Come Together

Last week on Saturday, I once again got to go up to Horsetooth.  Although I did climb a little, I was in guide mode most of the time to help out the three other people I went with who hadn't been before.  The weather was perfectly warm and overcast!

This isn't from Saturday but here's the reservoir.

On Sunday I went on the New Belgium tour again with roommate Heather and her parents.  That's always a good time.

 

 I stayed up Monday night to watch the lunar eclipse do its thing.  It was big...and red.

This weekend I played in a one day, 5v5, soccer tournament.  It was not organized very well and we ended up having to play three games in a row but it was a lot of fun!

In other news, social media exploded this week around Fort Collins over the announcement that the Westboro Baptist Church is going to be protesting CSU's graduation day in May.  In case you're unfamiliar with this lovely group, I'll let you look it up on your own seeing as I in no way want to help spread their "message" of complete ignorance and stupidity (but don't go on their websites since those generate ad money for them).  My graduation time is at 8 AM and they're scheduled to be here around 5 so unfortunately I don't get to be protested against.  Why are they protesting a college graduation? Great question!  Apparently they don't like that a lot of my college educated peers are accepting of a wide range of people and so aggressively telling us we're going to hell will change that. 

One of my favorite things about CSU is the sense of community.  The second people found out about this, almost everyone was posting positive messages and coming up with ways to support peoples' hard work in finishing school.  My favorite comment I saw on Facebook was "It's my personal belief that if the WBC is protesting you, you're doing something right."  Within hours of the announcement, a counter protest had been organized and over 1300 people have already said they're coming to support the graduates.  Students are also organizing donations for charities that the WBC protests so them coming is actually kind of a good thing.  There's a lot more I would love to say about the WBC but restraint is a virtue.

Lastly, seriously though you should go on that website I helped make for class.  Part of our grade is on how many people go on the site so...click away

That's all for now.  Bye.