Tis The Season!

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas"...especially at Mercyhurst! Today we held our annual Christmas on Campus event that we put on every year for children groups and organizations such as the YMCA, John F. Kennedy Center and Mercy Center for Women. About 150 children come to have a Christmas celebration in our Student Union where we put on different arts and crafts and games. These are all run by our many RSCO's and the kids also get to eat some pizza and can get a picture with Santa. Afterwards, Santa will pass out all the gifts to each and every child and there is a reading of The Night Before Christmas. It really shows how important community service is to our campus and we get great turn outs every year! Sometimes children look forward to it so much that they can't wait to come and spend some time with the Mercyhurst students!
Tonight's agenda involves sweats and cuddling up in my pink blanket and watching The Santa Clause marathon on ABC Family. I just love the 25 Days of Christmas! It'll be so nice to get to go home at the end of the week! The most thing that I'm looking forward to this week is my new books that I ordered, Kardashian Konfidential and Sliding Into Home, Kendra Wilkinson's first book. I know that sounds a little dumb, but I LOVE watching their shows on E!, I'm a huge fan.
It's unbelievable how fast this year is going! I'm still in disbelief that I'm a junior and I have one year left here! I don't know how to wrap my head around this! My goal for the new year is to go to pilates and yoga at least once a week each and the gym 2 times a week as well. My goal when I get home is to just relax and enjoy time with my family and boyfriend make some good earned money!

I will keep everyone updated as the week goes on!
Carpe Diem!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

So we've made it to the end of the first week of classes! Sigh...only 9 more to go. I just was visiting Winterfest in the Union and there was definitely a lot of Christmas cheer. SAC (Student Activities Council) put together a number of events for us to have fun at and to catch a break from studying. Here's what SAC had planned for this snowy Saturday afternoon and evening. 

Unfortunately, I had other things going on in the afternoon and was not able to attend the hockey game or take a ride on the carriages, but I was able to get a FREE Chic-Fil-A sandwich (key word=FREE) and vote for my favorite decorated RSCO tree (Recognized Student Club and Organization). Here's some pictures that I took of the Ambassador Tree and the Leadership Student Certification Program Tree. 

 Here is the Ambassador Club Christmas Tree decked out in a green jacket design that the Ambassadors got to cut out create themselves. It's a great tree and I hope that students' voted! I certainly did:)

And here we have our LCP Christmas Tree that the 

Executive Board named "The Leaders of Christmas".We cut out drawings of Frosty the Snowman, Santa & Mrs. Clause, The Grinch and many others. 

I also voted for this tree as well!

Snow has certainly made it's way to Erie, Pennsylvania. Our first small snowfall was on November 27th, but it melted away in a few hours. Our first real snowfall was December 1st, and it definitely stuck. It hasn't really stopped snowing since then and I busted out my winter coat and boots. Here's a picture that I took while taking a walk from the Union to class the other day. It was beautiful and the snow was coming down so perfectly as if it was from a movie right before I took it. 

So as we've said goodbye to the sun, which we won't be seeing much of until at least March or April roles around, we welcome snow and hope that Winter term moves by just as fast as Fall term did. It's crazy to think after just one more term I will be a senior. I can't seem to wrap my head around that yet, and I don't think I'm just about ready to do that yet. I'm enjoying my college experience as best as I can, because my time left here is limited.