Scholarship Weekend Brah

The last four days or so in Auggietown have been quite awesome, to say the least. On Thursday I got to help the other section of the Liberating Letters class with their trial. This gave me an excuse to be as ridiculous as I could in an hour and a half period. I actually ended up being two witnesses and the bailiff. My first role was to play Poseidon. To get in character, I made a very crude trident. Also, because I had/have a cold and my face was super dry and cracking and bleeding (not an attractive sight), I put a band-aid under my nose, and my friend insisted that I have a mustache. The Odyssey doesn't specifically say that Poseidon had a French mustache, but its implied (not really). As Lord of the Surf, I decided that it would make sense for Poseidon to talk in a surfer accent, and end every sentence with "brah." So that's what I did. I also played one of Odysseus' men, which was boring expect when the Prosecution asked where I was when Odysseus got back to Ithaca and I replied "I was dead." I keep the same mustache as Poseidon, cause it was covering up my cut up face, which probably hurt the believability of my performance. Being the bailiff was also quite the experience. Since witnesses can't swear themselves in (who know?), Groven's son was the one to swear me in, and diss me of course. He takes after his father it would seem. I also managed to show that I was quite snappy with the swearing in process as well.

Anywho, I should talk about Scholarship Weekend now, since that's the name of this post (brah). Thursday night,  I made sure that my room was clean, tidy, welcoming and all that jazz for the kids I was gonna host. I finally got around to washing my bedding even. But one thing was missing: an email telling me who I was gonna host. Turns out some people didn't get assigned anyone. I was bummed. So I tried to steal someone else's kids. I figure if some people had four they had to fit in one room, they may as well give me two, right? Right. So I spent half of Friday trying to get someone to host. And I almost did end up hosting for someone who had baseball practice, expect out of nowhere baseball practice got cancelled. So my only chance to host a student vanished as quickly as it came. But the rest of the night went amazing. I was to help set up the Big Show, but by the time I showed up it was already done. Whoops. Then myself and another participant had to find a third participant and ran around campus trying to recruit someone, which we managed to do just in time. For the Big Show, I read texts from Bob, got my paper writing skills attacked, read S**t Auggies say, demonstrated owling, and got complimented on my boxers while I was worried about falling off stage mid owl. I wish that had been part of rehearsal so I would've had time to come up with a better response. Still, it was pretty awesome.