Another death

After my visit to Tennessee, I decided to visit a friend on the way back to Florida. He is currently in the Army, stationed in Ft. Benning, GA. About 5 minutes from my destination on the highway, a deer suddenly ran in front of my car. I hit the deer going 70mph and it died! I immediately pulled over to the side (more worried about my car) to check what happened. The deer obviously died because I hit it full contact. I was more concerned with my car because I need it to get home. I found out that my front end suffered minimal body damage, but severe internal damage. My transmission got messed up and my electrical system was out of place. A police car pulled behind me about 5 minutes later to check on the situation. I told him what happened and he told me that deer I hid was a "suicidal" deer. I thought that was strange because I never heard of deer like that. The car was still drivable so I ended up staying in Ft. Benning for a day, then drove my car home carefully. This week had been crazy with the deaths I have encountered. I hope nothing like this ever happens again.

Losing a friend

This past tuesday, I found out that my best friend from Tennessee past away from a car accident. When I heard the news, I immediately dropped everything in Tampa, and drove to Tennessee to attend his funeral. Me and him grew up together during middle school and high school and we were like brothers. When I arrived at the funeral thursday morning, I saw ALL my childhood friends there and that was a rare thing to see. We all got together and mourned for his death. This was the saddest day I ever had in my life. The whole week I could not put myself together, I just kept on reminiscing all the good times we had. I ended up staying in Tennessee for the remainder of the week to spend time with friends and family.

Long weekend

On Friday, I made a trip to Ft. Myers to attend a probate show that my fraternity held at FGCU. I was excited to see the new pledge class reveal themselves at the show because they came a long way to make it this far. Many brothers from all over Florida came to FGCU to support the new line coming out. Whenever I go to a probate show, it reminds me when I used to be in their shoes. The spotlight, the excitment, and the intensity is what you experience when you are in the show. A probate show is basically when a pledge class finishes pledging, then put out a "coming out" show to introduce themselves to the greek world. Their show was a success and I got to congratulate all of the pledges. The following morning at 6:30am, I had to do land navigation all day for ROTC. I ended up making it back home from Ft. Myers around 5:30am because I got carried away and decided to stay for the afterparty. Around 8am, I had to do land navigation for 4 hours, then do 6 hours of squad missions, then 4 more hours of night land navigation. I only had an hour of rest the previous night, so my body was very tired by the end of the night. When I got back to campus around midnight, my friends wanted me to go out with them, but I decided to sleep in for the night. I woke up around 4pm!

Here is a little clip of my probate show:

Always a good Samaritan

Yesterday, I felt like I had to give back to the community and the first thing I did was donate blood to the Red Cross. I haven't donated blood in over a year because I got a tattoo last October. I forgot how tired I became throughout the day because of the lack of blood in my body. Later on the day, I saw a homeless lady with her dog posted on the side of channelside drive. I gave her ten dollars in hopes of her finding a way to pay for her mortgage. I am assuming she was laid off of work and couldn't afford her house. Then, one of my frat brothers needed a ride to buy groceries, so I helped him out. My roomate also needed help moving out some of his stuff from his room, so I did that too. All day I felt like I was doing something good, event though I was so tired from donating blood. By the end of the day, I passed out after watching a movie and that was my day. On a good note, I received a purple and white polka-dot bowtie in the mail. Yes, it is my first offical bowtie!

weekend

This weekend was busy because I had a lot to plan for my fraternity. On Saturday, I had to coordinate a chapter photo shoot we all took on campus. It was fun because a lot of brothers showed up that I usually do not see that often. After, we had a social, where we all went out to eat at Chili's, then we played bowling all night at Pinchasers. The next day I had to attend a regional meeting at USF, where 2 delegates from every chapter in the Southeast region that to attend. Then on Sunday afternoon, I challenged the founders at my chapter to some basketball and it ended up being a trash-talking day. My team lost the first game, but then beat them the next two games, which made us the champions. Other than that, I had a good time spending time with my brothers.

Back to the Boonies

I just found out that I am forced to go back to Tennessee for the summer! I made it in my mind in 2008 that I was never to step foot in that horrible state ever. Usually, I would stay with my aunt in Miami, but since my step mom in Tennessee is going to Russia for the summer, she wants my aunt to watch over the house. Now I have to reconnect with old friends and see how much their lives suck compared to mines ;). I think it is going to be different though because I am over 21 years old and I can do more things than I used to do. I am definitely going to hit up more bars and clubs with old friends and focus on my military training before I go to Hawaii. At least Ft. Campbell is only 5 minutes away from my house, so I have access to military supplies and free taxe. This summer will be interesting and full of fun because I am the type to make it fun!

Easter/Frat Birthday

Today is marks the 24th birthday of my fraternity. Yes 24 years is very young compared to other fraternities at my school. Other fraternities average around 100 years old. What I like about my frat is that since its so young, we play a vital role in the growth and expansion of our organization. I always imagine 100 years from now, what our frat would look like and what is crazy is that we are the biggest and fastest growing latino-based frat in the world. It is ironic how our birthday is on Easter Sunday. My plans for today is just to enjoy the day, go for a long run, and finish any homework. This weekend was also fun, I went to the beach with friends and attended a probate show for the Sigma Gamma Rhos. They reveiled their charter line at UT. More greeks on campus=more craziness!