Day Four: Another Day of Failure?

Schedule:
7:00 p.m. Oktoberfest
9:00 p.m. Screening of "Taken"

Monday:
6:00 p.m. Tae Kwon Doe Lessons in Rec. Center

Things to Do:

-Learn "Tears of Saints" , Where I Belong, and "You Revive Me"

-Operation Christmas Child Boxes
-Apply to CVS
-Write John 3:16 on the stairs outside of the Vest Building (anyone have chalk I could borrow?)
-Play guitar for group

-Email Danielle Jonas

5:50 p.m. Email Danielle Jonas

Lately, I have been watching "Married to Jonas". It's a reality television show about Kevin Jonas from the Jonas Brothers, and his wife Dani, an average girl from New Jersey. We watched one episode where she becomes upset because she doesn't feel beautiful, and apparently some of Kevin's "fans" had been calling her ugly. Last night I had a dream that I had met Kevin and Danielle. We talked, and I told her that she had no reason to feel that way, she was beautiful. So when I woke up I thought, I wish I could email her, and then I knew I had to. So I looked everywhere but all I could find was her twitter. So I decided to send her a tweet. It felt awkward, and I am still convinced that she is just going to look at it, get creeped out, and think I'm weird. But as I have said before, you never know what affect your words can have on someone. 

7:00 p.m. Oktoberfest

My friends, Rebekah and Victoria went with me to Oktoberfest. We got there, and it was not exciting. Music was playing, there were inflatables, there was cider pong (Christian version of Beer Pong) and cider bong (another Christian version), a pumpkin carving contest with a $250 prize, and food. Maybe it was because I wasn't feeling my best, or maybe I wasn't getting involved enough but the experience was not that enjoyable. We got cotton candy, ate it, got more, ate it. Stood around. Finally I decided to see what was going on in the pumpkin contest. We found my roommate and Rebekah's roommate. The two are friends and hangout often. There is this girl I see around on campus that I am positively fascinated by. Every time I see her she is always happy, and she gets excited about EVERYTHING, but not in an annoying way. For sake of her identity I will call her Rose. Rose was in the pumpkin carving contest. I asked Rebekah's roommate what she doing. She told me that Rose had recently lost 20-some pounds. This was awesome because Rose is pretty heavy set, but still beautiful. Rebekah's roommate told me that she was SO excited, and was trying to win the contest so she could buy herself some new clothes. My face lit up. I wanted her to win so bad! Looking back I wish I would have gone around, and asked the other contestants why they wanted the money. But I was already sold, I wanted Rose to win. 

[If anyone knows who won, please let me know!]

Finally we decided to get some five guy fries. We stood in line and waited for a good ten minutes before the line even began to move. While in line, after almost twenty minutes of waiting, my friend grew sick. So we left to get her back to the dorm to try and get her to feel better. Because of her being sick we also were no longer able to go to Taken.

Schedule:

9:00 p.m. Hang Around in Conference Room

Monday:
6:00 p.m. Tae Kwon Doe Lessons in Rec. Center

Things to Do:

-Learn "Tears of Saints" , Where I Belong, and "You Revive Me"

-Operation Christmas Child Boxes
-Apply to CVS
-Write John 3:16 on the stairs outside of the Vest Building (anyone have chalk I could borrow?)
-Play guitar for group

So instead of "Taken" we decided to go to the conference room and watch Grease. But while Rebekah and I were waiting for Victoria, who was upstairs taking a shower, we found a baseball game with the Orioles playing the Rangers. It was the Orioles's (our home team) first playoff game since 1996. We were ecstatic. So we watched the game, and never got around to the movie. However, during the game we decided to practice for our upcoming Tae Kwon Doe lesson on Monday... and this is what it looked like....

video

I still can't believe I did it but it was fun, and definitely something I would have done when I was younger.

Yes, I could have decided to go to Taken without them, but I decided that "People mean more." Plus, I still wasn't feeling so great so I wanted to stay close to a bathroom. Overall, I failed to complete all of my "yes man" events, but I still had a great day. And though I consider today a failure on behalf of "yes man", I don't consider it an overall failure. Talk to you soon!