Hey!
Back from NYJ and got all my grades from the semester! Awesome. I ended up with an A for my psych class. Yay!
Thursday morning before NYJ, I made my first quiche. It had mushrooms, onions, ham, broccoli, and spinach, and cheeses, and it was pretty delicious.
For New Year’s Jam, I baked a lot of stuff to bring: vegan zucchini bread, snickerdoodles, toasted almond cookies, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, and raspberry and almond shortbread cookies.
Boats and Drew headed to State College Thursday night and stayed for the night before we (Boats, Drew, Ben, Greg, and I) headed out towards Michigan. That night I also made homemade chicken enchiladas for dinner.
Friday, we headed out around 10:30AM and got to Michigan around 5:00-5:30PM. When we got to the hotel spot, we saw Alex and Johnny walking out of the hotel lobby/main area, and we all gathered up and waited for others to come by. During the wait, everyone except me played some hack in a circle, whilst conversing and the like.
Eventually, Zach stopped by and let us into his hotel room where we waited for the others. As time passed, more people showed up and it came towards 6PM, where then people started heading to Adam’s house.
Adam’s house was surprisingly big. The basement, where my group slept for the night and where people kicked was pretty big. It was a nice house. There were three circles happening in the basement for a while, and it looked pretty fun. I warmed up a bit, but did not join any circles since I was just prepping my legs for Saturday.
I also had brought some cookies that I made earlier in the week that people could eat freely Friday night: Matcha (Green Tea) Sugar Cookies with Matcha frosting, and White Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Craisin Cookies.
Towards the end of the night, people set up four-square and played. I learned from Johnny that typical four-square is usually around 7 square feet, which surprised me. Ben and I also sold some bags which was pretty cool.
A lot of people ended up staying at the hotel, so there was a lot of space in Adam’s basement. Zach was nice enough to let Ben and I use his air mattress which fit two people. There were also couches and futons and other furniture in Adam’s basement already, as well as some other borrowed air mattresses and cots and stuff.
Saturday morning, my group and Adam went to Denny’s for breakfast then headed to the event site (Sport Complex on UMichigan campus). It was a great turnout for the event. For Saturday, there were three competitions: Intermediate Circle, Open Circle, and Requests. I decided not to compete in any of them.
For intermediate circles, there were three pools. Of the three pools, Ben, Ryan, and David moved on, and David ended up winning. Congrats to him
It was pretty cool since it was his first competition and he won.
For open circles, there were four pools. Of the four pools, Nate, Johnny S., Nick L. and Evan moved on, and Evan ended up winning. Although Johnny won, he did not compete in the final circle. Regardless, the final circle was epic to watch. I’m sure many people have footage to release of it.
For requests, I participated on the sidelines. I was able to do the first five requests, which was nice to find out. Khoa won the intermediate requests (was the last one standing from the intermediate group). Honestly, I don’t remember who won requests for open, but I think it was Evan.
Afterwards, we all eventually met up at Whirlyball, which looked really fun. I again, decided not to participate because I wasn’t really feeling it. But I’m sure I would come across it again (next year, eh?) to play then. There was a bunch of pizzas going out, and salad and breadsticks. There were pool tables and a bunch of couches and stuff, with big windows to watch people play whirlyball. I played pool a couple of times with Ben and Greg. I suck at it.
A lot of people were very entertaining Saturday night. I heard and saw a lot about Alex eating a lot of salad. I heard that he was at the bar asking about beer casually eating salad out of his hand. After hearing about that, I saw that he was bringing the huge salad bowl out of the conference room. Mikie was fun and entertaining and impressive with the drums (he’s got the itch). Ianek was also very cool, since he played the drums to some (Matt K, Adam, and Evan) kicking. And Johnny Sarah was funny. He kind of just tore into the zucchini bread without realizing it, but I’m glad he enjoyed it.
On the way back to Adam’s place, Drew played a lot of cool music videos. A lot of Boats music tastes are good. And probably Drew too. The way back seemed like it took forever.
That night, a lot of the people staying at Adam’s place ended up kicking until around 3:30AM-4AM. That was fun, although I was mostly just lying in bed and listening to the conversations.
Sunday Breakfast at Denny's
Sunday, Ben and I had planned to leave with Boats, Drew and Greg at around 2PM (basically as we got to the event site to say bye), but Nick mentioned that he had room in his car if we wanted to stay a bit longer, which we took up. That was nice because we got to kick a bit and join in on workshops. There were also other fun comps such as Tiltless Endurance (how long can you shred tiltless without dropping), Mirage Race, and maybe one more but I don’t remember.
There were awards passed out and some cool freestyle disc demonstration. Pictures were taken. Things happened.
Anywho, the event overall was very fun and I am excited to hopefully attend again next year.
So far, this year is turning out well.
TL;DR or you just came for pictures:
That really helped me out with tuition, and I was an out of state applicant. So yeah, don't feel you have to go to grad school in California, because there can be money floating out there even for out-of-state applicants.
Dustpan on one side - just for fun at the end of the session (first time hitting it)
Fun stuff. Thanks Ivan!
Ss Legover x10 bs; Symple Legover x10
Going on the basis of Smear/Fear and Smudge/Fudge