The past week was my first day of classes, and what a (busy) week it was. The last days before classes, we all had our own OA groups to get to know some of the other freshmen and to learn a bit more about Wittenberg. There were a lot of fun activities on campus, under which the Casino Night and the Wittlympics. Casino Night was lots of fun: I turn out to suck at most gambling games, but still had a blast. At the end of the night, Carlijn and I decided that we wanted to be one of the first freshmen to do the Wittenberg tradition: we went streaking on the hollow. We almost got caught. It was so fun.
The Wittlympics were great: all dorms went to the Gymnasium in one color (New Hall was red) to compete against each other in the Wittlympics. The teams/ dorms played dodgeball, mini golf, sudoku and lots of other sports against each other. The atmosphere was amazing and everyone had a great time.
Just before classes started was the first American Football Game: Red vs. White (Wittenberg against Wittenberg). It was fun to go to and I was amazed by the amount of people in the audience. I was even more amazed by the amount of injuries these fellows have already: American Football really is a rough sport.
The day before classes (sunday) was the day that I had my first college party: the team went out to celebrate the end of pre-season and the beginning of the year. It was fun to play beerpong, chesting and lots of other drinking games that I've never heard of before. I didn't feel like drinking and am of course not allowed to drink because of my age, so I actually drank sprite instead of alcohol.
That's when the first week of classes actually started. We had four practices and two games, on top of our actual schoolwork;) I have English, French and Chemistry on mondays, wednesdays and fridays (I changed biology into French) and Public Speaking on tuesdays and thursdays. It sounds like less work than it is: every hour of class equals one to two hours of homework. The classes are fun though, especially Public Speaking. It's a difficult and challenging subject, but that's what makes it more fun.
Sometime during this week, Car and I met up with Sally (our host family) and went to see her house. She lives in an adorable house in an adorable neighborhood. It was, at least in my eyes, a typical American home which only added to its charm. Another extra: she only lives a mile (1,6km) from campus.
During this week, the university had organized an activities fair: all clubs, fraternities and sororities had their own stands and were trying to recruit new members. In the mean time, there was a giant outside barbecue. The atmosphere was, once again, amazing. It was so cool to learn about the sororities, different majors their clubs, male and female acapella groups (Yes! They actually have those, I'm so amazed. It felt like Pitch Perfect all over. It was great.) and the clubs that's main purpose was to do community work and raise money for charities.
On friday, we had our first official game. We got to see our away-games uniforms, went to Washington & Jefferson by bus (W&J is located in Pennsylvania, it took us three and a half hours to get there) and… sadly lost. We played an amazing game though, I'm proud of the team. Saturday, we had another practice (we have four a week) and had a team dinner at Post, a restaurant on campus, after which we went to a Volleyball game to cheer on some of our fellow student-athletes: I loved it. It was so fun to be in the audience of one of our universities games and cheer "Tiger up Witt Tiger up" with the rest of the audience. Our women's volleyball team won:)
Whenever I had time during this week, I would Skype with my family and friends. I love talking to you guys, you're the best. It's nice to know how everyone is doing back home and to hear stories about your new classes, studies and universities. Keep me updated!
The Wittlympics
White vs. Red Football game
First college party with the team!
Sally her adorable house
The interests fair
You're basically eating frozen water, it's gross
On our way to an away game!
Getting ready for our first game against W&J
Volleyball - We won
Skype with some of my besties :)
