Once again I would like to state that anything can happen during a period of time here at North Central. This week was another exciting adventure. I went to see Iron Man on Saturday. Thrilling and action packed overall great movie, and I’ll give it 2 thumbs up. I love Marvel Comics and have loved all the Marvel movies that have come out. I’ll give it the Toy recommendation to go and see this one.

Sunday I went to the 1^st Annual (Cardinal Dance Company: Showcase). It was an awesome show, and it was great to see my friends dancing on stage and strutting their stuff. When I was in high school a lot of my friends were involved in Orchesis, which is just like a dance recital with more of pop dancing. This recital went very smoothly and I’ll give a shout out to a fellow Blogger Nick Guido on a great job of MC’ing.

Monday I went home for Memorial Day to see my family and friends. I went to the usual park we play ultimate Frisbee at. It was nice to see my friends again and catch up with them. After ultimate I went back to my house and played some bags and Bachi ball. My Dad and mom barbequed some hot dogs and hamburgers and we all feasted. As a loyal reader I will tell you that “Family” is the number one thing in my life. Without them I would not be the person I am today. North Central is a great and wonderful place, but I would have never made it here if it were not for them.
Quote of the Week:

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

The Simpsons : A Family Among Families

Whoa is me! What a week, full of papers, projects and presentations. But I’m writing this to tell you I made it out alive and I got high hopes for finals.

Thursday, CUAB (College Union Activities Board) had a new and very interesting show for us students. It was called the “Last Lecture” and basically in was a combination of students votes for a professor to give a speech that he/she would give if it was their last speech to ever give students. The votes were all tallied up and Professor Caliendo was chosen. I do not know much about Professor Caliendo, but I found out he is a big part of the Political Science department, and students love him in the classroom. His speech was titled “love Apathy and the Devaluation of Intellectualism.” He made a lot of great points and I took note of them and feel that a lot of the speech I could relate to myself. Overall he did a great job and I look forward to CUAB hosting it next year.

Friday rolled around and it was the annual Springfest Bags Tournament. Me and my buddy once again teamed up and decided to risk our crown for yet another bags tournament. We had won last year and knew how it ran so we helped out the Res Life with the rules and set up. There were a total of 16 teams and we ended up on top once again. We received 2 ten dollar gift certificates to Chipotle. We hope to take our skills into the next bags tournament at the end of the year.

SPRINGFEST SPRINGFEST, what an awesome day it was. CUAB did a fantastic job of getting great bands especially “Hair Bangers Ball”, which is an 80’s, cover band and basically right up my alley. They had the dunk tank again this year and my baseball coach went in. Yes, after 5 throws I got him along with all the other 40 players. SPRINGFEST is not only great because of the bands, but also everyone at North Central comes together for this one event. It was great and something I will never forget.

This weekend will be hard to top, but you always have to try.

Quote of the week:

“Hero’s get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you’ll never go wrong.” – Sandlot

Springfest 07′

Mothers Day and Y-ME Breast Cancer Walk

This weekend was a great one let me tell you, filled with family and memories. To finish up on how siblings weekend went, in the words of my little brother Dan “that’s how we Toys’ do it.” He was ecstatic and I could really tell he enjoyed himself this weekend.

We left North Central at 5:00AM in the morning to get back to my house to depart for the Y-ME Breast Cancer Walk. My mom, my little brother and I registered for the walk about a month ago and raised 700$. We arrived at 7:00AM down in Grant Park and got lucky finding parking where we did. Let me just tell you I have been through bad weather, but this was by far the worst. 30-35 MPH winds with pounding rain and the Lakes cold front. But all in all there were about 10,000 people there and I was told they raised over 3 million dollars. The weather was not anything compared to the memories we made and the effort we put toward a good cause.

I’m not sure if that weekend is beatable, but I’m pretty sure that Springfest, yes I said Springfest, is going to be awesome once again this year. Every year I look forward to this event sponsored by CUAB (College Union Activities Board) where Bands come out to championship plaza and rock out all day. The events they have there change every year, but mostly dunk tanks, free food, and free gadgets. It a great time and I’m totally looking forward to it once again. I’ll let you know how it goes this weekend.

Quote of the Week:

“You miss 100% of the shots you do not take” – Wayne Gretzky

Basically take a risk in life and live it up.

Our Team for the Breast Cancer Walk was

“Mama Toy and here Boys”

Well let me just start off with this last weekend has been one to remember. Friday I went to North Central’s Theater Department’s showing of the Laramie Project. 8 students from North Central played the parts of 66 cast members. It was amazing and I thought they did a superb job.

After the show I decided to support the race for the cure of cancer and I walked down to Merner Field House where Relay for Life was going on. This event draws in tons of North Central students every year and raises tons of money. They played awesome music and people were dancing the night away. Included in this extravagant event a bags tournament was behind the scenes. I decided to join with my buddy. 32 teams signed up and we made it to the final four. The final four games were played on my own bags set and my buddies bag set (The one who designed my bags set). We ended up making it to the championship and winning it. It was an awesome night and I wish I could have stayed later, but it was already 3:30 AM.

This weekend I’m looking forward to my little brother Dan coming out and living it up with me here at North Central. North Central is having little siblings weekend starting this Friday and there will be so much to do. From a free movie and free food, to Midnight at Merner and a ton of other activities. I can’t wait.

Quote of the Week

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift.”–Steve Prefontaine