Open Gyms, Dancing, and Pool Tournaments

Wednesday night the college sponsored a free open gym at the middle school. This gave students the opportunity to spend 3 hours running, lifting weights, and playing basketball and vollyball. Free weekly pool and open gym nights are now official, check the signs in the dorms for dates. Thursday night there was a Halloween dance. There were approximately 20 students that attended. Marea and Patrick were the winners of the costume contest. Marea was dressed as a flapper and Patrick was dressed as Paul Raushke (one of the SAO professors). Other costumes included a witch, a pirate, Princess Peach, Curt Bender (the other SAO professor), Mario, 2 Greek gods, a cowboy, and a UPS delivery man. The Joker from Batman also made a brief appearance. Friday was Halloween. Various staff members dressed up for the day. A couple of people went trick-or-treating. A few of us had a "scary movie" night in a fellow student's room.

Today was the CMC Student-Faculty Double Elimination pool tournament. The entry requirement was 1 canned food item. Student government is apparently going to match the canned food contributions. There were 12 participants. There were a few surprises in the game, one of them being that one of the school's better pool players received his 2nd elimination about halfway through the tournament. Another upset involved a student sinking the 8-ball and then scratching, so he lost by default. The championship game was played between Curt and Patrick. Patrick had already beaten Curt once during today's tournament, so it wasn't a huge surprise when Patrick beat Curt again.
Garrett (student) placed 3rd and recieved a tshirt and DVD. Curt (faculty) placed 2nd and received a thsirt and pool cue. Patrick (student), who placed 1st and received a tshirt and pool cut, managed to go undefeated for the entire tournament.

Tournament prizes

The 2nd year SAO students are now leaving for their work experience co-ops and they won't be back until April-ish. Us 1st year SAO students are being encouraged to start thinking about where we might want to work next year as an A, B, C, and D plan. We are also starting to look into classes for next semester even though registration doesn't open for another month. Our professors have been giving us gentle reminders that if we don't like what we are studying, it's OK to admit that and pursue something else.

Monday is another free pool night.

Wednesday is free open gym.

Friday is when I've heard that Copper Mountain is going to open for the season.

Until next time, hope for more snow- it was 51 yesterday (Halloween). Someone said that a cold front is supposed to come in on Monday and I hope they are right.