Notes on Community Service

As you all probably have figured out by now, I love doing community service. I mean, I wouldn't even be here at Tulane if it wasn't for community service!

So, a couple weekends ago, I had the pleasure of accomponying my friend Seth to an awards dinner where he was honored by Operation Reach as a finalist for a young leader in the community award. It was a really fun meeting all sorts of people in the community who are making a big difference in the community.


I was really proud of Seth who, as chairperson of CACTUS, works hard to bring about change right here in the city!

On a similar vein, I had dinner this past weekend with CACTUS with LUCAP (the Loyola University Commuity Action Program) which is Loyola University's community service organization. A few LUCAP-ers were kind enough to host a bunch of us CACTUS-ers at their house, and we had a delicious home-cooked meal (I must steal Chad's sweet potato/corn/jalepeno soup recipe) and talked about social issues that both of our universities are trying to fight in the city. It was cool meeting with like-minded students from our neighboring university!

Anyways, I have a really busy week ahead with various midterm papers and such, but after that, it's going to be Thanksgiving! So I'm really excited!

I hope you all got your early applications in time!

Halloween

Wow. Can you believe that it's already November? I can't! It's only two and a half more weeks until Thanksgiving, and then after that it's only a couple of weeks until the end of the semester. Crazy! Where did all the time go?

Well, this past weekend was Halloween, and of course, being in New Orleans, it was a lot of fun.

One of the great opportunities that I got to participate in was Boo at the Zoo which was held at the Audubon Zoo (which is practically right across the street from campus). It was a Halloween night for families with music, food, games, and trick-or-treating. The best part? All the proceeds went to benefit the zoo and the Children's Hospital.

We (me, Maeve, and Katie, pictured below) got placed at the "Big Kid's Games" section and we were in charge of a booth where kids tried to throw ping pong balls into the haunted house that you can kind of see behind us in the picture for tickets. Also, in case you were wondering, I was dressed up as a fairy princess and Maeve was a bird...


On Halloween, I hung out with a few friends and went to a Halloween party. Below is a picture of me (dressed up as Tom Cruise from Risky Business), Holly (a cowgirl), and Seth (dressed up an matronly woman) being silly.


Anyways, that's all from my end. Big perspective weekend on Sunday. Can't wait to meet some more future Tulanians!