it’s almost thanksgiving break!
sorry, i don’t mean to be rejoicing about a break from classes… but… the truth is that i am definitely rejoicing!!! a week without classes and three days without work, it doesn’t get much better than that. we have this week of classes, thanksgiving break and then one more week of classes and a week of exams. sounds pretty sweet if you ask me. 
congrats to the basketball team who went undefeated this last weekend and won the tourney down in kentucky. it’s nice to finally have a winning season! i’ve been following the teams for three years now and sincerely hope that most of the players from this season will stick around for next year. the first year i had several friends on the team and followed them almost everywhere so it was always a pretty good time, but the best time was definitely when we travelled to taylor and got to witness ’silent night’. let me explain…
a couple of my friends and i drove over to this game (right before christmas) and we were amazed at how many of their students showed up because they packed their bleachers on all four sides and even had students sitting on the floor in front of the bleachers. they themed their game around ‘the night before christmas’ so everyone there was wearing pajamas, which i might add… was rather random until we figured out what was going on with the theme. so tons of their students packed the gym and you would think that it would be ridiculously loud, but no.
no clapping, no yelling, no talking. nothing. just silence. it was insane and like nothing i’d ever seen before.
until they hit ten points (or whatever number it was) and then you couldn’t hear yourself think.
literally. everyone in the entire gym was screaming, the pep band was playing as loud as possible and honestly, i thought my eardrums were going to burst. this didn’t go on for two minutes, it went on for the next two hours or so and then my ears rang for two days. neither team could talk at timeouts because they couldn’t hear eachother and they certainly couldn’t call any plays while on the court because obviously that wasn’t going to work.
why am i telling you this?
because we need something like it! we need students that have that heart and those that will stand behind their team no matter what outcome. we need them to sit back and relax when we’re sailing ahead of the opponent by thirty points and we need them on the edge of their seats waiting on that three-pointer to go in during the final seconds of a close game. we’ve finally got the talent on the basketball team and now we need the fans to back them up. a few of us are going over to iupui to watch the guys this weekend and i hope that you can make it too. iupui in indy, 7 pm, saturday night the 22nd.
okay, i’m done ranting and raving now.
i’ll update you soon on relaxation day and such but for now i’m off to get some things done. hope your week goes well and until next time, take care.
always, d
Tags: basketball, thanksgiving break
