The party was held out on the patio outside the student life building and featured a good mixture of students and faculty, most of the students hailing from either Japan or India. Snacks were available featuring lemonade or iced tea, cookies, and cheese ‘n cracker/mixed veggie platters. They were perfect snacks to tide you over for a late supper!
After we hung out and met one another for awhile, Mr. Lane gave a series of announcements that, unfortunately, quickly lost most of the audiences’ attention.
Eventually, we were all given a piece of a postcard and were instructed to find the others that had the matching pieces in order to form the complete picture. Each group consisted of seven people and we all introduced ourselves to each other.
After that was completed, we flipped over our pieces of the card and saw a star shaped sticker. Our next task was to find everyone else who had the same color of star and repeat the introduction process. Then it was game time!
A miscellaneous item was read off of a list and each group had to find this item and give it to a designated runner who would then take it to Mr. Lane for “validation.” I ran my butt off trying to get several items, but every time I did, somebody else found one quicker. I hate it when that happens!
Around the time the game started, the humidity started to rapidly increase as well. By the time the game was over, practically everyone was covered with sweat. I guess these things happen in the Midwest.
By the time this particular game ended, it was just past 8 – 45 minutes later than I told my wife I would be heading home. Thus, I had to make my exit. Upon departing, Dana asked me to mark times that work to meet on campus for the newly reformed ISA. We’ll soon see if I can keep attending or not.
It was a lot of fun to hang out and meet new people. One particular freshman, a girl named Ashley from Farmersville, was very pleasant to meet! She’s studying Russian. Personally, I think she should take Japanese (no offense to you Russian speaking people out there!).
Here’s hoping that I will meet those people from the ISA Welcome Party in the days to come!
~N.
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