Skiing

It was kind of a rash decision, but the Friday before Springbreak, Martin, Micky, Brett and I decided to go snowboarding (and for me skiing). We left around 3 PM, right after our classes, and arrived at Mad River Mountain less than an hour later.  After getting dressed in the car, Micky and I left to get a pass for the lifts and to rent a snowboard and skis. When everyone was ready, Brett left for the stunt park and the rest left for the slopes.


Because Micky was pretty new to snowboarding, we started at the green slopes. He was not even that bad, but let his fear get the best of him. This meant that he was going slower than Martin and I were intending to go. Because of this, we left him after a couple of rounds. We did some harder slopes and after that, left for the stunt park as well.

Later on, we all ran into each other again and decided to warm up a little and get a drink. I bought new gloves because it was -15*C and after that, we continued snowboarding & skiing.

At 8.30 PM, the slopes closed for an hour to get repaired. Everyone went inside the bar/ restaurant for dinner and waited it out. After this break we all went to the stunt park, after almost 2 hours and promising him a * of the year award, finally got Micky to grind. We stayed on the slopes until 2 AM, after which we went back to campus.

Martin wearing the ski pants I borrowed from B

Brent, Micky and Martin

Martin & I in the skilift

Me, Martin and Micky

Brent, Micky, Me and Martin

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Parties

Every weekend there are parties at Wittenberg, Most of them are closed, some of them are open. I try to make it to all the parties that I get invited to, because it's a great place to catch up with people, to have fun and to make new friends. Often, after a house party, people go to the bar to hang out and dance some more, and sometimes people go the bar simply to get a pizza.  While most parties don't have a theme and are just relaxed, playing sprite-pong and getting on a sugar high of sprite, a lot of parties do have a theme and I love it.

Some of my favourite parties here at Wittenberg were "highlighter parties". The theme is simple: wear a white t-shirt that may be ruined. At the parties, there are highlighters everywhere for everyone to use. You write on people their shirts and they write on yours. Because of the backlights that they use at these parties, everyone can see what people wrote on you. It's lots of fun and the t-shirts are great souvenirs from a fun time.

One of the more recent parties I was at had four themes - one of them being Mexican. I personally didn't really have any Mexican clothes, or colourful clothes in general for that matter, and borrowed an Aztec dress from Neo. Martin invited me to this party and it was lots of fun to see everyone dressed up differently. Once again I had a great time drinking sprite, dancing and playing sprite-pong.

On Valentine's Day I had two fun parties to go to, both with the same theme: while they weren't formals, the theme was. I dressed in a red dress and started the night pre-gaming and getting my ticket into the bar at the blue house. After hanging out there for a while, me and my friend Akbar went to the first party. There were lots of snakes here and it was fun to hang out with them again.  After a while, Akbar, Tom, Francesca, Anna and I went to the next party by car because there was snow and ice everywhere (don’t worry we were all completely sober). The party was held on the second floor of the bar, and the sprite was taken care of. Anna, Francesca and I were the only snakes in a sea of DG's, but we had lots of fun. The party ended at 12, after which everyone moved downstairs to continue their night at the bar.

Parties are lots of fun and once again a great place to have fun, hang out with friends and to meet people and make new friends. If you are a prospective student reading this: please go to lots of the open parties in the beginning of the year! This is the way to not only get invites to closed parties, but also to meet people that you would have never met if it wasn't for those parties. Some of my best friends now I met during those parties, in the beginning of the year. Also, know that there is no pressure to drink sprite (or alcohol for that matter): no one cares about whether you are sober, on a sugar high or drunk: they only care about getting to know you and about (you) having fun.

Highlighter party - Everyone had neon paint on their face

The highlighter party

The highlighter party

Party with Josh, Alex and Jenny

Dumb & Dumber

Selty, Kiersten and I

Valentine's with Bebeto

Valentine's with Micky and Martin

Valentine's with Mac and Elizabeth

Valentine's with Amanda

Snakepit at the bar! With Anna and Francesca

Rave/ Highlighter party with Akbar

Friends! Meghan, Sabrina and Nicole

Twins!

Victoria & Maria at the rave

Rave

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End of the First Semester!

Time flies... The first semester ended after some hectic weeks. Here are some pictures of my last weeks at Wittenberg in 2014!

Hanging out with Vicky and Sarah

Dessert with Stas

Studying for my finals with Stas

During finals week - Maddy, Alex and I's last time out with David!

The bar - McMurrys

Apple store with Jenna and Martin - Martin broke his phone again

Coloring and puzzling with Riley and Elizabeth

Michelle and Carl during our pizza party

Michelle, Riley, Elizabeth and I had a pizza party on my last night on campus

Last time hanging out with the bunch of us

Saying goodbye to David

Bye bye Ohio, see you in 2015!

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Sinterklaas and Secret Santa

The weeks before winter break were busy. Everyone had final projects and exams, and on top of that the holidays and break were coming. The Dutchies at Wittenberg wanted to celebrate Sinterklaas (a Dutch holiday) and invited some Dutch students (Seymour and David, both studying at Denison) over to celebrate it with them. We all had to buy two gifts of a total of $10 to $15 dollars. We ended up playing a cart game to divide the gifts over the bunch of us. We had lots of fun and got to show the fellow Dutchies both Wittenberg and Wittenberg its nightlife. Of course we also introduced them to the not so impressing CDR food, but studying in America themselves they already knew what that was like.

A day later the field hockey team celebrated Christmas. The field hockey team had decided to celebrate Christmas together by playing Secret Santa. Everyone bought a present and we played a game in which everyone got a number. The lowest number had to pick a gift and unwrap it. After that, the second lowest could either "steal" the gift of someone that went before them, or they could pick out a gift themselves. I ended up getting a cute gift with some random thing in it, under which a pretty cool hat.

On the same day, the internationals also decided to play Secret Santa, but played a cart game instead of the game we played with the team. One again everyone had brought two presents, and at the end of the game everyone had two presents to keep. I was pretty ecstatic about what I won. At the end of the day we all went out together and we ended up having a pizza party :)

Sinterklaas with other Dutchies

Car opening her gift

Party with the other Dutchies!

Secret Santa with the team

Sarah & I both got a pretty neat hat

Team picture!

Anne opening her first gift! It contained tampons...

Secret Santa with the internationals

Action picture

Secret Santa in Rayika & I's room

Pizza party!

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Thanksgiving Break: Indianapolis and Chicago!

A while ago, we got a couple of days off: it was Thanksgiving break! A lot of students decided to just skip their monday and tuesday classes to go home early, but most people their break started tuesday, after their classes. Me and Riley left right after our Public Speaking class, heading towards her family in Thanksgiving to celebrate (my first) Thanksgiving!

On the first day, we didn't really do anything. We spent the entire day as couch potatoes, watching episode after episode of American Horror Story. The only other things we did that day were eating and going to the cinema to watch Mockingjay (which was a pretty cool movie).

The second day was Thanksgiving. We rolled out of bed around noon and spent the rest of the day eating lots of traditional food, getting to know each other and playing games.

The day after Thanksgiving was Black Friday: most stores had crazy stores, which in turn attracted crazy people. We drove to Chicago early in the morning and by the time we arrived, the craziness was already at its high. We spent the weekend wandering and shopping in Chicago.

Indianapolis

Chicago at night

Chicago's nightlife

Walking from one part of Chicago to another

Iceskating rink in the Millennium Park

Chicago Museum of Art

Dinner with the family

Riley & I in the hotel we were staying at

On our way back to Springfield

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