Many times when I write about my weekends, I am talking about sunsets and the river and the zoo…. basically all places Memphis, but not Rhodes. But this last weekend was a Rhodes-filled weekend so I thought I’d share!
First, on Friday night, I went to the Rhodes Choral Ensembles’ and Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Bach’s “Mass in B Minor.” It was beautiful. I know many people in Women’s chorus and in the Rhodes Singer’s so it was really great to go support them! The picture isn’t very good because I had to sit very far away…. but it’s the best I’ve got!
On Saturday morning was the AOII strikeout. This is where students can organize softball teams and raise money to fight arthritis! The RAs lost first round… but that’s okay because there was another really cool event going on in Fischer Gardens!
The New Orleans, alum, students, parents, and faculty hosted a New Orleans style crawfish boil. After throwing the first pitch at the softball game, President Troutt even ventured over to hang out with us and eat some crawfish! Though it was interrupted by a thunderstorm, nothing dampened our New Orleanian spirits; the party was just moved to underneath the Bellingrath awning. I had a great time and it brought a little bit of home up to Rhodes which was nice. I think it would be really neat if other Rhodes chapters did the same with some of their local favorites.
Next on the agenda (on Sunday) was student Allocations, where I proposed a budget for CHEERS for next year. My fingers are crossed for good funding. But we’ll see :-).
Then after some time to get on top of my work, I went to play intramural volleyball with the RA’s where we lost. But all that matters is that it was really fun! Well… except for the fact that I jammed my finger which was interesting. I noticed that my finger was bruising and swelling during the game, but I kept playing. And then, after the game, I has a reception at President Troutt’s house with the Bellingrath finalists (who were AMAZING). So I quickly ran across campus and changed and went to the President’s house and that was where I finally iced my finger. Mrs. Troutt was so good to me! She wanted to help me out so she helped me fix my plate and got my drink for me. Those are the times that I realize Rhodes is pretty cool.
And that was it in a nutshell.
This week has been pretty normal. Classes are chugging along, nothing too exciting. Even my physics lab this week was just a tutorial and I hear that my organic lab tomorrow will be brief. I had a class canceled today which was nice in some ways, but in others, I need as much time in that philosophy class as I can get. Philosophy is really hard for an empiricist.
Well, I’m headed to the rat to get some dinner before more housing selection and volleyball…
Signing off!
Sarah
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