious questions about events that I knew
nothing about. For 5 hours straight. Thankfully my friends brought me Dutch
Bros just in time, otherwise I don’t know if I would have been able to stay
upright. After a 3 ½ hour nap after my shift, I settled in at home enjoying a
game of Yahtzee and a viewing of one of my faves (not Parent Trap this time);
Les Mis. I always cry 3 separate times throughout without fail.
As predicted this was much more than a short and
sweet post. There goes my title. 5 weeks left until upperclassman-ship!
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