This past weekend a traditonal Saint Leo event took place. That event is called Fall Family Festival. It is a weekend dedicated to both parents and students enjoying various events that go on around campus. The event that kicked off the weekend was a talent show. It featured Saint Leo students demonstrating their various talents and hobbies. The entertainment ranged from poetry, to dancing, singing, and even some rapping. The main events took place on Saturday. This was when the actual festival took place. All the different clubs and organizations on campus have tables and booths for people to come over and enjoy the activites. Some of the tables were a dream interpretation station, a bell-dancing area, and gladiator ring, and obstacle course.

It is Halloween week here at Saint Leo and the campus is getting ready. There are various events that occur at this time of the year here. One of the biggest is the trips the school provides to both Halloween Horror Nites at Universal Studios, and Hallowscream at Busch Gardens. Both of these events only cost five dollars to attend. Another big thing is the hall decorating contest. In the freshmen residence halls they have a competition to see which floor can decorate the best. The winning floor gets a free dinner at Applebees this year.

On a different note, some organizations give back to the community this time of the year. Tau Kappa Epsilon, my fraternity, hosts a Halloween party for foster kids. We have face painting, a costume contest and they even wrap up some of the brothers in toilet paper to make them into mummies. And we can't forget the Halloween parties. Gamma Upsilon, a sorority on campus, is having their second annual "Original Sin" party and Tau Kappa Epsilon is having a Trick-or-TKE Halloween party.

Well its that time of the year when Saint Leo holds its annual Spring Fling weekend. This is a time when students take a break from studying and academics to enjoy their college experience. It is also a time for the families of these students to come and enjoy the festivities with them. This years spring fling was the biggest so far. Saint Leo brought in a famous and well known band to play. That band is called Lonestar. They played a concert here strictly for the Saint Leo University community.They did not jus play but also had crowd interactation and meet with various Saint Leo students. They even had backstage passes that select individuals were able to recieve.

Lonestar on stage	Lead singer Cody Collins

Graduation week is finaly here for all of us seniors here at Saint Leo. This is the time for all of us to have last week together before we all head our seperate ways. The week started off with the traditional faculty and staff vs student softball game. Last year the students lost and it was the same thing this year, but we only lost by three runs which is better then last years team did. On Tuesday we had a pool party with salsa lessons, although i was unable to make it to the event i heard it was a success. On Wednesday we had a bowling night down at the local bowlig ally here is Zephyrhills. The school provided the transportation and covered the cost of bowling and the seniors just had to show up. Thursday night we went to a place called Howl at the Moon, it is a piano bar in Ybor city. Its a pretty cool place that lets you play with the band and also has two pianos there so people can duel each other at them. Today's event is a bingo day with the big prize being a new desktop computer.

Today is the day that five years of hard work and determination pay off, the day I get to walk across the stage and graduate with my two degrees from Saint Leo University. Graduation starts at 2:30 pm however my day started at 7 am. I had a breakfest meeting with one of Saint Leo's Board of Trustee members Don Tapia. After meeting him for breakfast I got back to my room and relaxed a little bit while I waited for my parents to get here so they could load up my stuff and then get ready for graduation. At 1:45 pm all the graduating seniors had to meet in the library and arrange ourselves so we would walk out to graduation. We ordered ourselves according to what school we were a part of. Since I was graduating with a BSW degree I was close to the front of the line. After all this we walked in formation to the gym where our graduation ceremony was held. The guest speaker for our class was Joseph Garagiola, a famous baseball player and baseball broadcaster. Once everyone was done walking across the stage we left the gym to see everyone one last time. Families wanted pictures taken, friends wanted pictures of each other taken - it was a pretty crazy time. Once I was done saying my goodbyes and farewells to everyone I left to go have dinner with my family.