Eclectic Eccentrics

• Stuffed into the middle seat (bitch seat) for a 3 hour car ride with several bags sitting on top of me. Donny needs to learn how to fold his sleeping bag, I barely had any leg room.
• Squeezing near 40 people into a cabin with a max occupancy of 11. The cabin/house itself was actually really nice and spacious though. Besides, I’m used to living in cramped conditions.
• Two shower heads in the same shower for twice the clean-ness?

• Watched Zoolander again. That movie gets funnier everything I see it.
• Woke up to the upperclassmen making eggs and bacon before running out into the backyard to frolic in the snow. I didn’t actually go skiing or snowboarding despite the title of the trip. Too much $$$ that I don’t have :[
• Witnessed several hardcore snowball fights and wrestling matches. Took at least 5 guys to take Fred down.
• Donny is a very sexy snow mermaid. I mean merman.
• Quizzing Donny for his classical art midterm.
• The afternoon was definitely defined by people playing tetris and Donny playing Maple Story. Pretty laid-back.

• Played Taboo, and lost. Luckily, Dale (our appointed team captain) took the fall and had to eat a spoonful of bacon fat saved from the morning’s breakfast. 
• DRD Talent show. ACAF/FACA Tai Chi, Donny’s amazing hair, Kasey’s dancing, Eddie’s Vietnamese martial arts, Bruce, John and Jason’s light shows and of course, Jacson’s magic tricks. It was very entertaining.
• Craniummmmm and the backhand high-five. We so fly. 
• DAMN WHAT A SEXY FISH
• Asian glow. Drank a little bit too much too fast. Lesson learned.
• Watched most of 500 Days of Summer (only interrupted by several trips to the bathroom, see above bullet point) 
• Epic snowball fight in the field in front of the house.
• Snow Totoros with Kristen (KERstin)

• Very large snow penis, which after collapsing became a large snow-slide. You cannot ignore my girth.
• For dinner that night we drove to Harrah’s hotel/resort over the Nevada border to eat at a massive buffet. Yay freshman table.

• Playing the “sugar game” with Derrek and Bruce. Eating Sweet-N-Low packets is kinda disgusting.
• YOU AREN’T ALLOWED TO CALL YOURSELF AN ARCADE IF YOU DON’T HAVE THE JURASSIC PARK GAME. Okay well they did but it was broken. Shame on them. Sandy was crushed.
• Watching people beast it up at the “Jumpin’ Jackpot” game and DDR
• Combined DRD won 647 tickets, and used 500 of them to get another 20 game tokens in the hopes that they could win more at the Jumpin’ Jackpots
• Despite Jesse’s and Bruce’s best efforts, we only won another 100 tickets (spent 500, won 100 or so back).
• Won a whoopie cushion and inflatable hammer for our “success”
• Learned how to play Mahjong from Ryan. Yay, I’m now that much more Asian.
• Woke up, packed and left, but not before taking a “fuzzy hat” picture with Kristen and Derrick and several team shots. My feet got cold.

• My computer is getting pretty hot so I’ll give it a rest, but to wrap it up, I’m really glad that I had the chance to go on this trip. I bonded with a lot of the team and mostly the other freshmen on the team. Joining DRD was a great idea. 
• Hopefully I will have plenty of other stories to tell soon :]

Just in case you haven’t already seen this picture, I just thought I would leave it there. It makes me happy to look at it.

- Tomio