Hey Everyone! Happy Hump day! I hope your day is going well. Today I normally have three classes, but only had one, so I am having a great day. I also ran 7 miles and have accomplished quite a bit of homework, so I am feeling great!
The last time I wrote you I talked about my birthday. However Friday was only part of my wonderful weekend. Last Saturday night I went out to Grand Rapids again with some of my friends. We ate at an Asian Cuisine called XO. The food is so good there, I loved it! All eight of us sat at a circle table and enjoyed a fun dinner.
However, it took us about 20 minutes to order our food because we kept taking pictures at the table. Oh well, we are girls.
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After dinner we changed into our clothes for a fundraiser rave. The rave was raising money for Building Tomorrow. Hope College is now helping build tomorrow by supporting Building Tomorrow (BT), which is an international social-profit organization encouraging philanthropy among young people by raising awareness and funds to build and support educational infrastructure projects for underserved children throughout sub-Saharan Africa. We helped raise money for children to attend school buy selling bricks at the rave. The cost of one paper brick equaled 27 bricks to help build a school in Africa. Building Tomorrow raised around $500 the evening of the rave.
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People were dancing crazy and just having a good time. Some people dressed in African attire, but I only wore a fun tye-die shirt. The event ended as a success. I met some new people, and it was the official first dance party of the year at Hope.
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Hope you have a great week!
Until Next Time,
~~~CoLLeeN~~~