Is it Springtime yet?!

In a matter of two weeks, the weather has warmed up by about 20 degrees. Just a few weeks ago we were still having negative degree days, and now for the past week and continuing on through this next week it is showing temperatures of high 20's low 30's. It's crazy how quickly the weather changed! Spring is right around the corner! It was clear skies most of the week with calm winds...two things I haven't seen much of since October!  So overall a gorgeous week of weather!



Another cool event that happened this week was frost on trees. Since it has been warming up, fog is finally able to form in the air. But since it is still below freezing temperatures, that fog sticks and freezes to the trees, making everything look white! It is really an amazing sight! Hopefully the picture is clear enough to notice all the frozen trees!  It almost reminds you of something you see on a Christmas card!

Unfortunately, I do not have any fun falling stories this week....I was pretty good about staying on two feet at all times.

In my last weeks post, I showed a picture of a huge poster that I had painted, I will talk a little bit about that now.  All fraternities and sororities have what they call "Philanthropies" which are events that a certain house puts on for the week. It helps raise money for a given cause (us Pikes do Breast Cancer Awareness). So for one of the sororities (Alpha Phi) their Philanthropy was to help raise money for Cardiac Care.  During that week, each fraternity selected one candidate. This candidate was to help promote and support Alpha Phi's philanthropy and at the end of the week, they crowned someone their "Heart Throb" who would then get to pretty much be apart of the sorority for events, dinners, etc. 12 fraternities, 12 candidates, only one winner. I chose to be the candidate for Pike. We painted a poster, made a video, and had interview questions for why I thought I should be Alpha Phi's Heart Throb. After putting hours of work into the poster and rocking my interview and video, it came down to one last event which heavily influenced the winner. This event was called Boot Hockey. It is Hockey without skates, only tennis shoes on ice.  All 12 fraternities were able to, as long as they had 10 players on a team, have as many teams as they liked.  Unfortunately, because of confusion with our teams and the number of players we were told we HAD to have on one team, we only had one team of 10. We find out day of that we could have had smaller teams, allowing us to make multiple teams and have a better chance of winning, but nothing we could do at that point. Another fraternity had won boot hockey and, because of that, their candidate was crowned Heart Throb.

It was a great experience and I'm glad I was able to have the opportunity to do something like that, but I wouldn't do it again. I put too much time and effort into my video, interview, and poster to have the winner be determined because of a hockey game. Oh well, I was able to create great friendships with so many people that will last for my many years here.

That's all I have for this week, Spring Break is next week! It will be nice to have a week off.  Continuing to count down the days until Summer!

Cameron

Observation flight with Devin!

Walking in the middle of the Red River
(Only other river other than the Nile to flow North)

Grand Forks