I must say, since I've been in SLO, Week of Welcome (or WOW) has been my absolute favorite part by far. During WOW, any freshmen or transfer students (the wowies) wishing to participate are assigned to a WOW group with two WOW leaders. Then you just go exploring all over!
I was in group 98...shark bait hoo haha. That was our cheer. My WOW leaders were, hands down, THE greastest, most amazing leaders and human beings you could ever meet. The other wowies in my group were fabulous as well, and I loved spending every waking moment of my week with them.
Wednesday we hiked to the P and went to WOW-a-rama where every single wowie and leader is out on a field and plays ice breaker games that make you look like an idiot...but every other person around you is doing them too, so it's a ton of fun!
The P!
no, I'm not in this picture...it came from the wow-a-rama facebook page
Thursday morning, we started off with some awareness presentations. Then it was time for a beach day at Pismo. After returning back to campus, we all regrouped and headed downtown for farmer's market. We wandered Higuera St. for a bit and then went over to the Fremont movie theater to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
playing volleyball
at farmer's
Next comes Friday, which was probably one of the more eventful days. Bright and early in the morning, we drove up to Morro Bay to go kayaking, which was super fun. We saw sea lions, and got to play in really fluffy sand that was almost like jumping into fresh snow. Next it was time for SLO-bound, where businesses set up booths downtown and give us free stuff. Pretty sweet! Later in the day we headed out to Woodstock's pizza for dinner, except our reservations got messed up and we had nowhere to sit! Instead we got our pizza to go, bought soda from CVS and had a late night picnic in a park, which ended up being WAY more fun. There was also a randomly bad band playing that was pretty entertaining to listen too. After our pizza, we traveled to Avila beach for a late night bonfire...except we couldn't figure out how to make a fire! We recruited the help of another WOW leader who was super hard core and made a fire in about 2 minutes.
WOW faces on the dock before kayaking
My kayaking partner :)
Saturday was also a pretty busy day. We started off with Day of Service. Our group volunteered at an assisted living community, where I met a lady from Manteca. Talk about a small world! Next we decided to go check out the football game that was jam packed. We ended up leaving at half time to go bowling, which was tons of fun, but slightly embaressing, seeing as how I'm an awful bowler. After bowling, we headed up to the lounge room in Poly Canyon Village, where we enjoyed pool, cards, coffee, movies, and freshly cooked pasta. We also made our own dance class. It was a blast!
Group at the assisted living community
The girls at the football game
The best bowlers you will ever meet...HA!
Finally came Sunday. We had our group closing and good-byes and were sent off to the club fair...but don't be sad yet. We had a reunion downtown for dinner at Firestone! Not only was it super tasty, but we also got in one last family dinner before classes started the next day and one of our group leaders left for Spain.
after dinner infront of the bookstore downtown.
In other news...It's the first day of fall! Woohoo! Hope you all enjoy it :)
still thinking of a countdown...any suggestions?
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