This weekend, I went to a dance, if you will, put on by an organization withing the Gonzaga University Community. The Knights and Setons of Gonzaga hosted their annual Charity Ball in Cataldo Hall. There was lots of music, pictures, “normal” dancing, and even swing dancing that occured at this event. I thought that it was really cool to kind of improvise on swing dancing because I had never done it before in my life. (BTW, the Knights and Setons of Gonzaga are two organizations on campus created with the foundations of service and leadership, you apply during your freshmen year and are active your sophomore year!) Anyway, back to dancing. Gonzaga has a lot of events that occur on the weekends. A lot of students have asked how I’ve spent my weekends and this is a perfect example. So here it is, a typical weekend (& a dance).
Normally, my friends and I make plans to get off campus. This particular weekend, we decided to take a 15 minute walk downtown to a sushi restaurant called Sushi.Com. We had dinner there for about an hour and chatted up a storm! We then headed back to campus to get ready for the night to come. At this time it was about 9 pm. Gonzaga is a safe community so it is usually alright for us to be walking around. However, if something out of the ordinary happens and someone is threatened, Gonzaga’s Campus Police (CAMPO) immediately notifies all students of faculty of what happened and advises students to be cautious. So, we got back to campus, safely, and changed into our nice clothes. Me and my friend walked over to Coughlin to pick up our dates to the dance and took pictures with them there. We headed to the dance and stayed there for about three hours. After that, we headed over to our on campus restaurant called “Spike’s” (named after our wonderful mascot) and ate some frozen yogurt. The night ended with us walking the girls back to their dorm and heading back to our room for a well deserved rest.
Now, I am not saying that this will happen every weekend, but this would be an ideal break from studying – For myself at least. Of course there will be some nights where you hang out in the dorms with friends watching movies, playing video games, or hanging out on Mulligan field tossing a ball around. This may sound typical, but your college experience is what you make of it. You need to realize that, yes college is about studying, but it is also about making life-long friends. BE SOCIAL! and get ready for some fun memories, Future Zags!
Me and my date Hikaru.
Ruben ’14
Accounting and Human Resource Management
