My roommates!

My roommates are Christopher and Charles Timms. They are form Waterloo East and they are senior wrestlers here at Wartburg College. Last night,  Charles brought a salamander into our room and made him a homemade cage out of a plastic tub that he brought his clothes in when he came to move in. He went outside and got a whole bunch of dirt and made mud for his salamander's habitat. He then went and got sticks and leaves so the salamander would feel more at home. The salamander is bout 9 in long and is black with orange spots. After the home was made we then had to get food for it. Charles went out and got worms from the the sidewalk since it had been raining the night before. After all this hard work and dedication they decided to release the creature back into its natural habitat in the wild.

Sand volleyball!

Last night i played on a sand volleyball team as part of the intramurals. I have played volleyball at my high school but only at parties or part of the homecoming activities. Not to be cocky or arrogant but i am a fairly good volleyball player especially for a male, and coming from a school of suck high volleyball standards. I came from Dike-New Hartford who have made it to state every year i was in high school, and also produced Hannah Willms. I am also not a person that enjoys friendly competition, and I hate to lose no matter what the game is. These girls came up to my friend and I at the lunch table and asked us to join their team. They needed a couple more guys on their team and we enjoy playing volleyball so we said yes. They said that they had had high expectations for this league and they talked themselves up to be fairly good players. We got to the courts just past the Manors and then i soon found out that I was in for an interesting experience. The team I was on that was suppose to be pretty good was far from it. My friend, Daniel, had a chemistry lab and couldn't make it  which was a huge disappointment. The other girls that invited me to play were also not nearly as good as they talked themselves up to be. Since Daniel was unable to show up, we had recruited a kid named Arron who I'm pretty sure had never played volleyball in his entire life. As you can pry already tell from the descriptions above it did not turn out how I expected. We lost in two games and we couldn't serve or pass. I hope the following weeks go a lot better or this is going to be a long experience for Lance Welsh.

Ping Pong!!!

I was an avid ping pong player at best, but that was prior to coming to Wartburg College. My friend Daniel and I now play ping pong every second of our free time! Playing on a regular basis has made us really good. People all over Clinton hall come and watch and bask in our skills. We go to all the different lounges around campus just to play. We have went to every lounge on campus at least once already and play to continue this trend. While going to all these different places we meet and become friends with a lot of new people. The kids that we meet are also pretty good at ping pong and we meet a lot of kids from different countries which is really unique and interesting. We are going to continue to play and

Jurassic Park!!!

Jurassic Park is one of my all time favorite movies. I love the thought of time where dinosaurs ruled the Earth. This time watching the movie was different for me because we really had to focus on the science in the movie which is something I had never done before. It was remarkable to see just how many different ways Michael Crichton  put science in his movies weather it was fictional or not. It's a great movie to get your mind thinking about all the possibilities that science has to offer our society. In this day and age if we still have people that are willing to work and make their dreams come true then we can accomplish anything we want to as a society. I'm actually kinda excited to get to d some more background research on Jurassic Park and go further in depth about the science behind it. I was watching the movie and in the very last scene I thought to myself', " How did that T-rex get in that building to save all their lives"?

We will never forget you Tate Johnson!!

Yesterday was just like any other day to me and probably the rest of the world. It seemed that way until I got a text message around noon telling me some of the most horrifying news I've ever heard. The text said that Tate Johnson had died in a four wheeling accident and to pray for his family and loved ones. This news hit me hard because i grew up with his oldest brother Tanner who was in the same class as me. I couldn't begin to imagine what he must have been going through. I was close to the entire Johnson family not just Tanner. Trevor is a junior at the high school i attended and we hung out often. Trent who is a seventh grader now would always come and hangout with my best friends little brother, so we got to spend a lot of time together playing games and having fun. Tate was only nine years old when he passed away. He was an adorable little kid with great big eyes and glasses. He was always tagging along with his three older brothers and coming to all of their sporting events, so everyone knew him rather well. The funeral will be held at the Dike-New Hartford High School at 2 o'clock in the gym. We will never forget you Tate Johnson!!

First day of college!!!

Today was my first real day at Wartburg college. It was a lot different than I anticipated. I was extremely nervous to get to all my classes and see if all the rumors were true. I soon found out that they were not true at all.  I really liked how all the teachers actually cared about me and wanted me to learn and succeed which was something that was not told to me by peers from other schools. It was nice seeing a lot of familiar faces our our OrangExceleration class as well as Kristen coming into our IS class. It was nice only having four classes in a day, and being independent. This freedom is giving me a lot of free time to get all my homework done which never happened in high school. Surprisingly one of my favorite parts of the college classes compared the the classes I had in high school is that the teachers got done what they wanted to and didn't fill our time with "busy work". Overall my first day of college was a huge success and I'm now excited for the rest of the year instead of being nervous. I'm hoping I can maintain that same attitude and enthusiasm throughout the year