Finally, another update! A lot has been happening in the past few weeks, but homework and studying took up the vast majority of it. I don’t think you want to read about my countless hours with Economics or Accounting, so I will get to the good stuff:

International Events

The International Dinner was a great success! All of our hours and hard work paid off beautifully, as many have claimed that it was the best dinner yet. We had so many tables filled with wonderful food from around the world and everyone had enough to eat. The entertainment portion was a great success as well. Our salsa dancing made me dizzy as I swayed back up to the podium, too many spins! Keisuke’s piano playing was impressive, as usual, and Thom’s game show was challenging for everyone there. The Internationals ended up winning, congrats! The fashion show gave everyone a chance to learn more about our different cultures’ styles of dress and was a great finale to end off of. I wish I had time to take pictures with my camera, but here are a few I’ve collected from other people:

The International Club crew! Plus some others who helped us out that night.

The President and Vice President after all of our hard work!

Now we can relax and start up again in the spring with fundraisers and spring break trip planning!

Tennis Time

Help support your Walsh Cavaliers tennis teams! Both the men and women are working together to sell Walsh hoodies and sweatpants you CANNOT find in the bookstore. At only $20 a piece, this is a deal you will not want to miss! Check out the David Center during meal times and head on over to our table.

Also for sale, to support your favorite tennis team, are Walsh sports bracelets (think the Livestrong kind). We will be selling these bracelets at home games for basketball in the gym, so when you head for the game grab some extra cash so you can purchase some Walsh pride.

Some of the tennis girls came to support us. Thanks ladies!

In other Walsh news . . .

Ski Club helping Habitat

We couldn’t have picked a better time to participate in our service project. It was a gorgeous fall day in Canton as a group of us Walsh students learned how to measure, cut and put up siding on a house. It was very rewarding to see how happy the homeowner was as she worked alongside us and how grateful she was for our help. It was a great experience, and I’ve become a better handywoman as a result!

Captain’s council, unite!

The Howards are very generous people for letting us spend an evening of good food and good company for our first Captain’s Council meeting. Think of it as a student government meeting for athletes, where each team has a representative come over for dinner to hear the latest news in all things sports here at Walsh. What can I divulge? The tennis courts will be fixed this summer (hurray!), we are still working hard to get into the NCAA and baseball may see a new scoreboard in the future.

Travel Tips and Tangents

This week, let’s jump over the ocean to CADIZ, SPAIN

This little coastal town is set on the Atlantic part of Sothern Spain and has a great quaintness about it. When me and my European friends arrived, it was rainy and miserable with some terrible wind. It was just our luck though, as we were thinking of hoping on a train back to Seville that the sun came out, the rain dried up and the wind was far less violent so we could enjoy our day. We had a seaside lunch of fresh fish, walked around town admiring the great architecture, frolicked in a public park and walked along the seawall for some great views. So sunny, so wonderful, so Spain!

The main square in Cadiz, right after the rainstorm.

One of the seaside parks. Very well kept and very pretty.

A view of a strip of beach from the catwalk out in the sea.

Lots of fishing boats in a harbor. Not much else to say about this one.