You're Tacky and I Hate You

These last 24+ hours have been quite hectic, but (mostly) enjoyable.

The rest of TIPstar was awesome! The students were open and honest in many of the sessions. There were lots of great conversations happening in the Multiculturalism program about language, dialect, and the issues with education. For the last round of activities, I helped with the When Life Gives You Lemons program and talked about managing stress. We ended the program with a ten minute mental health holiday that involved relaxing, listening to very chill music, and forgetting our troubles. I'd say it was a successful afternoon.

At dinner, I sat with an RC group and talked about their days. It was really nice to bond with the second year boys about TIP. They are all so sweet and welcoming!

During movie night, we fooled the kids into thinking we were watching Barney. Our OSD played the theme song and the kids were SUPER excited. They were singing and clapping to the theme song. It was bizarre.

When the students had to vote for which movie they wanted to watch, we again gave them very obscure descriptions. The kids had this weird obsession with Shrek and kept asking if that was any of the choices. Spoiler alert: It wasn't. The students voted for The Emperor's New Groove based off the description "A story of a llama who used to be emperor". Most of the staff was displeased since they watched this the other night, but the kids really enjoyed the movie. I hadn't seen it in a long time so I enjoyed it as if it were the first time I was watching it.

While the students had their DAWGfest meetings after the movie, I did some laundry. Around 10:15PM, I headed to the third floor to make sure the students were showering and getting ready for bed. At lights out, a TIPster gave me a flower when I put them to bed. It was sweet (and strange).

After lights out, I wasn't as tired as I thought I would be so I decided to watch Garden State, one of my favorite movies. I was so happy to have time to myself to watch something other than a TIPpropriate movie.

Hi, I'm Allee and I love buttons!

Monday was Tacky Day, my second favorite spirit day. I decided to go all out this term, even though it's been extremely hot with all of these layers. It was been worth it, though. I was getting a ton of strange looks from people who are not a part of TIP and it was awesome. At lunch, I had forgotten I was dressed weird and was super confused by the looks I was receiving, until I looked down at my outfit.

Our admin meeting went very well. We were discussing how well the visit from our site supervisor went and our AC mentioned that they had a great conversation with the site supervisor. Apparently Main Office wanted to split up the admin team at UGA because we are doing such a good job. Our AC said that it was brought up multiple times at the Main Office meetings to split up our team to help other sites. I can't believe they have been so impressed with us thus far. Go UGA!

Tacky Day: Term II

Three kids in the ER. Moral of the story: Sports are dangerous and the RC on med pager today should not ever be on med pager again. Fun fact: This RC is always taking people to the ER or clinic when they are on med pager. 

Another student in the ER starting at 2:30AM. -__- I was awake pretty much all night answering phone calls and text messages. It was rough.

When I finally fell asleep, I was woken up by an RC about a student who needed to go to the clinic. I handled the situation and then decided to just stay up in the office. I had to return some parent phone calls and communicate with a student about the injury they received last night.

It was a sad day when one of our students had to leave because of an injury. We gathered his class and then his RC group to say goodbye. It was a chaotic situation of shuttling students from the dining halls to Myers Hall, but it was well worth it. The students thanked me over and over again for letting them say goodbye.

During the shuttling, one of the TIPsters decided it was story time and told everyone in the car all of these crazy injuries they have endured over the years. I'm not going to lie: this kid was so damn entertaining.

Decades Day: Term II

Even though today has been full of craziness, it's been nice. We have a great team here and I cannot picture my summer without these fabulous individuals. Thank you all for everything you've done thus far and will continue to do. I wouldn't be able to make it through this term without you!

Hopefully tonight I can catch some z's, but even if I can't, tomorrow is my day off so I'll be able to catch up on the sleep I've been missing. I haven't decided what I am doing tomorrow, but I think it will involve trivia and maybe Terrapin Brewery, if I'm lucky. Fingers crossed the rest of the evening is less eventful than the last.