This weekend was chock full of fun activities. Friday night, I headed down to my hometown of West Chester, PA to celebrate my friend Kate’s 23rd birthday. It was an adventure being with all of my friends from school in a city other than Scranton, and it was nice to be at home, even if it was for about ten hours. On Saturday, my friend Brian, who is a junior in high school, came to visit me and take a look at the school. As I gave him a tour, I was surprisingly at a loss as to what to tell him. There are so many awesome things about Scranton that I did not even know where to start. I wanted to just say, look around you at the beautiful trees, our new building, and the students who say hi to each other as they pass each other on the commons. The construction of our new “grassy spot” is coming along, and it was cool to show him all of the new things that are popping up all over campus. The “grassy spot” is going to have an amphitheater in it, which will be awesome for classes to be held outside in the fall and spring seasons. I am sad that I will be missing that.
On Sunday, my roommate and my friends Red and Shauna, and I went to see the production of Godspell which was put on by Liva Arts Company. Liva Arts is run by students and they put on musicals which are directed by students, acted in by students, and produced by students. My friend Greg directed the musical, and had put his heart and soul into the production. He worked so hard, and he is basically so talented that I knew I would not want to miss a play that he put together. My friend Tony, also current president of the men’s crew team, played Jesus, so that was also a reason to attend. Tickets were only five dollars for a student, which makes it well worth the entertainment, seeing as how it costs more to get into a movie in the theater. All I have to say was that the play was AWESOME. The audience was really into everything that the students were doing in the stage, and I was definitely caught up with the stories being told and the people telling them. By the end, a lot of the people in the audience had tears in their eyes, and it was really amazing to think that my peers pulled the whole thing together.
This weekend was packed with fun adventures and activities, and I am happy to say that I was able to attend Godspell and show my friend around campus.