Reason #1: When everyone else is drunk, someone has to drive home.
My friends and I were invited to a frat party on Friday night because we have what is called “Derby Days” this week which is a week long event run by the Sigma Chi Frat. My friend Katie and I were designated co-captains for our team, so our frat brother “coaches” invited us to hang out with them Friday. When we got there we realized that is was an actual party, complete with multiple beer pong tables. Since it was packed, and we didn’t really know anyone there was no real reason to be there unless you wanted to drink. So a bunch of us walked back. A couple of hours later I got a call because since Valpo is a dry campus, you can get in trouble for being intoxicated on campus no matter what age you are. So I got to use my amazing stick driving skills in my first (of a probably many) designated driver trips.
Reason #2: When the only other person has to go to the ER, someone has to drive her there.
So my friend Beth, who has her car here, managed to ram her foot into the door jam, breaking her pinkie toe and giving herself a severe laceration. With my pending nurse knowledge I decided we needed to go to the hospital. Really, anyone would have said it, this gash was that deep. She is scared to death of needles so she tried to refuse to go, but I was not having any of that. So I drove her to the Porter County ER which is about three blocks down the street at midnight on Saturday. Let’s just say that if you ever ACTUALLY have an emergency, you might want to choose another hospital unless you have a noticeable serious trauma. It took 5.5 hours for her to even go in the back to seen, and we didn’t manage to get back to the dorm til 8am. Let’s just say we got a little loopy after about the second hour of waiting. Me and my friend Katie (Beth’s roommate) had a tripod competition,
she and Shane played that hand slappy game,
Sandy (our kick butt RA) was telling us all about what the hospital was doing wrong, because she’s also a nursing major, although she’s actually taken nursing classes…
we basically just got to know each other a little more than we were expecting I think. After a very long night, we slept for 4 hours and then got up for Waffles, which are the best part of Sundays if you ask me. One of the cafeterias does these huge Belgian Waffles and you can put pretty much anything you ever wanted on them. They are delicious, and something we look forward to each weekend.
Other than that, classes and life has been pretty routine. This is a pretty slow week for me, but I have two tests and two large papers due next week, so I’ll spend a lot of time getting ready for that. I’m heading out to Notre Dame on Saturday to visit my friend Lisa who I worked with at Cold Stone and to watch the ND- Michigan State game on the quad with a ton of ND students. My friend Shane loves ND Football, and he has a car, so he’s going to show me, Eric and Sara around campus as well. I hear it’s really pretty so that will make me just appreciate our lovely Valpo Architecture even more. My friends back home finally moved into their dorms this week, so I don’t feel like I’m the only one in college any more. I’m excited to see what they think of it.
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