University of New England: Tristian Rowe

Well here it is, Monday morning of finals week. I luckily have escaped an extremely brutal beating with finals, most of my exams I have already completed or I have papers instead (which let me tell you, are good to start early). I had the "pleasure" of typing of an entire final paper recently, came out to be like 10 pages...no easy task.

We lost power this weekend at school, was a bit chaotic because everyone was prepped to begin studying and then *poof*...no power. Many papers were due through for upper classmen by sending them through email, so students flocked to the campus center since they had a generator, unfortunately the Wi-Fi was down. All the outlets were plugged in to the max at the campus center, power strips had to be brought in. I did enjoy my impromptu lunch though; the school administration was doing a fine job at keeping everyone fed and suiting peoples needs.

Around 1:30pm I got a phone call from the widespread emergency notification service the school has (it's one of the reasons schools ask you for your phone numbers when you register). The call said that at 4 all students were to report to the campus center with sleeping bags/blankets, and toiletries for students were to spend the night at the campus center where there was power.

Not to say that I do not love spending my night with an assortment of UNE students, many being my friends, but some of the people on my floor and I decided to go to a new location for the night. So we set off to Kennebunk to spend the night at a friends camp house. The trip (avoiding downed power lines and an extremely hectic Wal-mart) was a success. The night went just as smooth.

We got back to campus the next day, power was thankfully returned (to dismay to others, for there was a rumor going about if power stayed out for days on end then finals would be canceled).

So here I am now, Monday morning, sitting around waiting to go to my final American Poetry class to hand in my paper (take this class if you have some free electives, Glenn is an awesome professor with a great sense of humor). It is also a nice day outside...I think today is going to go smooth.

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A little over a week ago I attended the International Chocolate Festival hosted by The International Club (which I may add that they are a bunch of cool peeps).

The event was a nice way to spend one of my weeknights, I showed up a little bit late (I planned on being there on time...I swear...). By the time I got there, they were prepping to begin their first rounds of a trivia game based on different categories where the answers were different locations around the world. There were questions like "What is the primary ingredient of chocolate?" or "Where is this building located? (then it showed a picture of a famous temple in some country somewhere, I forgot exactly where).

Let it be known though that these questions were not answered lightly. After the question and power point slide were read or shown, teams had a "flag runner" that would run to the center of the room from a perspective box on the ground, and then run back with the flag, hooting and hollering to be called because their team knew the answer. I won't say favorites were picked...but my team did lose in both rounds hahah.

The prize for the winning team? A brand new car!!! Just kidding, that would be sweet though. It was in truth a basket full of chocolate to take home.

Since it was the chocolate festival, in between trivia rounds there was plenty of different chocolates from around the world available to gobble up. All of them tasted wonderfully, more so if your a chocolate loving person.

The mad running for the flag and teams

Chocolate to eat wooo!

My friends and I checking out the chocolate fountain. I had just picked up a crazy sweatshirt the other day at the mall so I kind of stand out in that neon article of clothing second from the right haha.

And then the rest below are some assorted pics, the bottom one being a group shot of the International Club together.

It was a very fun time there, and on my way out they had me sign their clipboard so now I am a member. I am looking forward to more future events from the International Club.

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