Right after school I went and got all of my stuff (overnight bag, sleeping bag and pillow) from my locker and dropped off my schoolbag. When I got on the bus there was just one other student from Edison on it! Luckily, I knew Eva from track so even before we arrived I already had a friend to talk to on the long ride (and boy was it a loooong ride). We were supposed to leave the school at 3 but thanks to Will Bolenos (I will never forget his name) who never even showed up, we left at 3:35ish. Not only did we leave late but 30 minutes into the trip we got stuck in traffic. By the time we got to UVa it was 7:30, we were a full hour behind schedule. We were ushered into a very big classroom were the last of the guest speakers was finishing up what sounded like a pretty interesting research project.
Once the last guest speaker finished we went to another large room (which I guess I should just call normal sized since all the rooms were very large. We were a group of 80 and all fit very well) where several student organizations performed. I took videos of most of the performances but apparently whenever I zoom in or out on my camera the sound is cut off and since I was constantly zooming in and out a lot of the videos sound very choppy. I did want to put this video up though because it inspired me to go join the latin dance group at my school called El Movimiento (the movement). Dancing is one of the things I enjoy the most from my Hispanic roots. The salsa group that performed was doing this type of improv circle dancing where one guy calls out a dance move and the all do it and then they switch dance partners often.
The other performances were this really funny improv comedians, two very cool a capella groups (Christian and Hip-Hop), the salsa club, some random guitar player who sang a sneaky song that was really about sex and another comedian (but he wasn't really that funny). Once all the performances we had ice cream and started meeting up with our "Mentors" which were the college students we would be spending the night with. I got this "third year" (that's how they refer to themselves at UVa) named Evan who was nice. He was hosting me along with two other guys (a junior and senior from nearby schools [I think it was Lee and Stuart]). I thought I would be spending the night in a dorm but Evan lived off campus in a place called "The Corner" which is a street with a lot of cafes and bars. It was sort of like a really big townhouse with a lot of rooms where about 15 college kids (mostly guys) lived. Evan started a house party with his roommates and invited some of the other mentors with their mentees and I spent Friday night just like any other college student would. I'm just going to leave it at that for now =P. We went to bed around 2-2:30.
One of the things I found really funny was that the townhouse was so old (it was over a century old!) that it started to sink into the ground sort of and a lot of the doorways were slanted at an angle. That was pretty much my night and I had a very good time but even more exciting was the next day!
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